- This is Coleman's HyperFlame FyreKnight camping stove,
a hot and robust way
to cook while you're on your camping expeditions.
Let's check it out.
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Ben from Snowys here today with a really popular stove.
This is the Coleman HyperFlame FyreKnight camping stove.
It's a really hot stove,
and they've got a few interesting technologies in there
that reduce the need for wings on the sides,
sort of protect it from wind.
You can use it with really large pots.
I'm gonna run through all the features,
then I'll fire it up and show you how it works too.
So this is how it looks when it's packed up.
So we can fold this handle here up
to make it as small as it can be.
So it's about seven kilos or just over seven kilos.
It measures about 62 centimetres in length.
It's about 36 centimetres from front to back here,
at it's furthest point and about 13 1/2 centimetres high.
Now when it's unfolded, there's a catch at the front here.
If we fold this up, it then measures about 60,
or 62 long still, sorry.
It's about 45 centimetres from where the handle is here
to the back of the lid here.
And from top to bottom here,
from the bottom of the feet here
to the top is about 39 centimetres.
That might give you a bit of an idea
on how it fits on your camp table into your camp kitchen.
Now, when you buy the stove,
you get the stove with all these wing guards
and everything included.
You get a regulator.
Now this regulator needs to be used
with the stove at all times.
This enables you to use it with little
disposable propane cylinders like this,
this fits into the side of the stove here,
and then these bottles attach to here.
So it allows you for a nice lightweight setup.
Alternatively, it also comes with a 1.5 metre hose
to attach to an LPG bottle.
Now, when you use this hose,
you still need to use this regulator.
So you attach your regulator on the end here,
you attach the hose to the regulator,
and then you attach the other end of the hose,
which is a 3/8th BSP fitting
to the top of a gas bottle here.
Now you can also use this on large nine kilo bottles
like this guy here, you just need either a different hose
with a PLL fitting that will fit into here,
or an adapter that goes from a 3/8th BSP to the PLL,
but it's perfectly legitimate to use it
on either of these gas bottles
or the little portable cylinder here as well.
And the most important thing to remember is
that no matter what gas, what cylinder you use,
you need to have this regulator in the system.
So that means that you're not gonna be able to attach it
to a regulated gas supply in a caravan
because it would be double-regulated as such.
You can't attach this without this being in the system,
have to use this regulator.
So I'll do a bit of a tour around the stove
to show you all the features, now I'll close this down.
There's a nice, big, heavy-duty latch here
to keep that lid closed in transit.
And we'll start on the very bottom.
If I flip this over and show you the feet,
these feet here are integrated into the plastic bumpers
on the side here, so you can't remove them.
So there's always this little gap underneath here,
which allows the airflow, it's probably a good thing.
Nothing more to see under there.
On the front here we've got this nice big handle.
Now this folds up flat if you go upwards here.
It just stays on a slight angle
when you go down that way,
but it's a nice big carry handle,
makes it easy to transport the stove.
You've got your two dials on the front there
for both of the burners inside.
And right at the far end over here is the piezo ignition.
So you can light the stove without the need
for any extra lighters, matches or flints.
Looking at the outside of this stove,
this is all steel construction here.
Powder-coated steel with nice heavy-duty plastic bumpers
on all the corners, that's on each of these here.
So the stove is nice and protected
and it's gonna stay well-protected
if it's in the back of the car.
And looking at the back,
just a couple of heavy-duty hinges here,
a bit of an extra feature here,
'cause it doesn't have little,
it doesn't have supports on the side.
It relies on these hinges to keep the lid open.
So they're sort of heavy-duty hinges to make sure
that this lid doesn't bend back too far.
We'll just open it up and have a look inside now.
Undo this latch here and fold this up.
And you can immediately say that traditionally,
stoves have had windshields on the sides here.
They've utilised this system here to do away with that,
but it does mean that this lid is
completely supported by the hinges here.
They've added in a little tab on the side here
that you can fold down and just insert into the slot here,
which gives that back windshield
just a little bit more support.
And we're good to go.
Now in here, this is where the HyperFlame,
the sort of technology or different technology
comes into play.
These windshields here are what replaced
the windshields that traditionally
were on the side of camp stoves.
These are removable, and I'm gonna pick it up
to kind of show you what they look like.
So these here are designed to act
as actual windbreaks to the flame inside here.
So this slows down any strong winds
and reduces the effect that wind has
on the burner that's inside here.
So you can see when the flame's burning inside here,
it's pretty well-protected.
So by doing that,
they've integrated both the pot support
and the wing protection into this one burner here.
And what that means is you've got unimpeded space
for nice large pots.
So this is a nice big 32 centimetre pot here.
I can put that on there.
I could even fit a slightly bigger pot if I like,
it's over the side here.
I could fit another pot of the same size
on the other side of the stove.
And I've got loads and loads of cooking space on here.
Now each of these burners is about 12,000 BTU
when they're turned up high.
They're kind of different than most
of the burners on the market, they look pretty, pretty cool.
Quite a big burner, lots of holes, and they're really hot.
So total of 24,000 BTU for the stove.
And with the stove on full,
both of these burners running on full,
to get an idea of gas consumption, you get about an hour
of runtime from one of these 450 gramme canisters.
So I guess on average, about 450 grammes an hour.
So if you've got a two kilo bottle,
you're gonna get around about four hours
of burn time out of one of these, if you've got it on full.
Now, I'm gonna connect it up and light it up for you
'cause there's been a few questions
about how well this simmers.
And there is a very fine line between simmer
or probably a fast simmer and hot on this.
Ideally they cook quickly.
So if you're cooking barbecues
and that sort of thing, they're good.
If you're boiling water, it's good.
If you're cooking slow simmer stews,
you're probably gonna have found
that the adjustment's just a little bit too fine
to be ideal for you,
but let's connect it up and get started.
So the first thing we wanna do is grab this regulator
and screw it into the side here.
We push that into place.
Screw this sleeve over the top, just until it's firm.
Doesn't need to be really tight,
just make sure it's firm.
From here we grab our hose
and we're gonna connect it to the regulator here.
So we grab this end, the BLN fitting,
and we attach that to the bottom of the regulator.
Like I said, this regulator needs
to be in the system all the time.
You can't run this without a regulator.
And you can get replacement regulators too,
should yours eventually start to underperform
after many years.
And then we attach this to the bottle here.
This hose is a little bit stiff at the moment,
but it'll do the job for us now.
Now you wanna test all the fittings on here,
preferably with soapy water.
Make sure there's no leaks in place
before you light anything.
And I should also mention too,
we're lighting this inside here today.
It's in a big space and we're only gonna
be lighting it temporarily,
but ideally you wanna use these outside.
You really shouldn't be using LPG in confined spaces.
Now to get the stove started,
we wanna use a combination of our piezo igniter here.
And we turn on the gas on this side here.
So to turn it on,
we're just gonna turn it around to the right here.
There's a little dial here that shows
a picture of a flame and a circle.
Obviously, we're turning it towards the flame.
And I also need to turn the gas on.
So at the same time we're turning our dial on here.
I'm going to be ready with a piezo on this side.
I don't wanna let it run before lighting it
and let the gas escape.
So as soon as I turn this,
I'm gonna hear gas hissing and we'll press the piezo.
Now these stoves tend to sort of be on or off.
This goes quite a few turns around,
and I can't hear the flame getting any sort of bigger
as I turn it most of the way.
So if I go back, I'll see how close I can get to simmer.
It turns a lot of times it's hard to know just where,
well that's off now, so if I turn,
I can turn that right down,
there's a very small fine line between off and full bore.
It's about quarter of a turn really.
So you can certainly turn it down.
You can just see,
I don't know if you can see it on the camera there,
but you can just see a flame there now.
And I can feel heat over the top.
And then from there to about here is full bore.
So there's not a lot of difference between simmer
and all the way on with this stove.
So you certainly can simmer
or make slow cook meals on here,
but there's just a very fine line between full bore and off,
despite the fact that this turns around all the way.
But the knob's quite easy to use.
It turns smoothly and it lights really easily.
That's most of the features of the HyperFlame stove.
I do wanna show you a few accessories
that you can get with it.
Now I'm not gonna touch this side 'cause it's hot.
But with this being removable, if we take that off,
there is griddle plates and grills that are available.
I only got the griddle plate here with me now,
but I can sit this in here,
and that actually comes of the top.
So this is an accessory that you can buy
to go with your stove.
Then it gives me a grill plate
with the nice hot burner underneath
to cook sausages or whatever on,
and a bit of a drip tray underneath there.
There is also a hotplate that you can get.
We don't have any here right now.
They've been available intermittently,
but you can actually create like a hotplate on one side
and a grill on the other.
Most people, they just use it as a traditional camping stove
with these two on each side.
And like I said, you can fit
nice big fry pans or pots on top of this.
Another accessory you can get is a carry bag.
There's a HyperFlame carry bag here,
which is a padded carry bag that you can put it in.
Alternatively, there are plenty of other carry bags
available on the market.
You just need to make sure it fits the dimensions
of the stove because it is quite big.
One last thing I will mention is
that because you can remove these,
it does make this stove really easy to clean on top here.
There's no sort of grills or anything
to try and get in underneath.
That is the Coleman HyperFlame Fyreknight camping stove.
It's a durable, reliable, and really hot option
for cooking when you're out camping.
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