carry a small stove on the trips i plan, but i don't recall the last time i used it. i've been on trips where a stove was used sometimes intermittently and sometimes a lot-i find that i much prefer cooking over a fire, especially when with a group and cooking multiple courses. i'm a believer in eating full cooked meals at the beginning and end of the day and have never had the schedule set back by campfire cooking. i campfire cook when solo also.

when in camp, we always have an old beat-to-heck percolator sitting on the edge of the purcell trench to keep hot. hard to do with a stove.