Speaking of not having a stand available, here's a video doing without just fine:


HJ

Perhaps when your upright canister stove isn't running so hot, it is a sign from on high that it is time to emulate the loons and snow geese and head south for the winter...

Inverting the canister disrupts the Natural Order of Things and leads to global warming, hurricanes, and corn blight.

No wonder MSR keeps mum....

Something you've obviously taken to heart. lol

HJ

After thinking I was satisfied with my setup, you've got me considering my first cannister capable stove. Had no idea you could invert it like that. Dammit Jim, stop writing such good reviews!

With a remote inverted canister stove, you've got all the convenience of gas with (nearly) the cold weather performance of liquid fuel. Inverted remote canister stoves are a really nice way to go.

The other, less obvious, advantage is in really bad conditions. Say it's 18F outside and storming. You're going to go outside and cook? Really? Maybe, just maybe, it would actually be safer to cook in your tent/shelter than to risk getting bone chillingly cold? OK, great, let's cook inside, but are you really going to prime a white gasoline stove inside your tent? Uh, sure hope you don't screw up while you're priming the stove. With a gas stove, there's no priming. It's just "click, click, whoosh" ("click" being the sound of your lighter).

Eye R verry soorrie. I wil endever too rite bad frum now ohn.

HJ

Did some tests on kerosene tonight. Ran well although it didn't even come close to simmering on kerosene (not that I expected it to).



HJ

Jim, do you know if its possible to use a kerosene alternative like KleanHeat in stoves like this? It's marketed as a cleaner burning alternative for use in kerosene heaters and oil lamps. Just curious.

Yes, Klean Heat works just fine. I haven't done a side by side comparison running on Klean Heat vs. K-1 grade (stove grade) kerosene, but whenever I've run with Klean Heat (on any stove designed for kero), it's worked well. In the photo you see, I'm actually running on Klean Heat (which is a form of kero; don't buy that hogwash that it's a kero "substitute").

HJ

Here's a fun photo: Me testing the Whisperlite Universal last night. I'm wearing the headlamp.



HJ

Excellent. Thanks Jim.