What sort of stove do you generally carry?

[111t]

Hanging Superfly

Sweeet!

[Buckethead]

Do you mean this?



It's half the fun!

It looks a lot like that, except you forgot the excitement of fuel on the ground, with flames slowly seeping toward the little red bottle...

NOW THATS FUN!!

[adkdremn]

Those pics are funny, I can relate to those experiences. Before winter I bought a Primus multifuel stove. First time I've used a white gas stove. I set it up on my picnic table and was reading through the instructions as I'm lighting it. Well, I didn't read quite fast enough. I have the thing lit and didn't quite make it to the part where it says to turn off the gas after soaking the little foam ringy thing. Needless to say, I just about burnt down my picnic table!
I finally figured out how to use the thing and it worked great on my winter camping trips. I boiled water for meals, drinking water and hot cider and I barely used half a bottle of fuel for a full weekend. I was really surprised, I packed two fuel bottles thinking I'd need them both. Now I know for next time, one bottle is plenty.
During the summer months I use a Coleman F1 ultralight. The thing is amazing weighing it as just 2.7 ounces. It's held up well and works great!

[pico23]

Just an FYI, the whisperlight is finicky, but you can pretty much eliminate flare ups by priming the priming cup with denatured alcohol.

While priming, make sure the wind screen and heat reflector are tight, and that you put a pot (empty or filled) on the burner. This will reflect tons of heat onto the generator tube and reduce convective cooling. One the flames turn blue and the alcohol is just about done (or completely burns, your choice), open the valve 1/2-1 turn SLOWLY. The stove takes time to react so even if nothing instantly happens within 1second you'll hear fuel coming out or not. Once you turn it just enough to hear gas, light the top burner and you should not have any eye brow removing flareups.

Most flareups are a result of too much fuel (opening the valve too much) or the fuel not evaporating in the tube.

[oldsmores]

Svea 123 30+ yrs. old, still works like a champ!
JH Bahn

ME TOO!!!!!!!!

[Little Rickie]

I have a Simmer Light white gas stove that I love. Small, light wt, powerfull and with a small fuel bottle not much heaver than a pocket rocket and powerfull. It can really put out some heat.

I plan to, someday, get a pocket rocket. The size, weight, convience and quick start can't be argued with.

I also want to check out an alcohol stove: cheap, light weight and good for a small job.

I made a small wood gasification stove out of tin cans. It uses twigs and boils water (i qt.) just fine in 5-10 min and is good for low heat for an additional 15-25 min as the charcoal burns. I've heated water (1 qt.) to boil 2x with one burn. First for hot coffee and then second pot for oat meal & clean up.

I don't know how much I will use it other than for fun, it takes time to gather twigs, break them up and tinker with the set up. Fuel is free and it doesn't require much more than 2 handfulls.

I may buy a sturdier stove some day. It does blacken pans quite well. This would be good for a long solo backpack someday.

[Little Rickie]

ME TOO!!!!!!!!

I've seen them in action. If I'd saw one in a garage sale I buy it.

[Budnick11]

Found this site when I was looking for a budget-friendly backpacking stove:

http://www.csun.edu/~mjurey/penny.html

Took 1 or 2 tries to build it right, but it was a fun little project. Have taken it on several 1-2 night trips and it has worked like a charm every time for both boiling and cooking, and runs on cheap and widely-available denatured alcohol (or everclear ). It will boil 2 cups of water in 4-5 minutes or 4 cups in 8-10 minutes, and is whisper quiet. The design is simple enough that there is nothing that can go wrong with it, aside from stepping on it... quite an ingenious little device.

I know people love their white gas but this thing is a cinch!

And no one can complain about the price: Six pack + $0.01 = Stove (Plus you get to drink the beer)

[DuctTape]

for a wide range of alcohol stove creations check out the guys over at bplite.com

[111t]

I've seen them in action. If I'd saw one in a garage sale I buy it.

Svea 123r in action...

[Little Rickie]

If anyone were to buy an alcohol stove which one would you buy and who would you buy it from?

[Budnick11]

This site goes over all the commercial models of alcohol stoves in-depth:

http://art.simon.tripod.com/Stoves/

[DuctTape]

If anyone were to buy an alcohol stove which one would you buy and who would you buy it from?

I would buy the fancee feest stove made by zelp at bplite.com

[Little Rickie]

I just got my penny stove from FiremarshalBill!

WOW! It's small & lite. Seems fragile. Can't wait to try it.

I know, why didn't I build it my self? I need to see how one is built and works right the first time and now I can play around with different designs, though this seems to have it down good.

I can see this as a day hike, over night or wood stove back up for 1 or two people. Cool.

I've messed with sterno & candles stoves but this seems best.

[oldsmores]

...I know, why didn't I build it my self? I need to see how one is built and works right the first time and now I can play around with different designs, though this seems to have it down good...

Rickie-

Check out http://zenstoves.net/