Fuel and Fuel Bottles . . .
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. . . For Your Camping or Hiking Stove
Camping & Hiking Stoves differ basically by the type of fuel they are designed to use. The two main types being:
Butane Fuel Canisters – these canisters are bought ready-filled, and are discarded when empty. If you use a butane fuel canister type of hiking stove don’t add your empty canisters to the thousands which are already taking up prime space in land-fill sites, you should also buy a Jetboil Crunchit tool which renders them safe for recycling . . . always thinking about the environment, always thinking!
Liquid Fuel Hiking Stoves – you can buy this from your local camping and hiking equipment store. Generally available in Quart tins this stuff needs to be handled with extreme care . . . it’s highly inflammable (good, but you only want it to light at the right moment, and in the right place) and is only suitable for outdoor use. Liquid fuel can be used for your camping lanterns too, if you have one.
Liquid Fuel Bottles – are available in different sizes and volumes . . . 11 fl. oz, 16.2 fl. oz, 20 fl. oz . . . so you need to buy the size of fuel bottle which best suits your purposes. If you regularly enjoy overnight hiking adventures (just one night) then a smaller liquid fuel bottle will suffice (keeps the weight down) but if you are the sort of person who likes to lose themselves in the wilderness for days on end then maybe you should buy a bigger bottle.
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