http://lightbackpacking.com/2006/08/15/esbit-pocket-stove-review-lightweight-and-low-tech/ Ideas, advice, news and reviews, to help you become "one with your pack" Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:38:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://lightbackpacking.com/2006/08/15/esbit-pocket-stove-review-lightweight-and-low-tech/comment-page-1/#comment-65865 Jim Morrison Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:09:34 +0000 http://lightbackpacking.com/2006/08/15/esbit-pocket-stove-review-lightweight-and-low-tech/#comment-65865 I'm glad you compared the Esbit weight with that of typical lightweight canister stoves. I think people overlook that. I think the gunk it leaves on the pot, the time it takes to boil water, and other general fuss factors rules it out for me. I have experimented with this stove in winter in a breeze (with a good wind screen) and it doesn't put enough Btu's to boil a pint of water. It gets up to about 180 deg. F and no warmer. You said it boils water (you didn't say how much.) in 5 min at 10,000 feet. Perhaps that is because water boils at 194 deg f at 10,000 feet. Never the less, I find that hard to believe. And, if by "gas" you mean a canister stove with propane and butane mix, they actually work better at altitude because of the less ambient pressure! I’m glad you compared the Esbit weight with that of typical lightweight canister stoves. I think people overlook that. I think the gunk it leaves on the pot, the time it takes to boil water, and other general fuss factors rules it out for me. I have experimented with this stove in winter in a breeze (with a good wind screen) and it doesn’t put enough Btu’s to boil a pint of water. It gets up to about 180 deg. F and no warmer. You said it boils water (you didn’t say how much.) in 5 min at 10,000 feet. Perhaps that is because water boils at 194 deg f at 10,000 feet. Never the less, I find that hard to believe. And, if by “gas” you mean a canister stove with propane and butane mix, they actually work better at altitude because of the less ambient pressure!

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