Klean Strip/Klean Heat kerosene alternative for oil burning lanterns and lamps

Barb LeeContributor - September 14, 2022

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Klean Heat kerosene alternative is about as pure as kerosene gets, and is recommended on one of my favorite lantern websites.  It’s taken me a long time to find it (buried in the Home Depot labyrinth) but I found it last week.  Just now refitted my two antique lanterns with new wicks and filled them with the new product, then lit them.

It is unquestionably a far superior product in the old lanterns than either K-1 kerosene or lamp oil!  My two lanterns, a 19th century railroad lantern and a 1920s Dietz cold blast contractor’s lantern, just reeked when burned inside with K-1.  There is almost no kerosene smell at all with the new fuel.  The Dietz burns far cleaner than the railroad lantern and I couldn’t smell anything from it.  Most of the smell came from the other one.

From the Klean Strip website: Klean-Strip® Klean Heat® My understanding is that the alternative produces slightly less light and heat, but probably imperceptible.

Consider the kerosene alternative if you use kerosene in any of your heating/lighting equipment.  It’s spendy but seems to be a better option if forced to use such fuels indoors in an emergency.

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I love kerosene lanterns and wish I could burn them all the time. My wife isn’t a fan of the fumes released into the air however. I still don’t think this product you shared will be good enough for her to allow me to use them more often, but I want to look into it more and see if there is someway I can convince her.

Kerosene does stink, so having an alternative that doesn’t smell like anything is definitely worth the money if using indoors.