manufactures of these stoves such as Coleman, Camp Chef and Exponent, Texport Optimus, Brunton along with many more. The different types of camp cook stoves also come with one burner, two or three burners. You can make a homemade stove that works just as well as the stoves you buy in the store. There are so many types of stoves for camping. The earlier stoves were big and bulky, technology has allowed manufacturers to make stoves that weigh less and are more compact.

Camping Stoves Of Some kind Are Almost Indispensable

One thing to keep in mind about camping stoves is that they are almost indispensable. Whether it is for camping, backyard cookouts or if you lose your ability to cook indoors, camping stoves are a necessity for everyone. You can boil water as well as cook anything you might need.

Camping Stoves You Can Make

You can make your own sterno stove using any metal holder to hold the stern can. And a steel rod bent 90 degrees to form and L pushed into the ground will work to hold small pots with bale handles over the sterno.

There are also people who make their own stoves. The camping stove made with a soda can is one for the books. You simply cut the can down to a two-inch high bottom. After that, you make eight holes around the can. The stove is done, you just add the alcohol fuel and you have a burning stove that will even boil water. This is just one type of homemade stove; there are many different ways to make your own stove. If you are out in the wilderness, this is some useful information. This stove is reliable, sturdy and heavy but will run a long time and it’s like cooking at home.

You can also make a very good inexpensive sturdy stove that uses a an outdoor grill propane bottle. You can get these almost everywhere these days you simply exchange the bottle when empty. A new bottle is around $25.00 empty. The regulator is around $15.00 and the two burner stove is $30.00-$50.00 from Harbor Freight depending on the style used.

Coleman Camping Stoves

Coleman is by far the most popular for camping stoves. They have many different varieties of stoves including the Coleman Feather, the Instastart, the PerfectFlow, the Apex II, Gaz Turb, and the Ultralight along with the Outlander and the Xpedition. These are just a few of the choices. Coleman is always coming out with new camping stoves.

The Xpedition stove uses Coleman fuel and has two burners and works great at higher attitudes and in cold weather. The Outlander is a popular butane fuel stove also that is lightweight at only ten ounces and fits nicely in a backpack. The Insta-start Butane camping stove is unique because of the design and has electronic ignition. It can simmer, cook and boil. This stove is so small and compact it easily fits in backpacks or anywhere else you might need a small portable stove.

Outdoor Camping Stoves

There are many different types of outdoor camping stoves. There is the propane camping stove, backpacking stoves, cold weather camping stoves and liquid white gas camping stoves. As well as stoves that use small and large propane bottles and also liquid fuel that uses Coleman style liquid fuel or duel fuel stoves that can use unleaded gasoline as well as Coleman type fuel. You can find many (continued below...)