New cook stove on the market

[schwaf]

There’s no controversy except in your mind.

It’s just different.
That’s all just different.

Neither way is good or bad.

Like men or women.
Pepsi vs Coke
Etc etc

It’s just different.

So there for what you want in a stove maybe different then what other people want.

But believe it or not I highly doubt I’ll starve to death if my stove goes down and I can only eat my non hot water for x amount of days.
Sure it may not be quite as enjoyable. But I’ll sustain life none the less.

Right, that's my point. If there's no context we can't actually agree with what is better for the situation. I'm not worried about starving to death, I'm concerned with being too miserable to stay out there. I've also been stormed in solo for 2 days longer than I planned for in a mid season hunt, and I was legitimately concerned with my supplies running out. My gear was also soaked and frozen. If I couldn't make fire, that would have been a legitimate life threatening situation.

 

[schwaf]

I’ve got enough fat, long as I have water. I should be good for an extra 3 weeks no problem.

And if your water is frozen? Or your filter freezes? You need to boil. Melting snow and ice takes a LOT of fuel.

 

[mtnwrunner]

I think the two of you should let this thread get back to it's original premise. If you want to keep going back and forth, do it via DM.

Randy

 

[schwaf]

I think the two of you should let this thread get back to it's original premise. If you want to keep going back and forth, do it via DM.

Randy

Fair enough. Sorry to keep hijacking and going off with tangents. Just wanted to give some context with why I felt it was so important to use a pot design that withstands fire. I'm done now.

 

[Dobermann]

At risk of this being seen as off-topic ... because the topic of sporks vs spoons came up, here's a good existing summary of the issues. Offering within this thread as part of the new company's market research / user feedback.

From: https://www.adventurealan.com/best-long-handle-spoon-backpacking/

Why spoons are better than sporks​

The backpacking spoon vs spork debate is settled, and spoons win in a landslide. Let us count the ways:

1. Spoons are better for eating wet food. Most backpacking food that requires a utensil is comprised of small pieces in a wet sauce. There are not large chunks to be speared. But there is always leftover sauce or bits to be scooped out. The fork portion of a spork is essentially wasted on backpacking food.
2. A spoon’s bowl end holds more volume than a spork, which squanders some of its carrying capacity on pointy tips.
3. Sporks are prone to poking things. They can tear a whole in your ditty sack, puncture a freeze dried meal bag, rip through polyester, and all sorts of other minor calamities
4. Because of the shallow ending points, sporks aren’t actually good at spearing anything, even if there were things to spear. We estimate that 95% of spork-based action is just using it to be an inferior spoon.
5. Sporks are worse than spoons at spooning and worse than forks at forking, they’re bad at everything and good at nothing.

 

[Untamed]

I've been using an MSR Reactor 1L stove for 15 or so years. Previous stove was a Pocket Rocket. You have to use a lighter to ignite it, the lines inside the pot are in liters so useless. Everything fits inside with a micro cloth including a mini bic.
Its been sent in for repairs and still vapor locks at times. Don't remember what i paid for it but it currently at $269. I have no regrets about buying it. When out hunting I want to boil water fast as possible eat my dinner and go to sleep. Not building fires and trying to boil water. Be nice to have the option to use it on my hot tent stove. I bought the Rough Ridge stove because it close to what I currently have but better. $269 is not cheap but most likely be the last stove I will buy. Thanks guys. PS I use a spork

 

[35WhelenAI]

Good post, but honestly... a spork?

What do you mean by vapor lock? That's when things get too hot such as a carburetor and a fuel pump can't pump vapor.

 

[Untamed]

I think when the canister got to cold the stove would not light. I just called it vapor lock for a lack of better terms. You need to wither warm the fuel canister before lighting or cover the vent holes on the side of the stove with both thumbs once lit and it would start cranking the btu's. I just did the latter as it worked every time.

 

[35WhelenAI]

Got you. Thanks for that. I pretty much understood what you meant but wanted to clarify. Good idea covering the holes on the side of the stove, like a choke. The reactor has a pressure regulator, as does the rough Ridge. I don't know there's a difference with respect to the pressure regulator from one stove to another, hopefully it works better for you.

 

[khart_6882]

At risk of this being seen as off-topic ... because the topic of sporks vs spoons came up, here's a good existing summary of the issues. Offering within this thread as part of the new company's market research / user feedback.

From: https://www.adventurealan.com/best-long-handle-spoon-backpacking/

I’d swear Form wrote this

 

[35WhelenAI]

Rough Ridge should reference it as "The 300 Win Mag of sporks" if they only knew the attention it would get them over here.