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**tmotten** · #1 22 Sep 2015

Petrol isn't dirty with the muka stove. Leaves no soot

**ridetheworld** · #2 22 Sep 2015

Yes of course I don't toss them wherever! But as tmotton points out, they're still gonna end up in some landfill site somewhere (probably side of the road if Bolivia, Peru are anything to go by)... Well I suppose just running a motorcycle is a pretty terrible thing for the environment.

**tmotten** · #3 22 Sep 2015

So why add to it. Nothing wrong with petrol stoves.

**oldbmw** · #4 3 Oct 2015

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Originally Posted by tmotten

So why add to it. Nothing wrong with petrol stoves.

I have yet to find one that will simmer.

My little gaz stove will have tea made before the omnifuel has even got the water hand hot. NO mess. No smells and will simmer stews/curries without burning.

**tmotten** · #5 3 Oct 2015

Most can turn down the flame. But gas canisters suck outside of the developed world, and even then they do. Petrol stations everywhere

**oldbmw** · #6 3 Oct 2015

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Most can turn down the flame. But gas canisters suck outside of the developed world, and even then they do. Petrol stations everywhere

Maybe in the third world it is different, but gas cooking is common in most places.! I carry two cannisters, a full one does three weeks. so I have one on the burner and a spare. so always have three weeks to find a replacement. On a trip around Europe with my Omnifuel, it was so much hassle I never bothered to fire it up for a brew up the entire trip. so missed my lunchtime brew up. It seems to me there is unreasoning hysteria about carrying a spare cannister. Really they are no bother at all, being smaller than the petrol burners fuel bottle. But even that isn't the real problem, because I don’t bother with the petrol burner when I do trips by car and then a spare 10 litres for the stove would be easy. It is just that petrol stoves are a lot more bother and so much slower to deploy. Compared to gas not nice to use.

**tmotten** · #7 8 Oct 2015

True. I use gas as a backup during winter backcountry trips. I hope never to have to use it, but to me the time spent with setting up the petrol stove (which is really just pumping up the bottle which I try and leave pressurized a bit) far outweighs looking for a camping store that sells the gas canisters. Horses and courses.

**ibgary** · #8 2 Jan 2018

In my multi fuel stoves ive used white gas/Coleman, auto gas and kerosene.
I started using auto gas on motorcycle trips. It works ok, but produces a lot of soot and the jet needs cleaning more often. The kerosene i only used in the garage for a test run.
A few yrs ago i switched to using an alcohol stove. I find it smaller lighter and simpler.

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**mcwhirtj** · #9 13 Jan 2018

I have used gasoline and white gas (Coleman fuel). Like others have said, gasoline is convenient but a bit messy and generates more soot.

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**mikethebike2** · #10 13 Jan 2018

I have two stoves, a Camping Gaz single burner that takes either the approx. 0.5 ltr size or 2 0.25 stacked. Its quick and efficient, but very slow to boil and you have to build quite a wind guard around it.
The other is my favourite, single burner folding MSR and .75 ltr fuel bottle. In the US I buy Colemans fuel. I've burnt both kerosene ( you need to change the jet out for the spare one in the kit) and mineral spritis in Aus/NZ etc.
They all burn very hot, and the stove is low profile , comes with a sheet of very thick aluminium strip that easily folds into wind guard.
A little slower to start up, but once running its brilliant. I can cook breakfast for two, coffee, eggs, bacon and toast in about 15mins.
Michael

**brads** · #11 14 Apr 2018

Moved back to a meth burning Trangia years ago.

Those Coleman things are terrible. Ferocious things with no control.

**Tacho D** · #12 28 Aug 2020

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I have used gasoline and white gas (Coleman fuel). Like others have said, gasoline is convenient but a bit messy and generates more soot.

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I have recently bought a Coleman 442 and it's great. Good simmer control and will work at any temperature, any altitude. Nearly as easy as a gas canister stove. I use either Aspen 4 as a fuel or Stihl Moto4 plus. These are the same as Coleman fuel and less than half the price per litre. No stink and no soot. Petrol is ok as a temporary measure, but will eventually clog the generator.

**Tacho D** · #13 28 Aug 2020

As well as a Coleman 442 I have a "compact kit" comprising a Soto Amicus, 100g gas canister, lighter, Optimus windhield, and a GSI Minimalist pot/mug. Stove, gas, lighter, and holder fit inside the pot, and the windshield is strapped around it. This works well in most conditions, and take up very little space.