MSR Simmerlite?

[DonnV]

The marketing stats make it sound like it could do a good job of both melting snow at 10,000' and slowly cooking the luxury trail dinner on the family backpacking trip. Anyone tried one?

[graupel]

Seems to work pretty good in my book. The burner head folds up smaller than the Whisperlite too and is lighter. Nice and quiet. I don't know what the stats are, but it seems equivalent in heat to a Whisperlite. Noticeably more controllable for output.

 

Haven't had to clean it yet, but since it has the shaker jet, I might not have to for a while.

[Thinker]

One of my partners had a simmerlite during a recent 2 night stay in Rainier's east crater. Our other stove was a whisperlite. Both functioned reasonably well. Though I didn't time (or otherwise measure) the difference between them, it seemed like the simmerlite took longer to melt snow/ice. It could very well have been the lack of noise (I'm used to my whisperlite) or the fact that he didn't have it cranked up all the way that accounted for the difference I perceived. Other than that, it seemed to work just fine. The priming/preheating procedure is a little different than the whisperlite, but roughly equivalent. The foil windshields that came stock with the simmerlite sucked compared to the std whisperlite gear. Overall it seemed like a fine stove, but it didn't convince me to run out and replace my whisperlite.

[Cpt.Caveman]

I converted to real stoves a while back. I was once a staunch user of msr.

 

I prefer primus or even gigapower (I sold to some alias here and am still mad but needed the money at the time)

 

The best expedition stove is still the bad ass double burner coleman with bottles.