what is this "jet boil" thing?

“and i haven't even heard of them.”

“Its a pot/stove combo that clames it can boil water in 90 seconds!


8)”

“where would a fella get a look at one of these things?”

“B - http://jetboil.com/”

“they look interesting.”

“They are starting to ship them in January. 79.95 retail Boils a cup of water in 30 seconds. I saw it with my own eyes.”

“will you be carrying them binkley?”

“yes, we ordered 250 of them.”

“I'm going to check out the design and see if there isn't a way to produce a home-made version...”

“Intriguing...”

“stop being such a cheapy...and just buy a quality version that you know is put together in the proper manner, this way, if it blows up, you might be able to sue someone...LOL...

bbinkley, I want one, put me down.”

“Remember what happened with the chicken....”

“I didn't EAT the chicken...

Anyway, cheap is fun.”

“ok stikmon...thanks”

“that will work well for the South and Summers up here but we'll still need to rely on White gas and other similar fuels for our winters. Butane just doesn't cut it in the cold.

What was the weight, did I miss that part?”

“looks heavy

i couldnt find any numbers....hmmmm”

“16 oz for 4 oz of fuel, stove, and cookset. 1 4 ounce cannister will boil 15 liyers of water. take that same cannister with any other stove and it will only boil 7 liters of water. it is a very effeciant stove. everything is the same size as a nalgene bottle”

“It looks like a good set up. But on their website they suggested several 'cup's could be added to the same burner. I can't see the configuration--is it merely stacking cups atop each other? It that is the case, I wonder about the temperature difference between the 'cup' on the bottom and the cup on the top.

Cynical minds want to know.”

“they couple with each other. The pic shows a female connection, there must be some kind of male attachment that would allow multiple setups...

Cool...Let me know when you get them...

Phad...if we ever go on a hike together, I would request that you cook your dinners apart from the rest of the group...no point in having shrappnel endanger the group, when your home made bomb goes up...hehehe (J/K).”

“I went back and read the specs...It says one base for multiple cups...???...how does that work, not that I would get more than one cup, but lets say a bunch of us "jetboilers" gets together and we want to save weight, and just bring the cup thingys...how will that work? hmmmmmm???”

“That's what I was wondering/trying to say. The pics and descriptions just don't explain how the unit works for multiple 'cups.'

Maybe build a big campfire and set the multiple cups around the fire with the burner in the middle?

I was thinking about using such a set up, if it works, for two, maybe three people--but the set up just doesn't compute. It seems like it might work for one person but I haven't yet figured out how the 2-3 cups might work.”

“I'm just guessing here, but I suspect that they are playing with semantics...I bet they mean that you can use (I know, it seem obvious) several cups, ONE at a time...you know make soup in one, then change to another cup and make your coffee, etc.

Being able to make hot coco, coffee or soup as quick and easy as it sounds, means I will be taking this thingy on many more day hikes then my regular stove.”

“This stove doesn't appear to be any lighter or more fuel efficient than say a Markill Hot Rod Ti cannister stove with a Ti pot.”

“did we ever see/say if the cannisters are the stardard use and throw, or are they a refill type?”

“This stove doesn't appear to be any lighter or more fuel efficient than say a Markill Hot Rod Ti cannister stove with a Ti pot."
Gear Slut
12:43:31 PM
09/14/03
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Didn't think that stove would boil a cup of water in 30 seconds though GS. Also, can it boil 15 liters of water with 4 ounces of fuel? Just curious..

Miss Opie. They are just cannisters that need to be replaced. I actually think that snow peak majes a thing to punch a hole in the cannisters now so that they can be recycled. not sure but I'l have to check in to it.”

“i don't feel like signing her comp out...so in a way it's going to be a regular 'ol canister stove. Still kewl..but for some reason i'm more comfortable with having a refillable container...would be neat if you could fill them with butane lighter refill cylinders”

“Yes a canister stove that will boil twice a much water and for pot/stove and fuel it tottals 16 oz.

a refillable one would be great.”

“bb that thing to punch holes in canisters in called a 22 rifle.”

“bb that thing to punch holes in canisters in called a 22 rifle.”

“Look there's two of 'em!”

“Thinking out loud here, but I wonder if this thing will do for the cooking systems market, what the Tekka did for the headlamp market.”

“I own a jet boil.

They call it a whisperlite.”

“It says it boils a cup of water in 30 seconds. Is that like 8 ozs. standard "cup" or the whole liter container on the jetboil. I think my campgaz would boil 8 ozs. of water purdy close to that time.”

“I got to see one of these stoves in action this past Sat. The guy explained how it worked. You could put your hands within a 1/2" of the stove and feel the heat but not get burned. After you disconnect the stove and pull the cozy up around the bottom of it you can hold it easily.

I wouldn't drink directly from it because the heat had spread up to the lip of the pot.

It uses any small canister (he was using the Snow Peak canisters)

I was impressed with it and will probably get one when it come out.”

“Dang! They won't be out 'til Janurary? I was thinking November. I was going to get one for Chanukah.

Bugger!”

“When looking at the stove, it appears to have a small turbine system feeding air into it. That would explain how it manages to generate so much heat at such a hight efficiency. That also means it should work at higher elevations then normal since the turbine would boost the combustion chamber pressure.”