06-12-2018, 11:13 AM
Does the stove allow a very low flame for simmering?
I have a MSR multifuel backpacking stove some 20 years old, and in South Africa and a few other locations had to use gasoline, leaded gas and while at full blast it was awesome and fast, it could not really do the low and slow thing, and as low and slow as it could, required low pressure and a fine touch on the throttle, and a half pump every so often to maintain that lower bottle pressure.
'White gas' while it burns so much cleaner, would still have seemingly weightless flakes of carbon float away form the stove after shutdown and could leave black streaks on anything they landed on and then touched. The other fuels were much worse in this regard, especially kerosene which was the easiest fuel to purchase retail back then in those countries.
In other countries asking for camping fuel or white gas yielded furrowed eyebrows and looks of befuddlement. I am pretty sure white gas is just Naptha, buut I did not know this back then.
I still use my MSR stove, when my propane runs out mid meal cooking, but the gasoline in the bottle is some 10+ years old. as I had no siphon and my tanks does not really allow siphonng, I disconnected the line at my external fuel filter, stuck it in the cannister and was turning the key on and off and the fuel pump was filling it, 3 seconds at a time.
Its not always simple to extract gasahol from ones fuel tank to fill one of these multifuel stoves. Do not think that a siple siphon will do it, as many/most have a check valve preventing it, mainly designed to prevent the tank from draining in the event of a rollover.
But propane is not cheap and the green bottles are now somethng like 9$ for 2 of them in my Home Despot, and getting 20Lb propane tank to refill them with is some 60$ initially then ~25 for each refill, and one needs a place to carry that large unwieldy tank.
At least coleman white gas comes in a rectangular container, though it is not really cheap either.
I hate the waste and expense of the green propane bottles, but I do not fear cooking inside or have to take many precautions. I use a single burner propane stove, one that rests on the green bottle itself and enjoy not havnig to prime it or deal with the floaty carbon flakes of the MSR stove on cooldown.
I have a MSR multifuel backpacking stove some 20 years old, and in South Africa and a few other locations had to use gasoline, leaded gas and while at full blast it was awesome and fast, it could not really do the low and slow thing, and as low and slow as it could, required low pressure and a fine touch on the throttle, and a half pump every so often to maintain that lower bottle pressure.
'White gas' while it burns so much cleaner, would still have seemingly weightless flakes of carbon float away form the stove after shutdown and could leave black streaks on anything they landed on and then touched. The other fuels were much worse in this regard, especially kerosene which was the easiest fuel to purchase retail back then in those countries.
In other countries asking for camping fuel or white gas yielded furrowed eyebrows and looks of befuddlement. I am pretty sure white gas is just Naptha, buut I did not know this back then.
I still use my MSR stove, when my propane runs out mid meal cooking, but the gasoline in the bottle is some 10+ years old. as I had no siphon and my tanks does not really allow siphonng, I disconnected the line at my external fuel filter, stuck it in the cannister and was turning the key on and off and the fuel pump was filling it, 3 seconds at a time.
Its not always simple to extract gasahol from ones fuel tank to fill one of these multifuel stoves. Do not think that a siple siphon will do it, as many/most have a check valve preventing it, mainly designed to prevent the tank from draining in the event of a rollover.
But propane is not cheap and the green bottles are now somethng like 9$ for 2 of them in my Home Despot, and getting 20Lb propane tank to refill them with is some 60$ initially then ~25 for each refill, and one needs a place to carry that large unwieldy tank.
At least coleman white gas comes in a rectangular container, though it is not really cheap either.
I hate the waste and expense of the green propane bottles, but I do not fear cooking inside or have to take many precautions. I use a single burner propane stove, one that rests on the green bottle itself and enjoy not havnig to prime it or deal with the floaty carbon flakes of the MSR stove on cooldown.
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