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Meths Burners

These rely on vapour from a methylated spirit source so can be considerably weaker than a gas stove. It is generally a safer fuel as it's less explosive and burns at a lower temperature. All this means that it will take longer to cook your food.

Trangias

We're big fans of Trangias. They are very stable and capable stoves that run on methanol (which is a very cheap fuel) and they pack down to a really convenient size considering how much they contain.

There are a couple of caveats though.

The methanol fuel leaves a black residue underneath the pans which you need to scrub with a scourer before packing away. Especially the drying pan because this faces outwards when packed away and will cover everything it touches in black soot. So always take one of those green kitchen scourers with you.

Trangias are now available as non-stick teflon coated pans. The teflon coating is reasonably strong. It's not ultra strong like some big name kitchen pans, but it also doesn't come off just by looking at it like a lot of cheap pans.

But the big problem is that the pan handle is metal so it very quickly scratches and chips the teflon around the rim of the pans. And you don't really want that flaking off into your food.

Trangia have been making non-stick pans for long enough now to realise the problem and develop a plastic (or plastic coated) pan handle to prevent this. Why haven't they?