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Gas canisters

Work out what you need before you go, not when you run out.

Fuel planning is the thing most trip cooking gets wrong. A 230 g canister is roughly an hour of hard boiling, and boiling is the expensive operation – which is why dried beans are so much more costly than they look once you count the soak and the thirty-minute boil, and why boiling water for treatment is the method with the highest running cost.

Buy the fitting your stove takes and check it, because screw-thread and clip-on are not interchangeable and discovering that on a hillside is a bad evening.

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Last reviewed 16 September 2026. Specifications and availability change and we do not track them, so check the listing against what is described here.