Alcohol stoves

An alcohol stove - a reliable cooker for moderate temperatures

If you want to cook a tasty outdoor meal quickly and easily in the wilderness, an alcohol stove is a good choice. Spirit is available cheaply in almost every supermarket worldwide, so you don't have to worry too much about fuel or your travel budget.

How does the alcohol stoves work?

An alcohol stove works very simply: you fill the fuel, which is available almost everywhere at a reasonable price, into the burner, light the burner, place a top on the stove and the outdoor cooking fun can begin.

Design and accessories

The alcohol stoves have a few special features. A good alcohol stove can therefore be recognised by these features:

• The special feature of the alcohol stove is its compact design, thanks to which it can be stowed away in a backpack to save space, only to open up later as a practical outdoor cooking facility - ideal for multi-day trips with limited luggage.
• Most alcohol stoves are also equipped with a windbreak so that they can always provide you with a hot flame in wind and weather, the temperature of which can usually be easily regulated using the cover cap.
• Some alcohol stoves are available as a set with various cookware, pots and pans and sometimes also with other utensils such as a chopping board or pasta strainer.

Easy to clean, easy to use and maintenance-free

An alcohol stove offers you numerous advantages:

• it is easy to care for,
• easy to clean,
• easy to use,
• does not require preheating,
• is maintenance-free
• is compact in design and
• is relatively quiet in operation.

One disadvantage is that its calorific value is significantly lower than that of a gasoline or gas stoves. As a result, it takes a little longer for the next outdoor meal to be ready. But who cares, the main thing is that it tastes delicious.

Spirit stoves from Transa

One of the most popular stoves in the outdoor scene are the alcohol stoves from Trangia. The Swedish manufacturer has equipped its alcohol stoves with nozzles so that the spirit can escape in gaseous form. All Trangia alcohol stoves are also equipped with a cylinder-shaped windscreen. Almost all of these cookers are also available in a practical set with one or more pots and pans. Cookers, pots and burners can be conveniently stacked inside each other when not in use, so that they can be packed away again in the camper van or hiking luggage to save space after cooking. Of course, you can also get these well thought-out alcohol stoves from the Swedish wilderness in the Transa online shop.

If you are a gourmet who wants to spontaneously conjure up a three-course meal outdoors, we recommend the Trangia alcohol stove sets including two pots and a frying pan as well as a universal handle that can be quickly attached and a windbreak that also functions as a transport box for the associated utensils. This means you always have a complete small camping kitchen to hand when you're out and about, and it doesn't really weigh much either.

Storm cooker: fire and flame despite rain and wind

The so-called storm cooker is another special form of alcohol stove. It is characterised by its special design. In the storm cooker, the cooker and flame are enclosed in a kettle that functions like a chimney. The kettle completely encloses the burner and flame and thus serves as an effective windbreak. As the name suggests, the storm cooker proves to be extremely practical, especially in windy and rainy regions. Wind and moisture cannot harm the flame in the kettle. In addition, hardly any heat is lost to the sides. The heat is drawn upwards through the kettle, exactly where the pan or pot is safely positioned. On a storm-proof cooking cooker, there is also an adjustable regulating lid set into the side of the windbreak, which you can use to regulate the flame.