Coleman Exponent Multifuel Stove Review

I just love this stove and can't praise it enough. I bought mine some years ago after reading a rave review in Backpacker magazine. I used it mainly for extended backpacking. I have used this stove heavily over the years and it has performed flawlessly, reliably, and impressively.

DIY Alcohol Stove

For hiking, camping, biking, boating, Scouting, RV-ing - used by homeless, survivalists, search & rescue, disaster and third world relief.

This plan is human ingenuity at its very finest. For the cost of a few sodas, you can build yourself a camping stove like no other... lots of scientific data to back up the claim that it's the best travel stove for any money.

I built the alcohol stove last summer and used it on extensively on camping trips all over the country. It worked every time, 100% of the time, rain or shine. It is the perfect stove, especially for international use. If it gets confiscated at security, it takes about 30 minutes to make a new one. Fuel can always be found. Simmers perfectly.

Last year I posted the original instructions for a stove that I had been developing for years - one that is dependable, safe, lightweight, fast, efficient, but is still simple to make and use. This site documents the response to the first alcohol stove that is good enough to compete with gas stoves and keep canisters out of landfills. It will bake scones, or simmer a pot of real rice for 20 minutes with 2/3 oz., and make tea for two with 1/2 oz..

The MSR Dragonfly Stove Review

The MSR Dragonfly Stove

I have had my eye on a petrol stove for a while, as I have used gas stoves before and have some issues with these. Their performance in the cold can be poor, and of course you are always trying to gauge how full the gas bottles are and how many to take. I though a petrol stove would solve all these problems, although I was not so sure. I have heard they are noisy difficult to simmer with and on occasion temperamental.

After some research, I got my hands on an MSR Dragonfly because of the good things I heard about it (a good simmer control, and a good reliable stove).