Now that Petromax is out of stoves, where can I get a substitute? Help!

-- John (d@d.com), June 27, 1999

Answers

I don't know much about Petromax stoves but I have a MSR stove (from REI) which will burn unleaded gasoline, white gas, kerosene (some say brandy!) and seems to be a workhorse even under extreme conditions. Not very quiet, sounds like a little jet engine but really works. Single burner, made for backpacking, several models - not all have the extra jets to enable you to burn diesel/kerosene. I spent about $60-70 a few years back. Really durable and lots of heat!

Kristi

-- Kristi (securx@succeed.net), June 27, 1999.

Kristi: I recently bought an M.S.R. stove from the sale catalog of R.E.I. for $39.95 and 2 -22oz. fuel bottles for about $8-- for each. Last week I took it out for the first trip in the woods. Cooked several meals and numberous pots of coffee and when the trip was done I'd only used 1/2 of a bottle of regular -unleaded gas. Needless to say I am impressed. 14 oz. of stove and about 20 cents worth of fuel for a 3 day trip..Good Luck....Capt. Dennis

-- Capt Dennis (souza@ptialaska.net), June 27, 1999.

try the new petromax cooking adapter for their lantern.

www.petromax.com

-- herr slickmeister (slickwillie@whitehouse.com), June 28, 1999.

Try the Pyromid. Stainless steel, folds to 1"x12x12 including the oven. Uses charcoal, sticks, pinecones. I cooked our dinner in the oven attachment using a can of Alco-Brite (from Walton, which costs 1/3 of Sterno, even after paying the shipping). I cooked another dinner on 9 charcoal briquets, and could have done it on six, for a burn time of about an hour. VERY efficient!

Can't do charcoal indoors, but can use the Alco-Brite. That makes it the only sterno-ish powered oven that I know of.

-- bw (home@puget.sound), June 28, 1999.