Camping Stove Information

The Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled two camping stoves, the Jetboil PCS and Field & Stream Dual Burner Camp Stove, in February 2009.

Doug Ritter's article at Equipped.com, "Earthquake & Disaster Preparedness Kits," suggests keeping a liquid-fuel stove that's capable of burning unleaded gas on hand for emergencies.

Bushwalking.org has an extensive FAQ about stove technical details, including a good section on stove safety.

Wikipedia has a good overview of camping stove types and how they work in their entry on portable stoves.

ZenStoves.net offers a detailed article about how a backpacking stove works, plus other informative articles about camping stoves.

One of the best backpacking stove guides we found is "Picking the Right Stove," at OutdoorPlaces.com.

Gorp.com (part of travel and outdoor network Away.com) has a guide to buying a camp stove, covering lightweight canister and liquid-fuel stoves.

For links to the material safety data sheets for many specific stove fuels, including white gas, kerosene, unleaded gasoline, various alcohol fuels and more, scroll down the article called "Backpacking Stove Fuels," to a chart at ZenStoves.com. This site also has a great buyer's guide.

The Transportation Security Administration discusses current U.S. travel regulations in "Camping: Traveling with Special Items."

Camping Stove Manufacturers:

Bleuet (French, Campingaz, now owned by Coleman)

Brunton

Century

Coleman

Jetboil

MSR (Mountain Safety Research)

Optimus (now associated with Brunton)

Primus (Swiss, distributed in U.S. by N. American Gear)

Sierra (ZZ Manufacturing)

Snow Peak (Japanese)

Svea (Swedish design now made by Optimus)

ThermoJet

Trangia (distributed in U.S. by Liberty Mountain)

Vaude Markill (German)