What kind of cooking do you plan on doing? Frying, boiling, long simmering, cold weather? Most of what I do requires boiling and 90% of the time I use esbit, the other 10% I use an alcohol stove, and the rest of the time I use a cook fire. Lessee now, I think I've got that math right... :?:
Stoves with a lot of parts are far more likely to fail than alcohol or esbit. That's the main reason I moved away from gas stoves. For winter camping, I use a twig burner or build a fire on a cookie sheet. Twig burners are especially nice if you want to cook over a fire but there are a lot of combustibles on the forest floor and the threat of fire is high.
Esbit is the ultimate lightweight way to go, imo.
lightweight stove
Stoves with a lot of parts are far more likely to fail than alcohol or esbit. That's the main reason I moved away from gas stoves. For winter camping, I use a twig burner or build a fire on a cookie sheet. Twig burners are especially nice if you want to cook over a fire but there are a lot of combustibles on the forest floor and the threat of fire is high.
Esbit is the ultimate lightweight way to go, imo.
lightweight stove
