Depends…LOL
heares my cotribution towards 100…
Soak a Depends in Denatured alcohol…shove it into a coffee can…instant cook stove!
alcohol stoves
I just took my first trip with an alcohol stove and loved it. I’ve used a MSR Whisperlight, Simmerlight, and a Brunton Optimus (and still own various parts of each, thanks to breakage and TSA). These will all be sold or given away, along with several red fuel containers. If it takes 2-3 minutes longer to get water to boil, so be it, I’m out camping and have the time.
I loved the silence of the stove, the ease of finding fuel, the fact that if the fuel, if spilled, simply evaporates and leaves no odor/fumes.
There are downsides: simmering is hard to achieve (but I never had much luck simmering even with the Simmerlite) and we were in a place that cut the alcohol with a detergent, I think to keep people from drinking it, leaving only 93% alcohol, so it left soot on the pots. But with the Whisperlite, I’d have been forced to use petrol or kerosene, and these fuels burn very sooty, too. I’m sold and can’t imagine going back to a petrol stove.
Lyn
Another advantage for alcohol . . .
. . . stoves is you can put your fuel in a Everclear bottle and carry it in you checked baggage.
SVEA Triangas are good
If you like carting around a metal box, and need bells and whistles. I prefer a basic pop can stove. Add alcohol, get heat. Zero moving parts.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2559/3952363828_50a63233b0_z.jpg
The SVEA Trianga is a “pop can” stove…
Basically. Add Denatured Alcohol, light, cook. The only bells & whistles are if you get the Swedish cookset with it. Then you get a pot, pan/cup & windscreen.
http://www.paddling.net/message/showThread.html?fid=wtrip&tid=915778
Paddle easy,
Coffee
Don’t think so …quite
I got a Trianga a couple of weeks ago. It actually has a lid that you can use to adjust the flame. I suspect it works by limiting the oxygen available.
The pop can stoves I have seen dont have that little adjustment. I admit that the adjuster is far from sophisticated and to get it to work just so kind of fiddly.
I used my Trianga in a Littlbug stove which I suspect will be my main canoe camping stove from now on. It burns wood and as its designed to fit over a Trianga, alcohol too in wet weather.
www.littlbug.com
Ahhhhhh… I see now, you actually have
The SVEA Trianga Spirit stove… There is the difference. Mine is the Military model, it does not have the “simmer ring” that you describe.
I am even having a hard time getting the replacement “O-rings” due to the size difference between the Mil & the Spirit. The simmer ring you have is too big for the model I have- It would work, but would not snap on the stove.
now the fog is lifting…lol
Paddle easy,
Coffee
MSR Pocket Rocket
Cheap, reliable, compact, simple to use. Can’t beat it. Only drawbacks - not good for altitude (not a problem for canoe camping) or winter camping.
Use…
denatured alcohol. Afew bucks for a gallon & it will last you afew years. Not sooty either.
Paddle easy,
Coffee
denatured alcohol unavailable
in Canada…so don’t plan on finding any.
They use something else…what I forget.
HEET
Gas line antifreeze. Can you get that in Canada?
gnatcatcher
Pocket rocket at altitude
…use a small cup, light the stove after warming the canister inside your shirt (I keep mine in the foot of my sleeping bag overnight…)warm a few ounces of water and pour that water over the canister, and the stove will take off…using a windscreen at altitude or on subfreezing days will greatly improve the stoves performance.
Methyl Hydrate
$8 for four litres at Cdn Tire.
Volcano stove
When going lite I use a mil surplus volcano stove. it was meant to burn fuel tabs,but I burn twigs and pinecones. I don’t use the canteen part,just the cup. The cost only 10-15$ and is real lite. It’s only good to boil water,but thats all I do. You nees to move the cup higher to burn wood in it.
Turtle