In reply to Ysgo:
> Depends on what you want.
If I'm entirely honest, I think I just wanted some shiny new kit for the sake of it.
I could talk myself into buying the Alpkit or the Highlander because they seem like a bargain, (and because Alpkit and Lomo are both such nice companies to deal with) but a full-price Jetboil or MSR would be hard to justify.
Though angrypirate and steveriley may have talked me back around towards an Alpkit impulse buy again...
I don't think weight is too much of an issue btw, as I'm mostly thinking of sea kayaking trips and have a boat with a fair bit of capacity to carry stuff in the front and rear hatches. This is quite a new thing for me though, I'm slightly giddy at the prospect of a first solo multi-day trip sometime over the summer and tbh I suspect the urge to buy some new kit comes from that.
I have much to learn about how to pack the boat, and even how much I can actually carry. For the time being I think I'll be sensible and stick with the perfectly usable kit I already have. (Cant even remember exactly what my small stove is, but it's a little back-packing jobby not very much bigger than the Kraku.)
Thanks all, for much sound advice.