[pct-l] Cooking System and Fuel

[Roger Norton]

I like to stop for a cup of coffee at breakfast , dinner and may have a cooked lunch( ie have my main meal then) and another coffee. 5 mins per boil, at least 3 boils a day. 15 mins per day.  I did the AT in 159 days. Rough estimate 148 days(on trail) =   about 37 hours of boiling time. That's  nearly 4 days of hiking waiting for a slow stove to boil for me.
When I am tired , cold and wet and it is raining  I dont want to be waiting for something hot.  I get to camp , tent up , into sleeping bag, and get the jet boil going in the vestibule.    
Taz

> Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 09:33:03 -0700
> From: brick at brickrobbins.com
> To: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Cooking System and Fuel
> 
> 2016-03-31 10:55 GMT-07:00 David Money Harris <David_Harris at hmc.edu>:
> > It cooks faster than anything else out there, and uses less fuel.
> 
> I understand the value  of using less fuel, but I keep hearing from
> friends about the benefit of the JetBoild being fast.
> 
> Considering that a typical thru hiker is not going to be walking more
> than 10 hours, of the 16 hours of daylight, could someone tell me what
> exactly is the benefit of saving 5-10 minutes off cooking time for a
> really slow stove?
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