• Friday, October 15th, 2010
MSR SuperFly with Auto Start stove review and performance test. This test was done with a slight breeze and 42 deg F temperature.
Category: Backpacking
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@atlastc – It is basically the same thing. If you know how long it takes to boil a specific amount of water, you can calculate the fuel consumed. For example, according to the MSR website, an 8 oz canister will burn for ~60 minutes. Under the conditions in the video, 1L took ~9 minutes to boil. So, 60/9 = 6.7 L of water could be boiled with an 8oz canister in those conditions. Results will vary based on the conditions (wind, temp, etc)
Why is time-to-boil the accepted measure for stove performance? I feel a better measure of efficiency would be ounces or grams of fuel consumed to boil a specified volume of liquid.