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Originally Posted by Jim Ford  339 grams for the Honey Stove - I thought you wanted to keep your gear as light as possible! You're also taking meths, which is inefficient for its weight.
I've got meths stoves only as museum curiosities, and use my Coleman F1 Lite with Titan Kettle for lightweight camping. The F1 Lite weighs 70 grams.
Jim |
I've been weighting the stoves and if I use the Honey Stove c/w gas conventer, that totals 500gm inc. the 2 pegs for pan supports. Guess that's out of the window, too heavy. however the Primus Gravity stove I also have is 255gm and is a pretty good burn spec @ 3000w and decent pan support, so that may be on gear-list yet.
The Pocket Rocket is one I would love to take, but due to it's small size and small pan support, that's out.
However, Jim. The Coleman F1 lite looks tempting for weight and power output @ 4 800w, pretty impressive. One question to you, is the MSR Titan Kettle pretty stable on the pan supports and the Peek Plastic ring which is suppose to withstand heat from -60 to +320 Degrees, to that I've heard from a certain review site about the Peek Plastic part melting due to the high heat and the simmering is not so good and supposed to cut out if it overheats.
Saying that, it does look like a good stove for the price and for a 2 week back-packing trip, guessing £20 won't break the bank. I did have a EPL stove, now replaced by Coleman.