It’s not quite as powerful or refined, but it’s still budget-friendly and now includes a rotary ignition, too. The Cascade wind shields are not as large as the original Classic wind shields. They still retain the adjustable wire clips that let you adjust angle,
which is a benefit. With all our different types of camping, I don`t use it a lot every year, usually just 2-4 trips, but it seems as though it should last me as long as I want to keep using it. Finally, set up and clean up on this stove was incredibly easy.
The burners are coated in black paint that burned off in the first few uses, producing a pretty awful smell and staining the bottoms of the pots we were using. It wasn’t a major long-term issue, but it was definitely an unpleasant surprise the first couple times we fired up the stove. While we loved the ability to
cook over extremely high heat and fine tune the heat settings, this stove has a hard time maintaining a good simmer. It was the most powerful of our tabletop stoves, with two 25,000 BTU end burners and one 10,000 BTU central burner. While it couldn’t match the performance of our other award winners, it’s durable.
Wind is an unfortunate reality when camping, and we wanted to know how well these stoves held up to it. We timed how long each stove took to boil one liter of water while being blasted with a box fan from about two feet away. After boiling water on each stove, we let it cool to 195 degrees, then tested how easily we could hold the water between 195 and 200 F for 5 minutes. We counted how many times the temperature went over or under as well as how many times the stove went out. The Gas One GS-3000 is a simple, inexpensive single-burner camp stove that really surprised us with its functionality.
Cooking outside over an open flame conjures up an ancient, primal sense of accomplishment from deep within. Never mind that I came fully prepared with several cans of propane and a BIC lighter — I still feel like I’m Arthur “Master of the Flame” McMahon when I’m manning the picnic table stovetop. Coleman 426 is a 3 burner model that also dates to the late 1940’s. The controls for the side burners project through holes in each end of the stove case.
The result is a camp stove that’s both classic in design and modern in function. Perfect for those times when trail mix just won’t cut it, the Cascade 18 1-Burner Camping Stove makes it easy to cook great meals outdoors. The detached grate flips 180° so you can store it while unloading the trunk and heading to the campsite. If you’re hiking, you’ll need a stove that will fit snugly into your pack, while campers can get away with something a little bigger, as long as it can slide into the back of your vehicle. Keep in mind how you’ll be using it and whether you can sacrifice cooking surface area for a smaller, easier-to-carry unit.
We like both stoves, and think it really depends if you prefer an automatic ignition or not. The Coleman Triton stove was my kitchen away from home for a 2,000 mile road trip through Oregon, Nevada, and California where my wife and I visited several National Parks and Monuments. Every breakfast and dinner we had during those two weeks was cooked on the Triton’s two burners. Ravioli were boiled to perfection, eggs were made over easy, and sloppy joes were simmered for exactly 30 minutes as per the rules of my mama’s secret recipe. Shop designs with adjustable burners, plenty of sizes and power options, and removable grills for easy cleaning. Wherever you go, Coleman makes it easy to have a great meal.