Cooking with - wax. Wax as a fuel for stove or oven

Yes. Wax. It contains enough energy to cook or heat with, just the same a kerosene. Folks will almost immediate say - wax is no good - too much soot.

Yes, if you have tried a "Brownie burner" (named after the GSA branch - Brownies) - like this:

soot is a real problem.

But using a wax gasifier stove results in a clean burn and little to no soot.

Carry that a bit further and see a commercial wax gasifier stove in action, and you see no soot.

Yes, such a thing is offered commercially - by an outfit called GAT Energy. (ARK STOVE Portable Stove Fueled with Wax) They use pellet wax, but any wax will work.


This is the stove


stove with oven - will bake at 200F to 500F - just like Mom's gas oven - only a bit smaller.

Wax has some advantages over other liquid - no water vapor while burning for one.

This post is just a head's up, go to the GATT site if you want to learn more.

Enjoy.

 

Powered by 12VDC and the stove has a small fan for full combustion. Thought it was pretty neat.

Designed by an 8th grade Science teacher in North Carolina. He also makes/sells a smaller, non-powered backpack version.

 

In a SHTF /TEOTWAWKI situation, when the industrial logistical supply chains may not be reliable....where does one get the fuel for such a contraption once the home stored supply runs out? Apart from bee hives*..... I don't think ear wax is going to keep it burning very long.

Bees wax has many uses more valuable than cooking stove fuel.

 

IF the wax fuel pellets are easy enough to get/produce, and using 12VDC power, I could see it being used in an RV.

 

Used to call it paraffin when I was a kid if made from petroleum and wax if made by bee's. Was a time when most houses were lighted by candles made out of wax. Would seem to be an advantage to wax, little danger of CO, stores for generations without going bad. Wax was used to waterproof things like tents and clothes, wax thread for sewing leather, sealing plumbing, sealing jelly jars, cheeses, root vegetables, mixed with chocolate to raise the melting point, used as a lubricant that didn't dry out, doors, drawers, etc, used to lubricate wood screws to make them easier to drive, used with saw dust or paper to make fire starters, used in small candles under special pots to keep food warm, used in churches in various ceremonies, used as a resist to prevent dye absorption in the process of making Batiks, used to make color crayons, used in the lost wax process for making everything from jewelry to jet turbine blades, used in paints and as a protective finish on floors, furniture, automobiles, boats, etc. Can be used to seal shotgun shells, or to make the pellets stay together for a longer distance or to shoot as non lethal projectile..
Might be handy thing to have or trade good if SHTF.

 

What is the difference between wax, parafin, and tallow? Weren't candles made from tallow made by mixing lye from wood ash with rendered animal fats?

 

Paraffin wax is manufactured from petroleum / coal products Paraffin wax - Wikipedia

Tallow candles are manufactured, using rendered animal tallow as a base ingredient. Tallow - Wikipedia

Wax is a generic term....for products manufactured using different base ingredients and manufacturing processes. Wax - Wikipedia

Even humans produce it..... Earwax - Wikipedia enjoy!

 

I wonder why they did not include TEG technology .I have a fan the merely sets on the wood stove and works off the heat .that would eliminate the 12 volt fan altogether .

 

The patent data for the stoves
Patent US8268027 - Meltable fuel gas generation apparatus and methods

Has drawings and expalins how the burn occurs.

 

Once a person learned how to make their own wax the road to independence might get smoother .
So far as wax pellets go, one could mold their own, hardly rocket science .