Buddy heater cooker

[go_deep]

While watching my buddy heater heat the tent and I cooked on another propane stove I wondered if I could come up with something that would allow me to do both with one. This is the best I came up with so far after a couple hours. I'm able to lightly boil water at about 15 minutes, and I think it'll work great to warm up tin foil wrapped breakfast sandwiches and things like burritos.

 

[Timr245]

Looks handy! While my woodstove had the tent so hot I slept in underwear most nights, the lack of dealing with wood & lugging a 100lb stove may be a welcomed change.

 

[go_deep]

Looks handy! While my woodstove had the tent so hot I slept in underwear most nights, the lack of dealing with wood & lugging a 100lb stove may be a welcomed change.

I prefer wood/coal heat, but while antelope hunting or if I only have a couple nights I'd rather use propane to save time around camp.

 

[Slugz]

Dooooooooooode......thats awesome! Is that a rain gutter piece. I'm making one for the goose pit.

 

[go_deep]

Dooooooooooode......thats awesome! Is that a rain gutter piece. I'm making one for the goose pit.

It's a piece of a lid from an old communications housing. It's probably 1/8" thick, I did drill holes under the pan to get more direct heat on it. Top of this picture you can see I cut grooves in the steel so it slides right into the grill of the buddy heater. Made 3 mornings of breakfast sandwiches for later this week, wrapped in tin foil to just through on and warm up, see what happens.

Complete side bonus. Because of the steel right above the heat element it pushes the heat straight out probably 6' rather than ther heat going pretty much straight up.

 

[Ikeepitcold]

Patent pending?

 

[Slugz]

""pushes the heat straight out probably 6' rather than ther heat going pretty much straight up""

Thats exactly what I was thinking. Thanks!!

 

[go_deep]

Patent pending?

I'll sell the rights to it for a reasonable price if someone wants to mass produce it!

 

[billdoe708]

I've seen some nifty things on ice fishing forums

 

[mallardsx2]

I caught my pant-leg on fire with a contraption similar once.

I always found these things to be a pain to use in the treestand.

I welded up a steel framy onto a C-clamp to holt it on the front of my treestand many years back. I will see if I can post a picture of that contraption some time. For the record it works great. To great in fact. lol

 

[go_deep]

3/4# pulled pork and a pot of brown beans for 3 warm in 20 minutes in elk camp last week, never had to leave the tent. Breakfast sandwiches in the morning were warm quick and easy too!

 

[CrimsonArrow]

The wire grill on my buddy heater flips up and locks just for the purpose of cooking. Not real sturdy, but it works