I'm thinking to build an ethanol fire bowl. Any pointers?

[Paul Hart]

Thinking to use two different sized bowls. A large outer concrete bowl/planter, and a much smaller one filled with sand or fire glass in the middle to hold the ethanol. It'll be buried just below a layer of fire glass so that it appears that it's just a smooth layer of fire glass all the way across the larger bowl. Make sense?
I'm going to post a couple links to pics here in a minute to help get my idea across. I know that you can fill a soup can full of ethanol and light it and it just burns at the top (I always expect things to explode lol) so I'm thinking that a bowl full of fire glass with some ethanol poured in will work fine. Someone correct me if I'm asking for an ER visit here.

[Paul Hart]

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/9B5Lru8YiYKss7BC4kTEVrPdKrhX72EFJSq24MBBWvHrbi7XJqAdjL-a_SsC5IVX-EPb49EJMeDBcwTVYueK9608ztjZ5yDwrvgmVLT4UAj2EdUtHC8hcYxJllz1-nzytA

[Paul Hart]

http://www.starfiredirect.com/images/products/fggb-30.jpg

[Paul Hart]

This dude ended up using ethanol for his idea in the end.

[Paul Hart]

A shallow metal baking pan just below the glass would probably be more ideal. Want the fuel close to the surface.

[Paul Hart]

Just had another idea (starting to feel like I'm talking to myself here)
I have an extra Weber kettle lid here that was leaking too much so they sent me a new one. I bet I could turn it upside down and incorporate it into this idea somehow. I've been wondering what to do with it.

[CDN Smoker]

I like the first photo but the internet is to slow to open the rest.

Good luck and post some pics of the finished product

[TentHunteR]

This looks like a very interesting project.  And fairly easy and inexpensive to boot.

[TMB]

Get muebe to help you he is our gas expert    he really is

[muebe]

Get muebe to help you he is our gas expert    he really is

Not familiar with a ethanol fire bowl so I don't know how helpful I would be.

[Big Dawg]

Looks very cool.  If you take pics during the build, that would be even better.





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[Paul Hart]

I've been reading this stuff on building ethanol stoves and apparently using a wick of some sort is beneficial in a few ways, including reduced fuel consumption. I'm going to use a piece of carbon felt laid right inside the pan that I ambusing to contain the fluid. Home Depot did not have any fire glass, so I may be stuck with lava rock for testing. Hoping to test the idea this morning or at some point today. 

[muebe]

I've been reading this stuff on building ethanol stoves and apparently using a wick of some sort is beneficial in a few ways, including reduced fuel consumption. I'm going to use a piece of carbon felt laid right inside the pan that I ambusing to contain the fluid. Home Depot did not have any fire glass, so I may be stuck with lava rock for testing. Hoping to test the idea this morning or at some point today.

I built my own fire pit that uses natural gas. I found a great deal for fire glass shipped from Amazon. Sometimes they will have bags for a cheap price and prime shipping.

If you decide to buy fire glass check them out.

[Paul Hart]

I'm going with fire glass. I'm thinking reflective copper.