How to cook any drygood: Put it in a pot, slightly cover with water. Bring to a boil, stirring to keep loose. Turn off heat after boil and let sit with top on for 5-10 minutes. Taste and test at that point, adding more water and heating if necessary or warm up with top off to evaporate some. The only food this does not work for is instant mashed potatoes. Guesstimate the water volume (aim a little on the low side). Boil water, add potatoes, and then add a bit more water if necessary. This works with any food and conserves the most amount of fuel.

Soda/Beer can alcohol stove. Take two cans and cut the bottoms off about 1.5 inches from the bottom. Optionally stuff a piece of fiberglass insulation (take from your basement/attic) into one of the bottoms. Turn the other can bottom upside down and try to fit it inside the other one. Go slow, it will take some time depending how clean the cuts were. When it is nested, you'll have a can with two bottoms. Take a push pin and make holes around the outside rim about 1/2" apart. These will be the fire jets. In the middle of the same side make a whole with about a 1/4" diameter to fill the fuel with. The hole should be smaller than a nickle coin, because we'll use a nickle/penny to cover it with. Three methods that work well: Drill bit, poke a pilot hole with a pin and slowly turn widen it with a pocket knife, just make a bunch of mini-holes with the push pin.