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The stove comparison with weights in g: alcohol, liquid-fuel and canister stoves, and the 1849/1882 history.
Backpacking stoves weigh about 30–60 g (1–2 oz) for simple alcohol stoves. That class has no pump and no separate bottle, so the burner is the whole stove.
MSR-type stoves weigh 310–400 g (11–14 oz) without fuel. They burn liquid fuel and need a pump and a fuel line, so the carried weight is the stove plus the bottle plus the fuel.
Larger stoves can reach up to 0.45 kg (1 lb). The step from 30 g to 400 g is larger than any difference between two models in the same class, so the class choice matters more than the model choice.
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The history of the portable stove runs through two dates. French chef Alexis Soyer began to market his portable magic stove in 1849, working on the principle of a kerosene lamp with a wick drawing fuel to the burner.
Carl Richard Nyberg invented the blowtorch in 1882 and began manufacturing Primus stoves about a decade later. That combination of pressure and vaporised fuel is the ancestor of the liquid-fuel stoves still weighed in the 310–400 g class.
Canister stoves sit between alcohol and liquid fuel in both weight and output. They are not listed with a single weight here because the source material gives ranges only for the alcohol and liquid-fuel classes.
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