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Just wanted to pass along a couple of good products for those who like to travel light when they're out and about in some rough country. I'm a minimalist. I don't take a whole lot with me when I'm out there.
First...my Pocket Rocket cook stove made by MSR. It weighs about 3 ounces and uses IsoButane Propane fuel cannisters. It'll boil a liter of water in 3 and 1/2 minutes. Stows away in a small hard plastic case.
Second...my Pinnacle Soloist cook set made by GSI. Everything I need to prepare and eat a meal when I'm out there. Stows away very compactly in its bag.
It's real nice to have a fresh cup of hot chocolate or a good hot meal out there sometimes. These items don't take up much room at all in my pack, and they don't weigh squat.
Two good products that have fit my needs very well.

For me it's a #1 Montbell titanium cooket I just picked up with a cat can stove andca few ounces of alcohol. More then just boiling water and the cat can is switched for triangia.

+1 on the pocket rocket. I use a snowpeak titanium pot and a 7oz MSR frypan, if I need a frypan.

Here's the latest in the race for the lightest canister stove. The Fire Maple FMS 300T at 41 grams. Not that the Pocket Rocket isn't allready pretty light, it weighs 85 grams. I'm not counting every gram and running out to buy the latest. Just an FYI for the super minimalist folks. I can't imagine trying to balance a pot on it.

I do have one of the Fire Maple 116T's,48 grams, looks like it's been rebranded from whatever is was last year. Sold off an old heavy Coleman after a four day trip. Looked over all my gear after that trip.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fire-Maple-..._0&hash=item2ec6f3188f#ht_1707wt_926


http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fire-Maple-...20W-FMS-116T-/190819863664#ht_5642wt_806

http://www.tenpoundbackpack.com/gear-lists/stoves

Now, I love my Pocket Rocket, but the Snow Peak Light Max is one awesome stove! It is wider then the Pocket Rocket so it is more stable in supporting pots. It does seem to burn Fuel quicker. I do like my Trangia but it is much slower.I find I use my 700 ML Ti pot the most.

I do want to check out a home made alcohol stove like a cat can stove as I really do just boil water lately for dinner and alcohol stoves do that just fine.

I've used a Pocket Rocket and an MSR Ti pot for a few years. Very light, work great.

I used a SP Giga and tiny Montbell Ti post on and off, but was never satisfied with it.

When Jetboil brought out its Sol Ti a few years back, I got one and haven't looked back.

'nuf said.

KC

Add my vote for the Jetboil Sol Ti.

Tom

I like my alcohol stove built by George Carr, it is well made and far better than what I would build - and inexpensive. Plus George is one of the good guys.

Check it out: Backpackinglight.com

I like the soto windmaster. Soto WindMaster

I love my basic Snow Peak stove (manual light) the Snow Peak Mini-Ti Solo set.

I used a pocket rocket for years, but came to realize (by watching my buddy boil water much faster, every single time) that the jetboil is just way more efficient, especially if there is any wind. I love my sol Ti now.

I never looked at a Jetboil and thought "minimalist." Until I used one.

Jetboil Ti for me.



Travis

The MSR Windpro spanks both of them, especially in the wind, which might have something to do with the fact it is named the Windpro. Also, it'll work in MUCH colder weather (the new version with the inverted cannister).

Take a Knee, or Take a Schitt,

How come is it that no matter where I go to read the forum, with regards to just about anything discussed, that before to long you chirp in telling everyone they don't know crap and you are the authority on everything. You either own REI, or have owned everything made for the outdoors, or your just full of *#^+�t.

It takes a lot to get me riled up to post, instead of just enjoying the campfire, but you sir are an annoying know-it-all!

He's mastered everything.

Except Photobucket and the digital camera.


Travis

Hey, what happened to Wally?

I've been really happy with the SOTO OD-R1 and MSR Ti Kettle combo the last couple of years. Light and simple.

I've really wanted to try the Jetboil Ti out, but just to many stories of the pot's 'flux ring thingy' coming undone.

I've owned a LOT of hiking kit, and I was always good at figuring out when/how stuff/people etc was/were [bleep] up, which is one reason I'm still alive. Annoying? Probably. Know-it-all? I've consistently scored 2+ standard deviations above normal on damn near every sort of psychometric evaluation I've ever sat for.

BTW, anything I've written about stoves would take about 20min of google-fu on Backpacking Light to confirm. I've read a lot and hiked the AT in the Southeast and talked to numerous hikers at shelters about their stoves. Current Jetboils are a vast improvement over the originals, they fell out of favor PDQ on the AT until they got the bugs worked out. They still suffer from not being able to use a windscreen, just like any other vertical butane stove. The JB Helios I've never used and don't know anyone who has, the people I know look at weights before they buy stuff.