Zero Cost Cookset

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 the start of his Zero Cost Cookset series.

Select a cooking pot.
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Regardless of how any stove was originally made, whether it was purchased in a store or made at home from plans and ideas seen elsewhere please always remember to use caution!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!

Fritz came up with the Zero Cost Cookset as a way to allow people to try bicycle touring, including cooking, without needing to spend a lot of money getting started.

In reality the usefulness of this concept doesn't end there. It is often difficult to transport stoves and their fuel to the starting location of a tour when you have to fly to get there due to security rules. With this design you could easily pick up a bottle of fuel and rapidly build your own stove from readily available parts and very simple tools. When your tour is complete then you would simply dispose of the stove for recycling or perhaps give it to another touring cyclist that you met at the end of your tour.

To get started take a small pot from your kitchen cupboard. A 5-1/2"(14cm) diameter is good. You can use a larger pot if you need to.

The next article in this series shows you how to create a Plain and Simple Stove (PASS) from readily available parts using a minimum of tools..

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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