The wide opening means you could stir anything in there, and also wash it out properly afterwards - but I've used it for just boiling water and heating the odd packaged foods where you can warm them by putting them in the water you are boiling (mini christmas puddings bought cheap at New Year and that last forever are a favourite! Warm them up in the water you will then use to make the instant custard with - yummy). You could if necessary cook something inside the teapot. Being able to pour accurately out of the spout is great if you for example take a lightweight drip coffee filter camping that sits on top of your mug. Being a teapot, it has of course a spout - a dinky little thing that doesn't really stick out but does seem to pour very well, with no drips. The Pika Teapot has a plastic lid that covers the wide opening and a fold down plastic coated handle - I can pack the PocketRocket Deluxe stove easily inside along with some teabags and a bag of coffee. I still take and use a windshield with the PR D which will maximise efficiency, but this clever design shelters the burner more than you would expect. I'm not sure how really as it isn't that deep, but that design seems to make the stove surprisingly wind resistant. Its cup-shaped burner unit also makes it a bit different from other canister stoves. I'm sure I will happily use the PR D through the British winter. MSR doesn't seem to give a minimum temperature for the PR D, but from past experience with other pressure regulated stoves like the Mighty Mo, and when using an 80/20 isobutane/propane gas mix, it should work fine to at least a few degrees below freezing. This means the stove should not experience a drop-off in performance as your gas canister gets emptier, or when it is colder. The second major feature is that the PR D has a built-in pressure regulator. With the PR D, whilst I think it would be foolish to not to take any other form of lighter, so far I haven't needed one - and that's impressive. When testing the otherwise rather comparable JetBoil Mighty Mo stove, I needed to use a separate lighter on a number of occasions when the piezo just completely refused to work: I think it has lit on the first click of the lighter every time. To be honest, that is what I was expecting to find too, but over, now, many days of use, I have lit the stove with the igniter solely. I've seen a couple of reviews of this model elsewhere that say they found the electronic lighting unreliable. This looks different from the piezos I've had on other stoves - you can't see a porcelain insulating tube for example, and what you can see is all metal and seems just as solid as the rest of the stove. The most obvious thing the Deluxe has in addition is a piezo lighter attached. In some ways you could say it is your classic 'sit-on-top' three armed canister stove, but this PocketRocket has some designed-in features that make it worthy of the 'Deluxe' tag.Īt 83g, you can find lighter stoves, indeed, the Deluxe's sibling, the PocketRocket 2, is about 10g lighter. In use it has proved to be a well designed, well made and easy-to-like camping stove, and one that does what it is meant to do effectively and with a minimum of fuss. So it's fair to say that I was positively inclined toward the PocketRocket Deluxe (let's shorten it to PR D) when it arrived for testing. I only sold it on recently when the number of stoves I had accumulated was becoming more than one person could possibly justify. It worked perfectly for over a decade of weekend climbing trips, backpacks and bikepacks. I bought one of the original MSR PocketRockets (is it too much to say "a now iconic design? Maybe not if you look at how many close copies have been made of that stove) back when Blair was still the PM. Gas stoves are just so much less hassle, and I reckon I now one 90% of the time I'm cooking outside. But after a decade of lugging the Whisperlite around - getting black hands from field maintenance, taking care not to set the tent on fire while going through the rigmarole of priming it and so on - I bought a gas stove. It also still works 28 years on which says something MSR's engineering too. But for trekking in the Himalayas, snow melting in the Arctic, and even brewing up and cooking for three or four of us on frigid mornings camped below the CIC Hut it did work. When I first got my own stove, an MSR liquid fuel model, it didn't really manage any of those things listed above.
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