You can easily build a "Hobo Stove" using a #10 can or a one gallon steel can. You cut an upside down "U" in one side of the can making it from the open bottom toward three quarters of the way toward the top. I always make it about 4 inches wide. On the opposite side you punch many holes in it with a nail. This will be your draft.

When you're ready to begin cooking you put a handfull of dried twigs in your opening and start your fire. Once they are going well you'll have to keep adding to the pile. You can then begin cooking on the flat top of the little stove. Many a chicken egg, dog or cat and I'm sure a few plump chickens were cooked on one of these little stoves during the Depression by one of the many Hobos who traveled around the country during the 20's and 30's.

You don't need kerosene or gas to cook with. Twigs are readily available just about anywhere.

Caseyboy