A lot of my homemade stoves are what I would call open jet type stoves. These are the classic "Pepsi Can" style of stove. They're light, they're easy to make, they're easy to use, and if you use the basic design principles I've laid out in my blog, you can make a pretty decent stove if you're using a normal type windscreen set up.

I've tested my DIY stoves in the Caldera Cone, and they all produce a lot of soot. They're all starved for oxygen inside the low-oxygen environment of the cone. They work, but I'd hardly call them optimal.

The style of stove that comes with the Caldera Cone is called a "chimney stove". My testing indicates that this style is a better style for use with a restricted airflow type system. You can buy the burner alone for $15.00 or you can make your own. The link to buy one is Trail Designs 12-10 alcohol burner. No affiliation on my part although I have "talked" with the proprietor, Rand Lindsly, via forums like this, the comments feature on my blog, etc. I certainly have no financial interest in the product; I just find that the product works well for the intended purpose.

Of course, now, if your name were Hikin' Jim, you might be this very moment experimenting with your own model of a chimney stove, but I digress...

HJ