Camping stove

[StoatInACoat]

Like the new section - closet camper here and will get up a picture of my herd of tents in the appropriate thread shortly!

Sadly on our last expedition to Oulton Park our stove, 4.5kg gas can, regulator and, bizarrely, kettle (which was as old as me ) were "liberated" from our gay-zee-bo while we were watching the racing by some scumbag.

Owing to the nature of its departure I'm disinclined to spend the required zillions replacing all the bits and bobs. To replace the gas bottle (to hire another one) seems to cost nearly £50 on its own for example! Add a tenner for the regulator and £30 for the stove and it starts becoming an expensive weekend

I was looking at this thing on ebay:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/330741960734?ssPageName=...

But it runs on the cans I use in my lantern? Is this how people do it now and am I behind the times lugging my huge rusty can of butane about? I assumed that this setup would be a costly way to burn gas and the cartridges wouldn't last long but anybodies experiences would be much appreciated of similar setups

[StoatInACoat]

We're used to using a two ring job like the one in my link with a 4.5kg butane bottle. Not touching a trangia - been there, done that as a boy scout. Rather run out of gas than have one of those with fuel leaking everywhere in a bag, falling over and burning everything down etc. We cook under canvas as well so not something I'd consider using.

The setup we had before was perfectly adequate I just don't fancy the replacement cost of a proper butane bottle and what I had seems to be able to run off these things with the right regulator.

http://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/campingaz-gaz-cv470-ca...

We use the whole lot about 5 or 6 times a season for between 3 and 7 people at any one time so it gets a fair bit of use. We have a heater thing that takes the cartridges as someone linked above but that eats about 1-2 of those a night if the missus is particularly cold and/or drying wet clothes. Although they're cheapish when only using that a couple of times a year that's quite a rate to go through them if cooking all the time I'd have thought? Or does a stove use less?

[StoatInACoat]

tenohfive said:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Campingaz-Camping-Duo-Plus...

I've got that. Those Camping Gaz bottles are sold everywhere (including my local supermarket), can be taken off half full and are dirt cheap. Simple design too. That stove cooked meals for 5 in a field in the Lake District last year quite happily. It needs to be out of the wind to be any good but that was never really an issue for us.

Now I just need to order the single version for a wild camping.

That's the sort of thing I was thinking. How long does the gas last?

[StoatInACoat]

Blimey. I use the bigger version of that on my lantern. That gives me a far better idea of gas consumption than hours to be honest so thanks for that - way better than I was expecting.

And thanks Odie for linking that big one. Didn't even know you could get those! Looks much more viable than replacing my trusty rusty bd thing that never fitted anywhere in the car anyway.