Posted: 8/28/2015 8:37:51 AM EDT
| Anyone here have experience with them? I searched for discussions and didn't see any. I'm considering getting one for use in my new job (Observer/Controller at Ft. Irwin, so lots of time in the field). I'm looking for a stove that would get almost daily use for nine months out of the year. Mainly to heat shaving and coffee water. |
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The cartridge interface is standard. Realize that you need to stick with the same form factory if you want it to nest in the cooking vessel- some high capacity canisters have a larger diameter. Cool thank! I'm gonna see if they go on sale during labor day weekend. |
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The cartridge interface is standard. Realize that you need to stick with the same form factory if you want it to nest in the cooking vessel- some high capacity canisters have a larger diameter. As long as you buy at least mediocre quality canisters my brother in law bought 5 with no name and none of the nipple on them were threaded. |
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Anyone here have experience with them? I searched for discussions and didn't see any. I'm considering getting one for use in my new job (Observer/Controller at Ft. Irwin, so lots of time in the field). I'm looking for a stove that would get almost daily use for nine months out of the year. Mainly to heat shaving and coffee water. Just left that hell as a guest OC/T. Jetboils were pretty popular with the permanent party guys. Annnd roger. |
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I went with a JB flash last year and I like it for boiling water and making coffee. The Eureka Camping Center has factory 2nd's for $75 or the java kits for $82.50. They advertise them as carrying the same 1 year factory warranty. I'll have to go check that out its like 30 mins from me. I have been using MSR dragon fly (it was free) but Jet boil sounds like ticket for weekend trips where "cooking" means dumping hot water on freeze dried stuff. |
| There is a pan you can get from them that has a heat dispersing bottom and you can indeed cooking it. Be aware that you must stir a lot and cooking times a really short. Those things put out some serious heat. But with practice, in the back yard you can learn how. |
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There is a pan you can get from them that has a heat dispersing bottom and you can indeed cooking it. Be aware that you must stir a lot and cooking times a really short. Those things put out some serious heat. But with practice, in the back yard you can learn how. That's the problem imho. The cooking is too fast. It's 100mph or nothing. |
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As long as you buy at least mediocre quality canisters my brother in law bought 5 with no name and none of the nipple on them were threaded. Quoted:
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The cartridge interface is standard. Realize that you need to stick with the same form factory if you want it to nest in the cooking vessel- some high capacity canisters have a larger diameter. As long as you buy at least mediocre quality canisters my brother in law bought 5 with no name and none of the nipple on them were threaded. Did he happen to get the old Campingaz ones? Those have gotten hard to find. http://equipped.outdoors.org/2009/07/goodbye-campingaz.html?m=1 http://adventuresinstoving.blogspot.com/2012/01/gas-canisters-101.html?m=1 |
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I bet he did. I have one of those old stoves with the large gasket. gaz cansiters is what I always called them.
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Did he happen to get the old Campingaz ones? Those have gotten hard to find. http://equipped.outdoors.org/2009/07/goodbye-campingaz.html?m=1 http://adventuresinstoving.blogspot.com/2012/01/gas-canisters-101.html?m=1 Quoted:
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The cartridge interface is standard. Realize that you need to stick with the same form factory if you want it to nest in the cooking vessel- some high capacity canisters have a larger diameter. As long as you buy at least mediocre quality canisters my brother in law bought 5 with no name and none of the nipple on them were threaded. Did he happen to get the old Campingaz ones? Those have gotten hard to find. http://equipped.outdoors.org/2009/07/goodbye-campingaz.html?m=1 http://adventuresinstoving.blogspot.com/2012/01/gas-canisters-101.html?m=1 |
| My older model (original model) Jetboil PCS stove,with its accessory frypan and pot, can easily cook stuff, as well as boil water, but it requires some finesse to turn it down from full throttle. I have a new model (Flash ?,still in its packaging, as a spare, in my truck) which I think is also easily throttled down to simmering level. In any case, I seldom use the Jetboil, instead, favoring the almost miraculous Solo Stove "Titan" biomass burning stove --- cheaply and entertainingly fed, sorta "green", and, with the eye-pleasing, soul-satisfying, smoke-scented charm of a real fire. |