Newcomer looking for a new stove

I’d suggest a tiny, 0.9-ounce BRS-3000T for $17, with free shipping from Amazon

I always keep a few around and it is the most common stove I use.  I resisted canister stoves for years, but their easy on-off (which saves fuel) and easy operation won me over.  Get a 100-gram canister for weekend trips or a 220-gram canister for a week-long trip for 1-2 people.

It’s not the most stable (due to it’s small size) and Hikin’ Jim has manage to abuse his, but at that weight, size and price, it’s an easy way to see what you think of canister stoves.

What kind of cooking? A lot of cooking can be done with “just heating water” if you also use a pot cozy or if you pre-soak dehydrated stuff and then do a boil-in-bag kind of warming up. Are you wanting to fry a fish or make pancakes or something like that?

Looking more into actually cooking. I have tried cold soaking and just warming water but id like to fry some fish or cook some breakfast in the mornings

I’ve successfully simmered with an alcohol stove using a simmer ring.  I cut it out of an old soda can, it just wraps around the air holes on my stove to limit the air flow (you can also buy them, e.g. from Trail Designs).  It works great with my Caldera Cone and 12-10 stove, which has air holes around the sides.

Ive heard alot of good things about the Caldera cone. Your set up may be a similar one I might use. As of right now I have an evernew and while it is nice and puts off alot of heat I feel it is very inefficient.

I already have a Toaks 750 pot. What pot stand do you use with the Caldera cone?

Long lost is BPL’s canister stove emission article.  A search will turn it up.  I believe the Snowpeak Gigapower scored better than all others.  I picked it for this reason as I do cook inside my mid occasionally.  If I had to have one, this would be it as some alcohol systems are of questionable legality in some areas and Esbit isn’t too efficient after a few days.

FYI – you can easily simmer and dry bake with an alcohol stove.  Been doing it for many years. My 2 cents

Has built in pot support.

And the ability to simmer for dry baking and elite cooking ;-)

<p style=”text-align: left;”>Well I did a diy of the fancee feast and a summer ring and it works great. I do believe I will use it for short trips and dayhikes. I did however try my buddies Optimus crux and I liked it so while shopping around I came across a Soto windmaster lightly used for a great price on FB marketplace and snagged it up. I read alot of good things about soto. I’m going to test it out tomorrow evening .</p></p>

I agree with David’s recs. The BRS 3000 is a great little stove. I have mine paired with Toaks 550 cup/lid and 100g fuel canister. All fits inside of pot when used with included stuff sack.

The BRS 3000 is a great little stove
It is, but make sure you get a GENUINE one. The are all sorts of copies on the web. Not all work as well.

Cheers