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After a stove hiatus, I spent some money on bits to experiment.
The Lixada alcohol burner I bought a few years ago is the best - smaller and lighter than the Trangia and burns well. Mega cheap.
Brasslite Turbo burns hot but can’t get the hang of it. Can’t remember when I bought it.
My old Fire Maple faux-jetboil works fine with gas but I want to try get a setup working with alcohol.
Bought a Trangia 27-2UL set with kettle, and a taller windbreak to my normal little one.
The Trangia setup used as designed works fine but takes an age to boil water. I think for actual food cooking it would be fine though. The Lixada placed under a solid fuel burner to act as a stove stand has been the ideal height for the Fire Maple tall pot.
Hoped that using the slightly larger Trangia burner could burn hotter. So far this is the fastest setup for 0.8L of water. B&Q bioethanol. Boil time 7m30s. That beats the Lixada by over a minute.
Got the Fire Maple heat exchanger kettle coming tomorrow, going to see if A: it boils faster than the tall pot, B: it fits the proper Trangia wind break setup. That would be golden. Then I can carry the full 27 kit plus the better kettle.
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