Good looking stoves?

[Mukes]

I have an Origo 3000 alcohol stove in the Galley. I can't fault its function but it looks a little out of place being made of stainless steel - . I have seen a Taylors paraffin stove - brass and enamel - that looks more in keeping with the traditional cabin decor but I would prefer to avoid the pre-heat process and stay with alcohol. Has anyone come across a more traditional looking alcohol stove?

 

[FWB]

The Taylors preheating is no big deal. It takes 4 minutes and you can heat the kettle during this time which is not wasted. Do use a kettle during the preheat, let the flame go out and then light as if it were gas. No flare ups no problem.

 

[Mirelle]

Exactly.

As a matter of interest, an enamel Taylors is quite an old one - they have been stainless steel and enamel for ?30? years or so now.

 

[johnchampion]

I've got a Taylors 029 of which the main body is stainless but they still look good as the top is black enamel, knobs are black and the fiddle rail and side strips are brass.

It's not much of a penalty having to preheat compared to the efficiency of the cooker and I prefer paraffin to gas especially as I also have petrol on board for my trusty Stuart Turner

 

[Mukes]

OK - point taken about the pre-heat - I hadn't considered the pre-heat could form part of the initial heating process. I'm looking at the 028 - you are right Mirelle - it still has a stainless body but looks better than my old Origo with the odd bit of brass and enamel. The Taylor's website states paraffin - would it still work with diesel - if so I could run a line from my pressurised tank for the Froce 10 diesel cabin heater - or is this a no no?

 

[Mirelle]

\"Don\'t ask me how I know this...\"

In the summer of 1977 I sailed to Holland in Mytica, a nice two and a half tonner which according to legend had been built from pirated Harrison Butler plans at a yard in Trincomalee out of “off-cuts from building Navy ML’s”.

I had carefully studied my Yachtsman’s Dutch phrasebook and had learned that “paraffin” was “petroleum”.

Needing some more, I strode off, can in hand, to the pumps at Veere and, having forgotten the phase book, asked, mistakenly, for “gasoline”.

Unsurprisingly they gave me five litres of “gas oil” i.e. diesel!

I put this in the stove as we started back for England.

It most definitely did not work. Stove made a passable imitation of a flame thrower but diesel does not vaporise...

We made the passage, a long, slow, one, in light airs, on cold tinned ravioli, cold soup, bread and water...