Gearing Up for Backpacking, Part 3: Stove

OK, it's a damn yuppy titanium stove, got it?  Coulda made one out of two beer cans for just about free, plus a spare afternoon that I don't have and a few aluminum-cut fingers.  Or, in this case I found it on sale three years ago while gearing up for a bikekpacking trip that never materialized.  The outer windscreen is also titanium, and can double as a twig-burner should the Everclear bottle run low:

I have a soft spot for titanium, having made some of it years ago, and now being partially made of it.  Back to the stove.  How well does it work?  Well enough.  On a couple of ounces of alcohol it'll boil the pint cup in ten minutes, which will get the freeze-dried whatever and the after-dinner coffee ready in one shot.  I'm all for simplicity, and it doesn't get much simpler than this.  In today's dust-it-off and test, it worked fine for an afternoon cup of instant coffee.  Not exactly artisanal pour-over but entirely drinkable.  

Side note:  Only use these things outside.  Low-pressure jets burning ethanol is smelly,  leaves a fine black soot, and produces copious quantities of carbon monoxide.

ps: a third party weighs in on "backpacking" vs. "hiking"