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Depending on if you are out camping or stuck in an emergency with no power or natural gas, dealing with a situation can be a drag with out having an oven to cook your food. When needing water for you're Freeze-Dried Food heated up or to heat up your MRE's, you might be scrambling around trying to find a way to cook your meal. We'll show you a simple way to turn your average run of the meal #10 can into you're own Ready Stove.
Most commonly known as a "Hobo Stove", it is an improvised heating product that you can use for cooking your meal. You could use any tin can to make a improvise cooking devise, but when you have 126 #10 cans in your ULTIMATE Year Supply of Freeze Dried Food - #10 CANS you have a large amount of #10 cans to use to help ease the emergency situation.

To make your own Ready Stove is simple & you can use items that you have laying around your house, so just follow my 4 steps to assemble you're own Ready Stove.

Items you will need:
1 Empty #10 Can 1 Can Opener with a V shaped opener
1 Pair of Gloves 1 Scissor or Tin Shears

Step 1. Punching 5-6 equally spaced, 1" diameter holes around both the top and the bottom of the can

Step 2. Cut a large square in the side of the can, giving you access to the area where you put your fuel source.

Step 3. Find your fuel source. Simple pencil sized sticks will do the job.

Step 4. Light the fire & enjoy your warm meal.

What makes the Ready Stove so great at cooking? Having holes punched on the top & the bottom of the can will case the air flow from bottom to top , or most commonly known as convection. So when you have your fire in your can it will help fuel the fire with oxygen & make it hot enough to warm up your food.
(Note: For improved heating it is best to lace the bottom holes to face the wind)

Some people prefer to remove the top & the bottom of the can to help promote the convection, but it can cause a carbon deposit on your pot/pan and can be quite bothersome to clean off. I personally like to use the flat surface of the #10 can to hold my tin cup of water for my Mountain House Pouch. You also should look up other designs that people have come up with, like adding a dampener for the oxygen supply so you can control the air flow and that can control the temperature of the stove.

If you have the time & the supplies to add to your stove you can take a simple wire coat hanger & turn that into a handle on your stove or you can take another #10 can and attach the handles to that & you can use that additional can to boil your water so you don't dirty your cook ware. Many other people online have used their Swiss army knife and have turned a large cooking pot into their own stove or a beer keg into a massive cooking unit, (not very practical but amazing to see.)

To make your own Ready Stove does not require much time & money to build, and when recycling is promoted so much you would be surprised at how many people take their left over #10 cans & turn it into a stove. I remember when I was around 7-8 in boy scouts & I used my stove to cook my meal on a camp out, and the amazing thing is that all I had was a candle as the heat source to heat up my meal. So next time you want to do something with the kids that is use full and fun then grab your can's & give it a go.

Take a picture and Email it to me, I will post it on this blog so you can show your ingenuity skills. Email marcs@thereadystore.com