[pct-l] Esbit-type fuel

["Scott Conover" <scottconover@hotmail.com>]

Howdy all,

     A few days back I posted a little blurb on my experience with
Esbit-type stoves. I posted that I was spending about .50 cents an
ounce for fuel which was incorrect as it is about .25 cents.  Sorry
about that.  I generally use an ounce worth of fuel to cook a meal
so that works out at .25 cents a meal which I regard as reasonably
cheap.  Of course there are cheaper alternatives but not in my
estimation a more compact and lighter one not to mention simple to
use.  And there is the "Murphy factor" to consider too.  I tend to
shy away from the sort of stoves that they sell "maintenance kits"
for.  I've yet to see any hiker swearing at his/her Esbit stove yet.

Scott <scottconover@hotmail.com>


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