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yes but for it to vapourise it has to preheat - meths is ok but its slow and not very windproof. the system is simple and the stoves can be made easily. the downfall is that by the time you bring...

i think about minus 5 is when it really starts to make a difference, as said above, keep it in your sleeping bag etc over night. my msr reactor should arrive tomorrow :)

yeah, wont be going back to standard cannister stoves. jet boils and their equivalents are great pieces of kit

Keen to have a crack at making a tin can gasifier

my pot and cooker isn't much more compact than the jetboil as all the stuff goes inside both the pots, so to me, since the weight is practically the same, I choose fast boil time. because, it means...

have played around with a few systems,

alcohol stove with meths bottle and pot, weighed about the same amount for a 3 day trip as a jetboil did. The reason why I wouldn't take the alcohol stove, I...