Diethylene Glycol Gel - Some Like It Hot !!
These Mil Spec Diethylene Glycol gel packs are a great replacement product for the military's previous product, Trioxane bars, for heating meals in the field. These gel packs are simple to pack light in weight to carry, and easy to use with either a canteen cup stove or an Esbit folding ultralight pocket stove. Just prepare your meal for heating in your canteen cup or other cooking pot, tear open the Diethylene Glycol gel pack, squeeze the gel into the base of your folding pocket stove or a folded sheet of aluminum foil on the ground inside your canteen cup stove and light the gel with a match, lighter, steel and ferrocerium rod fire starter, or whatever you are using to start a fire. The gel lights easily and quickly begins to burn. Put your canteen cup or cooking pot on the canteen cup stove or Esbit pocket stove 2-1/2 inches above the burning gel, which will generate heat up to 1,358 degrees Fahrenheit, raising the temperature of water in a canteen cup 100 degrees Fahrenheit in 8 minutes. The Diethylene Glycol gel burns cleanly, without smoking, and odorlessly, without the "fishy" smell often experienced when using Trioxane bars. It is non-explosive, non-hazmat and nontoxic, and it will even burn at an elevation of 10,000 feet. These Diethylene Glycol gel packs also have an indefinite shelf life, which is a big plus for preppers and infrequent campers.
In addition to being great for heating your meals and boiling your water collected from sources of unknown safety and…