Originally Posted By bmwrider
After some reading I think I would like a stove that doesn't require the user to measure the fuel to make the stove work


measuring the amount of fuel put in can have a relatively great effect on the performance of many (if not most) alcohol stoves.

You can recover unburned alcohol, but you probably only end up recovering half of it, due to evaporation. If you're not mindful of fuel efficiency, an alcohol setup can end up being much heavier than a canister stove setup.

Jason Klass has a number of youtube videos on alcohol stoves (his youtube username is jasonklass), as do many other people. Watching some of those can really give you a good idea of the strengths and weaknesses of various designs, to get an idea of what might be best for you.

http://www.youtube.com/user/jasonklass?blend=1&ob=4#p/u/4/Uc_YOSTtNns

that might help some...just do some digging, google searches related to alcohol stoves turn up a tremendous volume of info.
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