You didn't mention another feature of Coleman's fuel funnel in that it is designed not to overfill the tank. When the fuel stops going through, that is it. It is full, and it needs a bit of air space inside to "Pressurise" the tank. But you need to watch the level in the funnel closely or you will spill fuel.
Ah, yes. That is a nice feature of it. I actually want to get a fuel container (one of the Trangia ones) so that I can pour it more easily without having to use the funnel and then wait for the funnel filter to be dry again, but that’s because I’m usually filling it inside the van and don’t want to fill the van with Shellite smell.
Nice review, thanks. I just got one of these yesterday. I used an earlier version on the Appalachian Trail back in the 1970's, and since I am in my van full time camping, I thought this would be a good choice. If you have not solved your valve handle issue yet, I was thinking you could get some 1/4 inch metal tube and file a slot on the end matching the valve rod diameter. Then make it as long as you want and either glue a nice knob on rhe other end, or bend it 90 degrees. Then you just slip this over the valve control turn where you want it, and then it pulls right off out of the way. Safe travels.
That’s a good idea. I considered a wooden dowel to do the same, too, but just the other day I used a fork and hooked the tines over curved bit of the wire the small knob is attached to (hard to describe) and it worked a treat! No idea why I didn’t think of that earlier. LOL! 🤣
@@JumpWithNoFear Brand new model 533 duel fuel from amazon. To my knowledge, they never stopped making them, except maybe during covid when no one could get anything?
@OverlandOne I heard from someone who is a distributor of Coleman products that they did stop making them, but I don’t think it was because of Covid. Maybe that was the reason?
I bought one of these after my night of being unable to crack a window during the floods in Northern Rivers and having gas in the car creeped me out.I absolutely love this stove and have found the control okay, but found the priming to pressurise was a bit tricky, until I read the instructions. Yeah clever me thought, okay just go for it. Once I learned the technique the stove demands it is a breeze to use, especially after those propane single burner stoves, that can be really tricky, unless mine was just a dud!
I like your prototype to increase the stability of large pans on your stove, very clever. I have the equivalent Coleman 2 burner stove. I was never keen on the idea of burning petrol, fearing the toxic fumes of all those additives in petrol.
Nice model for a pot stand. Use a stick with an eye screw to slip o'er that little red lever or a stick with a partial slot on the end. But then you already have that sussed by now. One of the better reviews for that stove. Thanks.
I actually still don’t have it sorted because I couldn’t quite figure out the best way to do it. The eye screw is a great idea! And thanks for saying it was a good review. I appreciate it. 😊
That’d work, but then I'd have to make sure I have them handy. It’s only an issue when I’ve been cooking one thing for longer than maybe 20 minutes that it all gets a bit too hot to touch easily.
Love your prototype!! Thanks for the review!’ Always looking at options for cook stoves. Currently I just have a butane one burner stove and one of those burners that has the cup on top. Can’t remember the name lol.
When I eventually get a van, I’d love to continue with the liquid fuel (they have a 2-burner version), but with the tall flame at the start, I think I may end up with an inverter instead, if I can manage the power requirements for it.
Yep. We had rain on and off the entire time we were there. It made making videos somewhat tricky! I was fortunate that the person who owned the place allowed us to use that undercover area.
Good info thanks. I wonder if a heat guard made of tin foil type material could be placed on top of the fuel lever that would reflect the heat back up and keep the lever cool.
Good tip! I feel like that would use up a lot of the gas in the lighter, but hey, I’ll remember that for if I ever need to make sure it doesn’t flame on for quite so long. Love that older one you’ve got. Amazing!
I know what you mean with the bigger frypan as I have the exact same one and it did fall off. In future I will only use the smaller one that came in the set. Good review.
Thanks! And yeah, I used the larger fry pan with it on a recent trip, but chose not to use the trivet… and lost half the dumplings on the ground when it overbalanced. D’oh!!
@@JumpWithNoFear my episode ended up with bacon and eggs on the ground! Plus burnt holes in the nylon type floor matting we were using. I wasn't happy. Oh well, lesson learnt.
As a rack for wider pans? I don’t think it would hold up to the heat. The one I made has warped from the heat and it’s actually designed for high heat.
Thanks Coralie. Was interested in these but your review convinced me to stick with the stove I have, due to that control issue. Think I may eventually go the route of enough solar to use an induction single burner. That is unless I can pick up a Dometic Origo stove that runs on metho, second hand!
Yeah, that tiny control is the one thing that I actively don’t like about this stove. I’ll find a solution easily enough, I think, but it would be better if it was easier to use right out of the box. It’s been the same design for decades and decades, so they’re unlikely to change it in the future, unfortunately. That stove you mentioned sounds interesting! I’m going to look it up!
If you’re still vaguely interested in it, it might be worth going to Tent World or something to have a play with it to see if it’ll be awkward for you or not. But regardless, when cooking for long periods with a larger pot, it gets hot and is hard to control just from the heat point of view.
I have a Trangia, and I still love it. How on earth do you find fuel for it these days, though?? Every single bottle of metho that I've found says that it's not to be used as fuel!
I looked into similar grills, but they were way too large for what I needed and just wouldn’t fit into my space. One that was half the length would be perfect, but they don’t seem to exist, sadly.
What is the stove and 1L shellite fuel bottle worth to buy? I wonder if it’s more economical than gas options. I think these stoves are classed as ‘liquid fuel’ rather that ‘spirit stoves’ so they’re not allowed in certain national parks or during some fire bans when gas and electric stoves are still permitted. Great video and I liked your… what’s the word… prototype 🤣 Thanks for sharing this 😃
The stove is worth about $125 full price. The Shellite is around $10 for a litre bottle (although you can get it heaps cheaper per litre in larger quantities). So I’m not sure if it’s more economical from a money viewpoint. Good point about the fire bans and stuff. When it’s lit, it’s burning the fuel in a gaseous state, and it burns in the same way that LPG does, so yeah, I have no idea about that, hey. It took me so long to remember the damn word ‘prototype’ even after finishing filming. 🤣
I’ve done it both ways and haven’t found it makes that much difference. I just pump it again if it’s a long cook and I feel like it’s losing steam (so to speak).
i have a few Coleman stoves and love them, but if i had to pick only one multifuel stove it would be my msr whisperlite, or optimus polaris optifuel, just so easy to maintain in the field if anything goes wrong, and with a repair kit will last years while using every day, i just can't decide, lol.
@@JumpWithNoFear yeah, they have shaker jet needles so the jet will not get clogged, wire in the fuel line so you can unclog it, and a tool so you can strip them down completely and clean.
Great to see an Ozzie review of this stove. A couple of questions: Where did you purchase and did the filler funnel come with it? Depending on where you buy, some don't come with the filler. A note of caution, use only the recommended size pan on the stove. It was discovered that some of those cheap butane were exploding as the oversizes pans were heating the gas cannister. You did mention that the fuel container got hot.....That's a worry, especially with children around.
This came with the funnel, and I bought it from Snowys. The butane canisters are made of much thinner and completely different metal, and are also compressed to a much higher level than the hand pump could achieve on this stove. I'm not in the least worried about the tank on this exploding. Especially considering that the pan itself is further away from the tank than the actual flame.
@@JumpWithNoFear The respo se, from you readers about exploding canisters is is somewht unnerving. Perhaps a safer option is the other style where the canister folds out of the tin box?
@@ericlance3357 The risk of this exploding is virtually zero. The risk of butane canisters on those cheap stoves exploding was a problem some years ago, but they changed the safety guidelines of which ones were allowed into Australia after that issue, so the risk of those being a problem now is also much less than it was.
In my opinion this stove has a lot of merits, but as with every merit, there are demerits. It is a good stove but it is far from perfect. There is no perfect stove but there are stoves that "Work for the user's needs." I want to get one but I have no use for it.
Unfortunately, I think it’s not available at the moment. From what I understand, they’ve stopped producing it, which seems like a tragedy to me! Last I heard they were negotiating to maybe get it made available in Australia. There are probably some available second hand, though.
I don’t know. It might be called a different name. Look for Coleman Fuel, or maybe white gas? But I’d check carefully that whatever you buy is suitable. If you look up Coleman Fuel online, it might give you some details of what it’s called in other places in the world.
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