Digital Friend's video: How-to Use A Watering Can To Extinguish A Wood Gas Stove Tutorial

Learn how-to use a watering can to extinguish a wood gas stove. A watering can is portable and allows you to extinguish a stove whenever you want. Dirty river water can be used to extinguish a stove, it doesn’t have to be clean drinking water. A hose also works quite well, but you have to be close enough to a hose for this to work. If you’re camping or having a picnic, this might not be possible. Smoke can sometimes really irritate neighbours; smoke is very visible, so it’s sometimes necessary to quickly extinguish the stoves. It only takes a little bit of water to extinguish a stove. The watering can is your low-tech off and cool down switch. A stealth camper might appreciate the need to be able to pack up the stove in a hurry. If the stove is still hot and burning, it’s not going in your backpack. Sometimes a stove starts smoking and becomes impossible to relight. When this happens, I have a watering can close by and I quickly extinguish the stove. The remaining fuel in the stove is then useless, because it is wet. Once I’m done cooking, I can let the stove burn out, until the fire goes out and the stove stops producing heat and cools down. It might take an hour for the stove to completely burn out and cool down. You will be amazed at the efficiency of a wood gas stove. If you’re burning wood, there’s usually almost nothing left, just a little bit of ash. If you are burning wood gas pellets there’s usually a little bit unburned fuel. If you’ve gotta get going quickly, just pour some water onto the stove. The water will extinguish the fire and quickly cool down the hot metal. Water also makes sure that there are no burning embers in the stove (remember to check the stoves double walls), which could cause problems if you pack the stove away in a backpack or cardboard box in your house. If something starts burning around the cooking area, it’s often possible to quickly douse it with water, or stomp out a really small fire. Make sure that the stove can’t light anything beside it or underneath it on fire. Setting up on rock, sand or dirt is often a good idea, because none of these can burn. Setting up beside a bunch of tinder dry grass is probably a bad idea. Think: Can this stove light something nearby on fire? If so, don’t light the stove or more it somewhere safe and set up there. Be careful, use common sense and use adequate safety precautions. Thanks for watching. Have A Great Day!