Solid info in this video. Not mentioned in this list, but if You are not sure yet about Your future outdoor activities, I would recommend to start with a trangia due to versatility - not the best choice for any activity, but good enough for everything. Otherwise I would choose the tiny stove for hiking due to weight, a gasoline stove like the dragonfly for motorcycle travel (for the convenience of refilling both vehicle and stove together at the gas station and for having the fuel bottle as emergency gas tank for the motorbike ), the biolite for bicycle and kayak for charging the phone ability, and whatever-I-own-anyway for car camping.
Awesome video, thank you so much! My wife and I want to start getting into more backpack camping as we have mainly been car camping. Really intuitive and lots of info. Moving on to the in depth videos on a couple of these 😁
You're welcome! Glad to hear you found it useful. Let us know if you have any feedback. Always trying to make these video reviews the best they can be!
About dragonfly. I do confirm it'll work on aviation fuel. I'm in a military and currently deployed. I'm running this stove to make coffee and using jp8 fuel. Works cleaner than diesel but dirtier than regular kerosene.
Mostly good information and not a bad selection except one choice. I don't understand why people still push the Dragonfly in this age. It was great when it came out and has name backing but there are plenty of stoves out there that have the same features but pack smaller. One example from MSR would be the Whisperlite which is available in multifuel and canister. Also, you might have mentioned some of the newer multifuel stoves available that can do liquid and canister. While bigger than a canister top stove, they tend to be more stable because the canister is remote. Also, while there are plenty of remote canister stoves, a multifuel version has the vaporizer built-in so you can invert the canister in cold weather along with being able to use different liquid fuels.
easy the whisper gets so much soot everywhere vs the dragon or xgk and it has about the same flame control as the xgk while the dragon can actually dial it in quite easy. If your complaint is noise get a berniedawg cap for it. Out of the 3 im bringing my dragonfly 1st and then my xgk as a extra if im cooking more than one pot. each one has pro/cons just figure out what your needs are.
Whisperlite has one Superpower...it is quieter but the Dragonfly has much more flame control. I would group the Whisperlite with the XGK but not as good in several areas. The XGK has quicker and better priming and can burn more fuels. The priming on a Whisperlite should be done with alcohol to avoid soot as you don't have any containing cup to protect the burner and this also means more sensitive to wind both during priming and during normal operation.
Well, it really depends. There are different sizes available (the bigger the canister, the heavier it is and the longer you can use it). Price, it really depends on where you live, but they go from around $5 (100gr) to $11 (450gr) more or less.
If you plane to camp in rural\wild areas lots of time, you can't beat gasoline. Much cheaper, versatile, and easier to get. Avoid if possible high octane fuels, and kerosine (dirt).
I've been using a stove similar to the BRS one you review here and am having trouble when the Temps drop into the mid to low 30's with losing pressure. I'm going to buy a new one with a pressure regulator(probably the pocket rocket deluxe) and am wondering how the regulator works. Is it automatic or something I need to adjust while cooking? Also, will it help when my canister is getting low? My current stove really starts to suffer when fuel gets low even though there is clearly fuel left.
It's not your stove that's the problem. It's the fuel! Butane does not work well in cold temperatures. Add any high elevation and it gets worse. Isobutane is a combination of Butane and propane and is designed to help mitigate the temperature issues, but what happens is the propane burns off quicker leaving no pressure left. There are ways to get around these issues basically by keeping the canister warm. If you are regularly in those temperatures I would suggest looking at a stove designed for liquid fuel. There are a number of them that can still use canisters but the design has a heater tube to help vaporize the fuel. This allows you to run the fuel canister upside down in liquid mode. A couple things to know - not all remote canister stoves can do that and it would be significantly bigger than the canister mounted stove.
Ali have affordable omnifuel stoves that do the job. Big brands mostly do money from air. Just give your stove amount of work at home. Learn if it have weakpoints, how things work how to reassemble\fix\clean before your trip to mountains at winter). Know your gear, be sane, and all be ok.
Love the fact that the video is about 2022 stoves and is 20:22 minutes long 🤩
Solid info in this video.
Not mentioned in this list, but if You are not sure yet about Your future outdoor activities, I would recommend to start with a trangia due to versatility - not the best choice for any activity, but good enough for everything.
Otherwise I would choose the tiny stove for hiking due to weight, a gasoline stove like the dragonfly for motorcycle travel (for the convenience of refilling both vehicle and stove together at the gas station and for having the fuel bottle as emergency gas tank for the motorbike ), the biolite for bicycle and kayak for charging the phone ability, and whatever-I-own-anyway for car camping.
Awesome video, thank you so much! My wife and I want to start getting into more backpack camping as we have mainly been car camping. Really intuitive and lots of info. Moving on to the in depth videos on a couple of these 😁
You're welcome! Glad to hear you found it useful. Let us know if you have any feedback. Always trying to make these video reviews the best they can be!
About dragonfly. I do confirm it'll work on aviation fuel. I'm in a military and currently deployed. I'm running this stove to make coffee and using jp8 fuel. Works cleaner than diesel but dirtier than regular kerosene.
Thanks. Real good.
I'm asking myself if buying a biolight was a good investment as there is no aftercare service can't buy spare parts etc a bit disappointing if say
Yes it works well but no backup service
Mostly good information and not a bad selection except one choice. I don't understand why people still push the Dragonfly in this age. It was great when it came out and has name backing but there are plenty of stoves out there that have the same features but pack smaller. One example from MSR would be the Whisperlite which is available in multifuel and canister.
Also, you might have mentioned some of the newer multifuel stoves available that can do liquid and canister. While bigger than a canister top stove, they tend to be more stable because the canister is remote. Also, while there are plenty of remote canister stoves, a multifuel version has the vaporizer built-in so you can invert the canister in cold weather along with being able to use different liquid fuels.
easy the whisper gets so much soot everywhere vs the dragon or xgk and it has about the same flame control as the xgk while the dragon can actually dial it in quite easy. If your complaint is noise get a berniedawg cap for it. Out of the 3 im bringing my dragonfly 1st and then my xgk as a extra if im cooking more than one pot. each one has pro/cons just figure out what your needs are.
Whisperlite has one Superpower...it is quieter but the Dragonfly has much more flame control. I would group the Whisperlite with the XGK but not as good in several areas. The XGK has quicker and better priming and can burn more fuels. The priming on a Whisperlite should be done with alcohol to avoid soot as you don't have any containing cup to protect the burner and this also means more sensitive to wind both during priming and during normal operation.
Jetboil is usually my choice in about 70 % of conditions!
I have to buy a new stove for parts and I'm not doing that
Why no love for primus or Optimus? The Optimus Polaris are probably the best all around burner, it does it all.
It is a good stove. I have the Optimus Nova...I think it is better than the Dragonfly in several areas but I have the Dragonfly also...love them both.
How much does a butane canister cost, weight and use rate? Can you combine for weight/cost?
Well, it really depends. There are different sizes available (the bigger the canister, the heavier it is and the longer you can use it). Price, it really depends on where you live, but they go from around $5 (100gr) to $11 (450gr) more or less.
If you plane to camp in rural\wild areas lots of time, you can't beat gasoline. Much cheaper, versatile, and easier to get. Avoid if possible high octane fuels, and kerosine (dirt).
I've been using a stove similar to the BRS one you review here and am having trouble when the Temps drop into the mid to low 30's with losing pressure. I'm going to buy a new one with a pressure regulator(probably the pocket rocket deluxe) and am wondering how the regulator works. Is it automatic or something I need to adjust while cooking? Also, will it help when my canister is getting low? My current stove really starts to suffer when fuel gets low even though there is clearly fuel left.
It's not your stove that's the problem. It's the fuel! Butane does not work well in cold temperatures. Add any high elevation and it gets worse. Isobutane is a combination of Butane and propane and is designed to help mitigate the temperature issues, but what happens is the propane burns off quicker leaving no pressure left.
There are ways to get around these issues basically by keeping the canister warm.
If you are regularly in those temperatures I would suggest looking at a stove designed for liquid fuel. There are a number of them that can still use canisters but the design has a heater tube to help vaporize the fuel. This allows you to run the fuel canister upside down in liquid mode. A couple things to know - not all remote canister stoves can do that and it would be significantly bigger than the canister mounted stove.
I don't think they have any customer service I tried no response at all
Trangia
You can't buy replacement parts
Ali have affordable omnifuel stoves that do the job. Big brands mostly do money from air. Just give your stove amount of work at home. Learn if it have weakpoints, how things work how to reassemble\fix\clean before your trip to mountains at winter). Know your gear, be sane, and all be ok.
You forgot alcohol stoves.