Sometimes, it can be really hard to generalize with alcohol stoves. So much depends on the conditions and the entire system used for testing. If you do borrow your brother's cone, I'd be interested in your results.

If you look at the link above, down at the bottom of my blog post, I listed all the conditions I tested under (wind, temp, altitude, etc).

HJ
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