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Make an efficient alcohol stove out of soda cans if you're out doors and need to boil water or cook food (www.thesodacanstove.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Soda can stoves are a really really inexpensive way to make an efficient portable stove for cooking and boiling water. Whether you're camping, homeless, or have some other weird situation like a power or gas outage.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The amount of burning plastic in one can in negligible. I've spent hundreds and hundreds of hours sitting around fires breathing in all kinds of combustion byproducts (wood smoke is bad for you), an extra can or two isn't going to shift the actuarial tables.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Me too. I was more wondering if it can be easily removed by burning or if it's more bound to the aluminum somehow and would still leave something bad after burned. The guy saying how harmful it is to burn plastic I pretty much ignored. I'm an eagle scout. I've breathed in a lot more junk than that tiny bit of plastic.