[Paddlewise] Katadyn owes up!

 Thanks friends for your show of sympathy, and all the mails!

It was Katadyn, makers of Katadyn water purifiers, Optimus stoves, and other
outdoor equipment, that forgot to mention that the stove was temporarily out
of stock - most companies, like Amazon, will not charge you till they have the
stuff in their warehouse(s), ready for delivery - a very sane arrangement, I'd
say.

Hopefully I'll get my stove next week, but I would not bank on it. Until now
I've used various MSR stoves (all used with kerosene as fuel, as I
didn't know where to find white spirits - but Craig has told us that it is the
stuff dry-cleaners use, so now I know).

I probably have used our MSR stoves more than a thousand hours (in the field I
am the cook, at home it is the wife). The first I ordered via mail (yeah, a
long time ago), and then bought one, or two, locally, when available, and then
the latest one when visiting Craig, and others, in North America.

The only one that does not work too well is the Whisperlite (we got ours very,
very, cheap), as it probably needed white spirits to work properly - so one
day I'll go to the cleaners and get some suitable fuel, and try it in
earnest!

The only fault with MSR stoves are that all I've used sound like small jet
turbines, when at full throttle, while the ordered Optimus Nova+ is said to
much quieter! Hopefully, I'll soon experience that :-)!

As yet the old XKG (original version!) and the Dragonfly are the backbone of
our setup, with XKG nowadays being back-up, and for cooking that doesn't need
an exact temperature, but lots of heat, say boiling water! The Dragonfly is
much easier to control, so suitable for frying things that shouldn't be
overcooked, like onions, peppers, fresh fish, and sirloin steak!

Yours,



Tord S Eriksson,
MA in Journalism; ex Editor-in-Chief; Avid Photographer; Pentax Fan,
Articulated Bus Driver; Hon. Member of East Horsley Aerospace;
Hon. Member of PAN, the World's Oldest Photo Club; On FlickR: Tord55;
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