The alcohol must be more than 85% and the most available form of reasonably priced stove alcohol is methanol in "yellow label" Heet, found at auto parts stores and gas stations.

This works best under 32° F because of the relatively high methanol content.

Denatured Alcohol has very little methanol and can be found in the paint section of a hardware store.

This works best above 32° F.

Isopropyl alcohol can be found with sufficiently high percentage alcohol, however this form of alcohol makes more soot on the bottom of the pot.

If the pot becomes covered with soot for any reason, the soot can be removed by soaking the bottom of the pot in chafing oil sold, for example, at a restaurant supply.

I carry my cooking pot in it's own net bag outside my pack, until I can thoroughly clean it. I carry it in an odorproof Opsak in "bear country".

The stove on the right burns white gas or Coleman gas.

The windscreen for the white gas stove is different. For that stove, the windscreen needs to be an open cylindrical design.

That windscreen should be open around the cooking pot, and, the pot should not be lifted off the "white gas" until combusion is finished. Using only the amount of fuel you need, is learned from experience.

Each stove weighs 1 oz.

The "pot" is a 6" lid diameter Vargo 750 ml Sierra, that tapers to a 4" base.

The total weight with this stove and this windscreen is 4.5 oz.

This is an ample cookset for one.