Comments on: Backpacking stoves buying guide

By: maverik

maverik — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:45:05 +0000

personally. i prefer gas stoves.they are easier to light and don’t take time to prime.liquid stoves are good for base camp but i have found it hard to keep a small pot to actually stay on the stand.I would also like to recemend that you should make a tea light stove. take the cup (metal cup on bottom) and put alcohol in it. it is small and is dirt cheap.

By: gerg927

gerg927 — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:47:32 +0000

I like soda can alcohol stoves better

By: msr

msr — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:16:53 +0000

the msr dragonfly stove is in my opinion the best stove ever it will burn anthing that is ligther than kerosene including unleaded gas deisel jetfuel cleaning flued high proof alcoholwhite gas and a lot of others it is also very adjustable you can get a heat disperser thing and actuly bake cinaman rolls biscuts and so on it works awsome in cold weather and high elavations and weighs only 2.5 onces more than the wisperlight internationl and yet has a wider base and a more adujstable flame its awsome

By: littlewill

littlewill — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:31:33 +0000

Last night at my scout meeting we made self stoves .do not use methenol for these because one of them blew up on me!

By: MountainCamper259

MountainCamper259 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:19:28 +0000

Instead of pressurized fuel stoves, are backpacking stoves which use sterno fuel (usually used by buffet caterers to keep cooked food warm) any good for cooking food on backpacking campouts?

By: Michief Angel

Michief Angel — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:37:40 +0000

Hey this is a great article but can you tell me specificaly great stoves to buy if it is my first one? I make soda can stoes all the time and I use them but now I think that I need a real backpacking stove…help?

By: WhichBurner

WhichBurner — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:14:04 +0000

I’ve read some really great articles about multifuel stoves and their applications, and this is up there,great stuff!

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:27:38 +0000

There’s a reason why liquid fuel was used over 50 years ago and still is today.

By: drake

drake — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:02:33 +0000

i have a msr pocketrocket and its pretty cool

By: boblua

boblua — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:47:04 +0000

they have a good price for a stove like that.