Gear review: Multi-fuel stoves

[Paul Webster]

Gone are the days when backpackers had to choose between the convenience of stoves powered by gas canisters and the cold weather performance and fuel availability of liquid fuel stoves.

Phil Turner takes a look at the latest generation of stoves that work with both types of fuel in his latest gear comparison review.

I reckon that the new breed of stove that can take isobutane/propane gas canisters as well as liquid fuels such as white gas could change the way backpackers view stoves forever....

Read the full multi-fuel stoves review

[mrssanta]

oh no, something else to add to the must-have list!! I think we must have 9 or 10 different stoves/kettles etc in our house.

[alasdairwalden]

When travelling in southern Greece and Turkey a few years ago the difficulty of obtaining gas cylinders of the screw valve variety made using liquid fuel stoves unavoidable. The main problem I had with this was not technological but human. To get the fuel bottles through customs, especially on the return trip, would require a time consuming process of repeated washing and rinsing, often in the airport toilets, in order to remove all smell of petrol before they would pass customs control.