Canoe Camping Stove?

[Deuce]

What's the bestest way to go? I take my Camp Chef monster on the gear pig, but of course it's too big for a canoe. I typically cook quite a bit in camp.

[okieboater]

Partner Steel is the champ of dependable long time service on the river.
Every one complains about the price,
But the quality and long life just beats the whang out of the competition
If you count the cost per dependable meals you will cook over your river camping life time, it is gonna be a few pennies per meal. They do not rust, and rarely break or at least I do not know of one that broke, but it may be out there. Made in America and if you call Idaho you can talk to the man building them if you need any information. Try that with your discount stove. I have a camp chef and use their products. Hard to light and stamped steel, made in china just like all the other big box camp store stoves. I do like the powerful burners when I can get the darn thing lit and going full blast. I have one of the old coleman white gas stoves and it is bomber as far as stamped steel goes. I also got one of the late model propane colemans made in china and it is not used much as several of the parts have fallen off the stove.

get the 4 burner Partner Steel Stove

Made out of aluminum, all parts rebuild-able
The outfitters choice

I have the 4 burner and 2 burner. Lost count of the years and meals cooked on the 4 burner. got the two burner just to have coffee stuff out of the way.

Lifetime purchase you will give to your grand kids

buy it now. they go up in price each year but never wear out or if they do easy to rebuild the burners.

[Deuce]

For canoe camping?

[okieboater]

yup the 4 burner folds up into a very small case that fits behind the seat in my solo canoe, the 2 burner is close to shoe box size when folded

you can use the smaller propane tanks for short trips or I have the new fiberglass propane tank and it is ultra light weight

just got back from a weekend trip and I carried the 4 burner behind the seat of the solo I was paddling along with the propane tank up front. easy to get to and we cooked group lunch both days on a gravel bar. took me minutes to set up the stove or breakdown and reload in the canoe.

I have the big two burner camp chef I think you referred to. No comparison in carry size or weight of that stove to a partner steel 4 or 2 burner.

Yes, I am a dedicated fan of partner steel stoves for river trips because they are as bomb proof as I have found, made in America and I like a complete river kitchen canoe or raft - and partner steel fills the bill. Quality!!!

[Deuce]

Okay, you're just trying to get me in trouble I'm strongly considering one of those now. Maybe I can convince Mrs. Deuce it came with the canoe.

[okieboater]

Hey, I am looking forward to sausage, eggs and hot biscuits on a future Buffalo Gravel Bar kitchen!!!

Ask Richard, neither myself or Bob Stout (frequent tandem Buffalo partner) are known for traveling light when it comes to kitchen gear etc, even in canoes!!

By the way, when you order that 4 burner Partner Steel stove, add in one of their griddles to fit! Then you will be pancake and garlic bread Chef DeLuxe!!!!

[robkanraft]

Dave, tell me more about the light-weight propane tank. Thoughts? Which size did you get? rob

[robkanraft]

My four burner Partner rocks, and it cooks better than my kitchen stove. Also, an alum. Coleman camp oven fits perfect on one side while I cook or use a coleman griddle oover the other burners on the other side. The two burner is super cute if you are a die-hard go light person, but the four-burner is more practical and not that much more expensive. I eventually sucked it up and bought the Partner stand for the four-burner. My first stand was home-made.

[okieboater]

I got the big one and it rocks! I think the little one would be fine for most short trips. I do mostly long multi day western river trips and like to end the trip with extra propane. Heat lots of dish washing water as well. I am from the old school engineering type. IE ain't no substitute for cubic inches, two braces are better than one and so forth. I love lightweight stuff but take the heavy duty options for river gear.

The new tanks do have to be inspected more often than the metal ones
and
have to be retired a lot sooner.

Having said that, my screwed up back tells me they are the way to go.

Have no feedback on any of them exploding, but it is weird to look inside and see the propane!

[Deuce]

I wonder if the eighteen inch two burner would be enough for me? I've been using the two burner Camp Chef for years and never felt like I needed more burners. I know the Camp Chef has more space, but Tuff River Stuff has the eighteen inch two burner for $215. Might be able to get swag with that.

[robkanraft]

Sure you can ...but if you like to feed the "troops" four is a luxury. You can run two griddles at once for breakfast, or an oven on one side and cook on the other. It's hard to lay that much cash down at once for sure, but I have no regrets. We use our four-burner a lot...often right next to the BBQ on our deck.

[okieboater]

Deuce,

I have the 4 burner and the 2 burner Partner Steel Stoves.

4 burner does the trick for group cooking.

2 burner will do the job for maybe a couple people. I cooked for a long time with just the 4 burner even for large groups. Got the 2 burner just to cut down on the competition floating with large groups fighting for more space for making more coffee, heating the dish water and to move folks away from the 4 burner as someone was doing the main cooking. another plus was the opened up two burners on the 4 burner to bridge the gap on this really big outfitter fry pan I sometimes use that needs two burners coverage or if I am using the Partner Steel griddles on one side of the 4 burner.

Like I said, if we can get a weekend on the Buffalo I will bring both of them and you can do some cooking and make an informed decision based on fact. I will say the Partner Steel 2 burner is really small and easy to pack. I have used it on trips just for me but I find the 4 burner is the one that I opt for most of the time. Being trained as an engineer wanting back up, altho my 4 burner has never failed to work on many many floats, the two burner is just insurance. As has been mentioned. These stoves are not cheap. I look at them as investments. Partner Steel uses the best materials and construction practice with real craftsmen not an assembly line where speed is the goal. Based on what I see going on in the financial world we live in, quality is mostly gone being replace by the cheapest way to go for something you throw away after a use or so. The sooner you buy, the sooner you get quality as inflation never seems to stop.

[Deuce]

Sounds like I need the four burner. So; anybody want a two burner Camp Chef? Make ya a deal!

[okieboater]

Those stoves do not go bad.

Who knows you might have a big party and need extra space for a shrimp boil or what ever.

[Deuce]

I was teasing about getting rid of it. I do wish I could get it to stop leaving soot all over my pots though. I've hosed out the burners twice but it hasn't helped.