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Fire-Maple Petrel Remote Stove Review | Lightest Backpacking Stove – Boils Water in 2 Minutes!
Oct 18, 2025
Looking for the lightest remote canister stove for your next backpacking or camping trip? The Fire-Maple Petrel Remote Stove might be the perfect choice. In this review, we test the Petrel’s performance, boil time, and packability — and show why it’s one of the fastest-boiling, ultralight backpacking stoves on the market today.
We’ll cover:
✅ Weight and design features
✅ 2-minute boil test results
✅ Pros and cons for backpacking and bushcraft
Whether you’re a backpacker, camper, or bushcrafter, this stove delivers impressive power and portability in one sleek design.
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[Music]
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Hey guys, welcome back to the channel.
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Today we're going to be taking a look at
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this new Fire Maple Titanium
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Remote Stove. And I'm going to be
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showing this to you, doing a little
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testing with it, and comparing it to my
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old Fire Maple Stove, which really isn't
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that old. It's about a year old, but
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I've been using it out while camping.
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And then I got this new remote stove,
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and for me, I think this could be a
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pretty cool upgrade. And it's definitely
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something different on the market if you
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haven't seen the stove yet. So, let's
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take a look at it and see how it
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compares to the other Fire Maple Stove
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that I reviewed about a year ago. So,
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about a year ago, um, or more, I got
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this Fire Maple stove. This is the
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Raptor.
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Um, it is a titanium stove. uh does not
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have a PO igniter, but what was nice
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about this particular stove is how it
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integrated with the petrol pot um which
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is an aluminum pot. And let me pull that
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out and show that to you. So, this is
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the petrol pot. Um you've probably seen
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the review video I did of this and I've
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also used it um in uh some of my more
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recent camping trips. Um, it's a really
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nice stove and what's cool about it is
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it has this um, heat exchange fins on
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the bottom and then the Hornet stove
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integrates to the bottom
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of the pot. So, it really is a very
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stable
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stove system for camping and
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backpacking. Um, and I love it. But the
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one thing with any of these canister
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stoves is that once you put the canister
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on the bottom of this thing, the whole
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system becomes very tall and uh you know
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when you have a pot full of water and
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it's sitting you know 3 4 in off the
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ground um you really have to be careful
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with stability. You have to have it on a
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good flat stable surface. um you know it
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can become tippy even though it is
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integrated with the uh the pot and the
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legs or the arms of the stove. Great
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system, but that is the the probably the
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biggest downfall. Now the other thing
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about this uh little Hornet stove is
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this thing will boil water um under 2
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minutes. It's very fast. Um and that's
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what I love about it because if I want
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to brew some coffee in the morning, I
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want to get to it right away. I don't
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want to sit there and take forever.
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Plus, um, longer, you know, boil times,
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you're just wasting fuel.
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And of course, the fuel that we're
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talking about is is the Isopro fuel
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canisters. Uh, there's lots of different
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brands. MSR,
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uh, Jet Boil. Uh you can even get these
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at Walmart, even though I've heard some
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reports that the Walmart brand ones
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don't perform as well as the more uh
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larger name brands. I usually get the
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MSRS or the Snow Peaks. Those seem to
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work the best for me. Um I do have some
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Jet Boil ones, too. And then of course
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with the, you know, the new transfer
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technology where you can actually
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transfer halfused canisters into other
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canisters, that really saves a lot of
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time and money. Um, but uh the MSRs for
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me from the money are probably the best
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that I've used. And of course, they come
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in a lot of different sizes. So, here's
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the little MSR. This is I wonder if
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there's a measurement on this thing.
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Yeah, this is a 3.9 ounce net weight.
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And then we have this larger one. This
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is the Stern. Now, this is what you get
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at Walmart. This is a net weight of 8
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oz. And this is isobutane propane fuel
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mix.
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And the MSR is an ISO Pro
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allseason fuel blend. So, I don't know
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if that's a little bit different. I
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imagine it probably is, and that's
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probably why it performs better than the
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Sterno. But this is my large Sterno can.
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I haven't used this one yet. But the
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large cans are nice for, of course,
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longer trips. Um, you know, more
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extended backpacking trips or camping
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trips and you want to have a lot of fuel
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and not have to worry about running out,
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the bigger cans are great.
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So, we have our petrol pot, which is an
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aluminum pot. It has a
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locking folding handle. It has a
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silicone tab on the top and then this
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plastic lid with uh drain holes. Works
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very well.
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And in this pot, um I usually like to
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keep all the components I'm going to be
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using for cooking. So, I've got a mini
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bick lighter,
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got a bandana, and then we have the new
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remote stove,
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and this thing fits in the pot
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perfectly.
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But here is where this thing, I think,
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is really going to excel for me anyway
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in camping and backpacking and and all
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that kind of stuff. um is this remote
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system allows you to uh put a variety of
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different pots um and pans on this thing
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and have it low to the ground uh being
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more stable but then also having the
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canister off to the side so it's out of
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the way. Let me show you what I'm
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talking about. All right, here's your
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stove system. Now we have the petrol pot
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and that has the cutouts for the legs
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and that fits the new
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system pretty well. You got to kind of
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finagle it in there,
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but it does fit in there. And then what
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you do is you're going to connect this
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to your fuel tank.
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And it just screws on
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and that's going to release the gas.
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Now, what's cool about this is and why I
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really uh was kind of gravitating
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towards this remote system is that I
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have a much wider and shorter uh base to
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cook on. So that makes it more stable
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and then I can have my pot or my um my
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fuel canister off to the side and kind
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of out of the way. Now you'll notice
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also
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that this is rotating.
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So that's allows you to move this
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around.
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And then the cool thing is they actually
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did include
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a windscreen
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and it's kind of a heavyduty aluminum uh
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material
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and you don't need much but a a
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windscreen does help
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with fuel efficiency and burn time. So
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if you're outside and you got a windy
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day, a windscreen is definitely helpful.
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Now, this thing doesn't go all the way
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around, and there's a reason for that is
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because you don't want this thing
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completely enclosed because then that um
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really overheats the system, and it's
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not really necessary. You want a little
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bit of air flow, but just enough to cut
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the wind. So, we have our our petrol
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pot. It fits on there nicely. It's
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stable. But the cool thing is I can take
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this pot off.
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And now I can add
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another
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pan or pot that I have.
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All right. So, I put the windscreen on
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the bottom of this just for safety
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purposes cuz I'm on my tabletop. Um, I
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don't think it's going to be an issue.
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Um, these things of course do generate a
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little heat towards the bottom of the
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pot. Um, but not enough to ignite stuff.
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I don't think that's going to be an
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issue at all. So, we're going to do it
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this way just to be safe.
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Now, the petrol pot uh has graduated
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markings on the inside.
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So, that's going to allow you to measure
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out
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what you're using.
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And I'm going to do
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let's do 16 ounces. That's a lot of
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water.
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I would never cook with that much water
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normally.
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Give this some fuel.
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All right.
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Start that.
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Okay, we are boiling
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2 minutes 21 seconds.
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So, 16 oz of water, which is quite a bit
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of water. 2 minutes, 21 seconds.
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Probably give a few seconds here or
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there. I would say that's pretty darn
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successful. Um, 12 oz of water or less,
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that thing's going to boil even faster,
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of course. And that's been my experience
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with my Raptor stove that I could do
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this, you know, 12 ounces uh of water
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under um under two 2 minutes easily with
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this stove. Now, when we're talking
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about specs on this new stove, we have a
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weight of 95.5
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g.
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Um it takes butane and propane mixture
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canisters as we know. Okay, so they're
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saying that this has a boil time of 1
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minute
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uh 48 seconds for 16 ounces of water.
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And of course, I had a little bit longer
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than that. Um it's pretty close. Uh you
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know, conditions always matter. Now,
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this is a controlled environment, so
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this really should be optimal. Um, but
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just to be aware, you know, we're in the
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twominute mark for boiling 16 ounces of
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water, which I think is admirable. Um,
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I've had older stoves that didn't come
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anywhere near that, and these Fire Maple
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stoves do a pretty darn great job.
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And one thing with these titanium stoves
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and all this air space under here, these
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arms are cool to the touch. And titanium
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tends to cool off very quickly. It
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doesn't retain heat as much as, let's
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say, stainless steel. Um, even up on
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this top support, I can touch that.
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That's not overly hot.
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Um, it's of course had a couple minutes
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to cool down, but it cools down very
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quickly.
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All right, guys. I hope you found this
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video useful. Um, Fire Maple Gear, uh,
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I've been using their stuff for the past
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few years. I've had a couple of their
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different of their stoves and pots and
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different systems and everything I've
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gotten from them has worked very very
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well. Um I think it's uh priced uh
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pretty affordably. Um, if we go in and
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we look at,
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let's say, their
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So, if we go in and look at, uh, the
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Fire Maple website, uh, the Hornet uh,
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titanium stove, which is this little
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guy, is running 37.95.
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Uh, and it looks like it's on sale right
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now. The petrol remote uh, titanium
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stove is $54.95.
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The petrol pot uh is running around
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$22.95. So, um I'll have links down to
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this stuff uh in my Amazon store and
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also the Fire Maple store, and you can
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check it out. Um if you're interested in
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purchasing any of these, of course, you
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know, um I am an affiliate uh of Fire
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Maple. I work with those guys. They send
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me this stuff and I get to use it. Um
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so, you know, take that uh uh when
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you're thinking about this stuff. But I
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try to give very honest reviews on this
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gear. Um, if I didn't like this system,
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I wouldn't even bother showing it. I
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would have just sent it back to them or
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tell them I'm not going to use it. Um, I
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like this system and I'm really looking
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forward to using the remote canister
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stove system. Um, this winter when I
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start doing some more cold weather
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camping. I think it's going to be a
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fantastic addition to my kit. I already
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love the petrol pot. I've been using
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that. Um, so I think the stove is just
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it's an upgrade to this. This is a great
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stove. Don't get me wrong. The Raptor is
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a super nice little stove. And if you
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want something that's a little bit more
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