If you’re unsure which fuel is the best for your need, drop by your local Ace and one of our experts will be happy to help you find exactly what you need. Charting which years any particular Coleman® stove was made is a never-ending process. The company began marking lanterns with date information in the mid-1960s. To learn how stoves are date-marked, please refer to our How-to section on dating appliances. She has been writing about hiking, running, climbing, camping, skiing, and more for seven years, and has been on staff at GearJunkie since 2019.
Initially, to get a baseline for each stove’s general performance, we focused on how quickly they could boil water (similar to the process of many of the sites listed above). For the three that couldn’t, we
stopped the test at 15 minutes and recorded the temperature of the water. Stoves with 9,000 to 15,000 BTUs will get the job done, but you’ll notice slower boil times and a drop in cooking performance.
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.
Smaller units, like the Coleman Triton, can only fit two 10-inch pans. If you regularly use larger pots or pans, it’s worth digging into this spec closely before making a purchase (most manufacturers and retails will publish the dimensions). Alternatively,
if your stove will be your first purchase, make sure the cookware you buy will fit on your unit’s cook surface. It’s no coincidence most of the big-time sellers come with two burners—they’re all the vast majority of us will ever need.
I always release the pressure after it cools, starts better next time. The Peak remains my first choice winter emergency stove and lives in my car when the Scottish winter descends. It has been called into action many times to provide sustenance, to myself and to unlucky, or ill-equipped travellers, on snow-bound roads and in makeshift overnight shelters. I`ve used my Coleman Eventemp 3 burner stove on a few different trips over the last year and I have had nothing but good luck with it. This genuine Coleman replacement part is used with liquid fuel lanterns.
This Model 526 unfired military heating unit came with the shipping box and is date stamped A (we believe for Jan-Mar) 1943. There are no military markings on the stove or box and we don’t know the origin or purpose of the metal tags on the operating parts. Get the best of the basics with Coleman ovens and Coleman grills. Cook up breakfast, lunch and dinner on the go or heat up your favorite camp coffees with portable Coleman stove parts.
And although this arrangement removes wind protection, it lends a little more flexibility when you’re cooking for a crowd in a sheltered spot. We wanted to know how fast each stove could bring one liter of water to a boil (203 degrees F at around 4,500′). For stoves with two burners, we also measured the time to bring one liter of water to a boil with both burners on high. However, we did like how much easier the butane canister was to attach than twist-on propane canisters.
This straightforward, rugged two-burner stove cooks food quickly and evenly. And it’s less than half the price of other stoves we tested. The two-burner, propane-burning Coleman Classic won our Best Value award for being more versatile. But if all you need is a simple, compact, and inexpensive single burner for heating water and basic meals, the Gas One is a solid choice and an excellent value. The wind screens are virtually identical to the Classic, so we think its poor performance in wind is due to its slim design, which leaves the burners sitting higher and more exposed to the wind.
The Classic consumed an average of 5.18% of a green Coleman fuel can or 0.8 ounces of fuel during each test. During the windy test, it consumed 1 ounce of fuel, and in the wind-less test, it used 0.6 ounces of fuel. Out of all our tested stoves, this one ranked in the upper third of the windy fuel test. This stove is likely more fuel efficient owing to the lower output 10,000 BTU burners and the snug windscreens. If conserving fuel (and saving money!) matters more than a quick boil time, this could be an ideal stove for you. 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.