Upright (Top Mounted) Canister Stoves – The Acre Of The Art

What are the best upright (top mounted) canister gas stoves of today?  What are our options?  What's the best technology?

The latest from MSR:  The novel Pocket Rocket 2

I've got a friend who plant over at Massdrop*.  He's been bugging me to do a stove article, a kind of taking stock of the electrical current terra firma of canister stoves.  Kind of a fun project, so what the heck, I wrote a petty something up:  Upright Canister Stoves – the State of the Art.

This ship service hither on my weblog has something that I couldn't include inward the article, a dynamic HTML version of the nautical chart inward the article; run into below.  NOTE:  The version of the nautical chart on Massdrop is downloadable.

A classic former Hank Roberts stove.

I created a tabular array of upright canister stoves available inward the the States today.  I've got pretty much all the major brands together with fifty-fifty closed to that are less good known.  I didn't teach everything, precisely it's a pretty instance compendium.

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Brand	Stove	BTU	Grams	Oz's	Class	$$'s	Pros	Cons	Comments
BRS	BRS-3000T	9,200	25	0.9	SUL	$20	Super Ultralight, compact, inexpensive	Terrible inward wind, pot supports tin deform if overheated (inconsistent character control), pitiful pot stability, brusque valve handle	Poor pot stability, precisely dang is it light, compact, together with cheap.  The exclusively Super Ultra Light canister stove on the market.
Fire Maple	FMS-300T (Olicamp Ion Micro)	8,900	45	1.6	UL	$50	Ultralight, compact	Open burner, pitiful pot stability, brusque valve handle, loud	Limited pot stability, a chip loud.  Sold nether Olicamp gear upwards inward US.  Cheaper on Amazon or eBay.
Fire Maple	FMS-116T (Olicamp Kinetic Ultra)	9,600	48	1.7	UL	$50	Ultralight.  Good pot stability.  Well distributed flaming avoids hot spots	Open burner, non peculiarly compact	A petty to a greater extent than distributed flaming than closed to UL stoves.  Sold nether Olicamp gear upwards inward US.  Cheaper on Amazon or eBay.
Snow Peak	Lite Max	11,200	54	1.9	UL	$60	Ultralight, compact, depression carbon monoxide	Open burner	Surprisingly compact.  Good pot stability.  At 11,000 BTU/hr it tin actually swallow fuel if y'all allow it.  Turn it down. Made past times Kovea.
Kovea	Supalite	6,575	56	2.0	Light	$50	Light, rattling compact, depression carbon monoxide	Open burner	Surprisingly compact.  Good pot stability.  Some variants are 56 g; others are lx g.  Made past times Kovea.
Soto	WindMaster	11,000	67	2.4	Light	$75	Wind resistant, fantabulous gear upwards quality, sophisticated ignition, regulated burner, practiced to fantabulous pot stability.	Detachable pot back upwards tin last lost, tall (not compact), pricey, precisely at that topographic point are deals out there.	Great stove.  Best upright canister stove on the marketplace today -- if y'all tin alive amongst the detachable pot support.
GSI	Pinnacle	8,750	68	2.4	Light	$50	Seems reasonably good made.	A petty over priced for its class.  Open burner.	I haven't actually seen this 1 inward person, precisely I've seen closed to verbalize on the net; I hence include it for completeness.
Optimus	Crux Lite	10,200	72	2.5	Light	$40	Lighter than the regular Crux	Bulky, opened upwards burner	Doesn't pack good because burner doesn't fold.
MSR	Pocket Rocket 2	8,200	73	2.6	Light	$45	Simple, solid, improved pot stability	Open burner	I actually similar it's simplicity together with how company it is. Made past times Kovea.
Soto	MicroRegulator	11,000	73	2.6	Light	$70	Excellent gear upwards quality, sophisticated ignition, regulated burner.	Somewhat floppy pot supports; opened upwards burner.	Nice stove, precisely I would become amongst the WindMaster if you're looking at this type of stove.
Soto	Amicus (manual, piezoelectric).  Add $5 for piezo	10,200	75	2.6	Light	$40	Wind resistant, fantabulous gear upwards quality, sophisticated ignition, fantabulous pot stability.	Slightly bulky when compared to the virtually compact.	A actually fabulous novel entry from Soto at a squeamish cost point.  The air current resistance is real.  Definitely worth a look.
Primus	Express (manual, piezoelectric).  Add $10 for piezo.	8,900	82	2.9	Light	$45	Good gear upwards quality. Excellent pot stability.	Open burner.  Pot supports do non plication out of the means together with receive got upwards a lot of room.  Not the best piezo.	Primus makes practiced stuff, precisely I mean value their Express stove is a petty heavy for what it is.
Snow Peak	Gigapower (manual, piezoelectric).  Add $10 for piezo.	10,000	85	3.0	Mid	$40	Good pot stability, compact, strong, depression carbon monoxide	Heavier, opened upwards burner.  Poor ignition.	A classic, fantastic stove albeit a chip heavy past times today's standards.  The ignition sucks; teach the version without.  Made past times Kovea.
Olicamp	Vector	10,200	85	3.0	Mid	$30	Reasonalby priced	Open burner	Included every bit a depression cost option.
Kovea	Titanium	7,600	88	3.1	Mid	$60	Reasonably compact	Poor character ignition, opened upwards burner.	Ignition isn't peculiarly reliable.
Optimus	Crux	10,200	93	3.3	Mid	$50	Fairly compact	Heavier, wobbles at joint, opened upwards burner, opened upwards burner	Nice stove, precisely it would last slap-up if it didn't wiggle at the joint.
Jetboil	Mighty Mo	10,000	95	3.4	Mid	$50	Regulated burner	Poor character ignition, exclusively fair pot stability, opened upwards burner	Lowest cost regulated burner, precisely the ignition is crappy.  Soto's stoves inward this cast are meliorate precisely to a greater extent than expensive.
Kovea	Power Nano	7,300	95	3.4	Mid	$35	Inexpensive	Heavy for its class.  Open burner
Kovea	Eagle	6,000	128	4.5	Heavy	$30	Inexpensive	Heavy for its class.  Open burner
MSR	Super Fly (manual, piezo).  Add $10 for piezo.	10,000	177	6.2	Heavy	$65	Distributed flame, threaded together with non-threaded canisters	Heavy, bulky, sharp, pointy pot supports, opened upwards burner	Dislike.  Too big, likewise bulky, likewise heavy, together with the pointy pot supports poke holes inward your pack.
Primus	Classic Trail (Yellowstone)	10,000	227	8.0	Heavy	$20	Inexpensive	Heavy, bulky, opened upwards burner	Cheap, practiced pot stability, tin lead maintain larger pots, precisely I'm non a fan of this heavy beast.
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I promise y'all notice the data useful.

HJ

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An former Camping Gaz S-206 "Bleuet" stove.
The canister had to last physically punctured together with could non last safely removed until empty.

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