The SnowPeak GigaPower stove is a great stove that I would recommend to anyone wanting to travel relatively light. At 3.25 oz. the burner is one of the lightest around, but that's only one of the pluses. I am more interested in fuel economy and flame control. The GigaPower does both well. Using a windscreen and watching the stove carefully, I was able to get 90 minutes from a 110 gram fuel cannister. It is hard to do this without excellent flame control, and the stove will hold a low simmer well. I looked at many stoves before purchasing this one, including the JetBoil system. The SnowPeak model beats it for weight (and price) and matches it for fuel economy.

I absolutely love this stove. It's light and it's small and it's not expensive. Unless you're an ultralight ounce counter then you probably don't care whether it's super light titanium or not so the steel is fine with me. My friends carry jet boils and never understood why I liked my stove so much until I was boiling water in the same amount of time (or less) and then could just toss it back in the pack without it taking up 8 by 6 inches. It truly is one of the best out there.

Every time I pull this stove out of my backpack, it amazes those who haven't seen it. It is so light and small, it is almost unbelievable how hot it gets. While you do have some control over the flame intensity, I've found it's difficult to achieve lower temperatures with the GigaPower stove. Also, its small footprint offers plenty of stability for my smaller cooksets, but I have tried larger frying pans on it while making fish and pancakes and things get a little wobbly.

I have been using liquid fuel stoves for the last ten years and finally decided to get a canister stove to lighten my pack. Great little stove, can be used with all other thread on canisters (Snow Peak branded ones just happen to be the cheapest for me to get here in Canada). Great life out of the canisters for summer use and good control of flame intensity.

I spent a weekend Kayaking on the river and it rained on us the entire time. This stove is more than worth the money, It lights easy, every time I used it the wind was blowing at around 3-5 mph and it was raining, (I don't have a windscreen either) and let me tell you this little baby gets hot very fast and also has a great simmer as well. Great product for summer weekend or week long trips.

Great stove for backpacking in moderate/nice weather. Used it on a three day trip at Big South Fork Tennessee and it worked wonderfully. The smallest amount of wind does seem to alter the boiling efficiency but in my mind that is to be expected with a stove this small and basic.

Carrying case is great, fits inside my 450 snowpeak mug while my canisters fit in my 700 titanium cooker mesh bag combo.

I did not experience any leaking when putting it on the stove after being folded up, not sure if they redesigned it so the valve could be all the way closed when folding or not but I never had this problem.

I use this stove with the wind screen and a Brunton fule can stablizer. I have a Primus 2.1L EtaPower Pot that has a flux ring very simular to a JetBoil. The pot fits perfectly on the stove with the wind screen on it. It is my poor man's JetBoil and it works great.

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Been checking out canister stoves in REI for awhile and finally decided to order GigaPower from Backcountry. It was either this one or MSR's Pocketrocket. Something about the look of this stove really caught my eye. Works great in no wind, but not so great in any wind. I really recommend getting a windscreen to be happy with this stove. Also, forget about auto-ignite...the feature weighs as much as a book of matches and matches are far more reliable.

3.5 ounces and 10,000 BTU's for $35.

That's a no-brainer. This stove fired every time and boiled a liter of water in less than 4 minutes, even above 10,000ft.

One of the best purchases I've made in along time.

The Snow Peak Giga Power Manual stove is one of those few things almost can't be improved upon. It's simple, rugged, incredibly lightweight and compact, and even has four pot supports, which is significantly more stable than three.
I've had Piezo igniters fail and that's why I went with the manual version. I bring a Bic and matches with me anyway.
Definitely get the Snow Peak windscreen also. It's compact, reasonably light, and will improve fuel efficiency.
This is the stove that convinced me to switch from liquid fuel backpacking stoves. I'll never look back.

works good. small burner diameter but big flame. works with coleman fuel you can buy from wal-mart. only tried warm weather with minimal wind but for normal conditions its great. the only thing that is bad is that you have to open the valve a quarter turn to get it to fold into the case. if you forget to close when you pull it back out then you loose some gas until you remember to close it again.

I've had the stove on two outings and so far it works great. This is my first cannister stove, but compared to the white gas backpacking stoves, this one is a dream. It puts out a lot of heat, even when the temps hit 30 degrees. The burner has a big even flame, it simmers well and boils water fast when cranked up to high. I recommend the accessory windscreen.

Great summer stove, good performance, light weight, small size... more durable than the MSR Pocket Rocket and in field tests the stoves boiled water in approximately the same amount of time. Surprisingly, the stove has excellent 'simmer' levels. Don't expect to balance a big pot on this baby- it's a backpacking stove, not for large groups, but for 2 or 3 people it's one of the best of it's class.