>>805224While I certainly understand the appeal of an alcohol stove as far as compactness and simplicity, I'd rather have control lover my flame, and find them to be a lot less efficient than an MSR. I love my whisper-lite international since you can control the flow of fuel a lot more easily.
It's especially useful when you're cooking an individual meal because you can reduce the flame to half power, compact the windscreen to seal in airspace, and boil a cup of water in less than a minute. A half bottle of white gas lasts about 3 weeks this way. Can't get that with an alcohol stove.
>>805272>has lots of neat parts that wear out and can failonly if you're grossly negligent, they come with they're easy as fuck to repair
>makes that great roar to overcome the dreaded nature sounds of the outdoorsno need to waste fuel and put it at full power unless you're boiling a large mass of water or something like that
