FAO Ruth Re gas consumption

Pat, thanks for that - I have the same Coleman two-burner stove so that gives me an idea - like you, I don't run the stove on FULL either.

Pat, as a qualified gas fitter I was wondering if you could offer some advice as to how to make my GQ use similar amounts of gas per hour :))

So lets say we dont use full but 1/2 to 3/4. Thats around 50g/h for the light and say 150g/h for the cooker.
I'd cook for around an hour ? and the light for 3 hours max in camp. Thats around 200g/night. Roughly, and 1 person only to cook for. That's 4500 grms (full bottle) approx divided by 200grm.
That gives me around 22 days from a 4.5kg cylinder.
Now lets assume that my figures are way wrong, I should get around 11 days minimum out of that bottle.
I must have taken a wrong turn with those figures ! (Although I've never had an empty gas cylinder)
Ok guys, where did I go wrong ?

I think we have the same Coleman stove.
That confirms what I have found.
I generally work on 2 weeks of cooking with a 2kg bottle.
That is a brew in the morning, and a meal at night for 2 people, and a brew after dinner, and we use the hot water from the after dinner brew for washing up.
About 45 minutes a day with about 30 minutes on full blow.

Thanks.

Patrolman, if you have the time, wonder if you could help with a query about the Coleman stove.

I want to connect it to a gas bottle with a POL fitting.

The coleman stoves seems to have a special hose with the fitting one end to the stove, and a regulator atthe other end, with a 3/8" bsp fitting.

Can I run a standard hose with POL one end and a 3/8" male bsp fitting the other end. Not sure of the standard hose (2.6 MPa) is rated high enough for the pressure? Might have to put a POL adaptor in there to get the fittings to work.

Thanks for letting me hijack the thread :-)

Hey Brew, we love you two - just having one now whilst doing this.
Footloose, glad you worked out those figures because it was too hard for me but we always use a 9 kg bottle so maybe that's why we never run out - except when we've been camping with long times in between camps and forget which year the bottle was filled! Ha ha ha.