Post #2204126
2026-04-22 19:34 UTC
Replies (3)
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@Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it 2026-04-22 19:39
@scott@carfree.city I've now seen multiple people (like at least 4 others!) talking about brewing coffee or tea on Amtrak. Is this just a Mastodon thing, or something that's coming from other social media?
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@tito_swineflu@sfba.social 2026-04-22 19:51
@scott@carfree.city I love my battery-powered, rechargeable cyclone camp stove. It can cook using pretty much any twigs / pine needles / debris you find on the forest floor and it can charge your phone. The catch is that CA often bans burning anything but propane in a lot of places. https://www.bioliteenergy.com/products/campstove-2-plus
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@c9a@cathode.church 2026-04-22 20:32
@scott@carfree.city I think you'd run into output limits with any reasonably-sized battery. My medium-size battery (300Wh, about the size of a car battery but much lighter) has a max output of 300W with 500W surge. That's a quarter of a kettle's 1200-1500W. And boiling water is quite energy-intensive: boiling 1L of water from room temp takes ~100Wh, which is fully a third of my battery's capacity. I discovered you *can* get little travel mug-sized kettles that run on 300W - I found one at a thrift store and bought it for the novelty, the one I have seems to work as promised, and looks similar to what you find if you search for "NiceWell Travel Kettle". I'm a little wary of it, that's a lot of power/heat to be putting into an off-brand cylinder, but...might be an option!