I have now had 2 Primus single burners which I use on a small Companion LPG bottle. I use for cooking if I cant have a fire. Both, including the one I have just bought, will go out when I turn down to a low setting.
Any members experienced this, and have a solution. Perhaps there is a recommended burner that members are using. I am aware that there a cast iron burners that might be better, but mine suits my reqirements for handling and storage etc.
We have a Companion double burner and you turn the gas OFF by turning the knob to it's lowest setting (which is off) - there is no "low" settingas such, just off, and max and anything in between. If we want a very low flame we have to eyeball the flame as we turn the knob down...sometimes it goes too low and then has to be re-lit, as there is no stop for thge lowest setting before off.
Hope this helps and apologies if I've misunderstood your post.
Thanks for your comments. I realise that there are no "individual and defined setting" positions. The problem with my burner(s), is that I can cook with a fierce flame, but if I want a low flame to simmer food for example, the flame will go out.
I have contacted Primus, and hope to get a solution. Both burners perform the same. You cant cook the way you want with a low flame.
The jets can and do block. To clean the jet, remove from stove and place in small jar and spray Oven cleaner $3 from supermarket, into jar to cover the jet valve,( Be carefull spraying as its vapour Caustic Soda can harm you). I place a hanky over my nose while using.
Swish it around in the jar and let sit for 15 minutes. Rinse out total in fresh water.
Hold up jet into the sunlight and if your eye sight is ok, you can see a micro of sunlight again.
They clog up from unused gas in the line which forms a gel like substance. So to stop this from happening. Tune the gas bottle off first and burn the expanded gas off after cooking.
Happy days Jim
-- Edited by Hey Jim on Sunday 20th of August 2017 09:43:44 PM
Getting consistent low heat from camping stoves has been a bugbear of mine for years - I share your pain.
Manufacturers of stoves proclaim loudly their excessively high heat outputs but never a word is mentioned about their ability to support a low flame.
Most of my cooking requires a very low heat once the initial searing or similar is done; eg. rice cooks for 10m on the very lowest heat I can obtain, likewise for stews which need a similar heat for a couple of hours. The only real use I have for high heat is boiling the kettle.
The only stoves I have found which do a decent job of providing low heat are the older Coleman two burner low pressure gas stoves. NB. The current Coleman range is useless in this regard as they have a burner with many small holes rather than one constructed from wafers of metal with smaller holes at their edges. I, literally, wore out my original Coleman stove of this type but have been lucky enough to find two on the secondhand market, one of them never used and still in its box.
Two suggestions: If wind blowing out the flame is an issue make a windshield. A good and easy way to do this is to measure the diameter of the burner assembly and add, say, 40mm. Also measure the height between the stove base and the underside of the pot support frame.
Next take your tape measure to Safeway and find a tin (tuna is good) which coincides with the measurements. Using a tin opener remove both the top and base from the tin, remove the label and place over the gas burner - instant windshield.
If the problem is simply that the heat will not turn low enough the only solution is a heat barrier of some sort. For my Coleman Dual-Fuel stove, which is far too hot at its lowest setting, I use an old steel blade from a circular saw which is placed over the flame and upon which the pot then sits. This help to dissipate the heat and creates some energy loss - it's not great but it certainly helps.
Manufacturers need to realise that some of us do cook proper food when in the bush and don't survive on boiled water and fry-ups.
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I bought couple from BCF yrs ago. They come in tin case incorporating wind shield. Can pick up with 2 fingers. Use in boat for fresh fish. and when we go out bush hiking. Tin of gas. burner. Hot meals and cuppa tea.
Flat. Black. Gas tin fits in slot on r\h side of case.
Temp is what you want.
I have an old Coleman 2 burner. But big and bulky in relation to.
Plus carting a huge gas bottle around.
These things with a carton of gas tins last me forever.
Just take empty's back with you.
I have a portable oven\burners which we take too. Electric.
Plug into Genny, you at home.
-- Edited by macka17 on Tuesday 22nd of August 2017 09:19:43 AM
