Originally Posted by cyccommute

Fine, you like the simplicity and making something. I have zero problem with that. However my 'technical mumbo jumbo' isn't addressed at the simplicity of commercial or the homemade qualities of can stoves. My 'technical mumbo jumbo' addresses the wild claims made by others about the effectiveness of the fuel...and that is applicable to bicycle touring. You can claim all you want that the stove heat just as well as a pressurized fuel stove but you would be absolutely and totally wrong. We know through science...you know that 'technical mumbo jumbo'...what the heat content of various fuels are. We use stoves to heat things so heat output is an important quality of the stoves. If you have a fuel that contains twice as much heat as another fuel, you can heat things twice as fast. On the other hand, if a fuel has half the heat content of another fuel it takes twice the fuel to heat something to the same temperature. Once you have to carry twice the fuel to do the same job, it adds up. Sure, you could carry the same amount of fuel and just refuel more often but you are just trading one problem for another.