Origo 3000 spirit cookers

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You may want to keep the comforting smell but if not, meths for spirit fires is odour free, and a lot cheaper than the purple stuff.
 
I have had Origos on different boats for over 25 years and wouldn't use anything else. My experiences are: very quick heating when the container is just filled, after a week or so it gets a little slower. This is noticeable when trying to fry a steak ( it gets boiled instead) For cooking potatoes or stews I use a pressure cooker on it. ( cuts cooking time down to a third) Meths smell differently in different countries, Germany is worst. It's difficult to know what to ask for in different languages ( doesnt help with google translate!) I was paying a fortune for small bottles in Greece before I found out it was surgical spirit I was buying!
 
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andygc said:
You might find this web site useful. It gives translations for different fuels used in lamps and stoves. http://fuel.papo-art.com
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Thank you, thats useful I'll keep a link to that. The Norwegian translation was not quite right though. It was translated to the Norwegian equivalent to Moonshine! Try asking for that at the local grocery store in Stavanger! :-D
 
sarabande said:
if ever one reached a place where meths were not available, a quick distillation of a few potatoes woued generate some fuel for you.

I know a yacht named Moonshine, BTW.
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And where's the fuel for distilling the potatoes coming from? Mind, a bonfire on the beach might be the best way - if you're worried about gas, distilling alcohol on board has to be a lot worse!
 
AntarcticPilot said:
And where's the fuel for distilling the potatoes coming from?
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Peat! That's what.... a peat stove! Just the thing. Cook the porridge overnight, and use the waster heat to 'still the liquor. Now why didn't I think of that.....!

Just recalling the old Appalachoon toon...

"Get you a copper kettle, get you a copper coil
Fill it with new made corn mash and never more you'll toil
You'll just lay there by the juniper while the moon is bright
Watch them jugs a-filling in the pale moonlight.

Build you a fire with hickory, hickory, ash and oak
Don't use no green or rotten wood, they'll get you by the smoke
You'll just lay there by the juniper while the moon is bright
Watch them jugs a-filling in the pale moonlight.

My daddy he made whiskey, my granddaddy he did too
We ain't paid no whiskey tax since 1792
You'll just lay there by the juniper while the moon is bright
Watch them jugs a-filling in the pale moonlight."
 
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Lazy Kipper said:
Lots on ebay and Amazon, we also used B&Q and it was about 20% hotter than local meths and almost 100% odour free. Search for bio-ethanol.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bio-ethanol-Fuel-12-L-FREE-Next-Day-Delivery-UK-Company-/191085434557?pt=UK_HG_FireplacesMantelpieces_RL&hash=item2c7d9456bd
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The B&Q stuff seems only to be in the bigger stores. For example, Hedge End Superstore has it but Eastleigh doesn't. At least, not last time I tried to buy it there. Worth checking before making a trip. Last year I borght three, put on in the boat one in the boot and one in the garage. I think I'm down to my last one now. Tha'ts using the boat most weekends in the summer and as a "shed" in winter.
 
When I kept a 205 litre drum of Methanol handy for my Speedway and Longtrack bikes I would use it in our antique-well 45 years old anyway-fondue set burner.

Cheap-about £1.00 a litre then-no smell and seemed as good as Meths for control and heat.

IIRC its a little more expensive now, unless you can find some without the fuel duty-then its REALLY cheap!
 
Lazy Kipper said:
Lots on ebay and Amazon, we also used B&Q and it was about 20% hotter than local meths and almost 100% odour free. Search for bio-ethanol.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bio-ethanol-Fuel-12-L-FREE-Next-Day-Delivery-UK-Company-/191085434557?pt=UK_HG_FireplacesMantelpieces_RL&hash=item2c7d9456bd
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+1 for bio-ethanol, got the tip to use it last year from this very forum.........burns hotter, no smell, but for me the big plus is it does not evaporate as quick as the meths.
 
Banger of this forum brought 15 litres of the de-natured French Alcohol back from france for me - along with some boxes of wine

It was about 9 euros for five litres - the alcohol that is.

The wine was about the same price

I have an Origo 3,000 - and I have been running the port ring on meths and the stb ring on the French jollop

I cannot detect any difference between the two in heat output

the meths lights a bit faster

those who say the bio is odour free are telling the truth as they smell it - but for me they smell just as much as each other

the meths smell I do not mind (it reminds me of roneo machines and geography hand outs

- the bio smells a bit weird

however, you cannot argue with the price difference - £17 for meths in the UK - £9 euros for the ethanol from france

Banger is a frequent commuter and lives near me and has offfered to bring me back some more - both wine and burning jollop

I prefer the Origo to the gas - no messing with bottles, easier to store and you know exactly how much stuff you have left, it runs at any temperature

no grill though - but for the toast lovers I find a dry frying pan straight on the heat does a very good job of toasting bread

I have yet to work out how to grill those juicy rump steaks I eat for breakfast along with the jiddled kiddlies

Dylan
 
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dylanwinter said:
Banger of this forum brought 15 litres of the de-natured French Alcohol back from france for me - along with some boxes of wine
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You wouldn't care to post a pic of the container label, would you. My execrable French extends to the colloquial ability to order wine and beer, after considerable practice. I shudder to think what might result if I tried to request some bio-ethanol.... :rolleyes:
 
Coaster said:
Is this a tongue-in-cheek comment or do paraffin stoves really impart an odd flavour?
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When we used the good old Primus stove for camping, it was not the heat provided that gave the paraffin taste to the food, but the residue on the hands after filling or even just handling the stove.

In those days campsite facilities were very primitive-if there was running water it was from a cold tap in the open.

IIRC, washing hands and personal hygiene were not all they might have been.......................................
 
Apologies if mentioned earlier.
Go Outdoors sell bio ethanol in various quantities.
Burns nice and clean and smell free.
 
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