Cheap single burner stove for a chuck box?

[bark-eater]

I managed to get off the reservation and up to Maine this summer. 4 days of driving and 4 days of base camping at nice public lake campsite and paddling about all day and returning to camp after dark. My kitchen was left packed away in a RubberMaid on the picnic bench all day. It wasn't particularly efficient set up, but I was mostly making coffee, oat meal and one pot dinners in a canister stove.

The spot I was at is pretty low traffic, and not the nicest on the lake. The nicest one that I used to spend 30 days out of a summer at, has been taken over by power boaters, so the canoe landing I cleared out 20 years ago is now a full power boat slip, the hearth is a 3 foot tall rock alter to the white mans fire, and the campsite is stump city..... moveing on... I'm fine with my new digs, and am going to plan to reinstate the pilgrimage every summer.

But I think its chuck box time, so that I can stream line my base camp house keeping and cover more ground and catch up with more folks. I've got a sizeable collection of camp stoves but I don't want to leave anything particularly valuable or irreplaceable at camp. So I'm looking at the cheaper single burner table top stoves. I dont want to use one of those propane tank top burners. I've all ready done my time with a campstove related 3rd degree scalding.

That's a pretty long preamble, but its hard to ask folks for recommendations of the least bad, when every one wants to suggest the best. Thanks, Woody

 

[Robin]

I use a Peak1 400 stove when not going the twig stove route, there are a bunch on eBay for reasonable prices.

 

[bark-eater]

I use a Peak1 400 stove when not going the twig stove route, there are a bunch on eBay for reasonable prices.

I've got one of those and a Sig tourist set to go along with it. And I ran a SVEA 123 long enough to do 2 rebuilds, but for this set up I'm looking for something operable by the reptilian mind.

 

[bark-eater]

This Coleman is what I was thinking of but would like to find something more compact.

https://www.coleman.com/grills-stov...de-18-1-burner-camping-stove/SAP_2157355.html

 

[clemency]

This Coleman is what I was thinking of but would like to find something more compact.

https://www.coleman.com/grills-stov...de-18-1-burner-camping-stove/SAP_2157355.html

Eureka makes those as well. Hard get more compact than that Coleman though if you're talking table top.

https://eurekacamping.johnsonoutdoors.com/cook/stoves-grills

 

[bark-eater]

I've used the butane suitcase stoves and their convenient, but pretty much disposable, at least the ones that were used in a marine environment. I think I'll take a field trip to Cabellas/Walmart and measure all the different stoves, and then I can design the box to work with more than one option. The other big system design criteria is how to cook bacon with out calling in the bears. The local ones keep a very low profile, but ....

 

[Gamma1214]

...how to cook bacon with out calling in the bears

sidebar: believe it or not, cooked bacon will last about 6 weeks at room temperature. Cook it "al dente" at home and you just have to warm it up in camp.

 

[bark-eater]

I was thinking about that. My new spot is in a shallower and less shaded area so the my beer wasn't particularly cold and the 1/2+1/2 didn't make it to day 4. But the lake was low and this summer is hopefully not the new normal. I think I would sink the bacon separately from the beer, just incase the bears are snorkeling. I managed to hang my food bag, but I needed a 100feet of poly webbing to do it and the squirrels must have been filled up an berry's, because they had plenty of opportunity. I may have break down and buy a bear can. The way this trip panned out, I lost a day or two because my gear was so disorganized. Another wrinkle is that there are only 3 official campsites to chose from, the best has been "improved", the second best I was at is ok. The third choice that I scouted while loosing light, was across from a camp and had it landing filled up with rocks to discourage riff raff like my self. Lifes to short.... So while I was paddling around I scouted out a couple ice fisherman spots as back ups, but I'll need a bit more camp furniture.

 

[bark-eater]

I still needed to run soap over my dishes so I spread out what I took with me recently. I culled all the titanium except the stove. There's a bit of nostalgia and the red plastic cup is actually a family heirloom. The flask contains bottom shelf single malt, which seems more metaphorically relevant as time marches on....

 

[bark-eater]

While I'm indulging in a little stream of consciousness exercise.. here's a box that has done some time as a wannigan.
Originally this was a tool crate as part of my checked in luggage during my journeyman shipwright circus adventures.

I've been threatening to build an ultralight wooden wannigan to fit inside a crate for years, so I'll try that as a criteria. A milk crate with a lid is a nice piece of furniture to have, and with the kitchen packed away the package is rugged and not shiny.

 

[clemency]

I was going to suggest a wannigan. My two-burner Eureka propane stove (aka the summer kitchen) fits perfectly in mine with room for some additional cooking stuff.

 

[bark-eater]

I'm kind of surprised there's not more single burner table top stoves, but no one's backpacking with them, and the 2 burner ones are not actually "twice" the size.
I think a single burner stove with a hinged cover and wind screens would be ideal, but that's into custom time and money.
I'll be at Cabela's with a milk crate some time next week.....

P.S. I checked the Coleman stoves specs and its measurements are 5.9 H x 14.76 W x 14.76 L inches. So not an option for a milkcrate Wannigan.

 

[Smokey]

I use a Peak1 400 stove when not going the twig stove route, there are a bunch on eBay for reasonable prices.

The Peak1 400 and 400A are the better versions of the Peak1 stoves because of the flame control lever. The problem is that they don't make generators for them anymore, and nothing else can be used as a substitute

 

[ppine]

I use a one burner Coleman with the big green propane bottles.

 

[scoutergriz]

The Peak1 400 and 400A are the better versions of the Peak1 stoves because of the flame control lever. The problem is that they don't make generators for them anymore, and nothing else can be used as a substitute

I've used the 400B generators with the adaptor, but Old Coleman Parts usually has the 400 or 400a generators in stock. https://www.oldcolemanparts.com/parts/Generators/Stove-Generators/

 

[Smokey]

I've used the 400B generators with the adaptor, but Old Coleman Parts usually has the 400 or 400a generators in stock. https://www.oldcolemanparts.com/parts/Generators/Stove-Generators/

I'm confused. On the OCP site, there is a generator that looks like it generator for a 400, but it says that it will not fit. What is this 400b adaptor that you speak of?

 

[GeoBoy]

Why not pack an alcohol/twig stove?

 

[scoutergriz]

I'm confused. On the OCP site, there is a generator that looks like it generator for a 400, but it says that it will not fit. What is this 400b adaptor that you speak of?

at one time Coleman had a generic kit for all 400 stoves that came with a threaded collar that shifted the generator a bit and fit the hole in the side of the burner, I've had some luck by carefully bending the B model and using it. The adaptor with the E127 looks the same, the C26 is for the 400B

 

[bark-eater]

I think I narrowed down the stove I will use for this.

It's a "Texsport Glacier Peak Deluxe Single Burner Propane Stove"

I haven't picked one up yet, but the hope is that I can attach it to a board that will also support the fuel bottle, and some how nest into the wannigan that nests in a milk crate.

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[beachbunny]

i just bought one of these