Sterno Single Burner Folding Stove - 50012

Great product. Folds up nice and small. Excellent customer service. Highly recommended.

I love this little stove! I have used this stove from camping, to a hot lunch on a remote jobsite in the mountains of Colorado. Couple this stove with an inexpensive mess kit, a can opener and some canned foods, and you have a backpack-able solution to your food cooking problems. The design of this stove must surely date back to the 1930's, or even before, yet the functionality cannot be surpassed. Sure, a WhisperLite is trendy, and might heat water and food a little more quickly than sterno, but the tradeout is carrying around those bulky gas canisters, which are only useful for the stove itself. Sterno, on the other hand, has many other uses while outward bound, and much easier to tote around with you than those canisters, believe me. I originally purchased my first Sterno stove in 1995 when I learned to flyfish after moving to Colorado. I needed something inexpensive, and easy to backpack, as I used to take off and spend two to three days fishing different rivers throughout the state. My whole system was easy enough to use to prepare some hot food after braving a frigid river on a November morning was a great morale booster. Whipping this out at a jobsite 10 miles from the closest Wendy's, Subway or any food outlet made my fellow workers envious as I enjoyed a can of hot chili and crackers while they mulled through their bologna sandwiches or other such lunchfare. I was asked numerous times where I had purchased my stove, and after returning to work over the next few days, noticed a few other little stoves had popped up on the site. I gave it away to a couple of hippie kids who were 'traveling' through Colorado one day, and, can only imagine that once they landed on their feet, that little stove has been passed on to another soul who can put it to good use. I am back to buy another to stick in my "Grab and Go" bag, just in case I ever need to head for the hills, due to some sort of disaster.

Haven’t cooked on it yet, but did assemble it. Easy enough. Seemed pretty sturdy. Giving it 5 stars for quality build.

It was simple to fold and hassle free Wish it came with the fuel, but still works well and can be used indoor.

Durability: It’s an ok stove. It didn’t do well when it was left overnight outside in light rain. It had little rust spots all over the black metal frame pieces. Performance: The Sterno takes a long time to heat water up (I’d guess about 15 minutes). It’s awkward to put the fuel into the holding area, and saving the Sterno for later is difficult. My fuel dried out and was unusable a few months after resealing, so that was a shame. Reliability: I think this stove is more reliable than a wood-burning stove for cooking because you don’t need to rely on finding dry kindling and wood that will stay hot enough to burn and cook with. Overall: Overall, I guess this would make an ok emergency stove, since the fuel and stove are pretty light. They take up I’d say an average amount of space for a stove. I have a bunch of different stoves.