What stove do you have?

[Jenna]

its not cheap but then the dragonfly/xgr (MSR) thats very similar retails at about £10 more (£120) so i guess thats the sort of 'going rate' for a more specialst stove like this...

I just find the 442 a bit bulky especally if you carry a sigg flask with coleman fuel.

[smig]

I use a old swedish army trangia stove, used it for many years its a great stove. nothing to go wrong no moving parts. its been dropped, left outside all night in the rain and wind and when it looks a bit tired i just ive it a coat of black exhaust pant and its good as new.

Just bought one of these myself through Ebay cost £12.50 and it boiled a mug full of water in around 10 mins

[Boris]

Normally I take one or the other stove away but a couple of weeks ago and again last weekend I took both the cartridge and the petrol stove with me. The weather was cool for Scotland but not really too cold. There was a light gusty wind and we set the stoves up side by side on a table.



The difference between the two was quite marked and in the light breeze the gas stove was really struggling to keep a large frying pan of sausages on the sizzle. In fact it struggles with most things whereas the Coleman on just got on with it. In the end we had to keep swapping pots from stove to stove to keep things cooking. Neither of them likes the wind but the coleman could at least still perform usefully.
The canister stove may well be cheap to buy and OK in warm calm weather or in the tent but it was pretty hopeless outdoors in a light breeze.

[grinder]

We have both of these. This way we can get a full breakfast going.

[davsato]

ive had several types of stove, used in various conditions so can comment a bit.....more of a ramble really, sorry.......

trangias are utterly idiot proof and indestructable. when the bomb drops there will only be cockroaches left, cooking on trangia stoves.
they are a bit slow but get the job done in any weather and a lot packs up into it when stowed away. if i had the money i would buy a hard anodised trangia with gas or petrol conversion.

i took a coleman sportster dual fuel away to africa and fueled it with petrol from the motorbike, thinking i would always have fuel for it. that worked out ok, but it was smelly and a bit messy to fill it and prep it for cooking. goes like a rocket and makes a fantastic noise, used on unleaded for ages with no bother. the seals do dry out and crack but when your finished with it empty it, take the pump out and vaseline the o-ring. not every night, but if your leaving it for months...

these days with a family and not being allowed out for long, i use a simple cheap cartridge propane stove, nothing special one of these ten quid chinese jobs from ebay. even got a peizo ignition. cheap, clean, even more idiot proof than a trangia (ever knocked a lit tranny over?)(and thats NOT what i get up to out dogging at night..) you can get cartridges anywhere, and you need to because they dont last long and cant be refilled, and sometimes they dont reseal when you take them off.

which is best? ah well........................

[maffers]

i bought A trangia 27 10 years ago n its working perfectly till today... it got a couple of scar in it but it still works perfectly... I've come from Indonesia so theres not much of a choice but Trangia is the perfect stove...

[sean]

borrowed a trangia for the tt races in about 1996 - still got it, brilliant bit of kit

[Mabels Old Man]

I use a Trangia as well.