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Tabletop gas cooking, from the burner to the cartridge to the wind wall

A cooking corner rather than a single product

The EVOCAMP entries here form a set: a single-burner tabletop stove, screw-on gas cartridges, and a folding windshield offered in three panel counts. Buy the first and the other two are the reorders that follow it. That is unusual on this site, where most cooking names appear once and leave the consumables to somebody else.

The fitting is written down

Compatibility is the thing this brand gets right. The stove names the MSF-1a 227 g (8 oz) cartridge in its title and again in its bullets, so a replacement can be bought by name instead of by guess. The cartridge listing goes further and publishes a 7/16 in screw thread with an automatic shut-off, a stated 80 per cent butane to 20 per cent propane mix, and — rarely for that shelf — both a diameter of about 11.3 cm (4.4 in) and a height of 14 cm (5.5 in). It even asks you to check your appliance holder against that width before ordering, which is a maker declining to sell you the wrong thing.

Where the numbers stop being numbers

The stove publishes a weight of 1.5 kg (3.3 lb) and never says what it is weighing: the burner alone, the burner in its case, or the burner with a cartridge in it. It publishes no output in watts, no boil time and no boil volume, so it cannot be set against the rated stoves elsewhere in that hub. The windshield is the sharper case. It gives a folded size and a weight for each of its three versions, six figures where most listings manage two, and never once says what the panels are made of. The only material named on that page is the polyester of the bag they travel in.

What that combination is worth

A brand that fixes the fitting and leaves the performance blank is a reasonable trade if you already know what you are cooking on. Order the cartridges against the valve name and the published width, order the shield against its folded size, and take the stove’s 1.5 kg (3.3 lb) as an unlabelled figure rather than a carried weight. Nothing here needs a photograph read for a dimension, which is more than most of that shelf can claim.

Every EVOCAMP product we have reviewed