Camp Stoves

Trangia's range of camping stoves have been popular for years especially for (from what our sales tell us) groups such as Duke of Edinburgh and Scouts on their expedition and camping trips. We've decided to post a detailed review on the Trangia 25-6 Campstove to help provide you with "inside" information if you're looking to buy a trangia stove.

All trangias have little to no moving parts so there really is nothing to go wrong when compared against other more advanced camping stoves.

The Trangia series 25-6 stove is designed to cook for medium groups of 4 people, always works well in very bad weather, is light(ish) in weight when carrying and is simple and very quick to set up.

The stove's burner runs on methlyated spirits and is silent during operation - positive side is you have a quiet camp setup but the downside is that if you don't keep an eye on the fuel in the burner chamber you can easily run out! Another issue is to decide how much to use, especially when its not recommended to pour fuel back into your fuel bottle OR pour fuel into an empty and HOT burner. We find a half full burner runs on average for approximately 20 minutes so plan your cooking accordingly.

Do note that meths burns more effectively in cold weather over gas so we usually grab the trangia over any other camp stove when we head off to the hills in the depth of winter. The trangia stove can be ran on bottled liquid gas but needs a further accessory to allow this operation to take place.

We always seem to find the simmering ring a fiddle to use but over the years we've developed the habit of throwing it (ok we place it on carefully) over the burner to extinguish the flame. Personally when camping we've always wanted our food or hot drink heated up quickly... if you want to cook more advanced camping recipes on your stove we recommend you look at a stove with a more control over simmering (try the MSR Dragonfly for instance).

We love the way everything packs down neatly into your rucksack, place the burner in a pot, place the pots together inside the wind shield, drop the frying pan/cover lid on top and strap together. Take care with the strap though, they seem to get easily lost in tents in our experience - strap it to a rucksack when not in use to prevent loss (even if temporary its a pain!).

Generously of Trangia they supply a kettle - though its not non-stick like the pans - so if you only use your kettle to boil water at home we'd assume thats all you would use a kettle for out in the field!

In conclusion we say the Trangia 25-6 Camping Stove is: durable, usable and practical and worth a purchase.
Its a star buy in our book!