Coleman H/T Two-Burner InstaStart Propane Stove

This is our first camp stove, and hopefully it will last us for years. We really liked the instant start instead of using matches. And the burners work very well. I like the wind sheilds that double as a spoon rest also. It worked perfectly, and is very well constructed. I wish the handle was more comfortable to use though. But we bought the coleman bag so that we keep this stove on the bottom of the bag and our cooking stuff and propane on the top. I would recommend getting bag as well for carrying this stove.

This is the best camp stove I have ever used. It is compact and easy to store when not in use. It started up the first time and every time we used it. The flame can be adjusted very low to high and heats up food very quickly. I strongly recommend it. We also purchased the Coleman carry bag that has compartments for two bottles of propane on the sides.

Nice and portable, and a terrific convenience for the money.

I'm really glad that I went with this $56 "next model up." It's a great stove. It's your garden variety Coleman-size model - a sauce pot or a coffee pot and a standard frying pan would fit easily at the same time. If you needed to fit two large frying pans or wanted to use a large stock pot, you would want to also get a hefty single-burner. However, cooking standard stuff for a few people, this stove is great and the price is certainly right.

One of my favorite features is the side flaps, which can be used as a windscreen when flapped up, or a utensil tray when down. It also seems more solid and sturdy than the tinny, rattling, old-fashioned Colemans I remember. It's nice and tough, and I would not hesitate to put a few decent weight pans on it.

Great stove!

I have used Coleman equipment all my life, so I knew that I could get good equipment from them. I was therefore extremely dissapointed with this stove. When I first fired it up, I tried the "instastart" feature, which appears to be a piezoelectric type. The button was very difficult to push without placing my hand on the backside of the stove, which might be hot if I had already been using the stove. The crystal did produce a spark, but repeated attempts did not start the flame, so I had to fall back on my zippo (never go camping without many sources of fire). The first thing I noticed was flame from the wrong spot, so I stopped using the stove and cooked over a wood fire. This would not have been possible if I had been camping in one of the many places that no longer allow wood fires. When I got home, I took the stove apart to see if I could repair it. The stove required lock ring pliers to take apart, which I would have to do after every camping trip to clean under the burner pan. The burner pan has a razor edge, and I will have to treat the resulting wound after I finish this review. I found that the leak was from the copper feed tube, where it is brazed into the burner port. The damage was probably caused in shipping, but would not have occured if the manufacturers had added a quarter inch of tubing to allow for flex. This part would have eventually failed just by having it in the back of my truck, and driving on dirt roads. I was able to braze in a new, longer tube to allow for vibration and flex, and grind down the razor edge, but I will still have to disassemble the stove every time I use it to clean under the burner pan, so as to prevent drawing animals into my camp. This stove will probably work well for casual campers, but I wouldn't recommend it for serious campers. If you plan to camp more than a mile from a paved road (I usually rock hound fifty or more miles into the desert), look elsewhere for a stove.

This product works perfect. Easy to set-up, easy to store, easy to carry, easy to start, all around very simple and perfect for what it is for. The only downside I experienced was trying to use 2 medium/large pans on it at once. I could do it, but I had to take down one of the wind shields. It was kind of windy at the time, but the burners still stayed lit, so obviously it was not much of a problem.

This thing gives off plenty of heat and is so easy to start, use and set-up with no tools required. I'd recommend it to anyone.