Which stove?

[10-K]

I can't imagine using an alcohol or esbit stove without a caldera cone.

[Different Socks]

I have always used an MSR Whisperlite b/c I like to be able to simmer, boil, fry, blast the flame, bake and a few other things. Seems the only thing you can do with an alky stove is boil water.
Love it when I take a Bakepacker with me and make cake, brownies, muffins, corn bread and even pizza and the other hikers are eating pop tarts!

[zelph]

I can't imagine using an alcohol or esbit stove without a caldera cone.

The Caldera Cone is primarilly a windscreen and all alcohol stoves should be used with a windscreen.

[bushcraft]

I use cannister stoves on short hikes or weekenders just for convienience. An alchy stove is a must for me anytime I do a long distance hike. You just can't beat a Super Cat for simplicity. Worrying about cannister availability is a pain in the arse.

Recently I've added a wood burner. I absolutely love my EmberLit EL-Mini. Easy to feed, folds flat, no extra pieces to lose, and bombproof. Clip the whole thing together with a carabiner while transporting if you like.

http://www.emberlit.com/buy.php

Cheers!

That is neat! I have to purchase that and try it out.

I have the Stratus TrailStove - http://www.trailstove.com/

And have the Clikstand Titanium - http://www.emergencyoutdoors.com/sto...tove-p-69.html

Both work great, the Clikstand is a bit more portable and you can use wood to cook with as well.

[Mountain Mike]

Not in current lw hikers but still love my MSR wisperlite or simmerlte. I am not the norm where I like to ake real coffee & cook real meals. I will make a pizza on middle of long resupply & take real veggies for first few days. It all is a matter of what you want & what works for you!

[rjhouser]

Cat can. The MSR will shoot your eye out.

[Mountain Mike]

Hard making a pizza or brownies/cake with a cat can. Like I said to each his own

[Mags]

Hard making a pizza or brownies/cake with a cat can. Like I said to each his own

I am sure the brownies are nice in the backcountry, and if offered I am not going to refuse, but if I am hiking all day...making pizza ain't exactly on my mind.

[10-K]

Brownies and pizza? Those are two words I wouldn't come up with on a hiking word association test!

[10-K]

Maybe on a hiking to get to a campsite or something.

[bushcraft]

Brownies and pizza? Those are two words I wouldn't come up with on a hiking word association test!

Haha my thoughts exactly!

[Mags]

Maybe on a hiking to get to a campsite or something.

Yeah, if I was doing base-camp style backpacking, for sure. But even if base-camp style backpacking, I am hiking (or climbing as is the case with base camp style trips I've done ) all day. One poster above complained about all an alchie stove can do is boil water. Well, yeah.... That's all I need it do.

[cabbagehead]

Aside from the lightness (which is considerably less than white gas/canister stoves), alcohol stoves go out on their own (allowing for easier multitasking).

[mamamiapdx]

I use batchz stovez, they are pretty good.

[cabbagehead]

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...8&feature=plcp

[zelph]

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...8&feature=plcp

This video might be of help for those of you that may want to slow the bottle stove down a bit. Read the comments.

[Starchild]

While this thread is still active I now add my $0.02.

I started with the Vargo Ti stove at 1.3 oz, added a very thin (made of 2 soda cans sides) windscreen and the famous 4-point-something ounce 'grease pot' (try beating that weight with Ti - it ain't happening) along with a Al pot holder. Packing up for a 3 day backpack with the fuel it came to 15.7 oz. Then I weighted the Jetboil Ti Sol with full fuel canister and it came to exactly the same 15.7 oz.

My decision was made right there, Jetboil = easier, safer (cook in tent), faster (get on the trail earlier = more miles) hot coffee in the AM, 6-8 days per canister and for the same weight. Sure Alcohol will deplete faster and weight less, though past 3 days out I start with a weight advantage with the Jetboil over the alcohol stove. And if worse comes to worse and I can't find fuel for the Jetboil, for the price of 2 soda/beer cans or roadside gathering I can make a stove that burns alcohol to get me by very nicely, for the price of one soda/beer can I still can get by using alcohol fuel till I can get a canister and using the jetboil pot with the heat exchanger even increases the efficiency of a trailmade alcohol stove.

[snifur]

+1 to Starchild...i love my jetboil. do all my cooking with it. though the pizzas and brownies have proven quite difficult...