If you buy the stove you indicate, it already includes a pot/cup and the one you list would be unnecessary...
Certainly a valid statement. Since the cup takes up no additional space (comfortable fits over the water bottle) and we have to consider a possibility of the stove being used by more than one person, why not include it?
There are stoves available that are much hotter. lighter, and more efficient than that stove, however, since I take it that you need a sterno fuel can.
I like the fact that this stove can be used indoors. Also, Mom has expressed her concern with storing gas canisters.
Jeanette Isabelle