The tip er valves are above the fuel control valves on these Military Heating Units. These military heating units have fittings in the top of the tanks for supporting a grate as on Models 521 and 522 above. To measure boil times, we head to our windless “lab,” aka our garage, at 5,000 feet and do two boil tests. For the first test, we boil 1 liter of 58°F water in the presence of 2-4 mph of “wind” generated by a box fan.
On average it took around four coleman propane stove to get a couple cups of water to boil, but on windy days that was sometimes doubled. When cooking one pancake at a time, this stove is fabulous — two or more revealed a hot spot in the center of the pan, a pretty typical issue for stoves with small burners. While compact stoves such as this one can fit larger pans, they generally aren’t able to heat them evenly. And while making scrambled eggs is fine if you babysit them, if you try to walk away, you’ll find that even the low setting on the Classic is a bit high. There isn’t a graphic on the dial to represent flame settings , but in our experience, these graphics are rarely very accurate on camp stoves.
While cooking, the Cascade can hold a 12-inch pan and a 10-inch pan side by side, same as the Classic. With 22,000 Btu , it produces a touch more heat than our top pick—not all that much for a stove that costs twice the price. If that’s all the Cascade could do, we probably wouldn’t recommend it. When you’re using larger pots and pans, a neat feature of this stove is that the lid can lie completely flat, which creates more stovetop room .
If you are interested in finding more gear related information and a few tips to help in choosing other gear take a look at this summary. This stove does not have an automatic lighter switch or a carrying bag. It has good wind resistance ability because of how recessed the burners are within the stove and the because of the side windscreens. I love coleman products, and for a $10 find I wanted to add this stove to my camping gear. It needed a bit of TLC so I decided to do just that.
In the steps to follow I’ll try and show you my attempt to bring an old new life. What really sets these stoves apart from other Coleman offerings is the cast-iron grates. The heavy-duty cast-iron burner grates make cooking on these virtually indistinguishable from cooking on a gas stove in your home.