Camping Stoves & stuff

[Cougar Allen]

Now we know what kind of camping you'll be doing, go with Sid Post's recommendation.

You could get by with a two-burner and disposable propane tanks if you're short of money but Sid's setup is far superior and not much of an investment considering how useful it is. You'll even use it at home, when you have a barbecue and want to cook a pot of something too, and you can use it on the road with the family when you go on vacation -- and you'll have it for power outages, hurricanes, whatever.

In addition to that you and the boy might want to build an alcohol stove just for fun -- or build several different designs and see which boils a pint of water the fastest and figure out why that one is hotter than the others.

 

[TiberiusBkirk]

Would you use something like this? Much cleaner than a coleman and up to 2.5 hrs per canister.
http://www.iwatani.com/asp/w_product/Product.asp?ProductID=35

 

[Sid Post]

On cookware for the car campers, the Lewis and Clark dutch ovens by CampChef are worth consideration. Lodge is good cookware but, the CampChef gets the nod from me for its novelty factor and appeal to the kids with the historic link. Sure it's only car camping but, a little historical reflection is good too.

 

[spyder8]

first you need to figure out if you want a backpacking stove or a camp stove. then would need to find out what fuel you will use. for camp stoves i reccomend propane, but for backpacking i reccomend white gas or dual fuel/multi fuel. look at the coleman peak feather or MSR whisper lite or simmer lite for a good white gas stove. dont get the apex that is the worst stove i have ever used, 2 flame control valves, non-standard threaded fuel bottle, low btu, many small parts, easly gets clogged

 

[Hotrod]

Any of these stoves run on diesel/heating oil? I've got a lot of that around, be nice to have a decent one for a SHTF situation.

 

[Sid Post]

Any of these stoves run on diesel/heating oil? I've got a lot of that around, be nice to have a decent one for a SHTF situation.

The backpacker style International models often support Kerosene with some including Diesel. Diesel is so nasty, that I wouldn't want to mess with the maintance myself unless I had no choice.

A Kerosun heater would work in colder climates but, a home cooking style stove I haven't seen. YMMV

 

[Hotrod]

Thanks sid!

I'll have to do some more checking... wonder if an old primus or something similar would run on it?

 

[Bob W]

Based on the style of "camping" you have in mind, I change my recommendation to the large propane stoves. Simple, durable, inexpensive to buy and use, and large enough to cook for a group or cook multiple items.

-Bob