This stove weighs but seven pounds and folds into a package only one and a half inches thick. It may be packed under the seat of an auto or strapped on the back of a motorcycle. Nevertheless, this stove is thoroughly substantial, is made of 20-gauge sheet steel with four thicknesses at the corners, where strength is needed.
Another very satisfactory stove for solid fuel is the “Livingood.” This is somewhat more extensive and complete than the one just mentioned and costs [[66]]about twice as much money. The “Livingood” folds flat to a thickness of four inches. It comes with oven, three-quart water container, eight-cup coffee-pot and will roast a sizable potato in thirty minutes. When set up the stove proper is roughly two feet long, a foot wide and a foot high. It works best with wood or charcoal. In material the top is 22-gauge black iron, the body and oven of 26-gauge black iron, and the hinges of copper built with the body. The stove alone without the extras comes to $7.50.
Various kinds of cooking apparatus. At the top is the dingle stick; immediately below is the Kampkook gasoline stove; to the right of the Kampkook is the Livingood stove burning solid fuel and having the advantage of folding into a flat form when not in use. At the lower left is the Juwel, a kerosene burner.
Oil Stoves
Oil stoves are pretty effective, but they are usually not collapsible, accordingly bulky, and likewise are hard to keep clean, particularly such types of them as use wicks. The best are those kinds that operate under air pressure, like plumber’s torches, and without a wick. These high-pressure wickless stoves are very efficient. One, called the “Juwell,” will raise two pints of cold water—sixty degrees—to boiling in three or four minutes at the outside. This stove is claimed to be faultless in operation, also to make no noise, deposit no soot, and be absolutely free from danger of explosion.
However, there are exceptions to all rules, and there is at least one oil stove for campers which can be knocked down and packed up. It is the Optimus Traveling and Camp Stove. It can be taken apart and various parts packed into a small fiber [[67]]box, which also has places for a bottle of spirits, cleaning pins and a funnel. The oil tank is fitted with a hermetical brass stopper which permits the stove to be carried full of petroleum. The capacity is one quart of oil.