Zero Cost Cookset - Plain and Simple Stove (PASS)

Fritz Krueger is a bicycle tourist who also has a passion for researching, designing and building homemade camp stoves. He has contributed several articles about Camp Stoves to Bicycle Touring 101. This particular article is part of his Zero Cost Cookset series.

Regardless of how any stove was originally made, whether it was purchased in a store or made at home from plans and ideas seen elsewhere please always remember to use caution! Flames burn and a bad burn could go a long way towards ending a bicycle touring adventure far too early!

Marking a line.
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Cutting off the bottom.
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This article contains instructions to build a simple stove.

Step One:

Mark a line around a pop can 2 inches from the bottom as shown in the picture to the left.

Step Two:

Cut into the top opening of the can with snips then switch to scissors to neatly cut off the bottom section as shown in the picture to the right. Sand the cut edge so that it is not sharp.

Punch holes in the can.
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The completed Plain and Simple stove.
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Step Three:

Use a hole-punch to punch eight holes in a circle around the can as far down as the hole-punch will reach. You can get fairly even spacing without measuring by doing halves, then quarters, then eighths. Refer to the picture to the left.

Step Four:

The picture to the right shows the completed PASS.

The stove in operation.
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The picture to the left shows the PASS in operation.

The next article in this series shows you how to create a windscreen to make this stove much more functional and efficient.

Submitted by Fritz Krueger

This article is just one of a series of articles that Fritz has written for Bicycle Touring 101. I encourage you to check out his other articles in this section and his wonderful web site where he has more plans for stoves and accessories.

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