CHOOSE CAMPING STOVE | We COMPARE different CAMPING STOVES, Trangia, Primus stove, Toaks, MSR stoves

How to choose camping stove! In this video we compare different camping stoves and show how they work. We have years of experience with camp stove and have tested many outdoor stoves during the years. The 4 categories of backpacking stoves are, multifuel stoves, outdoor gas stove, liquid-fuel stoves and ultralight wood gas stoves. A good hiking stove is essential so a backpacking stove comparison is good to do.

THE CAMPING STOVES WE THINK ARE WORTH BUYING:

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JOKKMOKKGUIDERNA is a small guide company who offer outdoor tours in Jokkmokk, Swedish Lapland all around the year. During the winter we do mostly dog sled trips and summertime it’s canoe, hiking tours and wildlife safaris. We, Matti Holmgren and Stina Svensson own and run Jokkmokkguiderna. We live year-round with our Siberian Huskies and Border Collies in Jokkmokk, North of the Arctic Circle.

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00:00 Intro
00:53 Categories of outdoor stoves
01:04 Alcohol stoves and burners
03:22 Trangia
04:08 Pepsi burner, homemade ultralight stove
04:58 Summary of alcohol camping stoves
07:56 Outdoor gas stoves
10:44 MSR Pocket Rocket
11:13 MSR Reactor
11:54 Primus Eta Solo, Primus Lite
12:10 Comparison gas stoves
15:41 Liquid fuel stoves, multifuel stoves, pump stoves
15:58 MSR XGK EX stove
20:26 Wood gas stoves, Toaks wood stove

[damianbuszuje]

As a native Polish bushcrafter, I have to make a remark. In my area, when using an alcohol cooker, there is a high risk that the alcohol will be used for consumption purposes.😂

[Rotorhead]

When I was a young man, I enjoyed occasionally going out into the wilderness to camp. Most folks these days don't seem to understand the difference between true wilderness camping and the local private, county, provincial, state, or national camp ground, where you have access to plumbed water and full electric service.

Now, in my later years, having lost my wife and on the verge of losing my dog and cats, I find myself seriously considering a more spartan life in the wilderness. To that end, having adequate information about certain equipment is paramount.

Your video has been quite informative. Of course, I find it disturbing that you had to remind people that certain products and practices in the wilderness can lead to catastrophe, but that goes more to the older generations not teaching critical knowledge to the younger, but to me it's like trying to remind people to not stand in a puddle and stick a fork in a power outlet.

Still, all in all, I greatly appreciate your expertise and willingness to share it. Now I have a better idea of what type of stove(s) to carry with me.

I look forward to viewing any other videos you have on survival equipment.

[ashleyhoward]

I have 2 wood gas stoves & they both work very well with wood pellets. Just fill the stove with dry pellets & then you light the fire on top of them. They run smokeless that way for a long time & pre-weighed bags of dry pellets in a plastic bag with a fire lighter are small to pack in a plastic bag, so ideal for a day trip.

[jmalinowski]

I enjoyed the pros and cons to all the different stoves, with the relaxing atmosphere. Good times.

[rediculousman]

Trangia also has gas and multi-fuel burners available. Everyone always says they are old and outdated, but I still believe they are hands down the best! It's like carrying a small kitchen.

[tor]

Used all kinds of stoves over decades. Trangia is the most practical because it works well in hard wind. With lesser windscreens you loose the saved weight in fuel efficiency. In reality the Trangia system is just extremely difficult to beat. The Trangia windscreens work well with the Optimus Polaris and Primus Omnifuel stoves too.

[Niunda]

Tip no2 for Wood stove, have a small small bag on your back, collect dry branches or roots as you walk by....

[charlesfulcrum]

Although it's now considered old fashioned, I still use my tried and tested Coleman Multi-Fuel. Well built, low centre of gravity, works in all conditions, no loss of pressure ( with a few occasional pumps) and no separate containers or gas canisters.
I work on the principle of if it isn't broken, don't change it.

[stbez]

Great video. Super informative. For sure, please make the other videos!

[clivedunning]

Fantastic to see your grandmother's alcohol stove. I've never seen one with the hinged simmer ring before, great idea to prevent you losing the simmer ring. If going for more than two nights I take my ancient MSR Whisperlite Internationale which I bought in California in the early 1980's, over 40 years old and I've only needed one replacement pump. The stove is so old it has a serial number on it, 082. I live in Scotland and once you are above the tree line you have to have a stove and fuel with you. I also carry a "fuel/stove of last resort", a heximine stove, with fuel, . . . 'just in case' . . . I enjoy your videos, great to hear your dogs singing a lullaby. Happy trails.

[LJTomlinson]

If you're going to cook for example in a steel or aluminum pot with a wood fire. If you rub on the outside bottom of the potb with plain bar of hand soap when you're done cooking and wash

[davidbarts]

I use liquid fuel stoves, either an MSR Dragonfly or a classic (50 years old!) 2-burner Coleman. I like being able to top off the fuel tank before I leave home, so I never have to leave with a half-empty canister. Plus it can get cold in the mountains, even in the summer. When it's a frosty morning, I want a stove that can go full blast. So far as alcohol and wood go, those stoves are often banned here (BC, Canada) during periods of high fire danger.

[Wastelander]

My favorite stoves are Optimus VEGA and the 25 gramm LIXADA. I used several Primus in the past but I was disappointed because they didnt hold up, they rust, and also I had issues connecting Primus gas canisters to ( Primus) stoves. OPTIMUS rock solid. I dont alcohol stoves cause the risk of putting the forest on fire is to big, especially in dry seasons like the 2022 summer in Europe.
WOW, your dogs sound amazingly beautiful. Cheers.

[GeekfromYorkshire]

Fuel use I measured for bringing 300ml water to boil:

Trangia 25 / 27 full kit with stand+windshield - 30ml
The mini-Trangia with no windshield - 50ml
A basic gas stove - Ti pot on a stove on a cannister - 10g
Jetboil - 5g.

Hence to do that 3 times/day average 5 days is:
Full Trangia - 450ml - and so a 500ml bottle.
Mini-Trangia - 750ml so a bigger bottle.
basic gas setup - 150g fuel so you'd need say a 240g larger canister.
Jetboil - 75g so you need a nearly-full 100g small canister.

My conclusion has been:

I don't use the mini Trangia, performance is simply too poor relative to a basic gas setup.
I use a basic gas setup for a 1-2 nights situation.
I use Jetboil when happy with just boiling water for > 2 nights.
I use full Trangia when car-camping.

I buy the 450g larger canisters and refill the 100g smallest canisters, that lowers cost in the long term and I always set off with a near-full canister. As gas has more chance of it not working (compared with Trangia with alcohol) I pack two Esbit solid fuel blocks in the base of the Jetboil as a backup but so far never needed to use them and add a backup ferrorod if the Jetboil's peizo lighter were to fail.

I recently got the Trangia gas conversion but yet to try it so don't know if the windsheild makes its quieter. I like Alcohol's quietness but like gas's speed so depends on situation. Trangia+alcohol you can setup distant from tent and be cooking while pitching/dismantling your tent, it handles wind+rain well on it's own.

[paulcarter]

Good video! I sometimes use a Primus 96 for day hikes - I bought it about 50 years ago for 37 pence - the the equivalent of 5 kroner I think. You have to be patient when starting but I find it frugal on fuel and it’s lovely to use, if a bit noisy.

[diipadaapa]

Good video, where I suffer is that I cannot estimate gas well since it is quite dependant on temps. I can go 5 days with 100g when 20c but when it drops closer to 0 I'm comfortable only 4 maybe 5 days per 230g.

[YouGruff]

Would like to see you guys demonstrating more of the cooking that you do whilst on your trips, the ingredients methods and sharing of your favourite meals. Many of the meals demonstrated in UK hiking and backpacking youtube videos mainly consist of boiling water to pour into a bag of wet/dehydrated food, the bags costing more than you could buy food at a pub for. Have watched quite a few of your videos now and the meals featured look more like "proper" meat and potato type filling meals, so would like to see some videos dedicated to such things.

[jeff]

I enjoyed your video, very well done. I have not tested any canister stoves in extreme conditions, but I don't think I would ever trust theses as my only stove for back country winter travel. I have used my svea123 and Coleman pressure stoves at -47 F. I do not have the Trangia multi fuel burner. That burner added to the storm cooker would be a good winter setup. Petrol stoves worked for Scott and Amundson.
Now I find that I do not preform well at -40, so have never tested my canister stoves in these conditions.

[taunushabitat]

Great footage mate. Thank you for the honest reviews and have a phantastic time outdoor in your area and with your dogs.

[thomasf.]

Trangia's really shine in rainy, windy weather! The venting holes on the side channel wind parallel to the flame such that the worse weather, the better the flame.