No pumping, priming or pre-lighting is required. These stoves can be working away long before traditional stoves are even assembled, let alone up and running. Quite - Gas stoves often sound like your own personal jet engine. Once lit, they take off like a screaming banshee. Not exactly the sound one wants to hear when enjoying the sounds of the forest.
Homemade stoves are quite.
In fact generally they can't even be heard. No Maintenance - Pack along your traditional stove and you better pack the repair kit also. By the way, you may need a small pair of pliers or a little oil to take your stove apart for maintenance. All of this maybe fine done on the kitchen table, but it can be downright irritating, field stripping a stove to make repairs in the cold and dark. With no moving or complex parts, these stoves have nothing to breakdown.