Re: Quiet stove
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2020 9:31 pm
I took a chance on this small £25 OEX Vulcan stove the day before I left for a 9 day TET trip a few weeks ago.
I didn’t fancy taking the bulkier Alpkit Brewkit (pictured for comparison) so I used the Vulcan stove with a ‘Sea to ‘Slummit’’ collapsible 1.4L X-pot which was easier to pack separately, gave me a wider range of cooking options and kept the mug separate for a hot brew (or on this trip it was usually red wine or Guinness!) whilst the meal was cooking.
A 230g gas canister provided a full weeks worth of fuel to boil water for tea/coffee every morning/evening, heat up ready meals, poach eggs for three people on a few mornings, boil potatoes (to accompany meat cooked on a disposable bbq) and cook a tasty stew up on the wilds of Dartmoor before the gas canister ran out.
Next time, I will carry the stove inside a metal mug (instead of a resin travel mug) and use that if just brewing up which should use less gas (especially with a wind shield) but the burner provided a good stable platform to support the x-pot which worked a treat.
Interestingly both setups were more or less exactly the same weight at 535g
So in answer to your question, the OEX Vulcan was quiet enough that I kept checking it was still ignited when it was simmering as I thought it had blown out, but it hadn’t.
I didn’t realize just how noisy the Alpkit Brewkit was until I tested it tonight (it made the dog bark!) but I can’t say It would bother me.
In the past I’ve used a petrol MSR stove which is noisy (and dirtier) but that was a long Trans African trip so it was ideal to take fuel off the bike which was always available.
I didn’t fancy taking the bulkier Alpkit Brewkit (pictured for comparison) so I used the Vulcan stove with a ‘Sea to ‘Slummit’’ collapsible 1.4L X-pot which was easier to pack separately, gave me a wider range of cooking options and kept the mug separate for a hot brew (or on this trip it was usually red wine or Guinness!) whilst the meal was cooking.
A 230g gas canister provided a full weeks worth of fuel to boil water for tea/coffee every morning/evening, heat up ready meals, poach eggs for three people on a few mornings, boil potatoes (to accompany meat cooked on a disposable bbq) and cook a tasty stew up on the wilds of Dartmoor before the gas canister ran out.
Next time, I will carry the stove inside a metal mug (instead of a resin travel mug) and use that if just brewing up which should use less gas (especially with a wind shield) but the burner provided a good stable platform to support the x-pot which worked a treat.
Interestingly both setups were more or less exactly the same weight at 535g
So in answer to your question, the OEX Vulcan was quiet enough that I kept checking it was still ignited when it was simmering as I thought it had blown out, but it hadn’t.
I didn’t realize just how noisy the Alpkit Brewkit was until I tested it tonight (it made the dog bark!) but I can’t say It would bother me.
In the past I’ve used a petrol MSR stove which is noisy (and dirtier) but that was a long Trans African trip so it was ideal to take fuel off the bike which was always available.