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You could buy a lifetime supply of alcohol for the price of this stove, and carry a month's worth of it for the weight of this stove. This is a gimmick for peo
by dublinben 12y ago
You could buy a lifetime supply of alcohol for the price of this stove, and carry a month's worth of it for the weight of this stove.
This is a gimmick for people who can't go camping without their electronic gadgets. It's a bad stove and a bad charger put together.
- Turing_Machine 12y agoThis stove weighs 33 ounces. The Trangia backpacking alcohol stove sold by REI weighs 5.75 ounces. 1 quart of denatured ethanol weighs about 28 ounces (varies slightly depending on denaturant, but not by much). 28 + 5.75 = 33.75 > 33. Next.
- Turing_Machine 12y agoActually doing the arithmetic and demonstrating that an alcohol stove plus a standard-sized container of fuel weighs more and doesn't give you the USB charging capability gets me a -1? Nice. We won't even go into the fact that some people go backpacking in places where fuel has to be flown in (which, coincidentally, also tend to be the places where having a GPS or satellite phone can save your life).