Choose the Right Camping Stove

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Part of the video series: How to Prepare for a Camping Trip in the Wilderness

Summary: Gas and electric stoves both have their pros and cons, so choose the right stove for you. Learn more in this free video series.

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Daniel Schieffelin Daniel Schieffelin has a degree in Outdoor Education and Leadership from Sterling College in Vermont. He has worked outdoors in several stations including bei... read more

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Choose the Right Camping Stove

Hi! My name is Dan and I am here with Expert Village. Today we are going to be talking about stoves. If you are going camping you don’t want to build a campfire, you want to bring a camp stove with you. There are many different kinds of stoves; there is light weight stoves, slightly heavier weights, there is also can fuel as opposed to liquid fuel stoves. Can fuel stoves tend to perform coldly in cold weather and high altitudes whereas stoves with liquid fuel and a pump on them can perform well in almost all circumstances? There is a variety of different options you can get with a stove. The whisper like International is so named because pretty much anywhere you go on earth, you can find a fuel to go in it. You can use diesel, kerosene, white gas or any Bacardi 151 if times are tough. Typically when you buy a stove it doesn’t come with a fuel bottle so you will have to buy appropriate bottle to go with your stove. They will come with a pump but you want to make sure that once you have set your stove up that there is a good tight seal between the stove arm and your fuel bottle. You also want to make sure you have the appropriate fuel for the kind of stove you are going to be using and that when you are filling your bottle; you didn’t spill any on or near your cook site.

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