What's your favorite stove?

[spklbuk]

I use a Clikstand and mini-Trangia http://www.clikstand.com/ alcohol burner as my go to:

a large Trangia http://www.nwbackpack.com/products/trangia_spirit_stove.php with a very elaborate pot stand of 4-10P nails as my supplemental:

Gotta love that sweet blue flame!

And we manage to eat pretty well:

 

[Ollie]

Nice camp brinner!

I lost my stove in a move last summer and can't remember what it was. It saved my ass in a week long solo hike in the Wind River range, though, when my water filtration unit broke two days in. Had to boil water 3 times a day. For a replacement I think I'm going to go with the MSR whisperlite international because it can burn a variety of fuels. For car camping I use the trusty old coleman two burner setup.

As far as food goes I've been very lucky, as two of my best camping/fishing buddies (one from Singapore and one from Malaysia) are unofficial chefs with Asian food. Last summer while camping in Florida one them decided to stay back at the camp while I and the other hit the beach for some surf fishing. When we came back in the evening we were treated with fresh grilled Pompano, rubbed with some kind of curry and a big boil of blue crab with potatoes and sausage. These guys don't mess around.

 

[Venture]

I use a Primus butane stove. The same canisters conveniently fit my Primus Micron lantern as well. Both have piezo ignition and work great.

If I camped a ton I would probably have gotten a dual-fuel stove to cut down cost.

BTW, spklbuk, you're making me hungry.

 

[Gat]

I picked up a Vital Stove this winter http://www.solhuma.com/products.php?idCatPri=2&lang=en&idCatLevel=16&idPro=9
We camp on most of our bike trips but rarely eat at the site (usually did the restaurant thing before finding a camp ground). I'm hoping to try cooking this year, or at least make some coffee before we hit the road.

 

[toompine]

I recently bought off eBay a small alcohol stove made from a soda can. Weighs next to nothing, is about 2" tall, has no moving parts and can heat a 1/2 liter of water in 3 minutes. Have tried it at the house but not camping yet. I think it cost like $5.00

 

[2XADV]

Esbit Stove

The Esbit stove is overly simple, but you can boil water and fry something with it.

I like it because:
It is very light and very compact.
The fuel is light.
The fuel tablets are stable.
You can break the fuel tablet into quarters and add them as needed while boiling water, etc.
The fuel pellets can be rubbed on your skin and they are a mosquito repellent.
You can tell how much fuel you have.
You don't get dirty using it.
You can use one on a table and even on the floor in a bathroom of a cheap motel.
It just unfolds and you place it on a surface, add a fuel tablet, light the tablet, put a foil shield around the stove to cut the wind, place your pan on the stove (the stove adjusts to 2 pan heights for boiling or frying), cook and when the fuel tablet runs out wait 60 seconds for the stove to cool-down, fold it (and your shield) up and pack it back up.
It is not as fast as a Jet-boil or as hot as a liquid fuel stove, but the camping I do involves boil and add to the bag cooking most of the time so the lightness and packability and ease is worth it for me. If I was going to use a bigger stove I would go with something with a larger fixed fuel canister.

 

[keeponriding]

Jetboil all the way: Small, convenient, light and boils water in 30 seconds. I also have a larger pan when camping with 1 or 2 others.

http://www.jetboil.com/products/cookingsystems/personalcookingsystem

 

[Venture]

I looked at a bunch of stoves, including the Jetboil, and went with this kit because it was a little bigger and came with better implements:

Everything fits into the storage bag, nice and neat. The fuel cylinder won't fit though. The stove is really good at simmering as well. It's the Primus Eta Power Easy Fuel, which I don't think they make anymore. They came up with a new kit that's lighter, but this kit was actually nicer, and besides, weight doesn't much matter to me on a bike, at least a few ounces anyway.

 

[keeponriding]

With the range of options, we have choices to match our preferences.

I'm a minimalist camper: Only the essentials, for cooking, I only boil water. Dinner is camping food, cooked and eaten out of the pouch. Breakfast, oatmeal from the envelope. I don't want to do dishes, or leave behind soapy water, so as long as I can boil enough water...I'm fine...lunch I either eat out...try and cram in vegetables/fruits at that one meal, or eat protein bars (I always have a few in my tank bag).

 

[toompine]

With the range of options, we have choices to match our preferences.

I'm a minimalist camper: Only the essentials, for cooking, I only boil water. Dinner is camping food, cooked and eaten out of the pouch. Breakfast, oatmeal from the envelope. I don't want to do dishes, or leave behind soapy water, so as long as I can boil enough water...I'm fine...lunch I either eat out...try and cram in vegetables/fruits at that one meal, or eat protein bars (I always have a few in my tank bag).

+1 on that. Here is that alcohol stove made from a soda can I talked about in my previous post

 

[JT]

I looked at a bunch of stoves, including the Jetboil, and went with this kit because it was a little bigger and came with better implements:

Everything fits into the storage bag, nice and neat. The fuel cylinder won't fit though. The stove is really good at simmering as well. It's the Primus Eta Power Easy Fuel, which I don't think they make anymore. They came up with a new kit that's lighter, but this kit was actually nicer, and besides, weight doesn't much matter to me on a bike, at least a few ounces anyway.

I bought Primus EtaPower three years ago and I like it very much. It's incredible fast to boil water with because of the construction.

Primus makes also a smaller stove with the same construction, it's called EtaExpress.

 

[Venture]

+1 on that. Here is that alcohol stove made from a soda can I talked about in my previous post

Gotta ask, will it run on an 80 proof liquor if need be? Just thinking survival here... ;D

 

[bvail]

+1 on the JetBoil. Great for coffee/hot water for bag food. I also carry a single burner propane stove and an old steel coffee can. Boil up some h2o in the can with a can of Dinty Moore stew or other culinary delight and voila', simple meal with no clean up.

 

[Jakeboy]

Gotta ask, will it run on an 80 proof liquor if need be? Just thinking survival here... ;D

Whoa! Hang on just a minute, here. No need to resort to such drastic measures. Cold food isn't all THAT bad.

 

[switchback]

My kind of stove.

 

[ptfjjj]

Whoa! Hang on just a minute, here. No need to resort to such drastic measures. Cold food isn't all THAT bad.

Yeah, and its even better if you chase it with 80 proof liqour. ;D

 

[spklbuk]

toompine, better grab yourself a dryer vent or a piece of roof flashing a make a windscreen for your soda can stove before going far afield.

http://jwbasecamp.com/Articles/SuperCat/index.html Super Cat stove is even simpler and outperforms most other alcohol stoves if all you wish to do is boil water due to the fact that wide open is its only gear. The simmer ring is why I choose the Trangia. I can cook however simple or complex the trip calls for and no canister fuel levels to guess at.

And yes Venture it will run on some high proof ethanol (> 80) but why? Can burn Heet (red I think not yellow, which ever one is not methanol) in a real pinch.

 

[toompine]

toompine, better grab yourself a dryer vent or a piece of roof flashing a make a windscreen for your soda can stove before going far afield.

Got one, fits inside the pot for transporting purposes. I read a lot about these related to backpacking and I guess those folks love them. I think I stlll need that back up stove until I figure out the limits of the alcohol stove. I know extreme cold really cuts down their ability to get a flame going

 

[20valves]

extreme cold really cuts down their ability to get a flame going

extreme cold will also get me into a cheap motel ^-^

 

[digitalmoto]

I've got an old MSR WhisperLite that I bought in the late '80s for backpacking. Still works just fine...