Paraffin as a cooking fuel

[Amulet]

Taylors is a perfectly civilised stove in capable hands. (Took me a few years to develop capable hands.)

You don't have the risk of blowing up your boat, but get several interesting ways of setting it on fire in exchange.

If you prime with meths use a syringe - the worst spill you can have is then a syringe full.

You can prime with campers' solid fuel tablets or a gas blowtorch (hey wait, I thought we were avoiding gas).

Buy good burners for your Taylors (Hanse from Germany are my fave). And here's the secret - if you are having problems - lower the pressure - don't raise it.

And - you can completely service/rebuild a Taylors stove with tools readily available in your toolbox.

 

[fisherman]

Remember LPG and paraffin both produce water in condescension, paraffin twice as much as the fuel burned. All in the boat with you unless properly flued. I was in a boat with a diesel powered AGA or Rayburn, can't remember which, that was some machine.

 

[Neil_Y]

We had paraffin on board for the Tilley lamp and a paraffin camping stove for inland expeditions but used gas for the main cooker as that was what was fitted when I bought the boat. Never had any problems getting paraffin, but had to do a bit of research as to what it was called in Spain, Portugal and the Carib to get the right stuff.

 

[mjcoon]

Remember LPG and paraffin both produce water in condescension, ...

Yes, very supercilious! ;-)

Mike.

 

[NormanS]

Yes, very supercilious! ;-)

Mike.

Supercilious, reminds me of a time many years ago when we had a Folkboat with a double-burner Primus. We went to the wee shop in Eriskay, (not the present shop), and asked for paraffin. Now, it so happened that Eriskay had been connected to mains electricity within the previous year, and we were looked down on as very backward, and were assured that no-one in Eriskay would be wanting to use paraffin. The shopkeeper, however, pointed out a nearby house, and assured us that the owner of the house used to have a boat with a paraffin engine, and that he was sure that he still had a drum with some in it. Sure enough, he did, and cheerfully let us fill our can.