I just back from my favorite outdoors store, and they had a single burner stove that weighed about 5 lbs,and used butane. $25.00 i thought it would be a great asset to my camp gear. I've only used the fire grate to cook on,but i read about how little time it takes to cook on them.(means more time fishing) i need to get one in case there is a fire ban when i go back to the b-dub.

So my question is have you seen/used these single burner sets?

And what kind of stove you guys/girls bring into the b-dub

Any info before i buy would be great.

Travis

I have a MSR simmerlite I bought this year. I also have an older peak 1.

I like the liquid fuel stoves more than the canisters.

Like everyone else each person will like the choice they make. I know many have cannister stoves and love them. Only thing with cannisters is you never know exactly how much fuel is left. They do not work well in real cold temps and you have to pack out the empties which are not refillable.

The pluses of cannisters is few moving parts, no spilling of fuel, many have piezo lighters so you don't need matches and they are as compact as most backpacking liquid stoves.

I have a MSR firefly. If I travel with 2 or more people, we usually have another MSR type burner(or more) as well. One for the coffee and one for the cooking. They definitely provide a much more predictable cooking environment.

We went in under a complete fire ban some years back and talked to a gentleman who had been out soloing in the ban expecting to cook on the grate. Not a happy camper. It rained nicely the night after we went in, but never official got word the ban was off so we lived without fire.

I carry one of each, it works great to use liquid fuel for cooking dinner, but for lunch, the cannister is so much quicker to boil water for noodles, coffee etc.

K

I like my old MSR Whisperlite, recently upgraded with the new valve assembly. Has served me well in all four seasons and is sixteen years old. I have also used a "Zip" stove. It burns small sticks, pine cones and the like, and has a small battery operated fan underneath to increase the fire temp through forced draft. It also works pretty well but has the same downfall as fire cooking in the form of carbon (soot) build up on your cooking pots / pans.

I have two stoves that use canisters that I have always been able to depend on. The first is a primus that screws directly onto the propane/Iso-butane canister. It can get water boiling pretty fast which helps for lunches.

I also have a Coleman exponent xpedition that uses the powermax canisters. This stove folds out into a two burner stove which we like because it's easy to be heating more than one pot at a time... or in our case, fire the griddle. The canisters have to be carried out, but you can crush them when they are empty so they don't take up much space.

Hex

I have a Brunton Optimus Nova that I like. I just got it last summer so I only have a couple of trips with it but it seems rock solid, cooks well, and can burn just about any type of fuel. It also looks like it would be easy to service in the field if needed. I carry the small maintenance kit for it which includes just about everything that could possibly go wrong. On the downside, it is a little heavier than some other stoves and it is pretty expensive. I find this website helpful when looking for new gear:

www.outdoorreview.com

thanks for all the info,and I'll check out that website Outdoors4me