Despite the fervent, near religious, belief and testimony by many touring cyclists on this and other forums, declaring their undying even thread-ending allegiance to alcohol fuel, in all my years of camping by bicycle and otherwise, I have never seen anyone besides myself using an alcohol stove of any description. I going to guess that about half of the campers at hiker/biker sites I have stayed at had never even heard of alcohol stoves. The first and near universal comment when I put match to cat can is shear amazement at how quiet it is. Of course quiet a poor descriptor. Silent is a better adjective.

On more than one occasion I have had a fellow cyclist and early riser ask to put their pot of water on my stove in lieu of waking the other cyclists and perhaps the entire campground with their blow-torch stove. At other times when camping next to a huge RV who ran their generator well into the night, I would love to light up one of these kerosene stoves that sound and smell like a 747 burning J-5 at takeoff.