Sterno Group 40004 Sterno Canned Heat Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a very useful product. It is very light and small so it is easy to pack and carry. I use it to warm my tent, especially on a cold damp night. I use it to heat the canned rations I often carry, and, with a little imagination, I have used it to cook game when it is too wet to make a fire. I recommend carrying some of this just to be prepared.



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Solid nonmelting, portable fuel. Ignites readily and burns steadily and intensively until consumed. Can be extinguished and relit as many times as desired until entire content is consumed. Nonexplosive and safe. 2 5 8 oz., 3 cans per sleeve.

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MSR Pocket Rocket Stove Review

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(More customer reviews)MSR's Pocket Rocket is a great little cooker. Best for going light and fast. Perfect as a shared stove among two people, and even better for simple boiling or melting snow for drinking water. I would suggest this stove for use with a maximum pot capacity of two liters, more than this and it becomes a little unstable.
If your menu is simple and you live on instant meals that require only boiling water this is the stove for you. Because this is a stove designed for the minimalist, it is tiny and has a very concentrated hot spot, so if you are a backcountry gourmet and want to cook pancakes and eggs you might be better off with a stove that has a larger flame spread. Again, great for boiling water and melting snow, but not for actual cooking.

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Pack light, but carry a powerful stove with the palm-sized MSR 11792 Pocket Rocket, which weighs just 3 ounces and measures 4 by 4 by 2 inches. It offers fast and simple lighting, with no need for priming, pressurizing or maintenance, and it will boil a liter of water in under 3.5 minutes. The glove-friendly controls allow precise flame adjustment and stability, while the micro-burner, tri-sectional Windclip Windshield clip protects flame in light wind gusts. It uses clean burning MSR IsoPro premium fuel.
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MSR recommends 4 oz. (114ml) of liquid fuel per person per day for cooking or 8 oz. (237ml) of liquid fuel per person per day for melting snow and cooking.
At high altitude, MSR stoves may burn "rich," which hinders vaporization. Reducing fuel bottle pressure and opening up the windscreen can offset this.
MSR's stoves burn best when the fuel bottle is pressurized to 15-25 psi (1034-1724 mb). That's equivalent to about 20 pump strokes for a full 22-ounce MSR fuel bottle. As the fuel burns, the air space in bottle grows larger, and pressure decreases. You'll have to pump more to maintain the same pressure.

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Coghlan's Folding Stove Review

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(More customer reviews)Coghlan's folding stove is a nice stove for camping with Sterno type burners or for an emergency kit.
I also own a Sterno brand camping stove, so I'll do a quick comparison:
The stoves are the same size - about 7" square by about a half inch when folded. This one's design is clearly based on the Sterno one as it has a similar opening which the Sterno stove uses both to leave room for the burner and also to brace the burner. The Coghlan version doesn't brace the burner at all, but it does have a shallow circular indention in the base to allow the burner to sit relatively securely (by which I mean that the burner won't slip unless you move the stove).
The Coghlan stove is made of stamped metal - it feels like tin or aluminium. Sterno's is also tin or aluminium but Sterno's is bent, not stamped. This means that the Sterno stove has lots of sharp edges - not good. This one is all rounded corners - this makes it less likely to get bent out of shape and also you're less likely to cut yourself on it if you're rummaging around your pack in the dark. A big point for Coghlan's stove.
Coghlan's stove folds completely flat and stays that way, which is nice. The Sterno brand folds flat too - if you force it. If you leave the Sterno stove to its own devices though part of it pops up at a 45 degree angle. Not a huge deal, but it means it's a negative point and a positive point for Coghlan's stove.
The Sterno stove is silver while the Coghlan version has been spray-painted black all over. It looks good but inside it's going to absorb heat rather than reflect it - not good - the oven may get too hot to touch and it may not heat the food as efficiently as the Sterno version. Basically, you need to sandblast that black coating off the side panels if you want it to reflect heat. The Sterno is the winner on this score.
Unfortunately, this stove doesn't place the burner precisely below the opening - not a big deal but mildly annoying as it's evidence of poor design. Also, the access panel easily pops open if the stove is not perfectly level. Not really a big deal - but it's something to be aware of.
Someday I would like to see a smaller stove. Sterno cans are only 3.5" wide, so I see no reason for the stoves to be larger. It would be easy to make an inexpensive stove that was about 4 x 2x 1/8" with three flat pieces that were connected at a single hinge and opened out to sit on top of the Sterno burner's top lip. There's really no reason for one of these stoves to be any bigger, and I will miss the extra space that this stove takes up in my pack. I guess I could always make my own.
All-in-all, the Coghlan stove is the better stove out of the two. Its flaws are either negligible or fixable. All it needs is a quick sandblasting to remove the black finish on the inside and it will perform as well or better than its competition. I think it's bigger than it needs to be, but then again there's nothing smaller on the market that I can find, so until something smaller and better comes along, this stove works. 4 stars out of 5.

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Coghlan's Folding Stove is convienent and easy to use.It burns Coghlan's Camp Heat or any other type of canned fuel. Built for outdoor use with coated steel construction.

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Stansport Portable Outdoor Butane Heater Review

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(More customer reviews)Portable Outdoor Butane Heater
I recently purchased this heater and have taken it with me camping twice. It is small and very efficent and seems safer and steadier than those little heaters attached to 16 oz propane cylinders that can sometimes tip over. Other campers saw it in operation and are going to order one. The butane cylinders are available in most sporting goods stores(Big Five, etc.) and even in my small town grocery store. They are not hard to find and are quite inexpensive, less than $1.50 each. This a great little heater.

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The Stansport Portable Outdoor Butane Heater features ultra quiet operation and a 2,500 to 6,000 BTU's burner with electronic ignition. It operates on a single 8 oz butane canister (NOT INCLUDED).

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