- Ben from Snowys here folks
today with an institutional product,
this is the MSR PocketRocket 2 Stove.
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This has been updated to give even more compact pack size
while maintaining a really lightweight
and reliable cooker for lightweight hiking adventures.
And the MSR PocketRocket 2 Stove
comes with this handy little carry case here
whether you use it or not is up to you.
But this measures about nine centimetres across
35 centimetres across this way
and about five centimetres in height.
So the lift up lid there, and the stove is contained inside.
You wouldn't be able to fit much more inside there.
I'd probably just take the stove by itself
entirely up to you.
Now, the stove like this weighs just 73 grammes
and packed up about 8.2 centimetres
by about 4.2 centimetres in diameter,
depending on where you measure it.
And it folds out,
where the old pocket rocket used to have arms
that sort of folded up over the top like this,
this one now folds out and over each of these.
So there's two actions to each of these arms,
there three arms there.
Fold each one out and over
and that then creates our three supports.
And the gas switch or gas lever there
just folds over the top of the base there.
Now when this is set up it's about 10 centimetres high here
and it's about six centimetres in diameter
from the centre to the edge here.
So 12 centimetre diameter pot, you would fit within these
but you can fit a larger pot on there.
And the burner heads about a three centimetre
diameter burner head there.
When I say 12 centimetre diameter pot
you can fit larger pots on their,
MSR do actually give guidelines
and say about up to 20 centimetres in diameter
and about 3.6 kilos of weight on top of that
is kind of the maximum,
which is a fair bit for a small cooker like this.
Now it doesn't have any piezo ignition in here
so you are gonna need some way to light the stove
but it has a threaded valve on the bottom here,
which lines up with the Lindal valves
in this sort of canister here.
Now these canisters come in various sizes
and various brands.
So you've got the two MSR ones here
which is an 80/20 blend of fuel.
And you get slightly different blends in different sizes.
That's the 230 gramme the same as MSR
and then a 450 gramme there.
So all of those are gonna work with this.
Burn time for this guy, you're gonna get
about an hour out of a 227 gramme canisters.
So 227 grammes an hour, and that's about 16 litres of water
that's gonna boil with that.
But it'll be very obviously very variant
on the conditions that you're using it in.
And they say the burner head's got a BTU of about 8,200.
So reasonably hot burner for that size of stove.
And they've measured boil time,
we'll keep going the metrics,
boil time at about three and a half minutes
for a litre of water.
Once again, very dependent
on the conditions you're using it in.
So to set it up nice and easy, just grab your canister,
it just screws on there.
You don't wanna tighten this up too much, so just tighten it
till you hear... (gas whizzing)
Make sure that's off, I had that on then
so the gas is coming out.
Tighten it till you just feel a bit of pressure
and just firmly, so you shouldn't need it too tightly there.
If you do it too tight, you'll strip the thread inside.
That's now ready to go.
Now the total height of this is gonna depend
on what sort of canister you put it on.
Obviously if you've got it on a large canister like this
this is gonna be up much higher.
The lower down it is the better the stability it is.
And to light it, or before I light it
I have got a pot here
that I'll show you how this sits on top there.
So it's got rounded sides on it so it slides around a little
but these sort of slope inwards a bit.
So as it moves, it kinda wants to pull backwards
against itself on those sloppy sides there
so it doesn't keep going off the edge.
So, you do just wanna obviously keep an eye on it
while you're cooking with these pots here
or with these stoves,
but reasonably steady for the compact size of it.
And lighting it, let me just flick it around.
I've got a light here
probably a bit too big for most hiking arrangements.
Turn the gas on
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and oops, we've gone out.
I know that's on, it's actually just on there.
So has got a really low simmer.
See how low I can go, that's still on there now.
That's still on there right now
and I can put my hand over the top here.
I can just feel a little bit of warmth
and then if we wanna wind it right up.
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Make sure our camera doesn't catch alight there.
(flame whooshes)
You'll see it winds right up
so it is a really hot flame there.
This little thing in the middle here
I'll show you this too, just while we're in close.
This is a little wind deflector here.
That's designed such that
if the wind is blowing across this way
and blows out this side of the burner
the other two sides stay lit.
So what it might blow out part of the burner
the burner it still stays alight, so.
That is the MSR PocketRocket 2 Stove.
If you wanna get yourself a lightweight hiking stove
that is kind of institutional in the hiking industry
around the world, grab yourself a PocketRocket.
Tried and tested for so many years
and they're just getting better
and better with every iteration.
Check 'em out online at snowys.com.au
where you'll find them at our lowest prices every day.
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