Your Complete Guide to Outdoor Cooking in the UK
There’s a particular kind of smugness that settles over you when your camping neighbours are shaking an empty gas canister over a lukewarm pan, and you’re still got half a bottle of unleaded sloshing around in your fuel bottle. That’s the quiet appeal of petrol stoves under £120: a fuel source you can buy at … Read more
There’s a particular kind of dread that sets in when your gas canister runs dry on a freezing Welsh hillside with no shop for eleven miles. A petrol camping stove doesn’t have that problem. Fill it from any forecourt, any layby, any jerrycan in the boot, and you’re cooking — which is exactly why this … Read more
There’s a particular sound every liquid-fuel devotee knows: the hiss-then-roar of a white gas stove for backpacking catching flame on a cold morning, somewhere well above the treeline. It’s not subtle. It’s not silent. But when the temperature has dropped low enough to make a gas canister sulk and splutter, that roar is the sound … Read more
A white gas stove for high altitude use is a liquid-fuel camping stove, typically burning naphtha-based “white gas,” designed to keep producing a strong, controllable flame when thin air and freezing temperatures cause ordinary gas canister stoves to sputter and die. If you’ve ever watched a butane canister lose the will to live at 3,500 … Read more
There’s a very specific kind of dread that sets in around 6am on a January bivvy, hands numb, when you realise your gas canister has gone from “roaring blue flame” to “sad, sputtering whisper” purely because the temperature dropped below freezing overnight. Butane simply gives up the fight below about 5°C, and it’s not being … Read more
Somewhere on a frozen col in the Cairngorms, or a dusty roadside outside Bishkek, every expedition cook eventually asks the same grumpy question: will this thing actually light? A multi fuel stove for expedition camping is the answer most seasoned mountaineers, overlanders and long-distance cyclists arrive at sooner or later, because it’s the one piece … Read more
There’s a very specific kind of heartbreak that comes from watching your gas canister sputter out halfway through boiling water for a brew, somewhere on a Welsh hillside with the rain coming in sideways. A multi-fuel stove sidesteps that entire drama. In simple terms: what is a multi-fuel stove? It’s a portable cooking stove built … Read more