(Seek advice at the local dealer, I've finally) After purchasing I've initialy Tütencarbonara done in the garden. If you stick to the instructions the service is not really difficult, just unusual when coming from the gas cooker. The pre-heating caused me but also by dozens times Operation still an impressive flame, I have not yet dared to light the stove in the vestibule in the tent. In operation, the WhisperLite is still surprisingly quiet. When you're on nem camping and anyone encouraging place NEN Dragonfly, then you hear that. When WhisperLite is not the case, it is barely above a gas cooker. If you turn on full burn of the stove hot exorbitant. That I'm not a gourmet chef I have already mentioned, but even Tütencarbonara you have to keep in mind, otherwise they cook over a jiffy. However, speaking at various Websites of "quasi-none" adjustability; I can not confirm. The regulation on the fuel valve probably requires some practice and finesse, the bottom line is I'm very well with it and get yourself rump steaks in the pan (I can fry) cooked English to the point. By then I've also conjured the pitying smiles from the faces of the camping neighbors with gas cookers. It is a bit skeptical eyed indeed if one builds the WhisperLite, the gasoline bottle followed, pumping ... With the preheats huge flame ... But sooner or later there comes a curious look and the question "what hastn there? What burns? Your morning coffee needs to do 2 minutes, which costs something? ".
One must be aware, the cooker needs more maintenance than a gas cooker (This're maintenance-free, as a rule). Every now and then you have to take it apart and clean times, the frequency depends mainly depend on fuel with which one operates it. I always take benzine from the drugstore (in DE about 4 / l), ideally the Dutch Pendent Wasbenzine (
The weight of Kocherst is relative. On short trips by bicycle with one or two uses a gas stove is easier to set up faster and presumably practical. In four weeks you're better off with the WhisperLite, because otherwise you would have to carry 15 gas cartridges in a trailer. The WhisperLite is also less socially accepted. While I realized that there really anyone in Duisburg itches when you prepared his lunch by the roadside, has angepflaumt me in the Netherlands even a bicycle traveling Ren (ith) tner if I wanted to burn down the state-owned furniture. Since a gas cooker is certainly less noticeable and makes the absence of priming flame for less sensation.
The only downside I have not yet come to grips with is the drop of gasoline from the fuel line, if you removed it. I've read a lot of tips that after turning 180 degrees turn, etc, but nothing was the loss of about a teaspoon of gasoline off completely. Not only that wasted fuel, also from an environmental perspective is the offense.
The supplied windscreen is mediocre, soon he is worn out and I'm going to move to a model of Tatonka. The base plate does its purpose, with frequent wrinkles but also wears these.
A total of WhisperLite is an ingenious cooker, its use makes enormous fun and was able to convince my better half, so we have to live on tour not only of steak and Tütencarbonara. I am still young, but can not think of the part yet to inherit - if the oil reserves will then to fire him. I recommend him to anyone who fits roughly in my profile and want to remain as independent as possible of cartridge standards. When traveling without a lot of infrastructure, he is certainly the method of choice. I'm always looking for new equipment - with cookers but I'm done. MSR has since developed a great device.
ADDENDUM:
Two things to add:
On the one hand has the pump leather - which is, strictly speaking, no more leather but a rubber - given up the ghost and had to be replaced. Very annoying as this was happening in the Alps and no MSR dealer was to be found far and wide. So you should actually the expedition Maintenance Kit to take when one has to rely on the stove. The pump rubber itself suggests just over 1 to beech, is therefore justifiable. Unfortunately, this incident has somewhat shaken my confidence in the cooker.
On the other hand I've defeated the dripping fuel line; I was speaking of the tip with the spin the bottle after being switched off. That is what is wrong, before switching off the petrol bottle you have to rotate through 180 ° on the line, then that depends the "intake" in the bottle is no longer in the fuel and the stove is burning at full pressure. Then you can wait until the last print is out of the bottle and has three advantages: No sooty yellow flame when going out of the stove, no dripping fuel pipe, no pressure on the bottle when unscrewing the pump (which sometimes even to gasoline mess could result). This trick reduces fuel waste, pollution and sooting of the cooker not only irrelevant, but not works! Brimming with Molotov cocktails (otherwise the piece still hangs in the gasoline).
