Hobo Stove

It was below freezing with ice on the ground, my daughter Ava and I thought it would be a good time to try out the Golden Syrup Hobo Stove. After a couple of attempts we managed to get the stove alight using a firesteel and some feather sticks. The stove boiled us a cup of tea in under ten minutes.

The stove is made from two Golden Syrup tins and one bean tin. The bean tin is perforated and sits inside the two syrup tins, held in place by friction (see diagram).

We had a good time making tea on the Hobo Stove, we thought it worked very well and the woodsmoke even made us smell like hobos.

Portrait of me whittling by Ava (aged 9)