This is the best way to think about Coleman’s new Cascade and 1900 series 3-in-1 stoves. After playing around with interesting designs in stove shape, burner design, and power, as well as cooking coleman stove surfaces, Coleman is coming back around to where it started. Its newest stoves look much like the classics from the 1950s and before (which are still much sought after in the used market).
It includes a bronze lacquered Everdur tank and Band-A-Blu burners. The pump handle has a locking pin; the left valve wheel slides out of the case for turning. This Coleman Model 140 three burner Bungalow Cooker is an early stove model made from 1923 through August, 1927. The 5″ center burner is identical to that of a Handy Gas Plant, as is the generator & fuel control. This early Coleman Model 2 stove has wire legs as on Model 1 stoves above but it also has the offset pump and air inlet valve screw in the left end of the tank as on the Model 1(not shown here). The most unusual feature on this stove, in Alex Swanson’s collection, are the latches to hold the case shut (lower image) that fold open to unlatch the stove and hold the oven when tilted back.
For the BioLite CampStove 2 and the Camp Chef Explorer, we performed the tests outside on a mostly windless day. The 3 Watt USB charger was able to give a phone about a 5% boost in 15 minutes. I’ve found that the following 32-ounce coleman stove can is a convenient size for most people and situations. That would be almost exactly one gallon if you did that for a week (lets say your camping for example). GearLab is founded on the principle of honest, objective, reviews.
The lower image shows the locking pin on the pump handle that was a feature of this pair of models. Coleman in Wichita continued to make Model 9 in the early 1930’s. This 9E, in Jim MacDougall’s collection, is instant lighting. The fuel valve wheel is tilted upwards in the end of the tank because the fuel air assembly is straight so it reaches the bottom of the tank. Model 454 is an instant lighting Utility Burner that is similar to the 456 Soldering Furnace, and dates to the late 1920’s – early 1930’s. The utility burner is finished in brown Colac paint; the collar has the original brown paint.
The fuel tank on the Coleman stove is 40-ounces and the largest MSR bottle is 30-ounces, so two of the bottles should be sufficient for even weeklong camping trips. It’s smaller than a Coleman, and is super effective for its compact size. I only started cooking on this grill this winter, and have been impressed by its performance in below-freezing temperatures (no issues with the instant ignite in the cold either). Its griddle heats up quickly and evenly, and the stove is easy to clean on the spot. The Triton’s he dual burners each pump out 11,000 BTUs of power, and they can boil water at full blast or be dialed down for simmering.
Joe notes that the left grate is nearly identical to the center grate on the Bungalow Cooker above. Model 552 differs from 5052 above because it has a Blue Flame Preheater (Stendahl). By opening the black fiber knob on the right (lower coleman stove image) fuel will fill the reservoir on the preheater. A central air passage allows the burning fuel to heat the generator. This Handy Gas Plant, in Glenn Knapke’s collection, is labeled Coleman Lamp Co. so was made no later than 1927.
This stove is great for the most committed car-camping gourmets, but for most campers, its cost and durability are overkill. On average it took around four minutes to get a couple cups of water to boil, but on windy days that was sometimes doubled. The Original FireDisc Portable Propane Cooker has a wonderfully simple design consisting of a heavy carbon-steel disc, measuring 22 inches across, that sits on a set of two interlocked steel legs.