MSR Pocket Rocket Stove

I just did a 4 day backpacking trip down in the Grand Canyon and this stove performed extremely well. Lightweight and packs down into a compact size for ease of stowing in your pack. Heats a cup of water in about 3 minutes and a 4 oz. fuel canister will sustain you a good two days of meals. Wind has an adverse effect on it's performance but is easy to sheild with just your body. Very pleased with it's design.

MSR has always set the standard for safe, lightweight and technically superior products and this stove is no exception. The Pocket Rocket is very appropriately named. The stove sits snugly inside a triangular plastic sleeve which can easily fit in your pants pocket. The arms can balance my 1.5 liter pot without seeming precarious and have the water inside boiling in less than 3 minutes in cool Kentucky temperatures. As other reviews have stated this is definitely for the fast-and-light crowd, it's not a Coleman 2 burner stove, but it does exactly what it set out to do.

This little stove is perfect for the backpacker who is concerned with weight. Make sure you keep one fuel canister in your sleeping bag at night with you, and it will work down to 30 degrees no problem. I boil 2 pots of water per day, and one canister is good for 10 pots of water. I also use heavy-duty foil as a wind screen. It sets up and lights in a minute without any problems so far.

I am not a foodie on the trail, since I prefer to pack light, so I pack instant soups, instant oatmeal, instant coffee, freeze-dried meals, string cheese, jerky, and instant hot chocolate. That makes my kitchen kit very simple - one unbreakable plastic spork, a 1.6 liter titanium pot, the MSR pocketrocket stove, and fuel. I make the oatmeal & soups in the pot, and the drinks in one of the two water bottles I carry. Minimal mess, no fuss, minimal weight.

Don't buy this stove if you are actually cooking real food. It is perfect for the backpacker who just needs to boil water, which is all I ever do with this stove.

This is a light-weight and extremely compact stove. Easy to use! It heats things up really fast, but you have to watch out as the heat is focused on a small area -- you will have to constantly stir your food. Overall, great product!

If you want a stove that can evenly cook a frying pan sized object for a gourmet meal, this isn't it.

If you want something for a high wind, high altitude arctic adventure, not this.

However, this thing weighs *nothing*, and heats water like no one's business. The container it folds into fits inside of my smallest enamel mug. It heats really quickly, requires no maintenance, and is very, very easy to light.

It's aided greatly by a windscreen, which I fashion out of tin foil.