Snow Peak GigaPower Stove Manual Ignition

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.