Gear: Cooking Stove

A cooking pot is no use if you don't have anything to heat it with, so next in line in the stove.  (The National Park Service doesn't take too kindly to starting campfires in the back country.  Something about forest fires burning down old growth forests tend to make Park Rangers a little cranky.)

Again, I received my camping stove from one of my daughters as a Christmas gift.  It is a MSR Pocket Rocket and it comes in a cute little plastic case.  This is designed to be mounted on a fuel canister, using the width of the canister as a base.

The fuel is an Isobutane/Propane blend which will "provide more cooking power from start to finish".  Given that the output of a stove is generally measured in BTU and not power, we can assume that some marketing wonk made that up.

So, when sizing up the stove, it's about 4 oz. and the fuel canister is about 13 oz.  (Of course, the bottle indicates that the gross weight is 12 oz., so that marketing guy is once again stretching the truth.  I have much more faith in this scale than the Borg.)