White Gas Stoves

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