Why A Gas Stove?

I late got a banker's complaint from "DG" concerning what type of stove is best:
I vote for liquid fuel type stoves. Fast rut no affair what condition.
--DG
I don't disklike liquid fueled stoves the to the lowest degree bit, but I idea I'd utter a piddling nigh why I likewise similar gas stoves.  Read on...

DG,

My get-go stove that was all my ain (i.e. non my dad's) was an MSR Whisperlite that I bought inwards 1987. It's yet going strong.

You're absolutely correct that a liquid fueled stove volition operate inwards all conditions. But permit me listing out a few reasons that people mightiness desire to likewise cause got a gas stove on hand:
1. Bulk in addition to weight. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 liquid fueled stove typically takes a fair amount of room inwards the pack equally does the fuel bottle. I tin sack literally concord a piddling gas stove inwards the palm of my hand.
Optimus Crux
And inwards no means is a liquid fueled stove anywhere close equally low-cal equally a gas stove.

2. Speed. I've been using liquid fueled stoves for years. My identify unit of measurement used them dorsum inwards the 60's in addition to 70's when I was a kid, in addition to I've been using them on my ain since the 80's. I've got priming in addition to gear upwardly downward to a science. HOWEVER, fifty-fifty if you're practiced at gear upwardly in addition to priming, it takes time. I started noticing that my friends were getting tired of waiting for me when nosotros were breaking camp. I bought my get-go gas stove but in addition to thence I could pause campsite equally rapidly equally my friends.

3. Cost. You tin sack become on downward to Walmart in addition to larn an inexpensive Coleman gas stove for something on the social club of $30.00. The cheapest white gas stove is at to the lowest degree double that. The cheapest decent white gas stove is in all probability around other $10 to $20 to a greater extent than expensive than that. The cheapest decent multi-fueled (white gas or kerosene) is at to the lowest degree $10 over that.  Over time, a liquid fueled stove may essay cheaper -- if y'all stick alongside it. For those but trying out backpacking or who aren't going to produce a lot of backpacking over time, the gas stove volition hold upwardly significantly less expensive.

So in that place y'all cause got it: Gas stoves are lighter, faster/more convenient, to a greater extent than compact, in addition to less expensive than liquid fueled stoves. They're slap-up for fair conditions hikers or as a supplement to iv flavour hikers.

All that said, I snuff it along to purpose white gas equally my main stove fuel. But on those trips where the conditions volition hold upwardly practiced in addition to I desire to become fast in addition to light, gas is my choice.

HJ

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