When Alc Stove building, A big question is...Side Burner or Top Burner. Here's a top burner build. It is definitely not the only way, or the easiest, or the best way to build an Alc minimalist camp stove. There are at least a hundred variations out there. You can spend hours on youtube watching Alc stove builds. Watch this small stove bloom into a hot flame. I prefer a top burning Alcohol stoves over side burning stoves because top burners burn with less problems. The top burner starts heating your pan the moment that you light it, even before it has bloomed. A positive for a side burner, you can set your pan on top of a side burner without any pot stand. That's their only advantage. I could go on and on about the differences, but this album is about one way to build a top burning stove from a 2.312" dia mid sizes drink can. That's the full burn size of this 2.312" Dia stove that we are about to build. Note the small