The Fastest Camping Stove in the West

Capt.Crash'n'Burn

Capt.Crash'n'Burn

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For those of you who have never had the pleasure of using a Jetboil camping stove, you need to buy one. The secret to how it works is a built in heat sink in the bottom of the cup (or pots and pans sold seperately), that heats up faster than anything I've ever seen.

http://www.jetboil.com/

I bought one for my geology field trips as an early morning time saver. It goes from Zero to fresh brewed coffee in under 5 minutes. It takes about 90 seconds to heat water to about 180 deg. You can buy them with a French press for making coffee or buy it seperately.

They're small and light enough to take backpacking. Out in the field, it's almost like having a microwave oven with you. I've never seen anything faster.
 
My little MRS camp stove weighs nothing, burns white gas, kerosine or gasoline, and has wired consistently for over a quarter century. Won't be needing a new one, sorry.
 
I use an ancient Coleman two-burner stove. I love the smell of naphtha in the morning...

When I was a kid I had a L'il Injun Scout Cookstove. It came apart and fit into a can the size of a tobacco can. I found one on Ebay a few years ago and bought it. Boy, is it slow, and there are stories of them exploding. So it's a keepsake more than anything else.

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Probably not very politically correct anymore, either. And the lighting wick is made of asbestos.

Dan
 
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steingar said:
My little MRS camp stove weighs nothing, burns white gas, kerosine or gasoline, and has wired consistently for over a quarter century. Won't be needing a new one, sorry.
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In the time it took you to post this, I made another pot of fresh brewed coffee. :thumbsup:

DAYUUM!! it's that fast! :yes:
 
steingar said:
My little MRS camp stove weighs nothing, burns white gas, kerosine or gasoline, and has wired consistently for over a quarter century. Won't be needing a new one, sorry.
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My MSR Whisperlight (which I used heavily when I was a Boy Scout leader over 20 years ago) worked great. The fuel bottle (full of fuel) weighed far more than the stove.
 
We've been using a JetBoil to make coffee at Oshksoh (along with the Aeropress) for years.
Works great.
 
I have a JetBoil for backpacking and it is great. I have the French press, but I switched to the Starbuck Via packets, due to clean up issues. For car camping I have one of those Coleman grill/stoves (which I love, because it can grill). For overnight camping with the plane, I will often just throw in my backpacking gear. It depends how far I have to haul the gear, once I get there.
 
Soda can hobo stoves are where it is at. Free to get, cheap to fuel.
 
Motorhome comes with cook and all the kitchen power tools including microwave.
 

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Capt.Crash'n'Burn said:
If you can fit that on your backpack and hump it into the mountians or stuff it in the back seat of a 172, you might have a point.
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If you can pack a trailer with loaded jeep, boat, and all the camp gear, and get it to the lake in an aircraft I want to see it.

And have a beer while doing it :)
 
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