In-depth review of the X-Boil Alcohol Stove (KISSS Stove), highlighting its performance and usability for outdoor cooking.

Learn to make a simple, efficient alcohol stove perfect for outdoor adventures or emergencies. This compact stove is crafted from basic materials, making it both lightweight and highly portable.

This works well as you can fit the smaller stove, matches, and other accessories in the larger perforated gallon can and have a ready-to-go kit when needed.

Because of the geographic location where I’ve done 90 percent of my backpacking in the high, fairly windy mountains of the Pacific Northwest I’ve long been sort of contemptuous of alcohol stoves.

[Charles] sent in a tip about an alcohol based stove built from beer cans and a penny. The burner is efficient, lightweight, and tiny all while still packing a pretty big punch. It can boil water f… ...

The stove was a small, backpacking-style stove that burns alcohol. “He turned away for a quick moment,” U.S. attorney’s spokesman Jeff Dorschner said, “and when he turned back, ...

Maybe that’s an East Coast thing alcohol stoves would be a novelty out here on the West Coast. But I know they’re popular in Europe. As with most things, there are pros and cons to going with ...