My family and I returned last week from a 13-day car camping trip and during the trip (day 3, actually), our propane Brunton stove/grill combo started having some issues with the grill surface itself. One of the rivets holding on the heat sink on the bottom of the grill just up and broke. While scrubbing the grill surface itself after dinner one night the aluminized coating on it started coming off. This was with me scrubbing it with the abrasive side of a dish sponge, not an SOS pad or steel wool or something... We got back home and I returned it to REI where I originally purchased it. It had only been used once prior to our trip.
I want to replace it with a stove/grill combo again but am hoping to get some people's opinions on a couple of options. One I am looking at getting as a replacement is this one at REI:
http://www.rei.com/product/799796
Another that some friends of ours are encouraging us to get instead is this one:
http://www.rei.com/product/723286
The compact nature of the first one is certainly appealing. We would use it maybe a half-dozen times every calendar year. Does anyone know first-hand if the grill side of the first stove is durable? Obviously Coleman has a great reputation, but the Brunton stove wasn't exactly cheap itself... The extra cooking surface of the RoadTrip stove is certainly nice, but the extra weight and size is a consideration to deal with as well, considering it still all has to fit in a trailer with gear, bikes, a dog kennel, etc...
Thoughts on the durability of the 1st offering? Is the RoadTrip REALLY worth the extra $$?
I want to replace it with a stove/grill combo again but am hoping to get some people's opinions on a couple of options. One I am looking at getting as a replacement is this one at REI:
http://www.rei.com/product/799796
Another that some friends of ours are encouraging us to get instead is this one:
http://www.rei.com/product/723286
The compact nature of the first one is certainly appealing. We would use it maybe a half-dozen times every calendar year. Does anyone know first-hand if the grill side of the first stove is durable? Obviously Coleman has a great reputation, but the Brunton stove wasn't exactly cheap itself... The extra cooking surface of the RoadTrip stove is certainly nice, but the extra weight and size is a consideration to deal with as well, considering it still all has to fit in a trailer with gear, bikes, a dog kennel, etc...
Thoughts on the durability of the 1st offering? Is the RoadTrip REALLY worth the extra $$?
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