This is an installment inwards my serial on the novel MicroRocket stove from MSR. Other installments inwards the serial include:
If you're interested inwards traveling light, there's to a greater extent than to it than only the weight of a stove. You cause got to consider your cooking educate every bit a whole. And of course, it's genuinely sugariness when everything nests together within a small-scale lightweight mug-type pot. So, for the novel MicroRocket, the inevitable inquiry is: Just how small-scale is it? And
will it fit inwards my item laid up?
Well, patently I can't exam the MicroRocket amongst every pot together with mug known to man, but I thought I'd exam it amongst a few hopefully example mugs/small pots. Hopefully my tests volition give you lot an thought if the novel MicroRocket volition jibe inwards your laid up.
Well, let's run across today's "contestants:" H5N1 BPL Firelite 550 mug/pot (550ml), a Snow Peak 780ml pot, together with an MSR Titan kettle (850ml). We'll live on seeing how a MicroRocket does or does non jibe together with how the older PocketRocket compares. So, fasten your spot belts, together with let's caput out on unopen to other Adventure inwards Stoving.
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Front: MSR PocketRocket (left), MSR MicroRocket (right).
Rear (left to right): BPL Firelite 550 mug pot (550ml), Snow Peak 780ml pot, MSR Titan kettle 850ml
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Well, let's start amongst the Firelite 550 mug pot. We'll seek the PocketRocket outset together with consider how that flies.
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| A PocketRocket inwards a BPL Firelite 550 mug pot |
Uh, well, the give-and-take "FAIL" comes to mind. Twist together with turn, seek every bit I might, I could non jibe a PocketRocket into a BPL Firelite 550 mug pot.
But what almost the MicroRocket?
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| A MicroRocket inside a BPL Firelite 550 mug pot |
Whoa! How cool is that? Not entirely does it fit, it lays downward flat. Nice. And, yes, that's the same pot every bit inwards the prior photo. The MicroRocket genuinely is that much smaller. Sweet!
Well, shoot, if we've got that much room, why don't nosotros popular inwards a canister of gas?
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| A BPL Firelite 550 mug pot amongst a MicroRocket and a 110g gas canister inside |
Well, it variety of fits, but non exactly. Even if I accept the cap off of the canister, I can't quite teach the mug's lid on.
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| A BPL Firelite 550 mug pot amongst a MicroRocket and a 110g gas canister inside |
A tad disappointing, but soundless that's pretty darned expert that I tin jibe all that into a footling 550ml mug. And, if you lot piece of employment your favorite ultralight stuff sack, mayhap it volition piece of employment for you.
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| A "stuff sack" for the BPL Firelite 550 mug pot. Inside are a canister of gas together with a MicroRocket stove. |
OK, next, let's await at the Snow Peak 780ml pot.
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| A PocketRocket within a Snow Peak 780ml pot |
This time, the PocketRocket does fit, but seek to jibe inwards a gas canister, together with you've got a chip of a problem.
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| A PocketRocket together with a 110g gas canister within a Snow Peak 780ml pot |
I tried differing combinations, but to no avail. H5N1 PocketRocket together with a gas canister only cannot live on made to jibe inwards this small-scale of a pot.
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| A PocketRocket together with a 110g gas canister within a Snow Peak 780ml pot |
But amongst a MicroRocket, now, that's a different matter. They both jibe without also much trouble.
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| A MicroRocket together with a 110g gas canister both jibe within a Snow Peak 780ml pot |
A Snow Peak 780ml pot
without the MicroRocket volition jibe a larger 220g canister, but amongst precious footling room for anything else.
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| A Snow Peak 780ml pot amongst a 220g gas canister |
OK, together with thus there's our await at a Snow Peak 780ml pot. Now, how almost the MSR Titan kettle which is 850ml?
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| An MSR Titan kettle amongst a PocketRocket together with a 110g gas canister inside. You can't unopen the lid. |
Well, amongst a Titan kettle, you lot tin teach both a PocketRocket together with a 110g canister of gas inside. Kind of. But you lot can't unopen the lid.
On the other hand, amongst a MicroRocket, you've got oodles of room. Go ahead, throw inwards a lighter, a footling washcloth, or what cause got you.
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| An MSR Titan kettle amongst a MicroRocket together with a 110g gas canister inside. Plenty of room. |
With the MicroRocket together with a 110g canister, I tin fully seal the lid. Nice.
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| An MSR Titan kettle amongst a MicroRocket together with a 110g gas canister inside. The lid seals fully. |
A 220g canister nonetheless doesn't quite piece of employment fifty-fifty amongst a MicroRocket.
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| A 220g canister doesn't quite jibe into a Titan kettle amongst a MicroRocket. |
Just for fun, I thought I'd seek unopen to other gas stove amongst a reputation for existence compact, the Optimus Crux, inwards the same configuration.
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| An Optimus Crux within an MSR Titan kettle |
There was no stuff divergence betwixt the jibe amongst an Optimus Crux together with the jibe amongst a MicroRocket.
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| The jibe amongst an Optimus Crux is non materially different than that of a MicroRocket |
In fact, I tried the Optimus Crux amongst all of the inwards a higher house pots. The Crux is a chip to a greater extent than compact than the MicroRocket, but it made no stuff divergence amongst whatever of the pot together with canister combinations. I create detect that the novel MicroRocket's pot supports are a footling less fiddly than the supports on a Crux, but to a greater extent than on that inwards a hereafter post.
Well, this isn't i of our master copy 3 contestants, but I was curious. If a 220g gas canister won't jibe inwards whatever of the above, what volition it jibe in? Let's seek a 1000ml Snow Peak pot. I wouldn't precisely telephone phone a 1000ml pot small, but let's seek it.
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| A 1000ml Snow Peak pot amongst a 220g gas canister together with an MSR MicroRocket inside. |
Fits reasonably well, together with the lid closes fully. Do banking concern complaint that my pot has a "fry pan" type lid amongst unopen to depth. I wouldn't tell that a 220g canister together with a MicroRocket volition jibe inwards all 1000ml pots, but it's worth checking.
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| A 1000ml Snow Peak pot amongst a 220g gas canister together with an MSR MicroRocket inside. The lid closes fully. |
Well, at that spot you lot cause got it, a await at the jibe of the MSR MicroRocket inwards 3 small, ultralight backpacking type pots -- amongst a exceptional invitee appearance past times our friend the 1000ml Snow Peak pot. I promise this gives you lot a feel of the size of the MSR MicroRocket together with whether or non it mightiness piece of employment amongst your item laid up.
Thanks for joining me on unopen to other Adventure inwards Stoving,
HJ
P.S. H5N1 preview of coming attractions:
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| An MSR MicroRocket |
I fired upwards the stove using the piezoelectric lighter. It's genuinely real effortless together with slick. I establish it easier than using a conventional lighter. Now, is it worth it to acquit the extra 13g together with to cause got to proceed rail of yet unopen to other slice of gear? I mean, I am going to cause got to acquit a regular lighter anyway, together with thus is it worth it to acquit the footling piezoelectric lighter? Dunno, but instantly that I've used it together with seen how good it works, I'm non quite together with thus dead laid against it. It's genuinely pretty nice. I instantly recall that unopen to people volition elect to acquit it. One dainty thing almost it is that dissimilar a Bic, the piezoelectric ignition volition non run out of gas.
It also looks similar MSR has taken unopen to steps to cut down the carbon monoxide output of the MicroRocket. More on that inwards a hereafter post. Stay tuned. :)
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