[Stoves] In praise of kerosene

[ajheggie at gmail.com]

[Default] On Sun, 12 May 2013 10:57:02 +0700,Paul Olivier
<paul.olivier at esrla.com> wrote:

>An electrical coil producing infrared heat would be used to light the pellets. The lighting would take place in less than 20 seconds and would generate very little smoke.


I like the idea of a more sophisticated tlud burner for open flame
cooking and I have previously mentioned that with modern electronics
we could develop a proper mechanism for controlling draught and power,
like the ECU on a car does.

My experience of electric hot air lighters is that the few seconds
that they pyrolyse the wood before it gets above it's autoignition
temperature copious acrid smoke is produced. Using kerosene as a
starter with a match is faster at getting smoke free.

AJH