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Coleman Dual-Fuel 2 Burner Stove

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The versatile Coleman Dual-Fuel™ 2-burner camp stove runs on white gas or unleaded auto gas so you'll always be ready to cook up a tasty meal.

Side WindBlock™ guards block wind for maximum cooking performance; guards adjust to accommodate various pot sizes
Large cooking surface provides room for up to two 10 in. pots
Burns up to 2 hrs. on a full tank of fuel; tank holds 2.5 pints of fuel
Main burner supplies 7,500 BTU; auxiliary supplies 6,500 BTU
Stove lid folds down and secures closed for simple travel
Fuel funnel included

Please note: We may not ship stoves to addresses in Japan or Korea.

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Coleman Dual-Fuel 2 Burner Stove Customer Reviews

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Coleman 424 Dual-Fuel 2 Burner Stove

4.0

(based on 30 reviews)

86%

of respondents would recommend this to a friend.

Pros

Stable (25)
Good power output (21)
Great temperature control (17)
Easy to clean (16)
Easy to light (16)

Cons

Heavy / bulky (12)
Difficult to clean (3)

Best Uses

Car camping (30)
High altitude (8)

- Reviewer Profile:
- Casual/ recreational (11), Avid adventurer (10), Casual adventurer (4)
- What Is Your Gear Style:
- Comfort driven (17), Survivalist / minimalist (7)
- Was this a gift?:
- No (9)

REVIEWS

Reviewed by 30 customers

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Sep

2007

(28 of 28 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

Great stove for car campers

By thepip

from Roswell, GA

About Me Casual/ Recreational

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Pros

Easy To Clean
Easy to Light
Great temperature control
Powerful
Stable

Cons

Bulky

Best Uses

Car Camping
Cooking for crowds
Power outages

Comments about Coleman 424 Dual-Fuel 2 Burner Stove:

I primarily car camp or primitive camp where the walk in is limited to about a half mile or so. I found the stove easy to use, easy to light, and great to cook with. I usually camp with about 4-8 people, and this is excellent for cooking in large batches. I made a gallon of buffalo chili on our last trip, it was easy to brown the meat at high temp and then to simmer the chili for about an hour or so. Heats up a 20 cup enamal coffee pot for cowboy coffee in about ten minutes. It is what it is, not for backpackers. Also handy to have around the house for hurricanes and power outages.

Mar

2009

(22 of 25 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

Get to know your stove

By Allwaysaware

from Seattle, Wa (when not camping)

About Me Avid Adventurer

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Pros

Compact
Easy To Clean
Easy to Light
Great temperature control
Powerful
Stable
Will last forever

Cons

Makesotherstovesinferior
None
None at all

Best Uses

Car Camping
EarthquakeEmergency

Comments about Coleman 424 Dual-Fuel 2 Burner Stove:

[...]This stove is a great investment for the car camper.Some of the other reviews on this product are misleading do to user/reviewers inexpierience, incompetence and illiteracy, don't get lost in others confusion, this is a great stove. As with any gear you will want to do a test run at home to work out misunderstandings that you have after reading the instruction manual.[...] This stove and its dual fuel ability is far superior in cost and durability to any propane stove on the market ever.Just care for and maintain this old standby and it will keep you cooking for decades to come.

Feb

2008

(13 of 13 customers found this review helpful)

4.0

Great for Family Camping

By medusan

from Gloucester, UK

About Me Professional Guide

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Pros

Easy To Clean
Easy to Light
Stable

Cons

Bulky
Poor temperature control

Best Uses

Car Camping

Comments about Coleman 424 Dual-Fuel 2 Burner Stove:

Great stable stove with the excellent wind shelter. Very easy to use and set up. Fine tuning the burner is a bit fiddly. Use white gas and it cooks very efficiently and is cost effective. For car camping this is really quite a compact model.

Jun

2009

(11 of 11 customers found this review helpful)

4.0

Pretty Darn Near Perfect

By Johnnie

from Big Chicago, IL

About Me Avid Adventurer

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Pros

Compact
Easy To Clean
Easy to Light
Great temperature control
Stable

Cons

Best Uses

Car Camping

Comments about Coleman 424 Dual-Fuel 2 Burner Stove:

If you're looking for a lightweight, compact stove to heat water for your dehydrated meals or cook simple dinners, you should probably look at offerings from Jetboil or MSR. If you need to make coffee, hot water for oat meal or tea, and eggs with bacon for a group of 6 hungry campers, but don't want to deal with propane tanks, this stove is for you.

I bought this stove because I have a large supply of white gas that I use for my backpacking stove. It's easy to use and works great. Anything important is printed right on the bottom of the lid, so you don't have to worry about a piece of paper. The included filler makes refueling a breeze and the run-times on this stove are excellent.

It is easy to light, though I kept wishing for a built-in piezo lighter. Flame control is excellent. I have cooked eggs (up, over, scrambled, and omelets), bacon, pancakes, pasta (with field-made sauce), stew, and even bananas foster on this guy. Firing up the second burner results in about a 50% loss in power on the first one, but that kinda makes sense.... Just turn up the heat a little and balance the flames.

When I'm all done, I just wipe it down, close it up, and pack it with the rest of the car camping gear. My only modification is that I rubber-band a cheap lighter to the fuel tank for transport.

Oct

2007

(8 of 8 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

Perfect car camping stove

By Ianbrown

from La Quinta, California

About Me Casual/ Recreational

See all my reviews

Pros

Easy To Clean
Easy to Light
Powerful
Stable

Cons

Bulky

Best Uses

Car Camping

Comments about Coleman 424 Dual-Fuel 2 Burner Stove:

Great to use for car camping. Save on guessing about how many propane tanks to buy, I camped for three days on a 1/4 gal of gas about [$] not bad if worried about cost. heat very evenly, only draw back is size is to bulky. otherwise this is a no brainer.

Aug

2009

(7 of 7 customers found this review helpful)

4.0

10 years of happiness

By Ronrude

from Iowa

About Me Casual Adventurer

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Pros

Great temperature control
Powerful
Stable

Cons

Bulky

Best Uses

Car Camping

Comments about Coleman 424 Dual-Fuel 2 Burner Stove:

When I car camp it is all about comfort. This stove makes all that possible.

Once you understand how the stove works, you can light it easily every time. In the case of Teachermom, I believe she overfilled the tank and flooded it. It is important not to over fill the tank. if you want to keep the yellow flames down in cold weather, light a little hand cleaner gel on the generator tube to prime it, but if you are even a little patient, you don't need it.

The right burner is hot and fast and is my main burner. The left burner steals power from the right, but a few extra pumps when needed and you can progress well. In this case, I boil the noodles on the right side and make the from scratch alfredo sauce on the left. (I said comfort.) The propane stove is great as well, but this white gas unit has much better low temperature control. Any time you have a long burn, you may have to give it a few pumps to get your pressure back up. It is low maintenance and dependable.

Difficult to clean? It's camping, wipe it down and get over it.

With a little practice, you will love this stove as much as I do.

Sep

2007

(7 of 42 customers found this review helpful)

2.0

Decent performance

By ichibanh

from El Monte, CA

About Me Casual/ Recreational

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Pros

Cons

Bulky
Difficult to Clean
Difficult to Light
Leaves soot on pots and p

Best Uses

Car Camping

Comments about Coleman 424 Dual-Fuel 2 Burner Stove:

Decent burner but definitely not convenient in most situations. The burners light unevenly; the second burner is controller by a metal key that has no indicators so it's touch and go. I'm not WOW'd by the performance either - the fire seems to burn low which in turn takes forever to heat the food. Lastly, and this really bugs me, using a titanium pot on the burner leaves this black mess on the bottom of the pan/pot after you're done cooking. The white gas doesn't completely burn; didn't know that before I bought the thing.

Dec

2008

(5 of 5 customers found this review helpful)

4.0

Great for Car Camping

By Tomlax

from Boston, MA

About Me Casual Adventurer

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Pros

Powerful
Stable

Cons

Poor temperature control

Best Uses

Car Camping

Comments about Coleman 424 Dual-Fuel 2 Burner Stove:

Great for car camping, but do a test run before you find yourself in the woods trying to get get food ready for hungry campers. The controls are finicky so it takes some trial and error to learn where you need to set the flame (esp. when using both burners) to get your food up to temp.

Our 1st run at it, we cranked the flame up a little more than needed and burned through our fuel faster than expected. By the 3rd use during the same outing though, we had locked in the levels needed to get water boiling and bacon frying on our GSI pots/pans while using as little fuel as possible.

This also feels like it is solidly constructed. As long as we keep the fuel lines clean, I don't anticipate needing to replace this for quite a while.

Sep

2009

(3 of 3 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

Great stove

By gozarca2

from Sacramento, ca

About Me Outdoor Professional

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Pros

Easy to Light
Great temperature control
Powerful
Stable

Cons

Bulky

Best Uses

Car Camping
High Altitude

Comments about Coleman 424 Dual-Fuel 2 Burner Stove:

Great stove. Have had mine for 10yrs, my brother has had his for 15yrs or so.

Teachermom: i just had the flame up issue this weekend. It was flooded. You may have overpumped and tipped it towards the nozzle end. If you pull it out and turn it on (AWAY from all flames) you should see NO liquid, just hear gas. If you see liquid, its not working right. Take out all the pressue. Check the rest of the stove (esp by loop thing) for any liquid, and get rid of the liquid (dry, shake, let evaporate,etc). Once that liquid is gone, repump and try again.

I just restarted mine in the garage, works like a champ again. I think we pumped it too high. Instructions say 35 times, but from 0 pressure, pump until you feel a bit of pressure back and then pump maybe a few more times. If you think the flame is too low, once you light, pump a few more times. If you have a full tank, you only need to pump <10times.

Aug

2011

(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

4.0

Will last forever

By gsboarder

from Fresno, CA

About Me Avid Adventurer

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Pros

Built to last
Durable
Easy To Clean
Powerful
Serviceable
Stable

Cons

Bulky

Best Uses

Car Camping

Comments about Coleman 424 Dual-Fuel 2 Burner Stove:

We've had this thing as long as I can remember, at least 30 years. It sat in the garage for years before it was passed down to me, and it still works. The pump valve and some of the seals wear out from time to time, but a couple of bucks in parts gets you back on the road. You can even replace the burners (never had too). This thing is bomb proof, although probably not ideal for those not mechanically inclined, since it lacks that instant gratification of the more sophisticated models.