All you need in order to bake tasty muffin treats on a trek is an ultralight Bobcat system, which weighs less than half a pound, including the pot and a lightweight baking pan. The only weight you’ll have to carry over and above the ultralight cook kit is 3.1 oz (89 g) for a small (4″/10.2 cm) baking pan. You’ll be baking tasty treats in no time!
Before we start, be aware that there are two versions of the Jetbol Sol, an all aluminum version (the “Jetboil Sol”) and a version with a titanium pot with an aluminum heat exchanger (the “Jetboil Sol Ti”). I’ll have a brief weight comparison and some general remarks at the end, but this review focuses on the aluminum version of the Jetboil Sol.
Speaking of fuel, the Soto Muka can burn white gasoline (e.g. Coleman fuel), but unlike most other stoves, the Muka can also burn unleaded gasoline, straight from the gas station, and it can do it cleanly and well. Sure, a lot of stoves claim to burn unleaded gasoline, but realistically, most stoves are going to be degraded by burning unleaded. The Muka is the one backpacking stove that really stands out in this regard.
Attention PocketRocket owners! Time to put that old stove out to pasture and upgrade to the new MicroRocket… Well, maybe not quite, but MSR has[Read More…]
Alcohol stoves seem to be the darling of anyone trying to “lighten up” in terms of their pack weight. Just one problem: There are so many alcohol stoves out there, how can anyone make sense of them all?
Isn’t the Whisperlite already the most successful liquid fueled stove in modern history? And doesn’t MSR have not one but two versions already? Has MSR lost their collective mind? No, not really: There is something new under the sun, something very much worth having: the MSR Whisperlite Universal.
If you’re not blocking the wind, the wind is robbing you. It’s robbing you of fuel and time. You’re going to be burning more fuel, yes the fuel that you carried ounce by precious ounce on your aching back, and here you are just throwing it down the drain, yes, that fuel. And time: You could be done by now but on this windy night your pot hasn’t even begun to boil. Say, you weren’t hungry were you? Oops.
I’ll be eating uncooked freeze dried meals (yuck!). Can I afford to make my morning coffee? Just how much stinkin’ gas do I have left!?
Heat + fuel = KABOOM! You wouldn’t want that, trust me.
Here’s a common question: “It’s cold; will my gas stove work OK?” Well, it depends. The most common gas stove out there is the “upright” canister stove. This is the type of gas stove that screws directly into the top of a standard threaded gas canister. They’re light, they’re compact, and… they don’t handle cold weather well. So, am I out of luck if I’ve got an upright canister stove? Maybe not — if you use a couple of “tricks…”
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