Today’s “photo of the day” is testing the MSR stove.
When Jeremy and I got in we decided to test the MSR Pocket Rocket stove in the backgarden.
The assembly of the stove was very easy, the large knurled bottom of the stove helped with this and assisted with keeping the stove straight on the canister as it was screwed in. Then we tried out the stability of our MSR titanium mug and Titan kettle which we found very good, due to the angled pot stand arms.
As per the instructions we did not use a windshield and depended on the “Wind Clip™ wind shield”, these are the three small metal fins on the burner.
The stove was set up in an exposed position and there was a strong breeze. The burner lit easily even in the breeze – and we put 300ml of water on to boil, in the MSR titanium mug with lid. The Wind Clip worked as from time to time as the breeze picked up we could hear the flame stutter but it did not go out.
In this exposed position it took 2mins 30secs to bring the water to a rolling boil. When camping it would be possible to give the stove some shelter behind the tent so decreasing this boil time.
Following this test it only took a couple of minutes for the stove to cool sufficiently for it to be handled and packed away.
This was a garden test, which showed this is a good stove – we’ll test it some more when we go backpacking next.
Looks like the biz Clive.