Thyme for ewe has posted on her web site some very helpful things! While investigating your site ( very nice by the way!), I discovered the instructions for the buddy burners. I immediately had the scout troop do a project night and make a batch. DH thought they weren't necessary, but I thought they would come in handy. The very next campout there was a severe fire alert and there were to be no campfires or open grilling due to the high risk. These burners saved the day for not just our troop but several others that we shared them with. The park ranger who was cracking down on delinquent fires said these were the coolest things he had seen in a long time. THANKS ROBIN! Farmgirls are prepared for ANYTHING!!!
ARn't buddy burners great? We have done them as a scout project before too, and I try to keep some on hand..in the emergency stuff..they are just a handy thing!
Back when I was a Girl Scout, about 40 years ago, we made buddy burners & used them on our campouts!!!.. it's so cool that folks are still making them...
Robin
An organic farm in the forest in
Maine
USA
705 Posts
Posted - May 14 2005 : 08:45:14 AM
You're welcome! My daughters are nine years apart so I was a GS leader, and a council employee, for many years. We started using buddy burners 13 years ago. I have a propane stove in the kitchen and a flat topped wood stove in the great room so I can always cook or heat water but still keep a buddy burner in the laundry room. You never know when you might need one.
Alright girls I should know this because I was a girlscout many moons ago but what is a buddy burner and how do you make it. Sounds like something I need to know for campouts at the lake!
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." Rumi, 13th century.
Buddy burners
Posted - May 13 2005 : 1:29:28 PM
