When I saw David's Maxie stove in action, I quite fell in love with it and bought one for myself. It is more expensive to use than a propane one, but I have found a source that sells bulk alcohol which brings the cost down to about $8 a week. That's a bit under four quid and I do a lot of cooking. I've not had David's problem with icky fingers, but then I tend to fill the cooker directly from a 1 litre bottle via a funnel and don't usually have any spillages. My only real bitch with the Maxie is that the gimballing' system is pretty useless, even with the addition of a lead weight. It is much more a pendulum than a pivot and coming back from Mahurangi recently, in a bit of a wild sea, I really couldn't use it. Another more minor gripe is that the pan supports are too far apart: one of my pans tends to tip up on it and I only dare to use my espresso coffee jug in flat calm conditions.
The camp oven is a good idea and I would like to have an oven for various different recipes that I miss cooking, and also to bake a loaf-shaped loaf. (My frying pan is just too small to contain any of the loaf tins I can find.) I once had a folding oven and I recall finding a problem with it, insofar as it completely tied up one burner (where do you put a red-hot oven down?) and only allowed room for a small pan on the other. I looked up the specs of the Coleman, but could only find approximate dimensions - the 10 in square rack adjusts to 3 cooking heights. Could you give me the genuine dimensions, please, Tony. It might just fit between my fiddle rails and I would give it serious consideration in that case.