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I hiked hundred of miles on the Appalachian Trail over the course of months and I used this stove exclusively for my dinner every day, and sometimes for heating up coffee. I can attest that this is a light weight efficient beast, but you need to plan your kit accordingly. What I learned from others and worked great for me is a wind screen and two sticks of clothes hanger. You need a robust windscreen for this stove imho. I used a thick foil/tin. This is because the easiest and most reliable way to secure the pot above the stove is to take two sticks of coat hanger and use them cross wise through the wind screen to set your pot on. You put 4 holes into the windscreen and X with the coat hanger. One piece having a slight U bent into the middle that the other stick rides over top of it. Creating a totally even X pattern.
I used this stove with a titanium snow peak 700 mug with lid. I was able to fit the stove, windscreen, weeks worth of alcohol, and a pot scrubber into the the pot. For some reason I have part of the kit here at work, so I have taken pictures. Note, I am missing the stove and the coat hanger sticks (it has been like 6 years since my AT adventure). I have taken some light copper wire to show the concept but this wire is way to light weight to actually use, wire coat hanger worked well!
Oh and it seems some people have misunderstood the way you get this sucker started. You fill it until the alcohol is coming up and into the dimple. Then you light that bit of alcohol on fire, thus preheating the stove and getting the stove to begin working by evaporating through holes and then catching fire. If you have the desire to try and get back any remaining fuel once you are done you can pour it out and down one of the pot holder legs and into your fuel bottle. I found it not worth the hassle of trying to put the stove out and then recapture the fuel. It uses so little fuel to get your snowpeak 700 boiling that you can pack a weeks worth of fuel in a tiny bottle that fits into your pot.

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