You can leave your dehydrated, salty, and unsatisfying meals at home—today’s camping stoves bring a whole new level of gourmet to your car camping and basecamping adventures. With a modern, quality design you can expect consistent fuel output, strong flames, and superior simmer controls. Camping stove sizes vary from small tabletop models to freestanding behemoths for large groups. For first-timers or those desiring some background information, it’s worth checking out our comparison table and buying advice while narrowing your search. If you are looking for lighter and smaller options more in-line with backpacking, see our article on the best backpacking stoves. Colman’s Triton stove offers impressive cooking power and reliability at a very competitive sub-$100 price.
For about $80 this stove comes with two adjustable burners, a slim profile for easy storing, and wind guards. The Coleman’s Two-burner Propane Stove with InstaStart Technology is pretty much as easy as it gets and should happily satisfy most any portable-cooking needs. While a blazing 20,000 BTU burner is great for a spaghetti feed, for items that require a little more finesse you’ll want to make sure the stove has effective simmer control. This requires fuel regulation that doesn’t fluctuate and a flame that remains strong even at low heat.
When disposing of your bottle, be sure that you’ve completely emptied the tank of all of its remaining gas. Attaching a tank to an open valve on your stove will burn off the final fractions of fuel, but be aware that the last bits of fuel and vapor leave the canister at a remarkably slow rate. Always keep the valve open—even after the flames have sputtered—for about a minute or two to ensure that any final vapor has escaped.
The propane stove regulator replacement parts is made of 100% solid brass fitting, make sure air tight connection and leak-free and provide excellent sense to you. This warranty applies only to
the original purchaser and does not extend to any subsequent owner(s). I used this stove once with a dwindling (less than half-full) canister of fuel and then once again with a full canister.
Built well with solid materials, this stove doesn’t need to be delicately handled. This is the Genuine Manufacturer Sourced replacement check valve that is designed for specific Coleman Lanterns and Stoves. The check valve and air stem are both made of brass and come together when ordered.
Liquid-fuel stoves cost more than propane models and don’t offer any performance benefits in mild conditions, so for most folks, propane remains the best option. The heavy-gauge, all-aluminum Camp Chef Mountaineer is built like the tough, classic camping equipment you hear salty old-timers or vintage-equipment nerds talk about. It’s more expensive than either of our Coleman picks, but if you’re comfortable with the jump in cost, the Mountaineer is worth the investment. Weighing just over 16 pounds, it’s 4 pounds heavier than the Coleman Classic. For instance, you can sear a steak or blister peppers at a higher heat than on our other picks for a darker char in faster time, which means you can cook more food in the same amount of time. But managing them does require a certain amount of finesse—with a stove this powerful, it’s easier to burn your food than to keep the heat low.
This is a genuine OEM Coleman pump cup used with gas lanterns. The pump plunger fits through the hole in this pump cup, which then fits inside the pump itself. The pump cup is designed to be coated in Pump Lube so that it can effectively create a seal inside the pump, preventing air leaks. Take your outdoor adventures to the next level with top quality camping gear, fuel and more from Coleman. Shop Ace Hardware’s selection of Coleman outdoor equipment for camping, hiking and anywhere the outdoors can take you. Even though this stove was stellar in testing, we have to address the price.
Whether you’re setting out on a cozy overnight getaway or embarking on your next big exploration, Coleman products deliver strong, dependable quality with lightweight comfort. From lanterns to high-tech tents, stoves and fuels, Coleman brings you the equipment you need to go anywhere you can imagine. While the Coleman Classic isn’t fancy or feature-rich, it does everything you need a stove to do in a timely and proficient manner. It doesn’t have the highest BTUs or boiling times, but it has solid performance in terms of fuel efficiency.
And it offers way more heat output (40,000 Btu, versus the Coleman Classic’s 20,000 Btu). As a result, Camp Chef assumes that you’re not running 1-pound propane bottles with a stove like this and defaults to a hose for a larger propane tank. The width of camping stoves varies significantly and can have an impact on what types of cookware you can use.
But should you want a grill and stove combo, say, for cooking sausage and eggs, a hybrid option like the Camp Chef Rainier 2X is pretty appealing. Keep in mind that the grill portion takes up about 2/3 of the cooktop, which can swallow valuable space for fitting a large skillet or pot. Coleman’s Cascade 3-in-1 solves that problem with both burners and removable grill/griddle accessories. Similarly, stoves like the Camp Chef Explorer allow you to swap out accessory tops, including a barbecue box or pizza oven.