Best Backpacking Stoves 2025: MSR, Jetboil, Firebox
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1. Question: Do I Need an integrated Stove System?
Answer: That’s up to you. They do frequently enough make life on the trail easier, thanks to the way most stove-pot combo systems click together and pack down nice and small. But if you’re looking to go ultralight and cut weight as much as possible, the answer is definitely no. A small, lightweight pot with either the MSR PocketRocket Deluxe or BRS 3000 and a DIY foil windscreen weighs less than any integrated stove system I’ve tested. Pro tip: make your own lightweight pot lid out of some heavy duty foil to save even more weight.
2. Question: Why Don’t You List Boil Times?
Answer: As fast boil times are a silly number made up by the industry so that it would have something to compare and brag about. The time it takes to boil water depends on factors no one can control in the real world, including starting water temp, ambient air temp, altitude, wind, and more. Even if you control for all of those factors to try to abstract out a number, it won’t tell you anything because some stoves are better than others in the wind, so you can’t extrapolate anything about their performance in still air that will map to their performance in wind. All of which makes boil times a completely useless number.
3. Question: What Backpacking Stove Do You Use?
Answer: I own several stoves, but honestly, usually I am cooking on whatever I am testing for this guide. On the rare occasions I don’t have a new stove to test … it depends. for solo trips covering good distances I use the top pick, the MSR PocketRocket Deluxe. When I’m bikepacking or backpacking with my kids, I use the Firebox Freestyle stove split into two units, one with a Trangia spirit burner and one with the gas burner. Dividing all that up between 4 people keeps the weight reasonable (total weight for this setup is 26 ounces) and effectively gives me a 2-burner stove and a twig fire, which is nice when you don’t know what you’ll be able to buy when resupplying on the trail. In cold weather, I rely on an MSR WhisperLite International that I’ve had for almost three decades. I kind of hate it, but it’s reliable.
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