I use a variant of the Photon stove (which is basically a pressure jet container). The trick is adding a little alcohol to preheat the sides/top of the stove and then the internal alcohol evaporates under pressure and shoots out the tiny jets and ignites. A full stove (1.75 oz) will run for about 12 minutes with a really good flame for the first few minutes. It's almost silent and in fair weather (above 5*C) is almost as good as my cannister stove. When the temperature gets below 0*C, the performance suffers.

The cost is slightly more than some alcohol stoves as I use heat resistant WB Weld to seal the seams to make it truly pressure tight. Next up for me to make is the penny alcohol stove which has been getting good reviews.

The alcohol stove is cheap, the fuel is cheap and my kit is lighter than my cannister stove. The thing is once you figure out how to build them, you can use them for practically any fuel and are therefore great for your survival kit. As an alternate, you can invert them and burn Esbit tablets on the base.

PS. DO NOT use gasoline or Coleman fuel in a pressure alcohol stove - use a Cat or other variant alcohol stove instead. The pressure will build up too much and may explode or at the very least burst a seam!