Your Complete Guide to Outdoor Cooking in the UK
There’s a special kind of misery reserved for the person crouched in a freezing tent, thumb on the igniter, listening to a stove cough, sputter and die. The kettle stays cold. The dehydrated chilli stays cold. Morale, frankly, drops below the thermometer. Nine times out of ten the stove isn’t broken; the fuel is simply … Read more
There is a special misery reserved for the walker who reaches a windy col at 6 pm, opens the valve and gets a flame the size of a birthday candle. Nine times in ten the stove isn’t to blame. The gas is. Choosing isobutane canisters for backpacking looks like the dullest line on your kit … Read more
A propane butane mix for backpacking stove use is a pressurised blend of propane and butane, usually isobutane, sold in screw-thread canisters. The butane keeps the can light and the pressure low. The propane props up vapour pressure when the air turns raw. That is why one small canister can boil a morning brew in … Read more
Propane butane mix for cold weather camping is a pressurised blend of liquefied petroleum gases in a screw-on or valve cartridge. Propane (boiling at −42°C) props up the pressure that butane or isobutane (−1°C and −11.7°C respectively) loses as temperatures fall. More propane means a stove that still lights when the tent is crunchy with … Read more
Nothing ends a campsite breakfast faster than a stove that coughs, splutters and dies halfway through the bacon. Usually the stove is innocent. The culprit is a cheap, half-frozen or mismatched canister that never should have made it into the boot in the first place. The good news is that propane butane canisters under £10 … Read more
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