Thread: Stove and gas supply for expedition camping

Personally I use a Coleman 2 burner stove. Runs on unleaded or Coleman fuel. Never had a problem getting unleaded fuel anywhere.

HTH

Ivan

I second the Coleman dual fuel stoves for what you want.

Isn't a petrol-burning stove smelly when carried inside the vehicle?

Originally Posted by popotla

Isn't a petrol-burning stove smelly when carried inside the vehicle?

No more than other types of stoves unless you spilled some fuel on it. In which case you could burn it off before you pack up.

By the way, I'm another vote for a two-burner dual-fuel Coleman stove.

I have one of those stoves that use the "Korea gas," but about the only place I can find the fuel canisters for it here in the States is at an Asian grocery store. I bought it when I lived in Taiwan where those canisters are much more common.

More votes for the Coleman 2 burner Dual Fuel, they are absolutely the way to go. They are just brilliant. It's simple, very effective and the fuel is available everywhere. We travelled around the world with one, used it everyday for 18months and it didn't miss a beat. We carried a jerry of unleaded as we were unsure of the supply but everywhere has it now and our jerry would have lasted us months and months.

It was stored in the 110 with ll our other gear and we never smelt it, mind you sometimes it was a long while between showers so there were lots of other smells in the truck.

Happy travels. Cheers, LandieMan

Just thought I'd mention the Coleman Dual Fuel stove in case you glossed over the above replies! Had mine for a year now, great stove!

I seventh Coleman dual fueal stoves.

However ..... we use two of the small single burner "hiking" style ones rather than the traditional big twin burner.
I find it's more versatile as I can locate the burners where I like. ( ie spread apart to fit a big wok, bring closer together to fit a couple of billies ).
Heat output, fuel usage etc is just the same as the twin burner. They do have smaller area to balance the pots on but you get used to that.
For the quick cuppa we can just unpack one stove, give it a few pumps and we're boiled in 2 minutes.
The great thing is they will fit inside the billy, ( if you have the right sized billy ) so it makes it very compact for transport.
And if the pump mechanism or fuel vaporising thingy packs up ( as can happen ) you've still got the other one.

Another piece of advice ...best to run them on shellite or the Coleman fuel and run on unleaded only if you can't get either of those.

Me to

Coleman stoves are fantastic. while your at it look at the colman lanterns as well. Had mine for 20 + years never a drama and only have to carry a small amount of fuel that does both the cooking and lighting.

I went away with six people for 2 weeks and had the only stove and lights, 3 meals a day 2 lanterns at night and the 5 litre fuel container was still had about a quarter full!

Andrew