I have a Swedish Cooker set which uses an alcohol burner much like the Trangia sets. It is contained in an aluminum windscreen, cookpot, lid, and plastic alcohol bottle combo that is very sturdy. It works well. One full filling of the alcohol burner will boil a full pot of water (~1.25L) in 15 minutes with about 5 minutes of burn time left. The fuel bottle holds about 2 additional charges.<br><br>I find it useful as an emergency cook kit for the car trunk as the fuel is relatively safe to carry at all times. I find it very slow, quiet, heavy and inefficient compared to my MSR stoves. A MSR stove will boil 1L of water in 3-4 minutes, on a small amount of white gas, kerosene or other highly flammable fuels including gasoline, with a burner roar audible at 50 paces.<br><br>My car trunk kit has the Swedish cooker, for backpacking and presumably a BOB I would use the MSR multifuel stove.<br><br>The major advantage to the alcohol burners is fuel safety. Burning in an partially enclosed improvised shelter (plastic and debris) would probably be much safer with an alcohol burner than the white gas stoves from the standpoint of burning down the house. From the standpoint of carbon dioxide or monoxide poisoning maybe no real advantage.<br><br>The slowness of the alcohol stoves and relative fuel inefficiency limit its use for me and will expose the user to longer times with an open flame to tend and be exposed to fumes.<br><br>I have decided to carry an alcohol cooker for use in preparing the PSK tea bag in an urban setting :)<br>