The British designed and manufactured Honey Stove is a very adaptable stove with a mudular design that allows expandability from single person to group use. Primarily designed as a wood or meths/alcohol burning stove it can also double up as a highly efficient wind shield for remote canister stoves. The Honey stove on test is the staionless steel version but is also available in titanium at £74.99 and weighing only 161g.

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It's not cheap, but the Helios is far more than a super-efficient, super-fast stove. The 2L pot is a good size for one or two people and with remote inverted gas feed you start recovering the capital outlay from day one with efficiency savings. At almost a kilo including gas it seems a little heavy, but with lids acting as plates and a even pan handles integrated you don't really need anything else - and there's something reassuring knowing you can just take it all out in one go and have a warm drink in 3 minutes.
Real World Test
Let's start by pointing out that this isn't a stove, it's a cooking system that's designed to be everything you need (bar fuel) in a single easy to use package. As with the Jetboil PCS everything packs away inside the main pot, with enough room for a 100gm gas canister inside.

MSR have taken their PocketRocket and enhanced it with some engineering wizardry. The stove has gained a lot of features and not a lot of weight. We have a look at how it performs.

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Although superseded by the Optimus Nova+ the original Nova is still going strong thanks to its strong history of reliability and flexibility. With a low centre of gravity and wide spreading legs the Nova is a very stable stove but still packs away neatly into its own storage pouch. For a single jet, multi-fuel, stove the Nova is easy to use and maintain, even in the field, and comes with everything you need to head into the wilds with a choice of White Gas, Kerosene, Diesel and jet fuel for fuel.
Real World Test
We were sent the Optimus Nova stove by the guys at Webtogs for our stove reviews and after a long break it was good to be using a brand that's been around for as long as we can remember.

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A good 3 season performer with the advantages of the Crux burner in a remote canister stove. One of the best temperature adjusters around but no pre-heat means the stove lacks real cold weather performance. Both heavy and expensive for a 3 season stove when compared to canister mounted options and slightly overpriced compared to today's latest stoves
Real World Test
The Stella+ comes with a windshield and stove bag, the windshield being very effective whether the wind's blowing or not. Where the Stella+ really excels inits stability and compact size when folded away. The piezo ignition is remote mounted, with a wire running along the inside of the flexible fuel hose and still works efficiently after almost 2 years of regular use. In average conditions the stove works well, though not quite up to the "perfect conditions" figures quoted. For the purposes of the test we used a litre of water at 18C, and achieved a rolling boil in 3:42.

We've only looked at an early production sample to date, but the new Primus Micron Trail will hit the shops this Spring as possibly the most adjustable canister top stove on the market.

Double burner stoves are traditionally heavy and bulky, particularly when you incude the gas bottle, hose and regulator, but that's not the way it has to be as Primus prove with their revolutionary Onja.

Stormin' Stoves are the work of one man, Norman Reeves. He has been refining this clever little stove system for several years and has earned respect from UK based ultralight backpackers looking to shave valuable grams from their pack weight.