Cone stoves and liquid fuels

I bought one of those Featherlight 700s and received it yesterday. Just wanted to ask folk who know.

As a stove lover I have used gas exclusively over the years but I’ve realised speed isn’t everything and lightness and packability mean alot.

When your boiling water with these do you just extinguish the flame then re use the liquid or do you turf it out?

Also there seems to be some debate about meths and bio fuel. The former being sooty and smelly but arguably more efficient.

I’m just used to off or on fuel..

I use a meta Speedster stove, before that a few trangia variants. Home made pot stand/funnel/wind break.

Mine seals properly in the tin. You do get very used to judging right amount of fuel. Simmer ring is great.

I would never throw a toxic fuel out on camp.

I’ve used esbit tablets, and the muck the produce and smell is a pain.

Mine seals properly in the tin. You do get very used to judging right amount of fuel. Simmer ring is great.

Interesting. I have stuck with trangia burner* as no other options i was aware of were guaranteed sealed, even a knock off trangia burner leaked meths everywhere. Which one are you using?

*In a honey stove, i have been known to barbeque a steak on the stove where i have had to hang bots off the side to cook the other half ?.

I have a bear bones meths burner. Different type of stove, but similar ultralight concept. The idea is that the stove takes just enough fuel to boil that tin of water.

If the stove was able to take twice as much fuel as it needs to boil one pot, it could be half the size.

When you take the tin off, just let it burn out, it shouldn’t take long.  Obvs try it and see!

Though I just looked at the video, and the lid looks like it has a liquid seal in it, so you should be able to reseal with unburned fuel still in there.  Though the seal will be plastic, so you’d need to extinguish with the bottom of the pot and let it cool before you screw the lid on.

I’m using speedster stove.

It’s always stored in a wee ‘zip’ freezer bag from IKEA and not next to food. It seals, but any flex or too much knocking about will see meths fumes or liquid escape, but no way at Trangia levels of leaking.

Besides which, the Speedster takes much lower volume of meths, so I rarely have anything left.