Portable cooking canister

A portable cooking canister comprising:

• a container including a base, a side wall structure and a top wall in surrounding relation to an interior chamber, said top wall including a central opening therethrough communicating with and exposing said interior chamber,
• fuel contained within said interior chamber and including an isoparaffin mixture and diethylene glycol,
• fuel stabilizing means within said interior chamber for holding and regulating movement of the fuel contained therein so as to prevent spilling or leakage of said fuel through said opening, and including a fibrous material having a burn temperature above 675.degree. F., said fibrous material disposed in filling relation throughout said interior chamber forming a plurality of pockets throughout and having an upper surface exposed at said opening, said diethylene glycol clinging to said fibrous material within said pockets to produce a stabilized gel-like mass,
• ignitor means for igniting said fuel and including a cord extending upwardly from said fibrous material through said opening to an exposed portion thereof, and being structured and disposed to draw said isoparaffin mixture by capillary action from a bottom of said interior chamber to said exposed portion for initial igniting thereof and subsequent igniting of said diethylene glycol on said upper exposed surface of said fibrous material, and
• means to maintain said fibrous material within said interior chamber.