> > The next best bet are the simple propane stoves that take the screw-on bottle. Anywhere from $15 - $30 apiece. Simpler to operate, simmer well, cheap, but you wind up carrying heavy cylinders. Yes, such cylinders are heavy (usually green Coleman ones, but those longer blue ones from welding departmments also work - same gas, same thread, different shape of canister). Although, who cares about 1.5 lb cylinder in a kayak? No, they don't simmer well. At least non-brand name that I used (Escort?), but Coleman $25 screw-on-top single-burner appears to have same narrow-band regulator. Another feature that I don't like in them, is that it is difficult to arrange wind screen around the burner lifted high above the ground. Altogether it was the reason to switch to Primus Easyfuel with its own supporting legs, good pre-heating system, wider range regulator, and built-in ignitor. Wind screen should not be placed so that ignitor would be between the screen and pot - reflected heat will melt its plastic housing. It is easier to simmer with a good windscreen. My other, perhaps less important, reason to switch to Primus was that it fits inside GSI "hard anodized aluminum boiler": http://www.campmor.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?memberId=125 00226&productId=25030137 *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Dec 09 2004 - 17:00:22 PST
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