[pct-l] IDEAS on what stove to use when cooking for 4

[Yoshihiro Murakami]

Dear Charles

Another idea:

If I were you, I would like to bring a gas canister stove for main
purpose, and an alcohol stove
 for emergency purpose. The gas canister stove has complex structure,
and hence it might be broken. And there is a possibility when the gas
canister cannot be obtained. If you have both kinds of stove, you have
fault tolerance stove system.



2011/5/4 Charles Doersch <charles.doersch at gmail.com>:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Since there's four of us in my group next year, we've presumed the MSR canister would be our quickest, hottest, most efficient way to heat water.
>
> I've read some advice that alcohol-burning stoves might not work particularly well for four guys together (quantity of water being heated, etc.)-- but I'm wondering what your experience has been.
>
> Of course, availability of the canisters at stores along the trail could be a problem. Is it an important problem?
>
> We have had enough experience cooking over wood-flames (chaparral flames, dried cow dung flames, etc.), that we thought of utilizing that as a fall back or regular alternative to the MSR canister.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Charles Doersch
>
>
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