Are you going to the camp this year? Are you going on a caravan holiday or will you be traveling with your backpack and tent on your own axis? In any case, you will definitely need to eat and there are not always restaurants or snacks available on site. This is despite the fact that Czech and foreign camps offer quite a decent background in this respect.
But if you want to cook something along the way, or you just enjoy cooking in the open air, you must have the necessary equipment. In caravans, you can already find integrated stoves for large or small propane-bomb bombs in the kitchen. But now let's imagine smaller cookers. The first categories are models for a 2 kg propane-butane bottle.
Older years, for example, remember the MEVA single or double-paned cookware. Nowadays, the most popular Campingaz cookers are easily folded into a portable case and thanks to the Xcelerate Technology, the burners and pot support reduce cooking time in half outdoors. Piezo ignition for fast and easy startup without matches. The representative is, for example, a stove Campingaz 400 S Stove. The advantage of these cookers is long life, stability and two hotplates. You can get a gas bottle at every gas station. The disadvantage is the higher price and weight, cumbersomeness, which predestines them almost exclusively for car travel. In addition, you must have connected to a 2 kg bottle a so-called pressure relief valve and a hose with a pressure regulator.
On the other hand, the so-called cartridge, which you can comfortably pack in a backpack or in the trunk of a car. Also, all common tourist cookers use propane butane as fuel. It comes in several types of so-called cartridges - someone also calls them bombs. But nowadays it is not highly recommended to pronounce this word aloud. There are three types of cartridges on the market. The so-called needle cartridges are the cheapest and easily available abroad. However, handling them requires a bit of skill because the cooker is permanently connected to them until the gas content is completely depleted.
Such a cooker has a mandrel at the bottom nozzle, through which the gas cartridge is inserted, and thanks to the sealing and tightening of the cooker, there is no gas leakage. However, the inconvenience with these cookers is that if you cook and you want to fold the cooker into a backpack, for example, you cannot separate it from the bomb. The second type of cartridge is Campingaz valve cartridges. These are the famous blue cartouches. The upper valve looks similar to, for example, hair spray. So you screw the stove on it and tighten it. The advantage is that you can separate the cartridges used in this way during transport and store them in a backpack separately. Thanks to the non-return valve, you don't have to worry about leaking precious propane-butane. The disadvantage is that this system is used almost exclusively by Campingaz and in some areas these bottles may not be available.
The third type of cartridge is the so-called valve screw cartridge, which looks similar to the previous model. However, there is still a thread on the valve on which you screw the cooker firmly and you can also separate them at any time. The advantage is that this connection is stable, solid, there is no gas leakage. This type of cartridge is also made by many different manufacturers. The best known are, for example, Coleman, Pinguin, Husky, Primus, Optimus and many others. So there is a good chance that you can get replacement cartridges of this type without any problems here and abroad. Now let's go to the gas cookers themselves.
You can get the cookers on the so-called needling cartridges from approx. 250 crowns both at home and abroad, where they are often even cheaper, and for example in Greece or Italy, you can get them in almost every self-service store. Their performance and design is very similar, so we will not deal with them in more detail. Gas cookers on screw cartridges offer a much better choice in terms of weight performance and variety.
These differ mainly in performance. This means - how long it takes for a liter of water to bring to a boil, and this information is usually given by the manufacturers. Weights and ignition methods also vary. The cheapest are steel cookers, others are stainless steel, the lightest but also the most expensive are titanium cookers, which is, however, a matter more for alpine hiking, expeditions and mountaineering. Conventional Coleman cartridge cookers, Penguin, Primus usually have two types of ignition. Either you have to light them with a lighter, a match, or a magnesium flint. Some models, abbreviated PZ, which means Piezzo, have an electric ignition. Similar to an electric lighter. You release the gas, press red from the side of the burner and an electric spark ignites it. The disadvantage of this type may be that when the Piezo ignition gets wet or designed, most of it stops working. But even in this case, you can light such a stove classically with a flame.
A small tax on the storage of this type of camping stove, however, is that they are overwhelmingly single-burner. This means that you have to think about how to proceed or wait for a while for coffee after making lunch.
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