Thread: Stoves

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

We have always had a gas stove...one of the marine types...excellent.

Numpty decided to give the Coleman ULP stove a go so we bought one. Now I do the majority of the cooking so I told him we would hang onto the gas stove until I decided if I liked it...well...we are still using the gas stove!!

I could never get the flame adjustment right. I found that the second burner was not hot enough.I don't think there was any fault with the stove, but that I just could not operate it properly to get the best out of it. Too damned fiddly pumping and whatever. So...I guess its going to be up to the cook in the end eh?

So we swapped the Coleman Stove for a set of Rhino rack watercraft carriers with a mate and he was happy with the stove and we are happy with the canoe carriers


Oh yeah...and the one time we tried doing toast on it...it had a faint petrol flavour!!

NM my wife has the same trubble with the Coleman ULP too. ( pumping and getting flame adjustment right ). I don't have any problems with it - is this a men come from mars women come from venus thing ?

OK, given that a lot of you still prefer the gas stove, can someone recommend a better brand and model than the crummy Companion we have been putting up with for the last year or so.

the design is over 70 years old and works well

l have 2 x 3 burner colemans bought them from trading post $100 piece

The 3 burner enables you to have 1 burner for kettle for coffee tea hot water or pot for veggies and 2 burners under a metal bbq plate for cooking meat sausages onions mushrooms etc.

Can use all 3 burners for things like fry pans, pots, kettles and pressure cookers

Also have the Coleman collaspible oven which allows for meat chicken veggie roasts or baking cakes or bread

Had a 2 burner coleman in my slide out draw in the camper trailer for cooking

Fuel shellite is a proprietary brand name of shell for lighter fluid if you go to any other petroleum station can get chemical equilivent from memory BP sold it as white solvent about 1/4 price of shellite in 20 litre can.

Coleman ULP heat is something like 30000 BTU compared to gas 11000 btu so you cook faster with less fuel.

Fuel in jerry can can be 10 litre or 20 litre and easier to store than gas bottle and easier to refuel when out.

Also have the coleman ulp lanterns whioch put out best light for camping and when staying in huts also generates heat

Never had problem in 20 year plus with coleman stoves

We have a coleman dual fuel stove and like it. It seems like a good thing and burns hot.

Originally Posted by martin r

OK, given that a lot of you still prefer the gas stove, can someone recommend a better brand and model than the crummy Companion we have been putting up with for the last year or so.

Coleman gas stoves are pretty good too.Their burners are designed so you can take apart and clean out if necesssary and you can get parts if needed. Thier gas stoves also have a proper regulator.

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

We have always had a gas stove...one of the marine types...excellent.

Numpty decided to give the Coleman ULP stove a go so we bought one. Now I do the majority of the cooking so I told him we would hang onto the gas stove until I decided if I liked it...well...we are still using the gas stove!!

I could never get the flame adjustment right. I found that the second burner was not hot enough.I don't think there was any fault with the stove, but that I just could not operate it properly to get the best out of it. Too damned fiddly pumping and whatever. So...I guess its going to be up to the cook in the end eh?

So we swapped the Coleman Stove for a set of Rhino rack watercraft carriers with a mate and he was happy with the stove and we are happy with the canoe carriers


Oh yeah...and the one time we tried doing toast on it...it had a faint petrol flavour!!

yeh, i wondered about that??

I run my Coleman on Shellite not ULP. Burns very clean and is a far better stove than my Coleman Gas one was. The ULP or Shellite also puts out a lot more heat than gas so you need to adjust you cooking a bit. Wouldn't swap it for anything else.

Why Shellite? I drive diesels, 2 litres of Shellite will last for a hell of a long time, I can always switch to ULP if I need to. I carry a 1.5L aluminium fuel bottle with the stove tank so that's enough fuel for several weeks at 3 meals a day.

Originally Posted by dm_td5

I run my Coleman on Shellite not ULP. Burns very clean and is a far better stove than my Coleman Gas one was. The ULP or Shellite also puts out a lot more heat than gas so you need to adjust you cooking a bit. Wouldn't swap it for anything else.

Why Shellite? I drive diesels, 2 litres of Shellite will last for a hell of a long time, I can always switch to ULP if I need to. I carry a 1.5L aluminium fuel bottle with the stove tank so that's enough fuel for several weeks at 3 meals a day.

WOW I don't get that long out of mine?? I'f I'm going away for a week I'd take a couple of litres with me