Camping Gas Canisters & Fuel

Somewhere between the tent pegs and the teabags, most of us have stood in an outdoor shop staring at a wall of little metal cylinders, wondering why something this small comes in so many confusing shapes. Butane canisters for camping stove use look almost identical from the shelf, yet swap the wrong one onto your … Read more

There’s a particular kind of panic that hits when your caravan hob splutters out mid-omelette because the canister’s run dry and you didn’t pack a spare. Butane canisters for caravan cooking are the small pressurised metal cartridges — usually filled with pure butane or a butane/propane blend — that power portable stoves, caravan hobs with … Read more

There’s a particular kind of dread that hits when you’re halfway through boiling water for your morning brew and the flame on your camping stove starts to gutter and die. Nine times out of ten, it’s not the stove’s fault — it’s the canister. Finding decent butane gas canisters under £8 sounds like it should … Read more

Camping gas canisters under £10 are sealed, single-use cartridges of butane, isobutane and propane that fuel portable camping stoves. Most hold 100g to 230g and use the EN417 screw-thread valve, which closes itself when you unscrew the stove. At single-digit prices, they cover most weekend cooking. Fuel is the least glamorous item in your kit … Read more

There is a particular kind of despair that arrives at 6:47am on a frosted campsite, when you’ve unzipped the tent, filled the pan, cracked the valve on your stove, and got… a wheeze. Not a flame. A wheeze, like the stove has caught your cold. This is the moment most people discover that camping gas … Read more