Always love your posts Jim. This was especially interesting.
Right now I own only one truly portable stove. Its a large coffee can with semi-strategic holes. I fill it with twigs, one piece of flaming fat wood and off she goes. I should do a boil test on it. I mostly use it for heat, not to cook.
One of these days I will pick "the stove" and it will probably be a result of reading your posts.
Thanks
That's what I did...I never used or wanted any kind of small stove until I read HJ's posts and blogs over the last year or so. I now have a Trangia alcohol burner setup, and would have to say it saved the day yesterday. I would have had trouble cooking lunch with a regular fire due to wind.