>>1612396My figures were very rough, on the last trip, 6 days, I took a bit over 250ml of alcohol and finished the trip with some left.
However, using your numbers is a great example of why I prefer alcohol. I don't need to carry 80-90 meals worth of fuel, I just top up my fuel bottle whenever I resupply. Finding alcohol is so easy and it's cheap.
>petrolDo you mean alcohol?
>gas for longer trips in harder wind/rain conditionsYeah bad weather is where alcohol starts to suffer. A decent wind guard is vital, however, rarely perfect. I haven't found rain to be too much of an issue though.
>>1612299>The best I've seen took 6 minutes to boil 1L in 60F ambient.>1LWow, what are you boiling a liter of water for? Pretty much all my meals need a max of like 400ml of water. I use 330ml most the time!
>Most designs will soot up your potsIt's funny, soot used to be an issue with my trangia when I was a kid, but I haven't had soot issues for years now, maybe it's the burner I'm using or the alcohol I'm using. You can see my pot in
>>1611873 that's cooked 100s of meals on the burner in the image. I've never had to clean soot off it.
>They take a while to cool down after useTitanium is a great metal for this issue, it cools down really quickly. My burner is cool enough to pack away in a matter of minutes!
>unused fuelSome burners can be blown out, a friend was using this burner with some sort of wool in it, and it had a screw on lid, so you can blow it out and store to unburnt fuel in there which was pretty cool.
>>1612120It's a 550ml pot, which is _just_ big enough for solo meals, a toaks burner. The burner is tiny, light, and pretty cheap. The cross pot stand is something I bought off a small UK website, I'm sure you can find them other places. The real trick to making a alcohol set up effcient is knowing how much water your meals need, and how much fuel you need for the amount of water. It's really easy to do a few tests at home.
