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Primus Winter Gas Review
Wow. Â Thanks much. Â I just spent an hour looking at YouTube videos on how to refill your canisters, mostly with butane, but there were even a few using a proportion (20-30%) of...
Is a heat exchanger pot worth the weight?
Companion forum thread to: Is a heat exchanger pot worth the weight?This article attempts to determine how a heat exchanger welded to the bottom of a pot actually affects fuel consumption. Very...
Engineering the V4 Winter Stove
This is an experiment with a sort of a blog. Will it work? Back in 2007 I was using a Coleman Xtreme (remote inverted canister) stove for winter XC ski tours. It...
On Heatsinks and Thermal Balance
Roger Caffin troubleshoots the heat shunt on V4 of his inverted canister stove design.
Exploding Gas Canisters: The Hazard of Overheating
Most canister stoves come with extreme warnings to not use a windshield around them for fear of causing an explosion. Many experienced users ignore these warnings. What is the risk? Can a gas canister explode?
DIY Ultralight Remote Inverted-Canister Winter Stove – Version 4, Part 1
This article describes the development of my 4th generation of Remote Inverted-Canister Winter Stoves.
Is a heat exchanger pot worth the weight?
This article attempts to determine how a heat exchanger welded to the bottom of a pot actually affects fuel consumption.
Yet Another Winter Stove - Part 4, Testing -- Roger Caffin
Introduction This Part 4 is a post-construction analysis: how well does the design work, or possibly how 'does it work'? It also covers a whole lot of 'minor' performance details at the...
Yet Another Remote Winter Stove - Part 1 Roger Caffin
Introduction Somewhere around the middle of 2007 I started experimenting with remote canister stoves. My Snow Peak GST-100 stove had failed in the middle of a 2-month long walking trip in France,...
DIY Backpacking Stove: An Ultralight Vortex Burner (Part 3: Mechanical Design)
In part 3, Roger Caffin discusses the mechanical design for the vortex burner as a solution for an ultralight winter DIY backpacking stove system.
DIY Backpacking Stove: An Ultralight Vortex Burner (Part 1- Background and Theory)
In Part 1, Roger Caffin explores the theory behind using a vortex burner as a solution for an ultralight winter DIY backpacking stove system.
Coleman Fyrestorm Ti Stove REVIEW
Innovative dual-fuel stove for canisters and white gas and variants that works very well with canister fuel and reasonably well with white gas.
Primus Gravity MF Stove REVIEW
Innovative multi-fuel stove for canisters, white gas and kerosene that performs well with canister fuel but is difficult to use with the other fuels.
MYOG: SUL Remote Inverted Canister Winter Stove Version 7
More progress report Then I ‘burn test’ each stove to make sure every one works. Well, unexpected trouble when I did that. They ‘worked’ but with quite limited power, and not in...
How to Keep Canister Dirt from Clogging MYOG Remote Inverted Canister Stoves
Perhaps I should mention that the few V6 stoves still available for sale have all been modified to incorporate the filters. I was able to reduce the length of the 8 mm...
Can I Cook in my Tent?
Cooking in a tent has revolved around a stigma of gear destruction and personal harm. Cooking in a tent is not that dangerous and being responsible and aware of the hazards allows for safe cooking in a tent.
The Evolution of a Winter Stove – Part 1
Dissatisfied with what was commercially available at the time, the author has been working on the design of a lightweight winter canister stove since 2007.
Thermal Feedback in Upright Canister Stoves
Different upright canister stoves seem to work with differing levels of success in very cold weather, and one wonders why. Claims for pressure regulator stoves are especially problematic, with marketing spin being extreme in some cases. We examine just what is going on here, with an in-depth analysis of some aspects of both upright and remote canister stoves, to unravel some critical factors.
The Myth of Pressure Regulators
Part 1 in a two part series analyzing some of the claims made by stove manufacturers about pressure regulation technologies. Marketing spin or proven performance? ***Updated with Addendum on 6/12/12***
Heat Exchange Stove Shootout: Part 3Heat Exchanger Stoves
When do these stoves offer a weight reduction when compared to the baseline of Part 2 of the series?
