Try a remote canister stove with a preheat tube over or next to the burner that can be used with the canister inverted which will feed liquid fuel first to the preheat area that can be used to around 0 deg F
Anything below 30 degrees F for isobutane begins to degrade performance. Below about 15 degrees F at lower altitudes and what you demonstrated in this video is the result. You can preheat the fuel canister inside your jacket or sleeping bag then place it on an insulated surface such as a piece of closed cell foam. Next attach your Moulder strip (search for it and choose the Backpacking Light search result; no membership required to read it) and a neoprene cozy to insulate the canister some as it cools from use. Then light your stove. If you protect it from wind you should be able to operate a stove such as a Pocket Rocket Deluxe, that is regulated, down to a temperature close to zero degrees F. A better choice but possibly a little heavier one is a remote canister stove that is designed to run with an inverted canister. You will still want to insulate the canister and warm it just prior to lighting the stove in the upright position initially, then once it’s running and heating the preheat tube in the burner, then invert the canister. Then you’re in business. But really if you’re out in temperatures that are consistently below 15 degrees F then you really need a liquid (white) gas stove and larger pot in case the only way to get water is to melt snow.
Good Video!
Try a remote canister stove with a preheat tube over or next to the burner that can be used with the canister inverted which will feed liquid fuel first to the preheat area that can be used to around 0 deg F
Well done for running this test. Just the sort of thing I like. Would have been good to see the temps in Centigrade.
Wouldn't catch me out camping in that weather 😂😂
Anything below 30 degrees F for isobutane begins to degrade performance. Below about 15 degrees F at lower altitudes and what you demonstrated in this video is the result. You can preheat the fuel canister inside your jacket or sleeping bag then place it on an insulated surface such as a piece of closed cell foam. Next attach your Moulder strip (search for it and choose the Backpacking Light search result; no membership required to read it) and a neoprene cozy to insulate the canister some as it cools from use. Then light your stove. If you protect it from wind you should be able to operate a stove such as a Pocket Rocket Deluxe, that is regulated, down to a temperature close to zero degrees F. A better choice but possibly a little heavier one is a remote canister stove that is designed to run with an inverted canister. You will still want to insulate the canister and warm it just prior to lighting the stove in the upright position initially, then once it’s running and heating the preheat tube in the burner, then invert the canister. Then you’re in business. But really if you’re out in temperatures that are consistently below 15 degrees F then you really need a liquid (white) gas stove and larger pot in case the only way to get water is to melt snow.