Review: The Brs-3000T – The World's Lightest Gas Stove

At only 25 grams (0.9 oz), the BRS-3000T is unquestionably the world's lightest canister gas stove.  But is it whatsoever good?  I thought I'd run into for myself.

UPDATE 02 March 2017:  Failure #2 of the BRS-3000T
UPDATE 05 March 2017:  Failure #3 in addition to #4 of the BRS-3000T

The tiny BRS-3000T – exclusively 25 grams!!

Classification
I retrieve that it's fair to nation that the BRS-3000T is the worlds starting fourth dimension truthful super ultralight (SUL) canister stove.  What create I hateful yesteryear "super ultralight?"  Well, lead hold a await at the below chart.  The BRS-3000T is the starting fourth dimension known canister stove to come upward inwards under one ounce (about 28 g) inwards weight.

Canister Gas Stove Weight Classes (Less Than or Equal To)
	Ounces	Grams
Heavy	4+	113+
Moderate	< 4	< 113
Light	< 3	< 85
Ultralight (UL)	< 2	< 57
Super Ultralight (SUL)	< 1	< 28

Basically:

• If an upright canister stove weighs less than or equal to an ounce (28 g), that's SUL inwards my book.
• If it weighs less than or equal to 2 ounces (57 g) but to a greater extent than than 1 ounce, in addition to so it's UL.  
• If it weighs less than or equal to 3 ounces (85 g) but to a greater extent than than 2 ounces, in addition to so it's light.  
• If it weighs less than or equal to 4 ounces (113 g) but to a greater extent than than 3 ounces , in addition to so it's moderate.  
• If it weighs to a greater extent than than a quarter pound (113 g), in addition to so it's heavy.  

I retrieve that's a reasonable categorization, given the solid soil of the fine art in addition to the stoves commonly used.

Size
So, only how small-scale is this thing, anyway?  Well, for comparative purposes, I thought I'd set it side-by-side alongside some other stoves.

• On the far left is an MSR Pocket Rocket, a moderate weight stove at 3.1 oz/87 g.
• Next to the correct alongside the reddish base of operations is an MSR Pocket Rocket 2, a low-cal weight stove at 2.6 oz/73g.  
• Next alongside the xanthous base of operations is a FMS-116T (also sold every bit the Monatauk Gnat in addition to the Olicamp Kinetic Ultra), an ultralight stove at 1.7 oz/48 g.  
• Last on the correct is the BRS-3000T, a super ultralight stove at 0.9 oz/25 g.

Left to right: an MSR Pocket Rocket, an MSR Pocket Rocket 2, a Fire Maple FMS-116T, in addition to a BRS-3000T.

"Bench" Testing
Adventures inwards Stoving is all close testing, ideally inwards the field.  I create typically essay at domicile before taking a stove out into the field.  To that end, I fired it upward at home.  Right away,  I noticed that at that topographic point was a lot impingement of the flame yesteryear the pot supports.  The pot supports had a fairly dramatic impact on the flame, every bit shown yesteryear the color alter inwards the flame inwards the photo, below.  Put this into the dorsum of your mind.  We'll come upward dorsum to this later.

The flame of the BRS-3000T hits the pot supports, transmitting a nifty bargain of oestrus to them.
Note how the far pot back upward glows inwards the heat

Other stoves did non demeanour on the flame every bit much fifty-fifty though their pot supports were also inwards contact alongside the flame.

The pot supports of an FMS-116T stove lead hold no where close the impact on the flame every bit create those of the BRS-3000T.

Pot Stability
I was also interested inwards pot stability.  The BRS-3000T is a tiny piffling stove in addition to of all the stoves I've got has the smallest bridge to its pot supports.

Top row:  An MSR Pocket Rocket 2, left, in addition to an MSR Pocket Rocket, right.
Bottom row:  A Fire Maple FMS-116T, left, in addition to a BRS-3000T, right.
The BRS-3000T has the smallest bridge to its pot supports yesteryear far.

Field Testing
Intrigued yesteryear the strange flame pattern I had seen at home, I moved right away to champaign testing.  I had heard that the BRS-3000T did non perform good inwards wind.  I thence chose a hateful solar daytime alongside moderate winds for testing.

Arriving inwards the field, I began setting upward to test.  Out of curiosity, I flipped over a 110 g canister of gas.  The pot supports fit easily into the underside of the canister.  The BRS-3000T is a small-scale stove, in addition to the pot supports don't lead hold a specially broad span.   Pot stability is definitely an number alongside this tiny piffling stove.

The pot supports of a BRS-3000T are so small-scale that they volition fit inwards the underside of a 110 g canister.

The overnice matter close such small-scale pot supports is that they volition function good alongside small-scale vessels, for representative the 250 ml Sierra loving cup shown inwards the photograph below.

The BRS-3000T is a practiced tally for a Sierra Cup

Pot stability is a piffling tougher alongside a larger (but non specially big) pot similar the 1300 ml Evernew UL pot shown inwards the below photo.  I in all likelihood wouldn't become larger than a 1.5 liter pot on a BRS-3000T, in addition to you'd live ameliorate served yesteryear keeping your pot size nether 1 liter.  The best fit would in all likelihood live for pots (or mugs or cups) from close 750 ml to 250 ml inwards capacity.

A 1300 ml Evernew UL pot on a BRS-3000T

I set roughly 750 ml (three cups) of H2O into the pot, fired it up, in addition to waited.  And waited.  And waited.  And waited.  After close 10 minutes the H2O came to a depression boil.  The stove was non able to hit a total roiling boil.  I had heard that a BRS-3000T would grapple inwards wind, but I had no thought it would live this bad.  All opened upward burner upright canister stoves are impacted yesteryear wind, but I lead hold never seen a stove this air current sensitive before.  Even at highest output it could non choose 750 ml of H2O to a roiling boil, in addition to this was non a specially windy day.  I would depict the winds every bit moderate.  I had to set a weight on my ramen noodle wrapper to instruct out along it from flight away, but it wasn't similar cups were existence pushed over yesteryear the wind, in addition to the trees around me were non blowing means over or anything similar that.  These were pretty ordinary, mutual outdoor conditions, atmospheric condition that I in all likelihood wouldn't fifty-fifty lead hold detail regime notation of normally.

Well, I was hungry, so I set my noodles in, and, after a bit... what the heck?  Did I set the pot on incorrect or something?  My pot was clearly listing to 1 side similar a sinking ship!

My Evernew 1300 ml pot – canted off to 1 side atop a BRS-3000T

Quickly, I grabbed my pot before my dejeuner took a tumble!  Examining the stove, I realized that the pot back upward had bent.  It may live a piffling difficult to run into here, but the pot back upward on the correct inwards the below photograph is bent outward in addition to downwards alongside a slight twist.

Note the curvature in addition to partial twist inwards the pot back upward on the right.

All I had inwards the pot was close 750 ml of H2O in addition to some ramen noodles.  I hateful c'mon, that is a rattling normal charge for a stove.  If I had set a 3 liter pot on a piffling stove similar this mayhap I'd understand, but 750 ml?  That's trivial.  A stove should live able to lead hold 750 freaking piffling milliliters.  750 ml is exclusively 0.75 kg (1.7 lbs).  Do not instruct distracted yesteryear the pot size.  This is non a pot size issue.  Read the Analysis department below.  The existent number inwards this representative is the air current in addition to the blueprint of the stove.

Yes, I tested the stove on top of the picnic table.  Yes, it would lead hold been ameliorate to gear upward it on the Earth behind a stone or something, but c'mon!  I ought to at to the lowest degree live able to boil H2O after 10 minutes on high.  This stove is a truly pitiable performer inwards wind, in addition to at that topographic point for sure shouldn't lead hold been whatsoever deformation inwards the pot supports after 10 to 12 minutes.

The pot supports of a BRS-3000T are exposed to a nifty bargain of heat.

Remember that photograph I posted earlier?  The pot supports absorb a lot of oestrus from the flame.  After 10 minutes on high, they had absorbed plenty oestrus that the pot supports deformed fifty-fifty though they weren't nether a specially heavy load.

Analysis
I noticed during exercise that the air current was blowing the flame toward the pot back upward that eventually failed.  Said pot back upward was glowing brightly spell the pot back upward contrary was barely affected. So much oestrus was channeled into the 1 pot back upward that fifty-fifty nether a relatively low-cal charge of less than a kilogram, the pot back upward experienced "creep deformation" (or "creep failure"), the style of a metallic to piece of cake deform nether stress – a style that increases when both stress in addition to oestrus are present.

The means that the flame in addition to supports are configured, the pot supports are blasted alongside heat.  Magnify that outcome alongside air current directing the bulk of the oestrus to a unmarried pot support, in addition to you lot instruct creep deformation.  Yes, I realize that 10 to 12 minutes is a piffling long to live running a stove, but, it's non a grossly unreasonable fourth dimension to run a stove, specially inwards wind.  A stove shouldn't deform due to its ain flame inwards such a brusk time.  The stove should non lead hold been designed such that the pot supports are blasted alongside oestrus – or they should lead hold been made a piffling to a greater extent than oestrus resistant.  Remember that photograph I posted of the flame?  Most stoves don't lead hold that form of discoloration inwards the flame.  There's something peculiar close this stove in addition to its design.

However, at that topographic point are plenty of people using the stove that are non experiencing whatsoever problems.  It looks similar character command may non live quite what it needs to live alongside this stove.  Combine pitiable character command alongside a blueprint that blasts the pot supports alongside heat, in addition to you lot lead hold a recipe for pot back upward failure.

Links:

• BRS-3000T Review
• BRS-3000T Failure #2
• BRS-3000T Failure #3

Recommendations
I can't precisely give a practiced recommendation to a stove that failed during testing. Neither tin lavatory I give a stove that handles air current so poorly a practiced recommendation.

Again, however, I'm aware that at that topographic point are plenty of people who are using the stove in addition to are non experiencing problems.  It’s an inconsistent stove.  Maybe you'll instruct lucky.  Maybe you lot won't.  Clearly at that topographic point are duds out there, in addition to fifty-fifty if you lot don't instruct a dud, the correct air current atmospheric condition could soundless elbow grease a pot back upward failure.  Also, your pot supports could neglect over time, every bit they did inwards Failure #3, above.

I advise the following:

• Run the stove  for fifteen minutes on high alongside 2 cups of H2O on before taking it out on the trail for the starting fourth dimension time.  If your stove tin lavatory lead hold a fifteen infinitesimal run on high at home, in addition to so it's in all likelihood going to live OK out on the trail.  If it fails at home, only purchase some other one.  It's non similar they're expensive.  The chances of getting 2 duds are fairly depression I would think.
• Make absolutely certain to shelter the stove from wind.  If you lot neglect to shelter the stove, air current may channel oestrus to a unmarried pot back upward which may deform in addition to fail.  You should e'er shelter a stove anyway so that you're non burning through an inordinate amount fuel, but it's specially critical on the BRS-3000T.
• Run the stove at close 50% to 75% of total flame to avoid overheating the pot supports.  It'll lead hold a piffling longer to boil, but you'll truly relieve gas this way, in addition to you lot won't lead hold so much oestrus blasting the pot supports.

If you lot wanted to truly play it safe, you lot could limit the amount of H2O boiled at whatsoever 1 fourth dimension to, say, 500 ml.  You could also run the stove for no to a greater extent than than mayhap 5 or so minutes at a time, give or take, in addition to you lot could permit the stove cool a combat betwixt successive boils

Long Term Reliability
What impact volition repeatedly blasting the pot supports alongside high oestrus have?  I lead hold received reports from people who had practiced results at starting fourth dimension but whose pot supports deformed over time.  So, at that topographic point is the possibility that fifty-fifty if your stove is practiced at starting fourth dimension that it may sense problems over time.

Alternatives
BRS has a history of problems; some BRS stoves lead hold been banned yesteryear countries inwards Europe due to repeated security problems.

If you lot truly desire a practiced ultra low-cal canister gas stove, await into Fire Maple stoves.  Fire Maple has a pretty practiced reputation.  Their FMS-116T (sold inwards the USA every bit the Olicamp Kinetic Ultra) weighs 48 g/1.7 oz.  The Fire Maple FMS-300T (sold inwards the USA every bit the Olicamp Ion Micro) weighs 45 g/1.5 oz.  They're non super fancy stoves, but at to the lowest degree they don't channel so much oestrus to their pot supports that they deform in addition to dump your dinner.

Note the nomenclature on that final stove, the 300T.  Sound familiar?  That's right, the BRS-3000T is a inexpensive fake of the FMS-300T.  Do yourself a favor; instruct the existent thing.  Yeah, it's 0.8 oz/20 g to a greater extent than weight, but at to the lowest degree it doesn't curvature after 10 minutes of use.  My opinion.  YMMV.

And of class there's the Snow Peak LiteMax stove at 1.9 oz/54 grams, which is rattling compact spell soundless having practiced pot stability.

Best Use
I can't recommend a stove that failed during testing fifty-fifty if, yes, the circumstances were a piffling combat unusual.  However, if anyone were to exercise a BRS-3000T, it should live a soloist. This is non a practiced stove for 2 people, in addition to it is clearly non a grouping stove.

I would non recommend the BRS-3000T for snowfall melting.  Snow melting usually requires that a stove live on for longer periods of fourth dimension although at that topographic point are people who are doing only that, snowfall melting, in addition to are non having problems.

Summary in addition to Conclusion
The BRS-3000T

What's practiced close it?

• Cheap.  Prices vary, but I retrieve I paid close $15 for it, including shipping, on Amazon.
• Light.  Twenty 5 grams (0.9 oz)!
• Compact.
• Fits small-scale cups, mugs, in addition to pots well.

What's non so practiced close it?

• Absolutely abysmal inwards wind.  A windscreen volition help, but at that topographic point are times where fifty-fifty a windscreen may non live enough.
• Pot supports instruct heavily striking yesteryear the flame in addition to could fail.
• Poor pot stability.
• Overly brusk valve command handle.

The BRS-3000T:  Not recommended.

Sorry I couldn't give a ameliorate report.  I was truly hopeful close this stove but am at nowadays quite disappointed.  Had I bought it locally instead of from China, I would demand my coin back.

HJ

Disclosures
I purchased this stove alongside my ain coin on Amazon only similar anyone else would.  I lead hold no fiscal relationships alongside either BRS or Amazon.  If I did, I powerfulness live giving a much nicer review, don't you lot think?  I am an independent stove reviewer.  This is my review; it is no 1 else's.

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