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Hey folks, downsized back to tents this summer and am looking for a small camp stove for the table top. Any brands and models that seem to be the best value? Don't want something too big to pack. Is one brand as good as the next?
Hey folks, downsized back to tents this summer and am looking for a small camp stove for the table top. Any brands and models that seem to be the best value? Don't want something too big to pack. Is one brand as good as the next?
The camping stoves are like socks, all personal choices based on one's own likes and dislikes.
We have always used Coleman and have not looked at any other brand.
I have always used Colemans. They last a LONG time (decades) if cared for it seems. My last one was only replaced because I carelessly lost the bottle attachment hose... but I bet the stove itself was 15+. My current one has a dozen camping trips on it already, but is like new.
dual fuel coleman serves very well.
Actually for a while I had an adaptor to use propane as well on the gasoline stove worked just fine.
I like options.
I don't think I have actually ever used up all the gasoline in the tank ,on an outing.
I like the stability of the coleman 2 burner stove better than singles . Plus the lid offers shielding while your cooking ,which reduces cooking time .Wind is not your friend.
I prefer the Coleman that uses white gas, or Coleman Fuel. They always work when propane stoves won't work because of the cold temperature. I have both kinds of Coleman Stoves, and I have the propane adapter for my white gas stove, but I've never used it yet. We camp in a 5th wheel trailer, but quite a bit of the cooking I do when we are camping in done either on a small BBQ grill, in a Dutch Oven, or over an open fire. About the only thing I use the stove inside the 5th wheel for is coffee early in the morning, or course we use it more when the temp is really low. I also have a Camp Chef propane 2 burner cook stove, but both of the Coleman's are lighter in weight and easier to move around, so they are used the most.
I'm still using the Coleman white gas cook stove that I bought in '67. Geeeeezzzz! That's 47 years, and it still works like new. At the same time I also got the Coleman white gas lantern and a Colman cooler. We still use all of 'em regularly, although the cookstove is used less because we sometimes use the stove in the camper, the campfire or a grill.
Once I was bucking a headwind headed west across Iowa on I-80, not paying attention to the fuel gauge. Ran it dry!
No problem. Went back in the camper and got the can of Coleman fuel, dumped it into the gas tank and motored on to the next gas station. (Couldn't do that now, however, since we made the switch to diesel.)
The great thing about Coleman stoves- you can by most any year, any vintage (esp the liquid stoves) and with a little patience and a few hand tools you can rebuild it to run like new again.
Same with their lanterns, single burner stoves etc.. Good stuff.
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