Wish everyone did product reviews like you. Honest, efficient, straight forward with no agenda to make a sale. Honestly the channels I watch are good about being upfront on sponsorships and promoted items, but it's nice to see reviews where I know you are telling me what you think about a product and making a real recommendation either way. It's one of the reasons why your my favorite channel 4 years running. The amazing overnight adventures and other outings don't hurt either. My time in the outdoors has been significantly improved through your sharing advice and knowledge as well as what products are going to make my time outside more enjoyable. Keep up the great work.
I have the original pocket rocket and absolutely love it,hard to think that they made something so perfect even better definitely going to pick one of these up thanks for the video.
I’ve used all kinds for my truck based brew kit, Jetboil, Trangia, Robens micro, but honestly the best was the Webtex warrior (PocketRocket clone). It was such a good stove but today I just got this PocketRocket 2 and it oozes quality. Light, looks great, compact and great value. Got mine here in the U.K. for £25 after a little store discount. Can’t see me needing anything else after this. Keep the vids coming, love em. 👍🏻
Hey, thank you for the review! I bought this stove after watching your review and i'm really happy with it. I was surprised with one thing - a sound. Everyone on youtube talking about how loud this stove is, for me it was like "wow, it is so quiet!". My previous stove was 40 years old soviet gasoline stove - clone of Optimus 8R - this thing was really loud :D
Used mine in a 3 day power outage. Boiled water for coffee and dehydrated meals, but tip, also have small round gridle plate that I use with small disposable aluminum con tainers. Put any food in container, put on gridle, and heat. Eat right out of container and trash!
thanks for review im waiting for mine right now mostly for camping and ice fishing shanty and i like the noise helps keep the coyotes away maybe thanks for all you do and your wife it helps me buy things on a budget i hate wasting money on stuff that dont work
Great review, after having a kovea titanium for many years, it got stolen and then began the upgrade hunt. after much debate my brother got the olicamp kinetic with their ring pot in a buy two for one deal. that thing is pretty damn good. For me the best stove out there. We tested it and found it used bugger all fuel, boiled 500ml in under 3 mins and using their pot reduced boiling and cooking times. we did a 5 night hike cooking pasta and noodles daily and i used half a 200g canister. very impressed. would love to get my hands on one of these to test.
I just received this stove tonight. Bought it from REI with a gift card I had. It is replacing my Pocket Rocket 1. I am very pleased with the quality and efficiency. Everything you say here is true and it is a solid stove but lightweight. I will enjoy it on the CDT and other trails I'll be on. Thanks for the review and video!
Most of the world uses metric measurements, only a very few countries reject it as a whole but the scientific community use metric measurements regardless, for instance in the US or UK where they use imperial measurements, but the scientific community never do, they use metric measurements.
Luke- The professionalism is off the charts! You have been getting so good, so excited for that upcoming overnight adventure! Just a quick question - what camera gear do you use (mic, camera, lens, tripod...)? Have a good one. Thanks!
I have a Jetboil that I bought around 7 years ago. I was watching another comparison video the other night and remembered mine. So, i pulled it out and boiled 16 oz of room temperature water in about 90 secs. I've only used it during power outages, so far. I hope to get a chance to use it this year.
I just bought this stove an hour ago. It just looked right, okay that's not true. I saw it on one of your videos and must have subconsciously absorbed the subtle bits of info. So now I'm on RUclips looking for videos to support my choice and I find the most excellent review. It is always a great feeling to buy something and find out later that you made the best choice possible supported by a very trusted source. Thanks.
great video Luke; I am happy to see some items less in the bushcraft category. I am looking for ultra light camping gear. reviews like this are very handy thanks
I just bought the MSR Pocket Rocket 2 I did find it a little hard to get back in the carry case. So you really have to have all 3 legs flat or it will not go back in the case. Thanks for your videos I never miss any of your stuff. You are my goto guy for all of my camping and backpacking equipment.
it looks very nice. Interesting to see them finally update the long standing stove. I've used the original for years, abused the hell out of that thing. I don't like how the pot supports bend. while it makes for a smaller form factor anytime you add in mechanical motion like that you give the opportunity to break. Murphy's law follows me around pretty much everywhere lol so that would worry me. Maybe not everyone. Thanks for the review Luke!
Nice to see they made it compatible with us small pot users. That's the main reason I never got one. I found it odd that the original put out a narrow flame but only worked with wider pots. Why didn't they make the flame wider as well? That would have reduced burn spots and such. I definitely did not like wide flame stoves for narrow pots since a lot of the flame would just wrap around the sides. This seems to be a good combination.
Nice stove, top of the heap price too. I thought I'd remind people that also the smaller stoves that clamp onto canisters like that , some people test if their large pots will fit on the stove before they are filled with liquids or food. If they try to balance without anything in it. It will probably fall off. If they fill it first with weight, it will stay on, depending on the amount of weight and size put into the pot or pan if it stays balanced or not.
I got one of those fold-out base tripods; the canister sits down in an makes the whole unit more stable. And a thick sheet of foil, folded up with your kit, unfolds to make a great windscreen for this. I used this just yesterday atop a mtn in New Hampshire and had no issues at all getting water to boil despite the wind blowing over the peak.
Hey Luke, Love your videos and being part of your adventures. :) I wasn't sure where to put this but I've just learned of the Tentsile Stingray and I was curious about your thoughts on it. Has anyone else asked about it, and have you considered reviewing it? I've never hammock camped myself as I'm a side sleeper and find hammocks generally uncomfortable, but floating above the ground on a more rigid platform does sound enticing. Cheers!
i love the pocket rocket. i took it with me on my AT thru hike last year, and several long dist hikes this year as well as the entire Long Trail last month. 2 things i am not happy with. the wind screen didn't stay on, lost it last year while on the trail. more disappointing is that the threads stripped and now will not screw onto a canister.
I just got one slightly used off fleabay complete with an Msr ignighter. Box £30 Happy I know new ones aren’t much more but with infighter and box. I was ok to pay that.
before I even see... my girl friend and I have been working on a pop can stove. almost perfect but need some little adjustments, but as is 2 oz heat fuel. cold water from a creek, about 2 cups. on the mini stove holder, 4 minutes to boil.. I was impressed, and a trick coming from a chef... And u am sure many know. boil a little at a time and it all boils faster. tempering. Just like add snow to boiling water speeds it up. same idea
I'm getting one to go with my Toaks titanium 2.0 liter pot. I need a nice burner and can't go micro. Well, I could, but I'll end up spilling a lot of water.
I've used the PocketRocket for a few years now. Fantastic stove. When I saw this I juuust about bought it. Then I started looking into ultralight stoves just to see what was out there. Found the "BRS 3000T" stove on Amazon for a whopping $16 CAD! It weighs only 25g. Super tiny. I bought it just for the heck of it to try. Should be here (from Hong Kong hah) in a week or so. Still interested in trying out the PocketRocket 2 though.
I have the same one too Snow Peak from Hong Kong via Amazon.ca Keep in mind when you put larger pots on it, to make sure you put some water/food half full in it before you place it on the stove to balance for the weight of the larger sized pots/pans.You can't balance a pot on there then add the food later. Some people get it and at home just pull out their pot to test for size and balance, but don't put food or water in it as they are not going to cook indoors. They see it won't balance and that is because it is not weighted down.
Good to know Jude! Thanks for the tips. I honestly don't expect much from the stove only costing $16 and being so small but I am excited to try it out. It may even become my main stove as 90% of the time I am just boiling water for freeze dried meals (small, light and filling). I do not cook gourmet meals on the backpacking trips I do haha.
Snow Peak I've used the 3000 for the last 6 months and no issues and of course because of the shipping location and price I was sceptical.with the size and weight, it replaced my "gargantuan" 😂 pocket rocket. Won't look back.
Haha good to hear banshee. These comments are making me excited about trying it out!! I guess my gargantuan (haven't heard that word in a while :D) pocket rocket might also be set aside this year :)
Snow Peak hey I hope your enjoying your 3000 I know I am!! I don't need to use my stove often (twice so far this year) just go for highly enjoyable day hikes on October Mountain in Berkshire county. Going ultralight is a neat and fun hobby so I don't need/want to spend a lot. Get out and live
Another great review Luke, however the pocket rocket isn't built for cooking on Titanium, yeah its great for boiling water but thats about it, it's heavy, large and the heads to small. A titanium cookset requires a large head or it'll just burn the food. Thank's again tho Luke
Hey Luke couple more quick things any experience with Optimus stoves? Those look pretty nice. I am in the market for one of these. MSR stuff is always solid. I have a Sawyer water purifier; squeeze type. I am looking to get something else maybe. I liked the ease of use on what I have, but the collection part was tad limited/slow. thanks again love the channel; hope you and your family are well
Probably a dumb question but once you put the stove on can you take it off or do you have to use up all the fuel in the can or is it liquid fuel you can put a cap on and save for later or if you take the stove off does all the fuel come spraying out thanks. For any info
Silly Question: Can it as easily sit on top of a little larger propane cans so there will be more actualy cooking time? I'm looking for something small to use in my car camper I'm building.
4 years later, I've stuck a medium sized pot full of pasta sauce on this little thing and it heated/held just fine. Though probably on the upper end of it's recommended use.
I like the original pocket rocket stove and I think this is stove and the old one suit for small pots basically to heat up some water for small meal and not actually coking something as the burner is just in the center..... you can take another stove with remote canister and this will give you more stability and spread the heat better ....
I got one, and after 6 months, it won't tighten down on a canister. Something wrong with the valve. It'll start, but then blows the canister off like a spring. No thread damage I can see. Tried it on another can, no go. Another burner works fine, so it's not the fuel canister. Is there a fix? Or am I just a little wiser?
I have to say that I like the look of this version a lot more than the original. But I won't be buying it any time soon. I bought a $5 look-alike on ebay, it's smaller and it's got a piezo lighter as well - and it hasn't failed me yet. Been using it for 2 years now. Probably not as efficient as the pocket rocket, but it doesn't matter too much
@@stevent7615 jetboil is far too heavy and expensive.. I Ended up using a BRS stove (16$ or so and tiny) and a titanium cup I still need to be is 35$ I think. Yes, the jetboil is more efficient but the weight and cost doesn't do it for me
love the video, I'm a assistant scout master for my son's troop I'm wanting to get a stove like this I just want to know since I seen how loud it is can the stove boil water on the lower setting to where it is not so loud I don't want to wake everyone up at the campsite when I light it up
brian martin I found that it is not loud enough to wake people up and at around a medium setting I was able to get the water to just under a boil (perfect for coffee in my opinion) in around 3 minutes
brian martin yeah it will be fine. just don't jack the heat up. it will boil water on the lowest of low settings, it will just take longer. with that said, you don't really want to jack the stove way up anyway, because you're just wasting fuel at that point. I purchased a 8.9 oz can of fuel over a year ago now, and have had it on half a dozen trips and I still have fuel in that sucker. including a trip where my uncle didn't know we were in a burn ban area and was planning on cooking by fire, so he had to use my stove as well. at least 15 days/nights on the trail and even a three nighter with two people cooking with it. and I cook stuff too btw, like rice and pasta and stuff where it takes a while to cook. so yeah, you never really need to blast these stoves where they are super loud. that's just being wasteful, and really what's the difference in 3 minutes to coffee and 5 minutes to coffee right? cheers
Other than the legs, it looks muck like the micro-rocket. I have been using the micro-rocket for 3 years. Like all canister stoves it does not work great in really cold conditions. In temps above about 40 F it works perfectly to boil water for coffee, Mt house, oatmeal etc. It will not let you down for 3 season use. In colder situations it still works if you keep the fuel in an inner pocket. A "Hand Warmer" or tea candle can warm up a cold fuel can quickly if you need to.
You can extend the use of a canister stove down to crazy low temperatures, by strapping a piece of copper sheet metal to the side of the canister and up into the flame. It conducts enough heat down to the caster to keep vaporizing butane/propane at very low temperatures. I've used it down to -21F/-29C. Google "Moulder Strip" and see various write-ups of it on Backpacking Light. Or, as you say, a tea candle or Bic lighter can heat a cold canister up or a bowl of cool / warm water can supply the heat. Some wind screens direct enough IR heat to the canister to help a fair bit, as well.
One question I can't seem to get an answer for is... how much weight can it hold? I am curious if it would be sturdy enough for a 10in cast iron skillet?
Wish everyone did product reviews like you. Honest, efficient, straight forward with no agenda to make a sale. Honestly the channels I watch are good about being upfront on sponsorships and promoted items, but it's nice to see reviews where I know you are telling me what you think about a product and making a real recommendation either way. It's one of the reasons why your my favorite channel 4 years running. The amazing overnight adventures and other outings don't hurt either. My time in the outdoors has been significantly improved through your sharing advice and knowledge as well as what products are going to make my time outside more enjoyable. Keep up the great work.
I have the original pocket rocket and absolutely love it,hard to think that they made something so perfect even better definitely going to pick one of these up thanks for the video.
You got me at when you turn down the light and crank up the heat! 🤩 Thanks for your fantastic review!
I’ve used all kinds for my truck based brew kit, Jetboil, Trangia, Robens micro, but honestly the best was the Webtex warrior (PocketRocket clone). It was such a good stove but today I just got this PocketRocket 2 and it oozes quality. Light, looks great, compact and great value. Got mine here in the U.K. for £25 after a little store discount. Can’t see me needing anything else after this. Keep the vids coming, love em. 👍🏻
Hey, thank you for the review! I bought this stove after watching your review and i'm really happy with it. I was surprised with one thing - a sound. Everyone on youtube talking about how loud this stove is, for me it was like "wow, it is so quiet!". My previous stove was 40 years old soviet gasoline stove - clone of Optimus 8R - this thing was really loud :D
Love my pocket rocket, but looks like it's time for an upgrade. Thanks for the great review!
I just bought a pocket rocket and came here to learn to use it. Thank you. My 2 cups water boiled so fast in my 1 quart pot.
Used mine in a 3 day power outage. Boiled water for coffee and dehydrated meals, but tip, also have small round gridle plate that I use with small disposable aluminum con tainers. Put any food in container, put on gridle, and heat. Eat right out of container and trash!
thanks for review im waiting for mine right now mostly for camping and ice fishing shanty and i like the noise helps keep the coyotes away maybe thanks for all you do and your wife it helps me buy things on a budget i hate wasting money on stuff that dont work
I purchased this stove 2 months ago and it's a awesome stove! also I found the regulator handle stays if you fold it down instead
Great review, after having a kovea titanium for many years, it got stolen and then began the upgrade hunt. after much debate my brother got the olicamp kinetic with their ring pot in a buy two for one deal. that thing is pretty damn good. For me the best stove out there. We tested it and found it used bugger all fuel, boiled 500ml in under 3 mins and using their pot reduced boiling and cooking times. we did a 5 night hike cooking pasta and noodles daily and i used half a 200g canister. very impressed. would love to get my hands on one of these to test.
Thanks for the review on this. I was just looking this weekend if you had done a review on this.
Great review - especially the ability to simmer! Thanks for posting!
Alexascard on telegram I think that you are the best Because your services are very fast
I just received this stove tonight. Bought it from REI with a gift card I had. It is replacing my Pocket Rocket 1. I am very pleased with the quality and efficiency. Everything you say here is true and it is a solid stove but lightweight. I will enjoy it on the CDT and other trails I'll be on. Thanks for the review and video!
Thanks for the review Luke... MSR is a great company, and make quality products... This stove is a great upgrade, the case is as well...
thanks I always appreciate your reviews and yes a very nice stove I wish you and your family the very best until next time you take care my friend
Excellent video and great camera shots. Nice work on a great product.
Thanks for sharing! Just getting into backpacking and looking to buy my first stove... I’m sold!
Thank you so much for the metric conversions, it helps us Aussies out a lot.
Great videos
Cheers.
& us British too.
Most of the world uses metric measurements, only a very few countries reject it as a whole but the scientific community use metric measurements regardless, for instance in the US or UK where they use imperial measurements, but the scientific community never do, they use metric measurements.
Us Indians too.
You're not wrong, this is a fantastic stove! I love everything about it.
I know this vid is years old, but thanks for this review. I just bought one of these to replace my BRS 3000 based on your review!
They did a good job on this one I like the wider pots you can fit on the base with this one. Great review brother
Luke-
The professionalism is off the charts! You have been getting so good, so excited for that upcoming overnight adventure! Just a quick question - what camera gear do you use (mic, camera, lens, tripod...)? Have a good one. Thanks!
Great video Luke as always. Nice little stove.
Love the woodpecker on the background!
Awesome. I will be buying one based on your review. Thank you!.
I have a Jetboil that I bought around 7 years ago. I was watching another comparison video the other night and remembered mine. So, i pulled it out and boiled 16 oz of room temperature water in about 90 secs. I've only used it during power outages, so far. I hope to get a chance to use it this year.
I just bought this stove an hour ago. It just looked right, okay that's not true. I saw it on one of your videos and must have subconsciously absorbed the subtle bits of info. So now I'm on RUclips looking for videos to support my choice and I find the most excellent review. It is always a great feeling to buy something and find out later that you made the best choice possible supported by a very trusted source. Thanks.
Great piece of gear! Still one of the best stoves on the market in 2022, after the MSR PocketRocket Deluxe with push-start igniter and a broader head.
great video Luke; I am happy to see some items less in the bushcraft category. I am looking for ultra light camping gear. reviews like this are very handy thanks
I have like 20 stoves already, but I think you've just convinced me to buy at least one more ^^
Great video! Thanks for the information.
Nice compact well thought out stove...but I think I'll stick to my jet boil flash (for now) or a nice campfire..great work luke as always
Great video! 👏🏼
Thank’s very helpful. That will be the one🙇
I just bought the MSR Pocket Rocket 2 I did find it a little hard to get back in the carry case. So you really have to have all 3 legs flat or it will not go back in the case. Thanks for your videos I never miss any of your stuff. You are my goto guy for all of my camping and backpacking equipment.
it looks very nice. Interesting to see them finally update the long standing stove. I've used the original for years, abused the hell out of that thing. I don't like how the pot supports bend. while it makes for a smaller form factor anytime you add in mechanical motion like that you give the opportunity to break. Murphy's law follows me around pretty much everywhere lol so that would worry me. Maybe not everyone. Thanks for the review Luke!
Thanks Luke for a thorough look. Brian 76
I want this but have no issues with my current pocket rocket. I like that u can fit a lighter into the new case unlike the old triangular case.
Thank you 👍.
Got mine for my bugout bag!
Great video
I am watching this while making homemade soup at home 😂 just love this channel
Nice to see they made it compatible with us small pot users. That's the main reason I never got one. I found it odd that the original put out a narrow flame but only worked with wider pots. Why didn't they make the flame wider as well? That would have reduced burn spots and such. I definitely did not like wide flame stoves for narrow pots since a lot of the flame would just wrap around the sides. This seems to be a good combination.
Love that.
Nice stove, top of the heap price too. I thought I'd remind people that also the smaller stoves that clamp onto canisters like that , some people test if their large pots will fit on the stove before they are filled with liquids or food. If they try to balance without anything in it. It will probably fall off. If they fill it first with weight, it will stay on, depending on the amount of weight and size put into the pot or pan if it stays balanced or not.
Luke, Will this stove work with a USGI style canteen cup like the Titanium heavy cover canteen cup.
Sold!
Can you do a follow up with which of your pots/cooking system this will nest into with a fuel canister?
Do you think this stove is sufficient to heat a wider utensil like a cast iron pan that is 8-10 inches in diameter?
hi great video as always love that you put it in mls should i get this or the windburner ? can anyone help me with this
great lil stove except when it's really windy! and tips over easy
I got one of those fold-out base tripods; the canister sits down in an makes the whole unit more stable. And a thick sheet of foil, folded up with your kit, unfolds to make a great windscreen for this. I used this just yesterday atop a mtn in New Hampshire and had no issues at all getting water to boil despite the wind blowing over the peak.
Just picked this up tonight had a Coleman one but wanted to try this one
Hey Luke,
Love your videos and being part of your adventures. :)
I wasn't sure where to put this but I've just learned of the Tentsile Stingray and I was curious about your thoughts on it. Has anyone else asked about it, and have you considered reviewing it? I've never hammock camped myself as I'm a side sleeper and find hammocks generally uncomfortable, but floating above the ground on a more rigid platform does sound enticing.
Cheers!
Totally agree
Great insight to the product, I think this will replace my original pocket rocket.
i love the pocket rocket. i took it with me on my AT thru hike last year, and several long dist hikes this year as well as the entire Long Trail last month. 2 things i am not happy with. the wind screen didn't stay on, lost it last year while on the trail. more disappointing is that the threads stripped and now will not screw onto a canister.
very good review , very interresting, i bought one but not received yet, I wonder if we can cook toast on it ?
Curious...when boiling water, how 'open' do you run the burner?
I like it buddy. Yeah.
I just got one slightly used off fleabay complete with an Msr ignighter. Box £30
Happy I know new ones aren’t much more but with infighter and box. I was ok to pay that.
before I even see... my girl friend and I have been working on a pop can stove. almost perfect but need some little adjustments, but as is 2 oz heat fuel. cold water from a creek, about 2 cups. on the mini stove holder, 4 minutes to boil.. I was impressed, and a trick coming from a chef... And u am sure many know. boil a little at a time and it all boils faster. tempering. Just like add snow to boiling water speeds it up. same idea
the only thing that I wouldn't like is weight. And expensive. But I would like it.
I'm getting one to go with my Toaks titanium 2.0 liter pot. I need a nice burner and can't go micro. Well, I could, but I'll end up spilling a lot of water.
I've used the PocketRocket for a few years now. Fantastic stove. When I saw this I juuust about bought it. Then I started looking into ultralight stoves just to see what was out there. Found the "BRS 3000T" stove on Amazon for a whopping $16 CAD! It weighs only 25g. Super tiny. I bought it just for the heck of it to try. Should be here (from Hong Kong hah) in a week or so. Still interested in trying out the PocketRocket 2 though.
I have the same one too Snow Peak from Hong Kong via Amazon.ca Keep in mind when you put larger pots on it, to make sure you put some water/food half full in it before you place it on the stove to balance for the weight of the larger sized pots/pans.You can't balance a pot on there then add the food later. Some people get it and at home just pull out their pot to test for size and balance, but don't put food or water in it as they are not going to cook indoors. They see it won't balance and that is because it is not weighted down.
Good to know Jude! Thanks for the tips. I honestly don't expect much from the stove only costing $16 and being so small but I am excited to try it out. It may even become my main stove as 90% of the time I am just boiling water for freeze dried meals (small, light and filling). I do not cook gourmet meals on the backpacking trips I do haha.
Snow Peak I've used the 3000 for the last 6 months and no issues and of course because of the shipping location and price I was sceptical.with the size and weight, it replaced my "gargantuan" 😂 pocket rocket. Won't look back.
Haha good to hear banshee. These comments are making me excited about trying it out!! I guess my gargantuan (haven't heard that word in a while :D) pocket rocket might also be set aside this year :)
Snow Peak hey I hope your enjoying your 3000 I know I am!! I don't need to use my stove often (twice so far this year) just go for highly enjoyable day hikes on October Mountain in Berkshire county. Going ultralight is a neat and fun hobby so I don't need/want to spend a lot. Get out and live
When I saw the title I thought you meant the tiny bikes😂😂
Not used a stove like this in years but that one looks pretty good.
Another great review Luke, however the pocket rocket isn't built for cooking on Titanium, yeah its great for boiling water but thats about it, it's heavy, large and the heads to small. A titanium cookset requires a large head or it'll just burn the food. Thank's again tho Luke
Hi Luke, i use a Us military kanteen cup, the oval one. Does it fit on the rocket?
Like your content 👍🏻
Wonder if you can use a military canteen cup on it?
coolness
MSR Pocket Rocket 2 for the win! Oh yeah!
I’ve been running my pocket rocket for backpacking for 20 years
Hey Luke couple more quick things any experience with Optimus stoves? Those look pretty nice. I am in the market for one of these. MSR stuff is always solid. I have a Sawyer water purifier; squeeze type. I am looking to get something else maybe. I liked the ease of use on what I have, but the collection part was tad limited/slow.
thanks again love the channel; hope you and your family are well
Probably a dumb question but once you put the stove on can you take it off or do you have to use up all the fuel in the can or is it liquid fuel you can put a cap on and save for later or if you take the stove off does all the fuel come spraying out thanks. For any info
It’s loud but love mine
ooh i wouldn't mind owning this. and i don't even camp. but nice as a survival item
Hey Luke, if you compare the rocketstove 2 with the Optimus Crux. what will be your favorite and what are the pro,s and cons?
How much does the fuel weigh and how expensive roughly is a can?
So it's normal for the wind screen thing in the middle of the stove to get cherry red? I thought mine was gonna melt.
Silly Question: Can it as easily sit on top of a little larger propane cans so there will be more actualy cooking time? I'm looking for something small to use in my car camper I'm building.
4 years later, I've stuck a medium sized pot full of pasta sauce on this little thing and it heated/held just fine. Though probably on the upper end of it's recommended use.
I like the original pocket rocket stove and I think this is stove and the old one suit for small pots basically to heat up some water for small meal and not actually coking something as the burner is just in the center.....
you can take another stove with remote canister and this will give you more stability and spread the heat better ....
Hi! You said in an previous video that the Optimus Crux was your favorite... Is this stove better than the Optimus?
What song is that at the beginning?
Can this be used with propane adapter
When it's on rocket mode, full blast - will it still function if held upside down?
i think i'll stay with my microrocket, nice review and great videos by the way. :D
I got one, and after 6 months, it won't tighten down on a canister. Something wrong with the valve. It'll start, but then blows the canister off like a spring. No thread damage I can see. Tried it on another can, no go. Another burner works fine, so it's not the fuel canister. Is there a fix? Or am I just a little wiser?
if you were stuck in the woods for a weekend and had 3 items, what would they be?
Was that folgers singles?
Do you have any reliability issues at all?
I have to say that I like the look of this version a lot more than the original. But I won't be buying it any time soon. I bought a $5 look-alike on ebay, it's smaller and it's got a piezo lighter as well - and it hasn't failed me yet. Been using it for 2 years now. Probably not as efficient as the pocket rocket, but it doesn't matter too much
for a brand new user i would have liked more on how the regulator works etc. real basics.
I've been watching and loving theses vids since 2015! Keep it up, Luke! Also, this stove is owned by my teacher and he loves it, as do I.
any plans on reviewing one of those chinese 8-10 dlls stoves? cheers luke
Is that a Woodpecker making the sound in the background ?
Hahaha It sure is! They are very active this time of year. - Luke
sweet, I've been debating a MSR Pocket rocket or a jetboil style stove. leaning towards pocket rocket because of low price and weight
You still have to carry a cup
Jetboil has everything in 1
@@stevent7615 jetboil is far too heavy and expensive.. I Ended up using a BRS stove (16$ or so and tiny) and a titanium cup I still need to be is 35$ I think. Yes, the jetboil is more efficient but the weight and cost doesn't do it for me
love the video, I'm a assistant scout master for my son's troop I'm wanting to get a stove like this I just want to know since I seen how loud it is can the stove boil water on the lower setting to where it is not so loud I don't want to wake everyone up at the campsite when I light it up
brian martin I found that it is not loud enough to wake people up and at around a medium setting I was able to get the water to just under a boil (perfect for coffee in my opinion) in around 3 minutes
Zachery Syganiec thanks I'm considering purchasing the stove
brian martin I reccomend it its the best stove I have used in that category and for the price you can't go wrong
brian martin yeah it will be fine. just don't jack the heat up. it will boil water on the lowest of low settings, it will just take longer. with that said, you don't really want to jack the stove way up anyway, because you're just wasting fuel at that point.
I purchased a 8.9 oz can of fuel over a year ago now, and have had it on half a dozen trips and I still have fuel in that sucker. including a trip where my uncle didn't know we were in a burn ban area and was planning on cooking by fire, so he had to use my stove as well. at least 15 days/nights on the trail and even a three nighter with two people cooking with it. and I cook stuff too btw, like rice and pasta and stuff where it takes a while to cook.
so yeah, you never really need to blast these stoves where they are super loud. that's just being wasteful, and really what's the difference in 3 minutes to coffee and 5 minutes to coffee right?
cheers
Tim Eubanks I agree those fuel canisters last a very long time
Other than the legs, it looks muck like the micro-rocket. I have been using the micro-rocket for 3 years. Like all canister stoves it does not work great in really cold conditions. In temps above about 40 F it works perfectly to boil water for coffee, Mt house, oatmeal etc. It will not let you down for 3 season use. In colder situations it still works if you keep the fuel in an inner pocket. A "Hand Warmer" or tea candle can warm up a cold fuel can quickly if you need to.
You can extend the use of a canister stove down to crazy low temperatures, by strapping a piece of copper sheet metal to the side of the canister and up into the flame. It conducts enough heat down to the caster to keep vaporizing butane/propane at very low temperatures. I've used it down to -21F/-29C. Google "Moulder Strip" and see various write-ups of it on Backpacking Light.
Or, as you say, a tea candle or Bic lighter can heat a cold canister up or a bowl of cool / warm water can supply the heat. Some wind screens direct enough IR heat to the canister to help a fair bit, as well.
One question I can't seem to get an answer for is... how much weight can it hold? I am curious if it would be sturdy enough for a 10in cast iron skillet?
I have no idea; have you contacted MSR for an answer?
- Luke