Windscreen

[stilllife]

I have a titanium windscreen for my fancy feast stove but was wondering what you guys use as a windscreen for canister stoves?
I understand that the canisters can explode if they get too hot.
Thanks

[JJ505]

I have a titanium windscreen for my fancy feast stove but was wondering what you guys use as a windscreen for canister stoves?
I understand that the canisters can explode if they get too hot.
Thanks

I admire people who can wear a mink coat with their torn up jeans. :D

[RockDoc]

I still have a thick foil windscreen originally sold with the old MSR stoves, which I now use with a canister stove.
These are ideal, but I'm not sure if these are available anymore...

[Starchild]

Windscreen does not equal canisters getting too hot. But because of the way canister stoves work (hotter and more energy dense fuel), it is not as needed and can be usually excluded.

[Dogwood]

I have a titanium windscreen for my fancy feast stove but was wondering what you guys use as a windscreen for canister stoves?
I understand that the canisters can explode if they get too hot.
Thanks

Rarely do I carry a windscreen anymore for a canister stove. Found materials are very often available or can be made ie; mounding up soil, heating in a depression in beach sand/gravel/etc, rocks, downed wood, behind a large tree after noting prevailing wind direction, gear, etc. About 1/2 the time I will carry a windscreen when using an alchy stove.

[Analog_Kidd]

My Early Times, flask shaped bottle worked wonderfully as a wind screen this past week :-)

[HooKooDooKu]

You will likely remain safe if you surround your stove with a wind screen only about 1/2 to 3/4 around so that air flow can get to the canister and prevent it from over-heating. But because of the liability from someone using a windscreen in a dangerous manner, stove makers don't include a wind screen that could encapsulate the canister.

One alternative is a "remote" canister stove, where the stove connects to the canister thru a tube. This allows the windscreen to surround the stove while the canister remains outside the windscreen. MSR SimmerLite (no longer available) and the WhisperLite Universal are examples of stoves that operate this way.

I've seen some wind screens (most "Home Made") designed to surround the burner and keep the canister open to the air.

One of the things I like about a JetBoil is that the way the stove and heat-exchanger on the bottom of the pot connect together and make something of a windscreen. Combine something like that with a natural wind break, and that's all that is needed.

[LDog]

My old Fire Maple FMS 116Y is pretty good in light winds. Campsite selection can negate the need for a break. All else fails I do as others suggest and cook behind logs, rocks, my food bag ... Never failed to eat for lack of a wind break ...


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[Emerson Bigills]

Used an MSR Pocket Rocket and canisters. Never used a wind screen. Recall a few times, having to move behind a shelter or behind a rock to escape the wind, but never had a problem. My Pocket Rocket was 8 years old when I started and it lasted the entire hike without any issues. They are fast and fuel is pretty easy to get on the trail.

[HooKooDooKu]

Used an MSR Pocket Rocket and canisters. Never used a wind screen. Recall a few times, having to move behind a shelter or behind a rock to escape the wind, but never had a problem. My Pocket Rocket was 8 years old when I started and it lasted the entire hike without any issues. They are fast and fuel is pretty easy to get on the trail.
You don't NEED a wind screen to make a canister stove work... you need a wind screen to extend the life of your canister.

[LDog]

You don't NEED a wind screen to make a canister stove work... you need a wind screen to extend the life of your canister.One may want to screen their cannister stove from the wind to conserve fuel, but one does not NEED to pack a wind screen to do that.

L Dog

[DownEaster]

You don't NEED a wind screen to make a canister stove work...
Sometimes you do. As reported on Adventures in Stoving (https://adventuresinstoving.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-brs-3000t-worlds-lightest-stove.html), wind can make the flame on a BRS-3000T stove bend its pot supports and dump your cookpot.

41295

[fastfoxengineering]

I'll typically forego a windscreen on my canister stoves. If I need one, which is uncommon for me, I'll just use my butt pad or something similar

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[LDog]

Sometimes you do. As reported on Adventures in Stoving (https://adventuresinstoving.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-brs-3000t-worlds-lightest-stove.html), wind can make the flame on a BRS-3000T stove bend its pot supports and dump your cookpot.

41295Packing the extra weight of a windscreen is a poor substitute for having the sense not to overload one's stove, or to figure out how to get it out of the wind. I'd suggest the person who shot this ought to be using a Coleman.

41296

L Dog

[perrymk]

I thought about making one using a sacrificial titanium pot but found it's been done. Here are a few:

Optimus Windshield (https://www.amazon.com/Optimus-8018907-Clip-On-Windshield/dp/B00F5EUL7S/ref=sr_1_3?s=sporting-goods&ie=UTF8&qid=1514291482&sr=1-3&keywords=canister+stove+windscreen)

Snow Peak Gigapower Windscreen (https://www.amazon.com/Snow-Peak-GP-008-Gigapower-Windscreen/dp/B000BSB8G6/ref=sr_1_5?s=sporting-goods&ie=UTF8&qid=1514291482&sr=1-5&keywords=canister+stove+windscreen)

GSI Outdoors (https://www.amazon.com/GSI-Outdoors-Pinnacle-Complete-Backcountry/dp/B0007U9CV6/ref=sr_1_24?s=sporting-goods&ie=UTF8&qid=1514291600&sr=1-24&keywords=canister+stove+windscreen)

There are also home made versions which can be found online.

[LAF]

I've been using a Soto Windmaster and don't carry a windscreen for that. It actually works quite well in the wind but there are still those times when I will use something on the windward side of the stove: my food bag, sit pad, even my pack laid on its side. Check out https://adventuresinstoving.blogspot.com/search?q=windscreens for other ideas on windscreens and some rather good stove reviews.

[MtDoraDave]

You will likely remain safe if you surround your stove with a wind screen only about 1/2 to 3/4 around so that air flow can get to the canister and prevent it from over-heating.

I agree.
And if it's 20 degrees F (or colder) outside, a windscreen will help maintain some of the heat in the canister you sacrificed by keeping it in your sleeping bag all night. Otherwise, after about 1 minute, the temperature of the canister drops enough that the flame from your stove can be so low that the boil takes much longer to come.

[Highland Goat]

MSR still sells their flexible aluminum windscreens, and these are marketed with heat reflectors to go underneath your stove. Some Cabela’s stores no longer stock this item, so you may be able to pick one up in the Bargain Cave, on the cheap.

[Tundracamper]

You don't NEED a wind screen to make a canister stove work... you need a wind screen to extend the life of your canister.

So if we're considering a trade off, what is the trade off? Do the weight and volume of the fuel saved offset the weight and volume of the wind break structure?

[saltysack]

It’s easily fabricated from your favorite beverage....just keep canister unenclosed. as others said it it’s enough to simply set up behind a natural wind break or use your ccf pad etc.


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[saltysack]

Here’s a link just need to attach to hang from pot holders ie hole punch or Xmas tree ornament hooks.
https://youtu.be/Jf1gcE-cYyg


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[Feral Bill]

I use a Svea stove. It burns white gas from a tank below the burner, much like most canister stoves. There always seems to be a rock, log, or such to shield it from the wind. I would never use an enclosing wind screen, lest I create a holocaust.

[Dogwood]

Here’s a link just need to attach to hang from pot holders ie hole punch or Xmas tree ornament hooks.
https://youtu.be/Jf1gcE-cYyg


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Fold over all edges. If not, during construction or use quite easy to slice your hand open. It's why HVAC and AL gutter/leader installers wear gloves.

[saltysack]

Fold over all edges. If not, during construction or use quite easy to slice your hand open. It's why HVAC and AL gutter/leader installers wear gloves.

Yep...I did cut my hand a few times making....all edges are folded...works well. Plan to use this spring on my end to end sup trip down the Suwannee if water levels raise in Okefanokee...


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[lesliedgray]

Here’s a link just need to attach to hang from pot holders ie hole punch or Xmas tree ornament hooks.
https://youtu.be/Jf1gcE-cYyg


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Very interesting and informative... who'da thunk of that? Now i'm gonna have to get some aluminum tape and have a go..


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