Fire Maple Petrel Portable Stove Ultralight Cooking System, with a Lightweight, Fast Boiling Function, Precise Double Tick Design, for Outdoors, Camping and Traveling

This might just be a new contender. For section hiking or thru-hiking weight is always a looming factor in any gear selection. I’ve gone a little heavy with a Jetboil the last few years but it is just so nice and efficient.This addresses one of the primary advantages of the Jetboil style system. The fins welded onto the bottom of the heating pot. These allow efficient heat transfer into the liquid in the pot. This is the reason I was able to use a single isobutane can, the small one mind you, for six to eight days before I needed to replace the fuel. This cookpot has the same heat fin design. And it has a means of affixing the cookpot to the stove unit with cutouts meant for the arms to lock onto so the cookpot is stable on the stove.This leads to the next thing to talk about. The stove unit has retractable arms which also slide up and down the main shaft. At the top the arm mechanism twists clockwise to hold the arms in the top position. This is an excellent idea. I would prefer if it had one or all of the slides to have a detent drop to lock the height. As it is, fiddling with the cookpot can wind up turning the arms (locked into the heating fins) and dropping the whole stove configuration onto the heating surface. A little detent would prohibit this. If you mind this it isn’t a problem and the useful factor far outweighs any bad points.The stove screws onto a standard isobutane fuel can just like any other stove attachment. I kind of miss the piezo start on the Jetboil, but either a lighter or this magnesium sparker works fine. It does take both hands to attend to the sparker which means you have to turn on the gas and then set yourself up to spark. Not really a problem, just something to be aware of. I’ll take the sparker, but I’ll probably use a small butane lighter as my ignition source.The folding spork is fine for short bowls, but it is too short to properly stir something in this cookpot and reach the bottom. Or using rehydration meals out on trail I prefer the long handled titanium sporks. This one is nice though and when it folds out and you move the brace near the hinge it is sturdy as a one piece unit. I just prefer a longer handled tool.The one thing this kit does need is a fuel can stabilizer. They are plastic and lightweight and go a very long way to keeping a cookpot from tipping over on uneven ground. There was none listed in the description so it isn’t a star removal point. But getting one would be helpful on the trail. There is room for it to fit in the pot with the fuel can and other parts.Another thing I find I like to do with these is to use a terry or other lightweight rag and I wrap up everything inside to keep it from banging around while on the trail.This cook kit has survived garrison use well. This is going to take lead cookware on my next section hike. This is less than a third of the weight of my current system and has all the advantages of my current system.This is an excellent piece of ultralight equipment.