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Camping Stoves

Camping stoves should be light, easy to carry, easy to operate, and safe. Many people don’t know how to cook their dinner on an open flame, and a large fire can seem like overkill when you only want to heat a can of beans, warm water for coffee, or fry up the trout you caught out on the lake. There are many different types of camping stoves, and the right one for you depends entirely on your needs as a camper.

There are two different types of fuel used in camping stoves. You can choose between cartridge camping stoves and liquid gas camping stoves. Each type of camping stove has its positives and negatives. Cartridge camping stoves tend to be smaller than liquid gas stoves. If you’ve never seen a cartridge camping stove, they are about the size of a grape fruit with a single burner over a canister. Cartridges are disposable after they are run out, and cartridge camping stoves are clean burning.

Liquid gas canisters are larger, bulkier, and burn hotter than cartridge camping stoves. As a result, liquid gas camping stoves are great for all-season camping, and outdoors enthusiasts who spend a great deal of time working with their camping stove.