- Hey folks.
It's Lauren from Snowys here
with the Jetboil Minimo.
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- It's an awesome portable cooking system
with excellent simmer control.
Perfect for lightweight adventures.
So whilst these are primarily designed
for those lightweight adventures,
hiking, cycling, kayaking,
all of that sort of stuff.
We have had amazing feedback from our customers
and me included, who takes my Minimo everywhere with me.
That these are an awesome addition for caravaner's
or four-wheel drivers, who wanna have a cup of tea
or a quick stop, have a hot beverage.
Don't wanna get out their camp stove.
Don't wanna stoke up the fire, things like that.
It's a perfect little quick boil stove unit.
So all in all this weighs 400 grammes,
as it comes straight out the packet.
It measures 16 centimetres tall,
and about 12 centimetres 12 1/2 centimetres in diameter.
Now what it comes with is
the lid.
So you'll have your gas canister support
which tips nicely into the lid here,
that opens up like so and will take a range of
different size gas canisters which clip on to it.
We've got a little microfiber bag in here,
which has our pot support, which comes with the Minimo.
So this is a separately available Jetboil accessory
that does come with the Minimo.
And we also have our little burner shroud.
So
this little chamois bag
or microfiber bag
can be good to give your pot a little wipe out
or a clean out as well as being nice and protective
to this inner anodized layer,
when you are packing up everything.
The base of the mini as well, will pop off.
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And I'm not sure if you can see here,
but on the inside,
there's a couple of measurement increments.
So you can use this,
if you are dehydrating,
sorry, rehydrating, dehydrated food.
You can measure your water on here.
This will, can also double as a small bowl
or potentially even a cup if you
wanna drink anything out of that.
But speaking of drinking anything out of that,
the lid itself has these strainer holes here,
which allow you to easily drain anything.
If you are, if you are boiling something or
or draining something or cooking pasta,
you know, for example,
and you wanna drain the water off,
you can do that.
But it also has a mouthpiece here.
So if you position lid
relative to the handles,
it's quite easy to just drink straight outta your Jetboil
once it cools down a little bit.
So the materials of the Jetboil itself are
anodized aluminium and a combination of stainless steel
on the handles and around the burner shroud.
And obviously the base around here
as you can see with the piezo ignition is plastic.
So to pop your Jetboil Minimo together,
what we'll need to do is,
I'll pop the lid back on top first.
Get your gas canister
and screw that
directly onto the shroud, directly onto your burner.
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Oh, as you can hear that gas coming out.
And then from there, you'll see on the actual burner shroud,
we've got these two little indentations
and they will line up with on the, on the actual shroud.
We've got the two little indentation locks here
so they will slip inside
over those indentations and then twist.
And then that will lock the Minimo
onto the burner shroud itself.
So I'm not actually going to crank this one up
but I do have a demo model here
that I'll light up in a minute and show you.
But before I do that,
the pot support that comes with the Minimo,
as I mentioned before,
it gives you a little bit of flexibility,
if you don't always wanna just use your burner with,
with the actual Minimo flask itself.
Your pot support has these little arms
that will swing out like so,
and that just will nest
straight on top of the,
you'll see, on the, I should show you here
these little slots on the base of these pot arms
they will sit over the edge
of the Minimo metal rim or the burner rim.
And that will allow you to,
I've got this little pot here,
as you can see,
sit a range of different pots on there.
So, um, I think the Jetboil skillet
is nearly about a 20 centimetre in diameter option.
So that will sit perfectly on there as well.
So this is our demo model,
which I will light up for you in a second.
But I'm gonna take it off the shroud here
for a couple of reasons.
I've done that a bit delicately
cause I've pre-filled it with water there, too.
So I'll put the pot support on
and as you can see those little ridges,
they just click into place
on the edge of the canister there.
So it can, um, ooh,
can get a little bit of muscle to get that third one on
because they do lock on nice and tight,
make sure the canister and the stabiliser
don't ever separate.
So we've got that one in place here.
Now up close you'll see we have our paddle,
it's got a small plus and minus on it.
So this is what we're gonna be using to turn the gas
on and off and around the other side here
this little section is the mini regulator
inside the stove head.
And on this side we have our little black piezo button
which I'm not sure if you'll be able to see the spark
if I press that now.
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Yeah.
So if you do have a Jetboil
and the piezo's not quite igniting the gas,
just triple check this little wire here is bent down enough.
Cause sometimes they can bend up a little bit higher.
You ideally want this to sort of be,
you know, close to a 45 degree angle to,
down towards the, uh,
the surface of the gas burner part there.
So I'm gonna turn the burner on.
So Jetboil's instructions do say to get your burner
flame cranking before you put your pot on top.
So I'm going to turn that on now.
You'll hear the gas coming through.
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Now we're gonna crack the piezo
and there we get our flame.
Now whilst the,
the flask or, or the pot is off.
I'll give you a quick idea of how
well this flame can simmer
because this does, the Minimo,
out of all of the the stoves
does have pretty exceptional
or superior simmer control.
Because the pot is shorter and wider,
it is a good intermediary between
the tall and narrower, like boiling water flasks
and a shorter cooking pot.
So if you do wanna cook food in that pot
you do have some ability to do so.
So I'm turning it down now from quite high.
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And we'll see, there we go.
It's starting to drop now.
All right.
So as you can see, that's dropping down really very low.
So when you do ignite the Minimo,
it can take quite a few turns
to get the gas flowing through high enough
for the piezo to ignite.
And that's purely because the simmer control
is so sensitive.
It allows you to turn it right.
Right, right, right, right down
when you are actively cooking.
So ope, too far down, we've gone out now.
So let's light it up again
and we'll pop the flask on and boil some water.
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So the Minimo has a total of 6,000 BTU.
So it does burn quite hot.
We're going to line up those little indents
and lock the pot into place.
Now I'm gonna quickly start my timer,
because Jetboil,
do claim that about 500 mils of water
will take two minutes and 15 seconds to boil.
So the pot itself has a capacity of a litre.
But there is a small indentation on the inside of the pot
which I can actually probably show you
before the water gets too hot.
That little indicator mark there,
where I filled the water up to
that's around about your 700 mils.
And that's probably the maximum
of where you wanna fill up your water
when you're actively boiling.
When the water does get to a rolling boil
obviously it's going to bubble.
So we don't wanna bubble over
and spill out of the lid at the top here.
The Jetboil Minimo also will use around
about 100 grammes of gas per hour.
So this little canister that I have here
is a 100 gramme canister
and that will give you one hour of total use.
So if we're thinking of boiling about
half a litre of water takes around two minutes.
It means for a 100 gramme canister of gas,
you'll get around about 30 boils of half a litre of water.
Which gives you a bit of an idea
of how much gas it's gonna use up.
So the water's finished boiling now.
And according to my watch we are around about
three minutes and 20 seconds.
So I'm gonna turn that gas off
and I'm gonna just let it sit
for a little second
before I peel the lid off.
So Jetboil's claim of around about 500 mils
for two minutes 15,
that was 700 mils for about three minutes 20.
So it's roughly an extra minute
for that additional 200 mils of water.
So I'm gonna carefully peel the lid off now.
You can obviously see that I'm touching the Minimo
and it's not burning me,
even though we know this water just finished a rolling boil.
So that is due to this neoprene sleeve
that runs the whole way around the flask.
Now it's definitely still quite warm to touch
but it's not anything that's going to burn me.
Just be mindful though, that anything
below that neoprene is going to be really burning hot.
So from here, if you were to have cooked something
or something you wanna drink straight out of it
there's no need for you to remove the lid at all.
You can even use that to tip or pour into an existing cup.
You got your teabags and things like that waiting.
Or as I said before, you can strain the water
off through this little straining section here,
but I'm gonna lift it up so you can have a look.
So as you can see the Minimo,
it does have that much wider pot base.
I mentioned before that you can cook in it.
And whilst you can, I, I don't necessarily mean
or I'm not referring to frying onions.
And then, you know, chucking your carrots and peas in
actively like cooking in it like you would.
Because it has that an anodized aluminium inside.
You've gotta be careful that you're not scratching it
or getting stuff stuck to the inside of the pot.
That requires you to scrub really hard.
So things like, potentially rice,
if you get it from supermarket partially cooked
or pre-cooked or something like that
on your lightweight adventures
you wouldn't have trouble with.
But if you wanna rehydrate foods or cook foods
it's better to put in some water first
boil that up and then add your solids in afterwards.
Just be really mindful of keeping it
on a low simmer as well.
That's about it for the Jetboil Minimo,
which I have in my camp stash.
And I wouldn't be without it.
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