Trent D. Sanders wrote:

These Kenyon stoves work wonderfully well IF YOU KNOW HOW TO USE THEM.
The secret is in the lighting them.

Pump up the tank a little [don't overpressure them], open the round
valve wheel and let some alcohol flow into the burner cup and down
into the bottom of the stove pan where there's another "cup" thing.
Doesn't take much. Shut the valve COMPLETELY OFF.

Light the alcohol in both the bottom and the burner cup. LET IT BURN
COMPLETELY, until there's no more flame. Then crack the valve wheel
open a bit and light the burner. It will burn nicely, giving you a
flame like a Coleman stove, and after a few seconds you can turn it up
to the desired "burn".

The mistake people make with these stoves is in not letting the
"prime" burn completely before lighting the stove. As soon as they
open the valve wheel it flares up, scares the hell outta everyone, and
they flee out the companionway.

If you can remove the stove, take it outside and try it once if you're
nervous about it.

T. Sanders
S/V Cimba

We use a slightly different method: When we hear the obvious hiss or
gurgle of the alcohol in the tube boiling, we open the valve all the way
over to the "clean" setting, which is about the minimum heat setting.
When the primer has burnt off, we can demand full heat immediately. We
don't have to stand over the stove and immediately relight the stove.
When we did it Trent's way, we too often didn't relight quite quickly
enough and had to start again from scratch.

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