You might look at AceMart's web site and look at their prices for bulk sterno.
I've cooked on everything from open fires to the most modern commercial induction ranges (hated those).
Personally, I'll take whatever is available, but coffee needs to be fast and easy in the morning, or someone's getting hurt. ;)
Sterno and my camp coffee pot work just fine for that.
/johnny
I don't need any more - have enough for a year. I calculated how long one burned and how long I would need one or two burning at the same time, put that all together, and got enough to last a year.
You're a smart person and a chef and you understand the beauty of canned heat, especially in the morning. I have other ways to cook and the fuel for each, but for simplicity of coffee and heating soup, etc., canned heat is my choice.
When hurricane Rita came through here, power was off and my husband walked outside with his hot coffee and a neighbor lady asked him how he got hot coffee. He told her and brought her a cup and also offered her a can of canned heat and a Sterno Stove and she wouldn't take it because she had never seen one. This lady is a BANKER and she was afraid of canned heat because she didn't know what it was.
Some people you just can't help. She and her son ate cold sandwiches for four days. My husband kept taking her hot coffee every morning.
We were using the canned heat in the morning but for lunch/dinner, we sat under the roof over a patio and cooked nice meals on a propane grill.
We stayed cool using battery fans and could sleep at night through the heat, due to those fans.
I don't know why people around here who know a hurricane may come, do absolutely nothing to prepare until the day before the hurricane gets here, then they take off to the grocery for water and tuna to live on.