My new addition. Should be perfect for short overnight/weekend hunting trips. So far I have been amazed at boil time. 2.5 oz.

 

 

 

Here's a denatured alcohol stove my buddy just got and it's impressive!

http://whiteboxalcoholstoves.com/

Very well made, light, and cheap.

Think I'll be running my backcountry boiler with fire wick as backup this fall.  If not that my tried and true triangia with gsi haulite kettle.

QuoteOriginally posted by John Scifres:
Here's my "cook system".

   

MSR Pocket Rocket, Snow Peak Titanium cup, backpacker's plastic spoon.  I eat Knorr/Lipton Rice or Pasta meals.  They are cheap, taste great and can be cooked in their own bag.  I also eat instant oatmeal cooked in its own bag.

That is my exact setup down to the spoon.

Good post.  

Nice departure from the draw weight discussion.  

Love learning good tips from fellow Trad. Brothers!

Best of hunting this fall!

Kris

i live at 8500 feet and have backpacked (not hunting, though) to over 14,000 feet... my favorite stove is the SVEA 123 (now optimus?)... it's a classic design, about a century old if i'm not mistaken, simple to operate (a bit finicky until you get the hang of it) and doesn't need any pumps or attachments, etc. and will run on unleaded gas and coleman fuel... some folks hate 'em cuz they're not all modern and "techy", but what you'll hear over and over again is "i've had mine for 50 years and it still works good as new" or "had mine in storage filled with gas for 20 years and it started right up!"...

if you like your stove a little more high-tech and if the ability to control the flame from simmer to full-on roar is important, i like my brunto nova (also optimus now, i think?) quite a bit... it'll burn most everything (except alcohol - alcohol isn't sufficiently volatile to produce a good flame in a gas stove.)  it's a great stove, but i like to keep things as simple as possible and all that control comes with a price:  more parts, more stuff to lose, break, etc... but i still wouldn't part with mine... great stove...

Trangia meth spitits stove.  Light and always works.

I like the Jet boil works great.

When I started this topic I didnt realize there were so many options avalible and maybee I will change in the future but I ended up with a MSR pocket rocket and pinacle soloist cook gear, so far so good. I played with my backpacking tent and stove and such at the Elm Hall shoot and it was kinda fun. I made lasagna and mac and cheese and mountainhouse is really not that bad. The biggest hit was a colman outdoor food product called dirt and worms ( pudding and gummy worms) my 5 and 8 year old daughters said they could live on it for at least a month.

Well I like this:
http://foldingfirebox.com/

I used a Jet Boil on a 3 day back pack a couple weeks ago. It boiled a cup or two of water in short order. Much faster then the stove my buddy was using. I brought along a 2nd canister of fuel, but barely used much of the first canister.

Very efficient stove...highly recommend it!

I have used many of these and it is really hard to beat the jetboil, and frankly finding fuel once you fly in isn't that challenging either as they are so popular.

Some of what folks offered are lighter or maybe cheaper, but  the jetboil isn't heavy and it is self contained and CLEAN in the pack.  

I also don't like the MSR flash pan thing. It works, but can be a pain sometimes.  Jetboil, push the button done.

The ONE thing I would like is a stove that can fry fish on.  Backcountry and fish are a natural, but most of these stoves don't do it, or don't do it well IMO.  Fires work that best, but that always isn't an option.

I put together a Trangia knock off alcohol stove, Optima Solo pot, Small measuring cup also functions as a drinking cup, spork, DIY flashing windscreen pot stand, matches, fire steel, bandana-for cleaning, small piece of scubby all nests into the pot for transport. I also carry a 4 to 8 oz bottle of alcohol (Heet) for fuel. I use 1-1.5 oz of fuel to boil 2 cups of water. Water boils in about 7-8 minutes. The entire kit weighs in at 18 oz. I usually use it to rehydrate foods or freezer bag cooking. I have a plastic insulated cozy i also made to help speed up rehydrating time. I also make some of my own dehydrated meals using cheap store bought ingredients. Coscos and salmon packed in those foil pouches. The meal is rehydrated in about 3 minutes!

The MSR Reactor stove for me. I spend long periods time in the back country at high altitudes. This stove is like a catalytic stove and doesn't blow out. Works great in high altitude and boils water in seconds. It is good on fuel too.

Gil