Boiling water In A Bamboo Pot

mistwalker said:
When dry it makes pretty good tinder but I'm not sure on the firewood part. I know it will burn, and that it needs to be split first to avoid showers of sparks, but I'm not sure how long it will burn. I think that will likely be an upcoming experiment as I do have a bit of a mess to clean up from previous experiments.
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There's a great machete mod video on youtube by Colhane: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVHeKNbRXgc

at the 2:20 mark he makes tinder from bamboo & lights it with a firesteel at the end
 
The pot and hanger is cool!
And informative as well to see it can actually boil water!
Thanks for sharing, mistwalker.

We put some beverage into this kind of pot and put the bottom into the ash,
let the side be warmed by charcoal fire (no boiling).
This adds some flavor of bamboo to the drink.
Will be best when done beside the Irori indoor fire pit.
 
Another great idea, Mist. I had heard that folks used bamboo to boil water, but until now I thought it was the "I know a guy who knows a guy that talked to a guy" type of woodlore. If I hadn't seen it, I wouldn't have believed it! :thumbup:

I hope you post later about what you think about carry that knife around. I actually got to handle on a last week, and HOLY CRAP are those saw teeth sharp! They were like ultra fine needles! The knife guy at the counter said he hadn't heard anything back on the knife one way or another.

But as sharp as the teeth are, I am wondering how long you can carry it before you start cutting into you sheath. My next concern would be how to sharpen the teeth; a close inspection of them and their finely ground edges doesn't seem like anything I could easily reproduce. Any thoughts?

Robert
 
jca21 said:
sweet post dude. i wish bamboo grew here, i've used it alot back home in asia since it grows everywhere but the only bamboo i see here is the bamboo they sell for luck in florist shops lol.


great post. that sog looks like a heckuva knife.

:D

JC
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Thanks JC, I'm glad you liked the post but, lol, be careful what you wish for...over the long term the climatological changes that are happening may just give you your wish.

I like it, it's pretty impressive. Apparently other people like it too as I have family and friends who have watched what all I've been doing with it that are trying hard to talk me out of it.



chopchop said:
There's a great machete mod video on youtube by Colhane: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVHeKNbRXgc

at the 2:20 mark he makes tinder from bamboo & lights it with a firesteel at the end
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I've used nearly every knife I own to scrape bamboo fuzz tinder lately and a few of them to spark the firesteel too. The fuzz makes good tinder.


fujita yuji said:
The pot and hanger is cool!
And informative as well to see it can actually boil water!
Thanks for sharing, mistwalker.

We put some beverage into this kind of pot and put the bottom into the ash,
let the side be warmed by charcoal fire (no boiling).
This adds some flavor of bamboo to the drink.
Will be best when done beside the Irori indoor fire pit.
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Thanks Fujita, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Is that how that kudzu starch beverage would be prepared? How strong of a flavor does the bamboo add to food...and what sort of flavor, is it something like the flavor of bamboo shoots?


midnight flyer said:
Another great idea, Mist. I had heard that folks used bamboo to boil water, but until now I thought it was the "I know a guy who knows a guy that talked to a guy" type of woodlore. If I hadn't seen it, I wouldn't have believed it! :thumbup:

I hope you post later about what you think about carry that knife around. I actually got to handle on a last week, and HOLY CRAP are those saw teeth sharp! They were like ultra fine needles! The knife guy at the counter said he hadn't heard anything back on the knife one way or another.

But as sharp as the teeth are, I am wondering how long you can carry it before you start cutting into you sheath. My next concern would be how to sharpen the teeth; a close inspection of them and their finely ground edges doesn't seem like anything I could easily reproduce. Any thoughts?

Robert
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Thanks man, I'm glad you like the post. I'm told of other ways to boil water in bamboo without all the cutting but for what I was trying to learn I liked the experiment anyway. I was fairly certain it would boil water it was the cooking application I was really interested in.

After a little while of using it and carrying it the sheath loosens some. You'll hardly know you have a knife on your belt. As long as you don't pull the saw into the draw on drawing it it should take a while. I pull mine straight up and feel no resistance, the leaf shape helps with this as the more it you pull out the further from the side the teeth are. It would take a good bit of in and out or causing the saw to rub on the sheath to cut through. It actually seems to be pretty well thought out.

As for the saw teeth... I have cut a lot of stuff with it...bamboo, sched. 40 PVC, seasoned Hickory, drywall...the teeth are still sharp enough as to draw blood if I were to put my thumb on them in a push cut.
 
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try steam rice next time!
 
The problem was that it was on the direct flames. Next time, try to get a bed of coals away from the fire and cook it on there. Also, the greener the better, but I've used thin walled dead stuff with some success.
 
That's pretty cool. Think it would make a difference in the longevity of the pot if you wrapped the bottom in tin-foil?
 
You know, Mist, I had a thought — surprising as that may seem. You may have already thought about this, but you're heating a vertical cylinder from the bottom. That means that the bottom of the cylinder has to be exposed to exceedingly high temperature for a very long time before the water will boil (surface area exposed vs volume of cylinder). I rather suspect that, were you to expose more surface area — along the sides, say — to the heat, it would boil more quickly without the bamboo burning. Hence, no splitting.

All this seems rather obvious now when I look at your pictures again. Should have caught it the first time, I suppose, but I can be kinda slow sometimes.
 
shangchi108 said:
That's pretty cool. Think it would make a difference in the longevity of the pot if you wrapped the bottom in tin-foil?
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Thanks. Possibly, I may have to give that a shot just to see. Most of my experiments like this are done to observe the characteristics of natural materials though.



dawsonbob said:
You know, Mist, I had a thought — surprising as that may seem. You may have already thought about this, but you're heating a vertical cylinder from the bottom. That means that the bottom of the cylinder has to be exposed to exceedingly high temperature for a very long time before the water will boil (surface area exposed vs volume of cylinder). I rather suspect that, were you to expose more surface area — along the sides, say — to the heat, it would boil more quickly without the bamboo burning. Hence, no splitting.

All this seems rather obvious now when I look at your pictures again. Should have caught it the first time, I suppose, but I can be kinda slow sometimes.
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Thanks Bob, actually before it even got a chance to occur to me it was told to me by Rick when I was discussing this with him in emails. He was telling me how he boiled water in it in Florida. I was telling him that while I did use it for a lot of things when I lived in Florida...I made shelters, spears. cups and bowls and stuff but sadly it never occurred to me to try to cook in it, I was just a kid and never even thought about it.
 
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