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I have a nice gas stove (the heaviest, but perhaps the most versatile and the hottest), I have an alcohol stove (the lightest option and allowed on aircraft, but no other advantages), I have a primus canister-gas stove ("LPG"? the easiest to use, and second-lightest-- the first choice in countries where the fuel is readily available and the trip is not too long), and I have a wood-burning Zzip stove.
My collection is similar, only I don't have a liquid fuel stove (white gas etc).
Btw, small
propane cartridges are more readily available in third world and other odd places, than more expensive LPG cartridges (containing usually a mix of propane and butane, if I'm correct). Fancy LPG cartridges are for "gringos" (foreigners), they cost much and not needed in homes or fish camps of local villagers. That's why I've retrofitted my Primus Easyfuel LPG stove with a regulator by Coleman, so it's accepting now only propane cartridges (different thread):

These are available in automotive and hardware stores, often in longer tanks of the same volume as green Coleman, and are used for welding and metal cutting. These "welding" tanks and green Coleman tanks are heavier (thicker walls) than MSR/Primus etc LPG cartridges, but I don't care about extra 1-2 lbs in a kayak. They are also reportedly 15-20% less efficient than thin-wall cartridges from tourist stores, but they are also 20% cheaper (anywhere where I saw them). You can see them in Autozone (USA), Long's (USA), Canadian Tire, Home Depot, and zillions of other hardware and grocery stores, sometimes - at gas stations. You can often see green Coleman 1 lb tanks connected to BBQ grills (not to confuse it with big white propane tanks, 2 gallons or so, these are available virtually anywhere, but I don't want bomb of that size in a kayak, even if I had a room for it).
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The Zzip stove...
Yeah, I know, Sierra Zzip... nostagic smell of smoke... And the smoke itself, and sooty pots afterwards, and tricky "regulation" of power - usually by lifting the pot and holding it up, and need to collect that driftwood every time, even though this doesn't take much time.
Unless it's a
very long trip in a truly wilderness, like 5 weeks or longer, I would rather click the ignitor of LPG/propane stove. LPG stands for Liquified Petroleum Gas, btw. In plain words, any pressurized gas - propane, butane, etc. I carry Sierra as a backup, striped of its heavy and bulky stainless pots, and hope not to have to use it.
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Only the alcohol stoves and the Zzip are allowed on commercial aircraft, and even then don't say the word "stove"! They are "cooking equipment" or "cooking platform"s.
Not sure about that. I recall the wording (could be different in different airlines) "fuel and containers that were used for storing a fuel". So, alcohol stove is exactly a "container for storing a fuel", and unless it has
never been used before, it should not be allowed. But I flew with it many times, thoroughly washed and dried. OTH, LPG stove has no "container" (buying a fuel is the first task upon landing), and can be called evasively "burner", or "head", if they ask. So far they never did. The worst in air luggage are liquid-fuel stoves - they are hard to clean so thouroughly as alcohol "container" or LPG/propane "head and hoze", and are more likely to be banned. Greg isn't going to fly, anyway.