Quote Originally Posted by NbyNW View Post
We routinely cook our dinner over our wood campfire this way. Downside is that the cast iron skillet gets coated with a fine layer of ash that is PITA to clean -- it just gets everywhere, but hey, we're camping, so it's not that much of a worry. Also if you heat water for tea/coffee this way it tends to get infused with a lovely smoky flavor.

Another nice thing about the camp stoves is that we can get breakfast going a lot cleaner and faster in the morning without getting the campfire going again. It means less wood to haul to the campsite, and a morning campfire feels a bit extravagant since we usually don't linger around our campsite once we've finished breakfast.
Exactly, I want to be able to cook a good breakfast without a fire if I want, and also there are some events at which I camp where there aren't any fire pits.

I appreciate all of the tips, different perspectives, and also suggestions for different types of stoves. I expect to wind up with a version of the one I linked to, but we will see. I am going to visit my local camping friends and check out what they use. If I can get my hands on examples it will go far in helping me decide what I will do.