Thread: Cooking systems - Light vs cost

Originally Posted by The Claw

I have a Kovea Ti cooker. Pretty fast at boiling water, or so I thought until I bought a MSR windboiler. It's so much faster than both my Kovea and my MSR Dragonfly white spirits stove. As an added bonus, I also got a coffee press with it, was luxury drinking plunger coffee in Shelter Hollow last week!

It's really only suitable for boiling water though (which is generally all I need if on the hill) but it would be great if MSR made a fry pan with a heat exchanger for it...

How does the windboiler compare to the dragonfly at altitude and low temps?

Originally Posted by puku

How does the windboiler compare to the dragonfly at altitude and low temps?

Can't answer this currently... All boiling etc was done at around 750m asl in temps ranging from +10 to -3 or -4. At this altitude and temp's the Windboiler was well and truly quicker. I would think it would need to be at least twice the height and/or below -10 before the white spirits have an advantage