Unlike our main and upgrade pick (both of which are classic two-burner stoves), the FireDisc has a single burner with the pan included. It’s ideal for cooking large, one-pan meals for big groups of campers. 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. But with its large, three-way windscreen, a hookup for a big propane bottle, and a 40,000 Btu output , the Mountaineer lets you do more in the way of high-heat cooking than our other picks.
Comes with the plastic style coleman camp stove cap and neoprene pump cup. A good cast iron grill/griddle can run anywhere from $25 to $100. This stove comes with two to support all kinds of cooking. (Don’t forget to treat your cast iron!) If you know you’ll use this stove and the cast iron grill and griddles, then it’s still a great buy.
With our Fix app, you always have a personalized repair guide on-hand. Easily find manuals and replacement parts on your phone while you’re DIYing in the garage or garden. This is a genuine OEM Coleman pump cup used with gas lanterns. This neoprene rubber part is used inside the air pump. The pump plunger fits through the hole in this pump cup, which then fits inside the pump itself.
Add to that the star feature of this stove — cast iron pot supports and two cast iron attachments — and you’ve got a winner. For straightforward camp meals and smaller groups, this stove is a great budget option. In our fuel efficiency test, the Classic ranked in the middle of the pack when compared to others in our review. Setup and operation are both simple, and you can disassemble everything when you’re finished.
Most of the stoves we reviewed were over 10,000 BTU’s, but as discussed earlier this can be a little misleading for the Duel Fuel. It doesn’t have quite the surface area as some of the other stoves as well. If you are looking for a stove that will accommodate 2 large pans you may want to check out the Camp Chef Everest or Stansport Outfitter. You will save a little money on fuel vs the propane stoves and the flame control is very comparable to some of the other table top stoves. On-the-go cooking just got a little easier with the Coleman® Butane Stove. With an ultra-portable design and the included carry case – this grill is ready whenever you are.
We would also like to examine -burner butane designs—similar to what you’d find at some Korean restaurants—such as the Kovea Cube and the Iwatani 35FW Butane Stove. 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.
Here’s how the Wirecutter crew gets creative with fireside cooking when we’re car camping, from tools we use to our favorite recipes. The Stansport Boulder Series 2-Burner Propane Stove disappointed us with its overall build quality and terrible low-temperature control. Over the years we’ve had wildly variable results from similar Stansport stoves. Another close Stansport model, the Regulated Propane Stove, was once an upgrade pick but is now plagued by stock issues.
I later realized that what they meant was that once you set the burner at a certain setting, it will not fluctuate, which I found to be true on my stove. I was able to reduce the flame to make over easy eggs, which will never be possible over a roaring fire. Not the best simmerer on the market, but definitely able.
While we appreciate the low profile of this stove, none of the compact two-burner models are obscene in their weight or packed size. Portability probably won’t be a make-or-break issue for most car campers. For obvious reasons, though, the single-burner options are much lighter and more comfortable to carry, and the freestanding stoves are a bear to haul around. The Classic hits a sweet spot right smack in the middle.