Who here is a stove junkie?

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well come on.. if anyone is they should post pics and write reveiws of thier favorites or ones they take out the most often ill get to pics of mine and my project stove
 
I have heard a lot of good things about the pocket rocket. I just got a gift card to EMS for my birthday and plan to pick one up.
 
Here's my 2 fav's - the pocket rocket:

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and my white box alky stove brewing up some hot coco:

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Both great and very packable stoves. Cheers
 
I'm a just a gear junkie.
The Pocket Rocket is cool (hot?)
Lately I have been using my homemade inverted downdraft wood gasifier the most. I like it because it is quiet and wood is free (so was the stove).
 
+1 on the MSR Pocket Rocket. You could go lighter with some titanium models but you can't get a better stove for that amount of money. The rigid case is nice but too tight. I can't fit a Bic ligther inside. Anyway, I usually leave it at home and put it inside a pot with some more stuff so it doesn't rattle. It is the best choice for going light and fast.

Whenever I plan to cook for a few days or be melting lots of snow... Primus Omnifuel is my choice. It is pretty much the same as a Multyfuel with the addition of another valvule. I have almost the same flame controll as the lpg stoves... so I can simmer. I tried a Multifuel once and it is a blowtorch... don't attemp to do any cooking with it. Gas is cheaper than butane/propane mixtures and they work great with low temps and altitude. The downside of using auto gas instead of white gas is that anytime when I come back home I have to dissasemble it and clean it. The same steel brushes used for spark plugs are handy.
Some of my pictures (don't have any without the windshield... soooooorry...)
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Mikel
 
good point about low temps and LPG. I found this out the hard way, woke up to -10F and couldn't make anything hot for breakfast. You can always sleep with the canister in your bag, but it's better to not have to worry about it.
 
Dang I am slightly behind times...I like a coleman stove (propane) or if where weight is a issue my ole'trusty Hobo stove...
 
Blazink, there is a lot said about LPG and low temps... and I don't want anyone to burst in flames so read this carefully.
As long as your stove has a generator tube or some kind of vaporizing gizmo on it (all the multyfuel stoves have them, that is exactly why you can burn gas, diesel and querosene with them) you can use your LPG canisters UPSIDE DOWN. The idea is that the vaporised propane that stays on tops pushes down the liquid. Once the liquid LPG reaches the vaporizer-whatever it... vaporizes... and burns cleanly. Coleman Max works that way but the fuel is expensive. There are some other stoves that work the same way but let you use almost any kind of canisters.

Just a tip: If you ever need to light a stove below freezing temps and the canister doesn't want to wake up... put it a little bit inside your coat or pee on it (yeah... I know...). That should do the trick and warm it enough for lighting it. But be aware that as soon as you start cooking with it... it will cool itself due to the vaporizing LPG inside so you have to prevent it from freezing off again. If you have some water and a plate... put the canister on the plate and fill it with water. The water has a high specific heat (I am translating from Spanish, so chances are I am not using the proper terms...) so the cold from the canister won't be able to freeze it (at least for a while). The water will keep the base of the canister at 0ºC... and that is enough for the butane to vaporize. If you don't keep it semi-warm this way or another... you will end up burning just propane... and when you run out of it... you will have a canister half full of useless butane.

Mikel
 
The White Box alky stove has been improved since my purchase - check ebay for the spec - more fuel, fuel gauge, and no rivets.

Damn you gear addiction :)
 
For convenience most of the time I use this gas job. It folds flat, supports very wide pots, has the important low center of gravity for stability in the nest [plus you can peg it down if need be], and it has the pre-heater tube and remote bottle to extend cold weather / altitude performance.
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For colder weather and protracted trips I switch to this liquid fuel:
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I have a couple of these uber-light picnic type offerings. I use them only when going very light. I run them on 50 or 100 size blow torch canisters from the hardware store instead of what you're meant to. Those are more convenient to stow being long cylinders like an aerosol not much wider than the fitting itself. To make it stable I poke a hole in the ground and drop the cylinder in. I've got to be needing mega-light or be on a picnic to put one of these into bat though.

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So far I have a few homemade alcohol stoves and an esbit one. Both work descently well and I have used them for about a year now. Lately I have been looking at the MSR pocket rocket and the superfly. I'm leaning toward the superfly because it works with a wider array of fuel bottles(with threads and without).
 
brians said:
The White Box alky stove has been improved since my purchase - check ebay for the spec - more fuel, fuel gauge, and no rivets.

Damn you gear addiction :)
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What's the minimum pot diameter to use with the white box stove? I don't want flames licking up the sides of my 6" diameter tea kettle.
 
Hi Blazink, Would you show us the plans to build the wood gasifier stove.
Till now the only stove that ever impress me is my over 40 year old primus hunter stove and the svea123 that i got used a few months ago. Nothing to lose on a hike its one piece so nothing to break off. Most important never ever never failed to light up for me even at above 12,000ft and about 20deg. One tank full last me for 2-3 days with cooking and i make tea for breakfast and atlist two cups at night. Three min or 6 min to boil a Q of water.... Never been in a rush where every min counted.
Have been eyeing the primus omni fuel. Seem nice and same principle as the old stove... For the once that have it how do you think it would last under hard use??? I dont like the idea of screwing the tank every time i cook and all the hoses... But should be lighter then my old stoves.

Sasha
 
Here is link to a bunch of wood stove plans, this site is great.
http://zenstoves.net/LinksGeneral-DIY.htm#WoodBurningStoves
and here is another one:
http://wings.interfree.it/html/main.html
I can't find the exact design I use, a friend showed me but I think he found it on the internet also. It is made from two cans, a coffee can and a "bean" can (14oz.?). It will boil 2+ cups(depending on fuel) of water on a single batch of twigs, I haven't ever timed it.
After gassification finishes you have a small charcoal bed that works well for simmering for a few minutes.
It is not a high performance stove, but it has no moving parts
I would like to check out a Sierra Zip stove, I may try and make something similar.
 
My most-used stove is a Trangia. I made another alcohol stove out of aluminum, and that worked OK, but I like the screw-cap on the Trangia, since you don't have to burn it dry.

For group backpacking, I usually burn white gas in a Whisperlite Internationale (bigger fuel tube, harder to clog, could theoretically burn kerosene). It's old reliable - pre shaker-jet even. I've also used the Simmerlite, Dragonfly, XGK, and Rapidfire (butane). MSR is not quite an old brass Svea, but it's definitely been anywhere you'd want to go and come back.

The two burner Colemans are real nice if you're staying put and want bacon and eggs in the morning. :D I've even used the Coleman oven (with minimal success - I'm much handier with a Dutch oven.)

The Jetboil is an amazing little gadget. I've thought about getting one for day-hike or one-night use. The MSR version of the pot baffle is supposed to be equally amazing, in terms of fuel efficiency.
 
I'm kind of a stove whore.... I've owned, and still use, quite a few..

Here are a couple of the easily accessible ones..

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There's another coleman, and an MSR Whisperlite Internation not pictured..

Here's the ole standby, reliable, faithful, coleman feather 400..
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Then the new Coleman F1 Ultralight..
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My well used Esbit Stove..
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Now the fun starts.. This is a stainless steel alcohol stove my father bought me about 20 years ago.. I thought it was junk, then found it about 3 or 4 years ago, and fell in love with it..
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And finally, a pop-can stove I made. Works well enough.
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With all those to pick from, I carry the stainless steel alcohol stove with me on missions. It's light, easy, and reliable. I carry it in a "Kitchen Kit" with a bottle of alcohol, and some tri-ox as a backup..
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