Efficiency by flame level has been something I've wondered about every time I used my stove, but I never bothered to test it. Thank you for doing the hard work for us.

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Most welcome! I hope it helps.

@hikerJohn

Жыл бұрын

These are great tests . . . I think we all suspected and predicted some of these results but I thought lids would make a bugger difference. Looking forward to the aluminum tests.

Was looking forward to the next water treatment episode, but GearSkeptic adds yet ANOTHER insanely thorough series into the mix. Absolutely wild. This man cannot be stopped.

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Too many pots...boiling on the stove!

@matthewnovak9161

Жыл бұрын

@@GearSkeptic Don't boil yourself out...

Wow! I thought I was a gear nerd, but you take it to a whole new level. Thanks for all the many hours you put into these tests! I look forward to your wind tests. I know from real world experience the the BRS-3000 is SEVERELY impacted by wind. In fact, if you don't use a windscreen with it even just a moderate breeze can keep you from being able to bring it to a boil at all.

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! And yah, I'm totally expecting wind to change some of these conclusions.

I'm a professional instructional designer - who specializes in teaching content through video. This is one of the best instructional videos I've ever seen. It ticks so many boxes for instructional best practices. I'm going to use your video as an example when I teach.

@thek3743

4 ай бұрын

really good, but too long. half an hour would be perfect

@GearSkeptic

4 ай бұрын

Thanks very much! That really means a lot, and I sincerely appreciate it.

@GmailNexus

2 ай бұрын

@@thek3743 go 1.5x Bro 😅

God these are good. Not sure if it's on your "to do" list, but would love to see how windscreens affect efficiency as well!

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Definitely! Working on fans and the mechanics of a wind setup. Already collecting windscreens and choosing stoves.

@maetb

Жыл бұрын

@@GearSkeptic This is a great idea - I am also curious about using low flame in a breeze.

Thank you for your hard work and dedication. It is greatly appreciated. You make excellent content, please keep making videos.

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much! I may be slow, but I am steady.

Eye opening and amazing amount of hard work. This is one of those milestones that will be referenced for next decade in UL world and on reddit. Thank you.

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! That is genuinely appreciated.

I could watch you control for variability all day long! Thanks for all your hard work. We appreciate your insights!!

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks much! I appreciate that :)

Another great video. Best part, no bias, no defending a brand, no belittling of others choice, just raw data! Sure there was some ribbing at the man in gray (devils advocate) but never hostility. Thank you for providing a service to the backpacking/hiking community!

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

The man is gray is really a voice in my own head!

@blueklister

Жыл бұрын

There is a man in gray in all of us, depending on the subject!

You fill a hole in my life created when Carl Sagan died. Thank you!

@bphh

Жыл бұрын

Or more efficiently: You fill a Carl Sagan shaped hole in my heart.

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Wow! Humbling, but much appreciated!

Thank you for this video. It's so refreshing to see real science, solid lab techniques, and good data brought into these discussions. I watched all 47 minutes and loved it all.

@GearSkeptic

3 ай бұрын

You’re welcome, and thank you!

Fantastic. Great to see you back.

I have literally wondered about this for years. I can't believe how good and thorough this video is. Thank you for your effort!

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate that. Hopefully some of it helps.

Once again the best channel on KZread shows why it's the best😍 I'd be interested to see how a contained "flameless"/windproof system like the MSR Windburner or the Jetboil stack up in a controlled and windy setting. Especially with the weight increases in their systems because of the added heat fins on the pots as well as the insulation materials. Great stuff as always!

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much! Yah, I've got wind effects planned for Part 2, but that should lead perfectly into a Part 3 on heat exchanger systems like Jetboil and MSR Reactor/Windburner.

@GeekfromYorkshire

Жыл бұрын

@@GearSkeptic I've had a Trangia 25 since 1987, then sold for Trangia 27 Duossal. I tried a Mini Trangia but it's useless in any kind of wind - can't get a boil, wind blows the flame away so weak it's cooling as fast as any heat gets to the pot. I've got a Jetboil Sol Ti from 2012 which solves many of the Trangia's 27 weight issues but removes food cooking versatility. For an overnight 1-2 night scenario vs a 5+ night scenario the alcohol vs gas and the wind losses seems to pivot both towards gas and then.... I simply don't know.

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Eventually, I’d like to add in alcohol stoves to the comparison.

@GeekfromYorkshire

Жыл бұрын

@@GearSkeptic Excellent. The "no brainer" is at the extremes of a 1-nighter possibly 2-nighter, when the weight of alcohol fuel + small bottle + burner is substantially less than the weight of a nearly empty canister + burner. It's also a no-brainer at the opposite end of a long 5+day trip when beginning with a full canister weighs less than the alcohol+bottle. The tricky bit is the middle part between the extremes. Also alcohol stoves very much need a windbreak (tighter usually better) but can't do that so safely with gas canister when under the burner under the pot. Also we know gas is more efficient with a lower flame but in wind if too low it risks blowing out and there's going to be low-enough optimal flame where the flame is coming out at enough velocity to finish combustion whilst still under the pot. So in your high/medium/low flame tests there's going to be a point when low may become less efficient. Complex stuff.

@Shrouded_reaper

Жыл бұрын

I wish toaks or someone would do a pot with heat exchanger fins. Always jealous seeing jetboil dudes boil so fast but the whole jetboil system is heavy af, just need the regular titanium pot with the fins in the bottom.

Very glad to see a new video! Huge fan of the Skeptic™ take!

as always, great video! Thanks for all the information and explanations!

Thumbed up before watching. Loved all the prior content. 🙌

Outstanding work. Thank you.

OH YEAH, MORE SKEPTIC!! I haven't even watched it yet and I love the anticipating feeling of growing more knowledge!!

I experience so much joy when I see you have posted!

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

:)

Your approach is admirable. Great work.

WooHoo NEW Video 😻It’s all so interesting… Thank You 😁

Amazing as always. I appreciate your thoroughness, knowledge and fascinating points. Thank you.

Amazing work as always, we all really value all your many hours of work & expense doing these reviews. I especially love it when it agrees with all my own much less involved tests! Brs & small pot with foil lid for the win! Thanks again, we appreciate you & always look forward to your content!

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Most appreciated, and glad to help. Thanks much!

Excellent video!!!

Great attention to detail! Love your methodology.

Huzzah! You’re back! Looking forward to more videos about cooking dynamics.

Huzzah! A new series! Looking forward to it!

Great info and explanations of your methods as always. They're the reasons I keep recommending your channel to a variety of people. 🙂👍

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

This was great. Something truly informative. I appreciate all the thought and time you put into this. Easily earned a new subscription.

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Much appreciated.

Wonderful test and results

This blew my mind, thank you for all your hard work!

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

You are most welcome! I hope it can help.

These videos are so good. I can't wait for you to continue on and cover more and more topics over the years. This is ground breaking work that can be referred to by many others. I think R value and insulation will be a particularly interesting topic in the future. Cheers and hope you have a great weekend!

@GearSkeptic

10 ай бұрын

Thanks very much! Truly appreciated.

This is SO good! The presentation is exceptional and very entertaining! Very well done and thanks for sharing! Loved it!

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Very kind and much appreciated.

Thank you sir. You solve the questions I have anytime when camping. Keep up the good work.

Such a great, well documented, and thorough approach. Really flexed my mind wrapping around the concept as a whole and you succinctly got the scientific method across with the summary at the end grounding it to earth. Thanks!

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I am so glad if any of it can be useful.

Brilliant as always! Thank you very much.

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, and you are most welcome!

That was awesome. Answered many questions I had on stove/pot size. Looking forward to the other videos.

Thank you so much for all the time and energy spent bringing all of us adventurist much needed and deeply appreciated knowledge.

You’ve done it once again! Awesome work, and quite funny too. Thank you!!

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much!

Wow! I like your testing very much. Thanks a lot for the effort - I'm going now to check out the next video of this series.

Another excellent video👍👍

I've never seen any of your videos before. For the dedication to precision you deserve a follow. Very good video.

Big thumbs up. Love the attention to detail in both execution and analysis.

Very interesting stuff! Thank you so much for the time and effort that would have been involved with all of these tests. You're doing the community a massive favour! If your sanity can stand it (and I assume a paired down pot selection will help) then I'll be really interested to see the effect of breezy conditions in the wind tests

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Definitely! Wind effects will be Part 2. Already working on stove selection, and some windscreens.

Thank you for your service

omg. I've been waiting for this! will give it a full watch tomorrow

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Now I will worry about it being disappointing! 😉

@Tiger-789

Жыл бұрын

@@GearSkeptic Noo, I gave it a watch and your videos never disappoint :) I am also so impressed by all the effort you put in to control the variables. It's appreciated and really entertaining to watch! This video in particular inspires me to go test my alcohol stoves and camp pots 😄 P.S. if there's anywhere I can donate to you in the name of hiking gear science, I would be happy to

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

No donations necessary, but thanks so much for the thought!

Thank you very much for the best hiking gear reviews and information shares provided by anyone, anywhere. Keep up the outstanding work. It is appreciated.

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! That really means a lot!

Just excellent. Thank you for the time and effort to make these videos. I’m looking forward to the tests of wind effects, and measures to mitigate them.

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

It will be Part 2, already in the planning stages!

Excellent!

Amazing, quality work. These videos help me understand not just gear but physics itself.

The only KZreadr that dose this kind of amazing work Thank you

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Much appreciated! Thank you.

Oh man, you're lighting up a spark in my engineering endeavors; seeing all those tubes/measurement devices in a residential setting makes me more interested

You are a legend for doing all this research!

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

(bows humbly)

Thank you for all of your work.

@GearSkeptic

7 ай бұрын

You are most welcome!

Okay, I'm hooked,... just subscribed to your channel. Well done! Thanks for creating and posting this video.

Excellent video.

Great job, thank you

Impressive. Great info. Thanks.

Thank you once again for doing our hobby a valuable service.

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

You are most welcome! I hope it helps.

This information is pure gold. Thank you so much for enabling me to make a significantly more informed choice for my forthcoming travels.

@GearSkeptic

4 ай бұрын

You are very welcome! I am glad if it helps.

You do great work, your spreadsheet is the single best piece of information that I have ever received from KZread!

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! That is very appreciated.

Just wow... Excellent video.

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Absolutely fantastic. Thank you!

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

You’re welcome! Glad if it can help.

Bravo. This is the best review that I have seen, bar none. It answered all the questions that I had watching other reviews. Thank you.

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! That is much appreciated.

I usualy cold soak my meals, but I still watched every bit of your video because it is so satisfying. A big thank you for this!

Hi, just found ur channel and am excited to view more of ur vids. Presentation and format are great, attention to detail is extreme and flow and content holds attention and is interesting and entertaining. Looking forward to watching much more from you, 🙏

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! That means a great deal to me, and I really appreciate it!

Another video right is my alley!! I’m so glad you’re doing all the experiments that I’d love to do because I don’t have time! 😂

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thinks this stuff is interesting! :)

Thank God someone did this!! This is the exact stuff I've been wondering about to inform my cooking setup choices. THANK YOU! 👍 👍 Awesome video, and keep it up.

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Wait, so...I'm not the only one?!? Thanks much, and you are most welcome!

Soooo analytical. Love IT ❤

..and after viewing, I am once again fulfilled with the wisdom of your influence, and appreciate it! You Rock for logic bro!

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Very kind of you! Much obliged.

This is the way to test!!! 👍Thanks for some REALLY USEFUL information. Looking forward to the upcoming videos. Love your work!

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Thank you much! Very glad to help.

I love that kind of craziness 😂 Thank you for this thorough testing and analysis.

@GearSkeptic

7 күн бұрын

Most welcome!

This is the nerdiest video on camp cooksets and I’m here for it!

The amount of hard work and thoroughness you put into your videos is impressive. Very few channels are like this, more akin to a peer-reviewed article than anything else. I love it! I also love hiking - so this channel just earned a new subscriber! Keep it up!!

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much! Most kind of you and much appreciated.

Amazing. Wonderful. Never stop, please. A salve to my questioning mind.

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Most humbling. Thanks!

this was perfectly thought out and thoroughly tested. thank you so much.

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Much appreciated.

Thank you! Incredible work!

@GearSkeptic

5 ай бұрын

Thanks! You are most welcome.

Another excellent scientific comparison. Thank you so much for your time and effort !!! ...I also appreciate the sense of humor...

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure! I hope some of it is useful.

Your channel is vastly underrated. Thanks for sharing the outstanding research with us!

@GearSkeptic

10 ай бұрын

Thanks very much, and you are most welcome!

I have been looking forward to this video. With all that you have covered here, I was beginning to think you could not have left anything to cover in part 2. Having said that, I was not surprised by the additional variables you came up with. Thank you for this

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure, sir. Hope it can help! Part 2 will be on wind effects. I'm thinking wind may change some of these recommendations. Part 3 is planned for heat exchanger systems (which will expand on wind effects). Beyond that, I'd like to check aluminum vs. titanium vs. steel, and maybe a test set using larger pots to see if big burners turn out to be better there. Now, I just need 30-hour days to get it all done!

You've done mankind a great service.

A lot of work was done. Thank you a lot! This really helpful.

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

You're most welcome. I'm glad to be a help!

This is incredible work. I love and greatly appreciate the care taken to ensure bias and error are as reduced as possible. I've been using a medium flame for years with my old snow peaks stove. Time to switch to low flame! You're incredible, thanks again.

@Mitigator123

Жыл бұрын

But only if wind conditions allow it!

Excellent video! Thank you for your thorough analytical evaluation, very very informative. I will use this to purchase a stove burner and pots for my bike packing trip.

Thank you very much for taking the time, effort , energy, and having an immense amount of patience to boil so many pots of water. This was an excellent video.

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks much!

Awesome stuff!! As an engineer I love everything about this. Definitely going to subscribe and watch through all your previous videos. Thanks for the content and hope you're able to continue to churn out more!!

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much! Glad to have you aboard :)

The best I’ve seen anywhere. Thank you for sharing your talent and taking the time to do this.

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I do appreciate it.

Instant subscribe after watching the thoroughness of this set of testing. Time to go watch some of your others.

This was and vary informative. Thanks for watching the water boil for us.

Another great video challenging the established norms in the backpacking community. This gives some real food for thought when deciding on cook kit between overnighters and longer section hikes. We all really appritiate your hard work and I personally really look forward to your next installment on wind screens.

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! That is much appreciated. My early guess is that windscreens will make small stove/pot systems look more better than wide ones (if that makes sense).

@christianpotter651

11 ай бұрын

@@GearSkeptic I second that hypothesis but really look forward to seeing the results!

I think I just found my spirit animal. Ha. Love your thorough work! I have some back videos to go through!

Thank you. This is so interesting!

I love your method, observations and measurements. Hi from Germany.

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Greetings, and thanks!

I'm only two minutes into the video, but that spreadsheet is a work of art. Liked and subscribed.

Wow- strangely enough this was insanely useful information for me. Thank you! Subscribed!

@GearSkeptic

6 ай бұрын

Thanks much! I'm very glad if it can help.

Excellent! - Sorry I'm not long winded. Loved this video!

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Would you believe, these videos are always the result of many rounds of editing down to get them under an hour? Sigh.

Wow; You came through with superb analysis and tests. Thank you for all the hard work you put into making these videos. I look forward to future thoughts on Shelter/clothing systems and getting into R values and the likes. PS: Thank you for the electrolyte/hydration series. Implementing electrolytes and hydration per your recommendations has prevented me from getting a headache after my monthly USPSA competitions. Your knowledge and research may literally save me a headache every month for the rest of my life!

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I am always made glad if it helps!

Such a sophisticated test, designed and conducted so scientifically. It really confirmed answers to a lot of questions I always wonder. Great video!

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

i like your channel. simple and straightforward

@GearSkeptic

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!