Review – The Novel Msr Pocketrocket 2
MSR is discontinuing the much venerated MSR PocketRocket. In it's place? The novel PocketRocket 2.
UPDATE xxx Dec 2016: MSR PocketRocket Review Supplement #1
UPDATE 25 Jan 2017: MSR PocketRocket Review Supplement #2
See also: The MSR Pocket Rocket 2 vs. the Soto Amicus
For those of you lot who are die-hard Pocket Rocket fans screaming "nooooo!" at your concealment correct now: Relax. There's a lot to similar here, too you're giving upwards really little.
Note: Gone equally good is the Micro Rocket.
Compactness
The obvious gain hither is inward compactness. For example, no affair how you lot plough it, the master Pocket Rocket merely isn't going to check into a 550 ml mug shaped pot, the sort that a 110 g canister of gas nests in. You can't lay it flat, you lot can't position it inward diagonally, too you lot can't stand upwards it upwards straight.
On the other hand, the novel Pocket Rocket 2 lays flat, no problem – a dramatic difference.
Weight
There's too a fairly pregnant weight reduction over the master Pocket Rocket. The novel Pocket Rocket 2 weighs inward at 73 g (2.6 oz) vs. 87 g (3.1 oz) for the original.
Improved Pot Stability
Now, or hence of you lot are no dubiety proverb to yourselves, "um, gosh, but the Pocket Rocket 2 looks a whole lot similar the Micro Rocket." Well, if you lot were thinking that, you'd locomote right, BUT there's merely a fleck to a greater extent than to it than that.
With the Pocket Rocket 2 come upwards much improved pot supports. The electrical load alongside the Micro Rocket? It was a fleck "iffy" inward terms of pot stability alongside pocket-sized pots.
For example, if 1 were to role something pocket-sized like, say, a Sierra cup, you lot were balanced on niggling to a greater extent than than a prayer.
On the other hand, alongside the novel Pocket Rocket 2, you've got quite a fleck of "contact length" alongside the pot supports. If you lot bump the stove or the pot otherwise shifts, you've however got a department of the pot supports inward contact alongside your vessel, too aught falls off.
What's that? You role something a fleck bigger than a Sierra cup? OK, great, but fifty-fifty if you lot role something bigger, the novel pot supports are however better. The novel pot supports are longer too accept to a greater extent than teeth. If your pot shifts or gets jostled, there's less jeopardy that your pot is going to fall. A dinner saved is a dinner eaten!
These improvements inward pot stability come upwards at no cost inward terms of extra weight; the Pocket Rocket 2 weighs the same equally the Micro Rocket.
Note: Nearly all I wrote inward my review of the Micro Rocket applies to the Pocket Rocket 2.
Price
The master Pocket Rocket had an MSRP of $40. The Micro Rocket had an MSRP of $60. The novel Pocket Rocket 2 has an MSRP of $45.
I retrieve this is skillful news. One receives all the benefits of the improved features too reduced weight of the Pocket Rocket 2 at entirely a nominal cost increase over the original. MSR is basically merging the 2 production lines (Pocket Rocket too Micro Rocket) into 1 too passing on the cost savings to you, the terminate user.
Concluding Remarks
I retrieve this novel stove is a win for mortal similar you lot or similar I – a dorsum the world stove user. It looks similar MSR merely didn't discovery the 2 pronged approach of having 2 really similar stoves (the Pocket Rocket too the Micro Rocket) advantageous. So, they've decided to cutting costs – spell at the same fourth dimension improving the stove overall. In hence cutting, they're able to offering a amend stove, the Pocket Rocket 2, at a much cheaper price. Whereas 1 formerly had to pay a premium to larn the compactness too lightness of the Micro Rocket, straightaway 1 gets the improved features too reduced weight at a really much reduced cost.
There is additional information inward the appendices, below, virtually open fire control, height, too other changes.
Summary
The MSR Pocket Rocket 2
What's skillful virtually it.
I give thank you lot you for joining me,
HJ
Appendix I – Manufacturer and Technical Data
Date Available: January, 2017 – see MSR Pocket Rocket Review Supplement for whatever updates
Manufacturer: Mountain Safety Research (MSR), a subsidiary of Cascade Designs.
Manufacturer's Website: http://www.cascadedesigns.com/MSR
MSRP: $45
Weight (measured): 73 g/2.6 oz
Materials: Primarily steel too aluminum
Packed dimensions: 1 11/16" x 1 11/16" x 3" (43 mm x 43 mm x 76 mm).
Unpacked dimensions: 4 3/4" x iv 3/4" x iii 9/16" (121 mm x 121 mm x ninety mm)
Size/Model tested: Pocket Rocket 2.
Colors available: Silver alongside a ruby valve block.
Requirements: H5N1 touchstone threaded canister of gas, sold separately. (Well, that too a pot of course)
Warranty Information: Contact Cascade Designs through their website (see above).
Appendix II – Flame Control
Flame command on the novel Pocket Rocket 2 is good. The open fire ranges from a really robust total powerfulness flame.
To a really prissy moderate flame.
To a prissy low, simmering type flame.
With pocket-sized pots, of class you lot desire to turn the open fire down. High open fire on a pocket-sized pot is going to consequence inward flames spilling upwards the sides of the pot – too going to waste.
The entirely efficient flame – especially alongside pocket-sized pots – is a smaller one. Never piece of work past times the diameter of your pot.
Notice the contrast inward open fire sizes betwixt the inward a higher house 2 photos. Yes, you'll boil faster alongside a larger flame. You'll too lav through a lot to a greater extent than gas.
Appendix III – Other Changes
There are a few changes equally the master Pocket Rocket too the Micro Rocket larn the means of the Dodo (i.e. extinct).
There's a new, much easier to role instance for the Pocket Rocket 2. The master Pocket Case wasn't bad, but it was a fleck bulky, too sometimes it would warp a fleck making it difficult to larn the stove inward too hence unopen the case.
The novel Pocket Rocket 2 instance opens easily similar a treasure chest, too it's a lot easier to larn the stove inward too out.
Gone too is the Micro Rocket's niggling mitt held piezoelectric ignition. I retrieve at that topographic point is niggling lost here. If you're going to demeanour a divide ignition, you lot mightiness equally good merely demeanour a regular butane lighter. A regular lighter volition locomote a lot to a greater extent than versatile inward that it tin lav too calorie-free paper, wood, etc. whereas a piezoelectric ignition entirely lights your stove. However, if you lot similar the mitt held piezoelectric ignition, you lot tin lav however larn either MSR's (presuming they're however going to demeanour it) or Kovea's which is identical to the MSR except for the colouring too the logo. There's room inward the instance if you lot determine you lot desire to demeanour one.
Appendix IV – Height
The superlative of the novel Pocket Rocket 2, when fully deployed, remains consistent alongside the master Pocket Rocket (as good equally the Micro Rocket).
Appendix V – Disclosures
The stove featured inward this review was provided to me at no accuse past times MSR. I accept no fiscal human relationship alongside MSR. I create non have whatever compensation from MSR for this or whatever other review except that I typically larn to piece of work along the stove. I accept pretty much every MSR stove known to human being including many stoves that no longer be (Firefly, Rapid Fire, "G" stove, Simmerlite, non-shaker Jet Whisperlite, etc.), hence 1 to a greater extent than stove isn't a specially large bargain to me too sure did non influence the means this review was written. I leave of absence of my means to locomote thorough too objective inward my reviews.
Also, I don't brand coin through this blog, non really. Sure, I accept ads, too on a skillful day, I brand virtually $2 USD. On a typical day, I brand to a greater extent than similar $1. Let's telephone phone it $35/month. That covers hosting fees too fuel, but precious niggling else, too sure doesn't compensate me for my time. This is merely my strange niggling hobby, too that's virtually all it is. There are those who accept suggested that this weblog is a plot to accomplish basis stove domination. Nothing could locomote farther from the truth – although it is strange that those making such suggestions accept all met alongside a serial of freak white gas stove priming accidents...
UPDATE xxx Dec 2016: MSR PocketRocket Review Supplement #1
UPDATE 25 Jan 2017: MSR PocketRocket Review Supplement #2
See also: The MSR Pocket Rocket 2 vs. the Soto Amicus
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| The novel MSR Pocket Rocket 2 |
Note: Gone equally good is the Micro Rocket.
Compactness
The obvious gain hither is inward compactness. For example, no affair how you lot plough it, the master Pocket Rocket merely isn't going to check into a 550 ml mug shaped pot, the sort that a 110 g canister of gas nests in. You can't lay it flat, you lot can't position it inward diagonally, too you lot can't stand upwards it upwards straight.
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| The master Pocket Rocket merely won't check inward a niggling 550 ml mug shaped pot. |
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| The novel Pocket Rocket 2 fits into a 550 ml mug type pot alongside room to spare. |
There's too a fairly pregnant weight reduction over the master Pocket Rocket. The novel Pocket Rocket 2 weighs inward at 73 g (2.6 oz) vs. 87 g (3.1 oz) for the original.
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| The Pocket Rocket 2 weighs inward at 73 g (2.6 oz). |
Now, or hence of you lot are no dubiety proverb to yourselves, "um, gosh, but the Pocket Rocket 2 looks a whole lot similar the Micro Rocket." Well, if you lot were thinking that, you'd locomote right, BUT there's merely a fleck to a greater extent than to it than that.
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| The Micro Rocket, left, too the novel Pocket Rocket 2, right. |
For example, if 1 were to role something pocket-sized like, say, a Sierra cup, you lot were balanced on niggling to a greater extent than than a prayer.
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| The pot supports on a Micro Rocket are merely barely at that topographic point alongside smaller diameter pots. |
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| The greatly improved pot supports of the Pocket Rocket 2 offering a lot to a greater extent than back upwards for pocket-sized diameter pots, cups, or mugs. |
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| The novel Pocket Rocket 2, upper left. The Micro Rocket, lower right. More teeth (and longer) = amend grip. |
Note: Nearly all I wrote inward my review of the Micro Rocket applies to the Pocket Rocket 2.
Price
The master Pocket Rocket had an MSRP of $40. The Micro Rocket had an MSRP of $60. The novel Pocket Rocket 2 has an MSRP of $45.
I retrieve this is skillful news. One receives all the benefits of the improved features too reduced weight of the Pocket Rocket 2 at entirely a nominal cost increase over the original. MSR is basically merging the 2 production lines (Pocket Rocket too Micro Rocket) into 1 too passing on the cost savings to you, the terminate user.
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| Generations. The Micro Rocket, left. The novel Pocket Rocket 2, center. The master Pocket Rocket, right. |
I retrieve this novel stove is a win for mortal similar you lot or similar I – a dorsum the world stove user. It looks similar MSR merely didn't discovery the 2 pronged approach of having 2 really similar stoves (the Pocket Rocket too the Micro Rocket) advantageous. So, they've decided to cutting costs – spell at the same fourth dimension improving the stove overall. In hence cutting, they're able to offering a amend stove, the Pocket Rocket 2, at a much cheaper price. Whereas 1 formerly had to pay a premium to larn the compactness too lightness of the Micro Rocket, straightaway 1 gets the improved features too reduced weight at a really much reduced cost.
There is additional information inward the appendices, below, virtually open fire control, height, too other changes.
- For availability too technical data, run into Appendix I.
- For open fire command (simmering capability), run into Appendix II. Nice open fire shots here. :)
- For other changes (case too ignition), run into Appendix III
- For a superlative comparison, run into Appendix IV
- For disclosures, run into Appendix V.
So, the Pocket Rocket is dead, but long alive the Pocket Rocket 2!
Summary
The MSR Pocket Rocket 2
What's skillful virtually it.
- Good cost point
- Nice compactness
- Robust, simple, too solid
- Good open fire control – see Appendix II, below.
- Reduced weight equally compared to the original
- The tops of the pot supports aren't completely degree when fully deployed. The supports all gradient downward into the catch toward the burner. Better suitcase would locomote achieved were the tops of the pot supports all degree (i.e. inward the same plane) similar to how the Soto Amicus is configured.
- The opened upwards burner is vulnerable to wind.
- A farther weight reduction would accept been most welcome at this juncture.
The MSR Pocket Rocket 2: Highly recommended.
HJ
Appendix I – Manufacturer and Technical Data
Date Available: January, 2017 – see MSR Pocket Rocket Review Supplement for whatever updates
Manufacturer: Mountain Safety Research (MSR), a subsidiary of Cascade Designs.
Manufacturer's Website: http://www.cascadedesigns.com/MSR
MSRP: $45
Weight (measured): 73 g/2.6 oz
Materials: Primarily steel too aluminum
Packed dimensions: 1 11/16" x 1 11/16" x 3" (43 mm x 43 mm x 76 mm).
Unpacked dimensions: 4 3/4" x iv 3/4" x iii 9/16" (121 mm x 121 mm x ninety mm)
Size/Model tested: Pocket Rocket 2.
Colors available: Silver alongside a ruby valve block.
Requirements: H5N1 touchstone threaded canister of gas, sold separately. (Well, that too a pot of course)
Warranty Information: Contact Cascade Designs through their website (see above).
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| The Pocket Rocket 2 – total power. |
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| The Pocket Rocket 2 – medium flame. |
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| The Pocket Rocket 2 – depression flame. |
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| Big flames + pocket-sized pot = large waste |
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| A flame, properly adjusted, never exceeds the diameter of the pot. |
Appendix III – Other Changes
There are a few changes equally the master Pocket Rocket too the Micro Rocket larn the means of the Dodo (i.e. extinct).
There's a new, much easier to role instance for the Pocket Rocket 2. The master Pocket Case wasn't bad, but it was a fleck bulky, too sometimes it would warp a fleck making it difficult to larn the stove inward too hence unopen the case.
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| The master Pocket Rocket's case, left, the Micro Rocket's case, center, too the novel Pocket Rocket 2's case, right. |
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| The Pocket Rocket 2 inward it's completely re-designed (and much improved) case. |
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| The novel Pocket Rocket 2 doesn't come upwards alongside a mitt held piezo ignition, but there's room inward the instance if you lot desire to demeanour one. The ignition inward the inward a higher house photograph is from Kovea but is identical to the 1 sold past times MSR except for the colouring too logo. |
The superlative of the novel Pocket Rocket 2, when fully deployed, remains consistent alongside the master Pocket Rocket (as good equally the Micro Rocket).
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| The master Pocket Rocket, left, the Micro Rocket, center, too the novel Pocket Rocket 2, correct – all virtually the same height. |
The stove featured inward this review was provided to me at no accuse past times MSR. I accept no fiscal human relationship alongside MSR. I create non have whatever compensation from MSR for this or whatever other review except that I typically larn to piece of work along the stove. I accept pretty much every MSR stove known to human being including many stoves that no longer be (Firefly, Rapid Fire, "G" stove, Simmerlite, non-shaker Jet Whisperlite, etc.), hence 1 to a greater extent than stove isn't a specially large bargain to me too sure did non influence the means this review was written. I leave of absence of my means to locomote thorough too objective inward my reviews.
Also, I don't brand coin through this blog, non really. Sure, I accept ads, too on a skillful day, I brand virtually $2 USD. On a typical day, I brand to a greater extent than similar $1. Let's telephone phone it $35/month. That covers hosting fees too fuel, but precious niggling else, too sure doesn't compensate me for my time. This is merely my strange niggling hobby, too that's virtually all it is. There are those who accept suggested that this weblog is a plot to accomplish basis stove domination. Nothing could locomote farther from the truth – although it is strange that those making such suggestions accept all met alongside a serial of freak white gas stove priming accidents...
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