Portable stove

<p>A portable stove is a cooking stove specially designed to be portable and lightweight, used in <a href="/facts/Camping_(recreation)/JmwUIl3A">camping</a>, <a href="/facts/Picnick/DdTEWLUW">picnicking</a>, <a href="/facts/Backpacking_(wilderness)/9dMzJrRb">backpacking</a>, or other use in remote locations where an easily transportable means of <a href="/facts/Cooking/YWVfGWD1">cooking</a> or heating is needed. Portable stoves can be used in diverse situations, such as for outdoor food service and <a href="/facts/Catering/DKdeBMTn">catering</a> and in <a href="/facts/Field_hospital/7v7u2HD1">field hospitals</a>.
</p><p>Since the invention of the portable stove in the 19th century, a wide variety of designs and models have seen use in a number of different applications. Portable stoves can be broken down into several broad categories based on the type of fuel used and stove design: unpressurized stoves that use solid or liquid fuel placed in the burner before ignition; stoves that use a volatile liquid fuel in a pressurized burner; bottled gas stoves; and gravity-fed "spirit" stoves.
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Portable stove