Msr Windburner – Cooking Ability

OK, hence the novel MSR Windburner is uber windproof.  And nosotros know it tin boil water.  OK, great, but how's the open fire control?  Can it exercise to a greater extent than than boil?  I talked a petty most this inwards Trail Report #1, but allow me expand on things here.

In my kickoff report, I noted to a greater extent than or less problems on depression flame.  I would plough it down, it would move for a while, as well as hence it would become out.  I thought that was variety of odd.  After talking amongst MSR, apparently in that location was something incorrect amongst my burner.  They replaced my burner.

Flame Characteristics
Now, when I plough it down, it stays on.  Consistently.  That's a far to a greater extent than satisfying depression open fire to country the least.  Now, every bit amongst all burners, there's a for certain yell for where if you lot plough it downward too far, it's going to become off.  I hateful that is the component subdivision of the valve right?  We exercise desire to live able to plough off a stove, but yet nosotros demand to know how depression tin the open fire go.   Here's a quick video showing depression flame, open fire out, as well as high flame.  The video also discusses lighting a Windburner amongst a move steel as well as how to avoid the status known every bit underburn.  I'm apparently non a professional person videographer, but you lot should live able to empathise what the Windburner's open fire characteristics are from the video.  If you lot desire "pretty" videos, I'm for certain you lot tin respect them out there, but if you lot desire to dig into the details, I retrieve you'll respect them hither at .  If you're non finding what you lot need, run out a comment inwards the comments section, below, as well as I'll come across what I tin do.

Note:  When it kickoff came out, the Windburner was called the Windboiler.  They are ane as well as the same stove.

Can it Simmer?
OK, great, you lot tin plough it down, as well as it volition remain on at whatever setting you lot pose it on.  But tin it simmer?  Well, if nosotros work a strict Definition of simmer, no.  Even the replacement burner I received, which is quite stable at depression flame, cannot live turned downward plenty to teach a truthful simmer.  By simmer, I hateful that I should live able to plough the open fire downward such that I teach a real depression boil, ane where the H2O is simply barely bubbling.  I flora that I could non plough the stove downward that depression without it going out.  Now, most people who purchase an integrated canister stove (like the Windburner) aren't looking to laid gourmet meals, the variety that demand a lot of fragile simmering.  Most people purchase integrated canister stoves because they desire speed as well as convenience.  So, the lack of simmering might isn't necessarily a existent drawback to the Windburner.  And also in that location are other cooking options...

Cooking Options
In companionship to empathise the Windburner better, I compared it to other integrated canister stoves, chiefly my Jetboil PCS as well as Jetboil Sol.  As I ran adjacent tests, I noticed something:  The Reactor retained oestrus far improve than the Jetboils did.  Here's a video demonstrating simply what I flora out.

Did you lot come across what happened inwards the video?  After I turned off the ii stoves, the Windburner kept boiling, far longer than the Jetboil.  This might to retain oestrus gives the Windburner the might to laid real efficiently using a technique called cozy cooking.  With cozy cooking, you lot convey the H2O to a boil, speedily pose inwards your food, pose the lid dorsum on, as well as hence encompass the pot amongst something to insulate it (typically a fleece lid or something similar).  The nutrient is sitting inwards relatively high oestrus spell the stove is off.  I guarantee that no stove uses less fuel than a stove that is off.
Cozy cooking amongst an MSR Windburner as well as a fleece hat.
You desire your nutrient cooked thoroughly.  If you've always eaten freeze dried nutrient that's yet a petty "crunchy", you'll know just what I mean.  The job of nether cooked nutrient grows worse every bit nosotros climb higher.  Cozy cooking is sort of the "secret" agency to teach improve food without having to swallow through a lot of fuel.  The Windburner's might to retain oestrus makes it ideal for cozy cooking.  Note:  At higher elevations as well as on mutual depression temperature days, if you lot demand to, you lot tin allow everything sit down nether the "cozy" for a few minutes, plough the stove dorsum on, add together to a greater extent than or less heat, re-cover amongst the cozy, as well as allow it sit down for a few to a greater extent than minutes.

The Jetboil, amongst its opened upwards burner loses oestrus far to a greater extent than quickly.  It's simply non every bit skillful of a pick for cozy cooking.
The opened upwards burner of a Jetboil, hence opened upwards that I tin pose my fingers through it, does non retain oestrus well.
So, spell the Windburner isn't just a gourmet cook's stove, it's non a "one flim-flam pony" that tin exclusively boil water.  You tin plough the oestrus downward significantly, as well as amongst cozy cooking, you've got nearly the equivalent of simmering, but amongst far less fuel consumption.

That's my study on the cooking might of the MSR Windburner.  I give thank you lot you for joining me,

HJ

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