Butane Camp Stove

[techjeeper]

I picked up this cheap little butane stove despite hearing,”they don’t work at elevation” or “you’ll need a ton of butane to actually cook anything”

The naysayers were all wrong. This is a fantastic cooker. I used it to boil water for coffee 3 times, cooked 4 meals at 10,000+ and 11,000+ elevation on 1 can of butane. When I say cooked meals, I mean I fired it up, got my 12-14” wok hot and cooking easily cooking up meals with fresh ingredients. Not just some freeze dried or dehydrated nonsense. Real food cooked from scratch. It’s an absolutely awesome cooker. I would recommend one to anyone wanting an easy camping stove top.

I didn’t really take a ton of pics of my cooking or food I made but here it is with the kettle/coffee pot.

 

[GaTechTJ]

Elevation effects the temperature water boils at more than how well Butane works. Higher Elevation is a lower boiling point of water.

Butane does decline in performance at freezing temperatures. Butane transitions to a vapor at 33 degrees F. If you get colder than that, it won't vaporize properly to be able to burn.

Camping stove Butane often has propane added to it to lower this temperature and help improve the performance at freezing temperatures.

 

[techjeeper]

Elevation effects the temperature water boils at more than how well Butane works. Higher Elevation is a lower boiling point of water.

Butane does decline in performance at freezing temperatures. Butane transitions to a vapor at 33 degrees F. If you get colder than that, it won't vaporize properly to be able to burn.

Camping stove Butane often has propane added to it to lower this temperature and help improve the performance at freezing temperatures.

I think these facts get misconstrued into wrong conclusions about a butane stove or important parts of it left out as with a ton of camping gear. Such as “butane doesn’t work well when approaching freezing outside temps” get restated as “Butane has a narrow range of effective burn in certain conditions. Not totally wrong but leaves out a lot of important information and makes it seem as though it’s this vastly inferior product when in reality they work great in probably 90% of the typical use cases. When I bought after reading about them it felt like a gamble based on some research I’d done framing them as inferior, I’m thinking jetboil must have written some of what I read. I did seriously consider one of their $300 2 burner setups but at 10% the cost I knew I had to at least try one of these. Keep in mind this after using a cheap ozark trail 2 burner I bought close to 20 years ago…that also still works.

 

[techjeeper]

Elevation effects the temperature water boils at more than how well Butane works. Higher Elevation is a lower boiling point of water.

Butane does decline in performance at freezing temperatures. Butane transitions to a vapor at 33 degrees F. If you get colder than that, it won't vaporize properly to be able to burn.

Camping stove Butane often has propane added to it to lower this temperature and help improve the performance at freezing temperatures.

I see a nice trailer in your profile pic, have a build thread or more info on it?

 

[MikekiM]

I have the same burner.. but it has a propane adapter.

I have used it with butane and it works fine until temps drop.

I have the Coleman single, the classic double burner Coleman and more backpacking stoves I can count all of which can run on propane. I have been using the 1lb propane bottles but have been looking to switch to a 5lb bottle with an extension hose.

I wish RockSlide was still making that table for the TJ.

 

[MikekiM]

Took the single burner butane stove this past weekend and.. I am not likely to take it again.
It is just too big to carry. I am going to stick with the Fire Maple Spider remoter burner and run either butane, propane or iso butane depending on the weather.

 

[Rubiconned]

It's why you should use only

 

[Mr. Bills]

I use this dual fuel 15,000 BTU single burner stove. No complaints.

This adapter hose allows me to use a 20# propane tank if desired.
The smaller fitting is for refilling 1# cannisters from a 20# BBQ tank.

 

[tworley]

I've got something very similar if not the same. Works well, the butane lasts longer than I anticipated, and its incredibly fast.

 

[MikekiM]

Mine is dual fuel as well. Have no complaints about the fuel. I can retool the rest of my kit to be all one fuel depending on what makes sense. I just find a need for something so big.

This seems to working well for the lions share of what I need

And this for everything else.. Also multi-fuel.