Annie Hill wrote:Riddle of the Sands fans take notice: there are not one, but two Rippingilles cookers for sail on E-Bay.  I'm seriously wondering if I should buy one and solve my problem of what cooker to fit!

“At the Stores I asked for a No. 3 Rippingille stove, and was confronted with a formidable and hideous piece of ironmongery, which burned petroleum in two capacious tanks, horribly prophetic of a smell of warm oil. I paid for this miserably, convinced of its grim efficiency, but speculating as to the domestic conditions which caused it to be sent for as an afterthought by telegram.”

Excerpt from Erskine Childers: “The Riddle of the Sands.”

Konstantin Stanislavski the Russian theatre dare I say 'guru' called it Sense Memory.  Those actors who have been trained in 'the method' and derive their skillset from the  teachings of the Actors Studio, Harold Clurman and Stella Adler use these triggers to regenerate a truthful feeling. As do some who don't! Using music of a relevent kind is a   useful technique.

File under 'useless info', David. 

I have checked up the multi-fuel burners. Most of them are of the loud type, and they don’t have an internal cleaning needle. However, some are with silent burners, and could probably be built into an old stove, like the Optimus 155, if needed. Their output seems to be very high, up to 3kW.

However, by searching on “Petroleum Kocher” (kerosene stove), a few German sites pop up. One even sells brand new Optimus 155 and spares. One, like the Topplicht site, operate in English for those who don’t read German.

I guess, for serious cooking, one 2.5kW kero burner, plus one Origo 1500 single burner stove is ideal. The last one’s ability to set on simmer heat (and then with a perfectly blue flame) is very useful.

Btw, during browsing the www, I came over a discussion about kerosene and smell. One fellow stated that by adding 5% denaturized alcohol to the kerosene, the kerosene lamps just about stopped producing any smell.

Arne

 PS: Yesterday I came over this Swedish site on Kerosene stoves. It is a Facebook site, so maybe one must be on Facebook to make it work. Hopefully the translator makes it understandable.

I have never tried one - but won't multi-fuel camping stove run off kerosene?  Plenty of spares available.

Zane Krajancic wrote:

The smell of Kerosene is pleasant to me and brings back fond childhood memories and I could easily live with it onboard, although I have a yet to be installed Origo alcohol cooker.

 As a young lad our extended family all went camping to the beach every Xmas holidays in a huge tent. No electricity, so lighting and cooking was all Kerosene.  Those were the days.  It's funny how smells can be positive or negative based on your memories and emotions.

I don't think you'd get on with a Primus, Zane - changing the needles is fiddly and requires much patience!