Cold weather stove

[jackattack]

I need some advice. I am going car camping in the Blue Mountains soon and it is going to be cold and possibly wet. Will have a big tent and some tarps. I want to be able to cook under the porch, sheltered from rain but well ventilated. I have a Soto Windmaster canister stove and a lunchbox style butane canister stove . Because i am car camping i dont want to use canisters and i read that gas canister stoves dont perform well in the cold. Thinking of buying a new stove for cold weather hiking and car camping. Does a 2 burner lpg camping stove with a refillable bottle work in the cold, down to -5 or should i buy a multifuel stove for one stove to rule them all? i know the 2 burner stove is pointless for hiking but does it suffer in the cold. Am i over thinking worrying about gas canisters for car camping in the cold.

[Mark F]

Your stove using the heavy steel refillable bottle will be fine. The fuel is mainly propane so good to well below zero. At -5 the stoves using light, non-refillable butane canisters will struggle or not work.

[Moondog55]

I use a big bottle propane stove for many reasons. But when car camping it makes perfect sense as this is the cheapest way to buy fuel. A really good propane stove just cost me $135- and it is a blowtorch, a smaller one with half the power was $99- ; and they often are around S/H much cheaper
A 4 kilo bottle doesn't cost much more than an MSR fuel bottle
It is a perfectly viable alternative to using small canister stoves and should perform well down to any temperature expected here in Australia, I use mine at my winter snow camp

[jackattack]

Thanks for the feedback. Just arranged to buy a ripper of a stove, will post from the field next week.

[Gadgetgeek]

With straight LPG you should be good down to -30 without too much trouble, so you should do just fine.