Around the campfire, hikers frequent debate the pros & cons of different cooking systems.

After a disaster or two, I became a fervent booster of the gas cartridge stove. (Even encouraging F. W. Linqvist to patent the idea in late 1880s.)

Super-hiker Chris Townsend almost always uses gas cartridges because over-all they are a lighter system. A 3oz stove cooks grub. Townsend would only use a multi-fuel stove in really cold weather or in some God-forsaken 3rd world backwater.

For example, La Paz, Mexico.

This isn’t the first time travelling abroad that I wished I did have a dirty multi-fuel stove needing constant maintenance. You cannot buy canisters in La Paz.

More than you ever wanted to know about camping stoves on Wikipedia.com