Strengths: Ease of use, performance, easily available fuel, easily packable, reliable - it's not gonna break!
Weaknesses: Food can stick easily to aluminium pans particularly if you don't turn them as you cook, whilst not exactly heavy, it's not the lightest either
Overall: I love cooking on my Trangia stove - it's simple to put together and take apart - and it's almost a ritual in itself (filling the burner, lighting it, putting it in the surround). Don't know if I should but I also like the smell of the fuel as it burns!!
Weaknesses: No real weaknesses as such. Maybe just that the 25 may be a little bit on the large side to serve as a family/2-3 people and as a lone walker unit - if you have a long hike arranged. This bit of kit is worth having in both the 25 & 27 sizes.
Overall: Overall, I would have to rate the 25 as a work of art.It's so easy to use and functions on a technical level in a range that would be compatable with walkers on short and long expeditions.
Strengths: Very stable and therefore safe to use. All pots and pans (and kettle) nest inside the burner for a compact package.
Weaknesses: Meths doesn't vaporise well at low temperatures (say 5C-ish or below), diluted or not, so lighting the burner in the cold can be a problem. I find keeping the burner in your sleeping bag to warm it up works, as does giving it a shake before lighting to get the vapours rising. Burning paste also works as a priming heat source.
Overall: A very, very, very good stove system only limited by the fuel's limitations - get one!
Strengths: -Heat output -Multifuel compability -Simmer well -Less weigt on long trips due to higher energy content in petrol/kerosen
Weaknesses: -More moving part that can malfunktion -More complex start up and packing -Cost -Weight on short trips
Overall: Buy a Optimus nova and get the best outdoor-kitchen ever made! Use the alcohol burner for short summer trips and bring it on your expedition as a backup! The Nova fits in the pot if you toss that unessesary tea-kettle!
Strengths: ease of use and compact no mechanical this moving that the pan handle is tres useful too
Weaknesses: the aluminium pans are a kinda health hazard (alsaimers) I am looking for some stainless steel ones or non stick coverd aluminium ones, also the pans are a bugger to clean
Overall: a classic but moderd stoves burn faster however fule can cost more for these especially when maths can cost you less than £2 bargain!
Strengths: Neat and tidy. Keeps the matches dry! Gas conversion kit is well worth the investment. Very stable and simple to use. Feels substantial. Nowt to go wrong.
Weaknesses: Controlling the meths burner. Bare aluminium is a pig to clean if food gets burned on. Moderately heavy.
Overall: For ease of use, robustness, and stability it can't be beat. Must invest in a non-stick frying pan.
Performance
80%
Reliability
100%
Value
100%
Overall Rating
93%
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Average Rating: 4 out of 5
