I have a petrol equivelant of the Primus stove vapourising cooker.
Frightens the crap out of me in a way paraffin doesn't.
My dad was an AA superintendent in Scotland in the 1950s. At that time the AA had a Dragon Rapide which was flown by an ex WW2 Mosquito pilot with a splendid handlebar moustache. In the winter when motorists in the Highlands could get stuck in snow drifts for days the Rapide was used to air-drop emergency supplies, which included a mini petrol cooker. These were nothing like as scary as the ones being discussed here. My dad acquired one and I used it for camping for many years, and as it didn't need pressurising it was a lot easier to use than the then common paraffin stove. Once you got used to the fact you were burning petrol, not paraffin, I found they had the opposite effect on me,
Basil, although my mates often retired to a safe distance when I got it out to make a brew!
Here's the Rapide, which was painted in AA black and yellow (scroll down for the pic).
Aircraft of the Automobile Association.