Stove suggestions please.

[Stew]

Well, just back from a weekend car camping and the stove has given up the ghost. It's been struggling for a while and I think it's time to commit it as gone. I won't be consigning it to the bin yet and will do some more work on it to see if it's salvageable but I've decided I need a new one for family use.

I've had this one about 15 years so haven't looked at anything else for a while.

The current one is a Peak multifuel, single burner. It's ok but now I have the kids with me, just the one burner can be limiting though not a major problem for me with sensible planning.

I'm not interested in a wood burner for family use. It's a nice idea, and I have a wood gas stove, but it's just not the best for them, in my opinion.

I'm not keen on stoves that are limited to cannisters as I want to know how much fuel is in the stove before I leave, not having to take spare cannisters, just in case. I think they're less cost effective long term as well.

In Scouts we used to use some Coleman duel burner petrol jobs that I see are still around. Heavy, as I recall, but for the car I'm not concerned overly. I do remember having lots of issues at Scouts but suspect they weren't treated the best and were a bit old. Are they any good these days?

Any single burner options in the same style that are worth looking at? (I could look at getting two then could choose to take one or two)

I'm a bit familiar with lighter weight stoves from friends in my climbing days - I'm thinking MSR, Primus, etc that have the stove connected by a hose to the fuel bottle. Are they better to go for?

The only thing I wasn't too keen on with my Peak is the footprint that the pan would sit on could make it a bit more risky for balancing!

So, fire away!!

 

[Filterhoose]

Trangia do a gas attachment. Meths is cheap fuel, with the gas attachment you have the best of both worlds. Very stable too and work pretty well in the wind.

 

[spandit]

The Chinese multi-fuel stoves are great - very happy with mine. Runs on kerosene, petrol or gas

 

[Stew]

The Chinese multi-fuel stoves are great - very happy with mine. Runs on kerosene, petrol or gas

Link to the type?

 

[spandit]

Look on eBay for the seller "365digital"

Item #390334228404 is the one I've got

 

[cave_dweller]

I bought one of the Chinese multi-fuel stoves from This Ebay Store . It works fine and seems pretty well built. Quite noisy, but versatile and fast. I've run it on Coleman fuel and gas so far, and it works fine on both. Happy hunting!

 

[lou1661]

For car camping i use a Coleman 424 campstove, the twin burner one and run it on Aspen 4T. Not had any problems really but spares are plentyful and reasonable. If your in no hurry they are often on ebay as collection only which keeps the price down. I find the twin burner very usefull, i can finish cooking a curry while deep frying poppadoms.... now that is a bonus.

 

[Big Si]

For car camping i use a Coleman 424 campstove, the twin burner one and run it on Aspen 4T. Not had any problems really but spares are plentyful and reasonable. If your in no hurry they are often on ebay as collection only which keeps the price down. I find the twin burner very usefull, i can finish cooking a curry while deep frying poppadoms.... now that is a bonus.

As above for car camping, easy to use and plenty of spares about.

Si

 

[spiritwalker]

id go for a trangia its quiet works well in all weather cheap to run and does not really require any spares

 

[Grebby]

Stew,

I have a Coleman 424 in the shed doing nothing. If you are interested I could dig it out and fire it up to check if it's OK(was last time I tried it a year(ish) ago).

It would be nice for it to be used rather than just sat there.

If you are interested let me know.

Cheers

Grebby

 

[Stew]

Hi Grebby,

I certainly would be interested.

Thanks!

 

[Grebby]

I'll dig it out and fire it up.

After a re-read of my original post I would like to clarify myself I didn't mean for free , sorry. It was dinner time and I had been summoned by my 2 yr old so sort of just hit post I did mean for swaps.

I'll drop you a PM Stew.

Cheers

Grebby

 

[ged]

The Coleman twin burner is fine once you get the hang of it. Coleman Fuel, or Aspen 4 (they used to call it Aspen 4T). I wouldn't use road fuel in it except in emergency but people do it. I've made my own fuel mixture using brake cleaner (more or less heptane) and photocopier fluid (dodecane, more or less paraffin) which works well but I wouldn't think you'd want to go that far.

 

[Stew]

Don't worry Grebby, I didn't assume for free.

Ill reply to your pm a bit later.

 

[rik_uk3]

Stick to Aspen, panel wipe or Coleman fuel, its down to a fiver a litre so running costs as cheap if not cheaper than gas cartridges now.

 

[ZEbbEDY]

can you run the bio ethanol in these things?

 

[rik_uk3]

can you run the bio ethanol in these things?

NO, not a great idea.

 

[The Lord Poncho]

For car camping i use a Coleman 424 campstove, the twin burner one and run it on Aspen 4T. Not had any problems really but spares are plentyful and reasonable. If your in no hurry they are often on ebay as collection only which keeps the price down. I find the twin burner very usefull, i can finish cooking a curry while deep frying poppadoms.... now that is a bonus.

I use this too- recently bought it- love it! So good not having to rely of gas canniasters which are worryingly half empty at the start of every trip, and always seem to run out at the wrong time. I did quite a lot of research into using normal unleaded in it, and concluded that although coleman fuel/aspen 4T would be slightly cleaner burning, there wasn't much in it. I'll just need to replace the generator at slightly more frequent intervals, but they are readily availiable. I should add that i always use it in very well ventilated areas.

 

[kiltedpict]

Decided I'm getting the three burner version of this stove...

 

[swright81076]

If its car camping then you owe it to yourself to get a cadac deluxe jobby. We have one for the caravan and for home. They are quite heavy but, boy, you can cook anything on them.
If the caravan was stolen, I'd be more gutted at losing the cadac than owt else.

They use propane or butane bottles, but an easy truck to see how much gas is left is to pour boiling water down it. Where its cold is the gas level. Where hot, its empty.

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