In reply to Rob Greenwood - UKC:
> we've actually got a Comparative Stove Review going live within the next few days that will cover the JetBoil, Reactor and Primus ETA Lite.
Try to find some sensible figures on fuel use when running 'sensibly'; the problem with most stove reviews is that it's hard to set an objective fuel consumption rate, so reviewers generally whack the valve up to 11, and piss heat uselessly up the side of the pot to get the mostly pointless 'boil time' figure. Efficiency of fuel use is important to a lot of people, since it determines how many canisters you have to take on a long trip.
As it happens, provided you're not wasting heat up the side, the burn rate has little effect on the fuel consumption; there are significant relative losses to the environment if you run the burner very, very slow, but there's a good range of linear fuel flow/boil time relationship between the fuel flow extremes. Tom Beasley posted some useful results on this issue on backpackinglight.com.
One other issue is that performance can vary depending on the level of fill of the canister, due to changing proportion of mix, and the fuel gasification. Again, nerdy stovies (like me) have done tests to demonstrate this effect...
Post edited at 18:56