Snow Peak GigaPower Stove Titanium Manual

This is absolutely the smallest most compact stove on the market, not to mention the lightest! I compared this stove with my buddy who has the exact same one only it's made of stainless steel. I was pretty happy that you could actually feel the difference in weight. My friend stripped his stove down as much as he could but it was still quite a bit heavier than the titanium one. It boiled water quickly at 6000 feet but a wind screen would have made it more efficient. I used it to cook a steak in a titanium fry pan and burned the pan a little. My buddy paid a little more attention to his fry pan and found that if you keep a close eye on it you won't have any problems with the small burning area of the stove scorching your equipment. My friend now feels he has to go out and by himself one like mine. Best and lightest stove I’ve ever owned. Don't buy the one with the auto igniter. It breaks really easily and adds needless weight to an otherwise excellent product.

I have been a liquid gas stove guy for a while and decided to go back to the canisters to save some weight, and since the weight was my main concern I bought this stove. It is insanely light and compact. I figured this little stove would work well but would not be able to match my dragonfly in pure BTU output (seeing my dragonfly does a great imitation of the space shuttle on launch). To my surprise this little stove was able to boil water in just about the same time! There are a couple of things that you have to watch out for, the burner area is very small so you can't just put your pot on the stove and forget about it, the stove will scorch your pan. Also if you buy this stove buy the windscreen, you will need it. If you are into light and small this is the stove for you.

The SnowPeak GigaPower stove is a great stove that I would recommend to anyone wanting to travel relatively light. At 3.25 oz. the burner is one of the lightest around, but that's only one of the pluses. I am more interested in fuel economy and flame control. The GigaPower does both well. Using a windscreen and watching the stove carefully, I was able to get 90 minutes from a 110 gram fuel cannister. It is hard to do this without excellent flame control, and the stove will hold a low simmer well. I looked at many stoves before purchasing this one, including the JetBoil system. The SnowPeak model beats it for weight (and price) and matches it for fuel economy.

Great stove for backpacking in moderate/nice weather. Used it on a three day trip at Big South Fork Tennessee and it worked wonderfully. The smallest amount of wind does seem to alter the boiling efficiency but in my mind that is to be expected with a stove this small and basic.

Carrying case is great, fits inside my 450 snowpeak mug while my canisters fit in my 700 titanium cooker mesh bag combo.

I did not experience any leaking when putting it on the stove after being folded up, not sure if they redesigned it so the valve could be all the way closed when folding or not but I never had this problem.

Great stove, just a little few things that could be better. First of all the whole thing isn't made of titanium. Just looks like the supports are titanium. Also I'm worried about the burner screen where the flame comes out, I used to own a Pocket Rocket and it boiled over leaving burned food on the burner, with the Pocket Rocket the burner holes where the flames come out are big enough to stick a pin in and clean out. The Snow Peak stove has a screen making it almost impossible to clean if something got burned on there. Comes in a little plastic case that fits well which I like.

The stove is great. Lightweight, efficient, easy to maintain, and compact. I got the auto ignite version and would recommend it to everyone. I believe that you can purchase the piezo seperate and install it yourself later. I have been using this stove almost three years now and have had not one problem with anything failing in the field. I use it in all seasons. The only reason i gave it 4 stars is because you must have the wind screen. Especially in winter! it increases the efficiency ten fold. I think it would be cool if they shipped with the screen but, eh.

I have an old MSR WhisperLite. I bought this stove to save weight on short backpacking trips. I'm very pleased with it. It's tiny, light and easy to use, particularly compared to a liquid-fuel stove. I have to take more care to find a really flat spot and to center the pot on the smaller supports, but this is a small price to pay, and these issues apply to most canister stoves. I bought the Titanium manual ignition model to save weight. If I had the automatic ignition, I'd still want to bring matches as a backup.

The Snow Peak Giga Power Manual stove is one of those few things almost can't be improved upon. It's simple, rugged, incredibly lightweight and compact, and even has four pot supports, which is significantly more stable than three.
I've had Piezo igniters fail and that's why I went with the manual version. I bring a Bic and matches with me anyway.
Definitely get the Snow Peak windscreen also. It's compact, reasonably light, and will improve fuel efficiency.
This is the stove that convinced me to switch from liquid fuel backpacking stoves. I'll never look back.

I absolutely love this stove. It's light and it's small and it's not expensive. Unless you're an ultralight ounce counter then you probably don't care whether it's super light titanium or not so the steel is fine with me. My friends carry jet boils and never understood why I liked my stove so much until I was boiling water in the same amount of time (or less) and then could just toss it back in the pack without it taking up 8 by 6 inches. It truly is one of the best out there.

This is the first stove I've ever owned, although I have used backpacking stoves before. It’s great, so tiny, yet stable on ground, logs, tables and fuel is cheap (220grams for $5). Water boiled instantly it seemed. I used very little fuel, from what I could tell, only went for two nights though. I would definitely recommend this as a quality stove for almost anyone. If you need a stove for a huge basecamp, this probably won't handle it, but otherwise I don't see any reason not to get this.