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Snow Peak Giga Power Stove - Manual
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Snow Peak Giga Power Stove - Manual

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Tiny, featherweight stove is barely noticeable in your pack—strike a match and you're instantly cooking with 10,000 BTU's of heat.

  • No more pumping or priming, collapsible stove screws onto Snow Peak or MSR isobutane cartridges or Primus butane/propane canisters
  • Performs well in cold temperatures and can be reduced to a true simmer for actual cooking, not just boiling water for freeze-dried foods
  • Fold-out wires provide support for most sizes of cooking pots; stable stove base allows cooking on varied surfaces
  • Stove comes in a plastic box for easy packing; size specifications are based on storage box
  • Weight includes stove, not the canister

This little stove is lightweight, compact and a breeze to operate. Pre-pressurized butane/propane canisters never needs pumping or priming (fuel canisters purchased separately). Its long, wire control lever lets you adjust the flame from a rapid boil to low simmer—an essential feature for serious outdoor gourmets. Please note: We may not ship stoves to addresses in Japan or Korea.

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Snow Peak Giga Power Stove - Manual Specs

Specification

Description

Suggested useBackpacking
Weight (without fuel)3.25 ounces
Dimensions3.6 x 2 x 1.8 inches
FuelGigaPower canisters
Average boil time4 min. 16 sec.
Fuel capacity220 grams
Burn time (max flame)(100 g. canister) 32 min. 16 sec.
Water boiled per 100g fuel7.6 liters
Ease of operationExcellent
Cold weather useFair
Stove stabilityExcellent
Pot stabilityFair

Snow Peak Giga Power Stove - Manual Customer Reviews

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Snow Peak Giga Power Stove - Manual
 
4.5

(based on 15 reviews)

93%

of respondents would recommend this to a friend.

Pros

  • Easy to light (15)
  • Lightweight (15)
  • Powerful (13)
  • Compact (8)
  • Easy to clean (8)

Cons

  • Poor temperature control (3)
  • Unstable (3)

Best Uses

  • Backpacking (15)
  • Hiking (11)
  • Car camping (7)
  • High altitude (7)
  • Reviewer Profile:
  • Avid adventurer (9), Casual adventurer (4)
  • What Is Your Gear Style:
  • Minimalist (6)

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Oct

20

2007

(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

 
5.0

The good one.

By DCB

from Fresno

About Me Crazed near-gram weanie

Site Member

Pros

  • Easy to Light
  • Great temperature control
  • Lightweight
  • Powerful
  • Stable

Cons

  • Smallish

Best Uses

  • Backpacking
  • High Altitude
  • Hiking

Comments about Snow Peak Giga Power Stove - Manual:

It's what I use for a light weight, up to a week long backpacking trip stove. And almost all high altitude Summer Sierra trips.

Good Part:
-Weighs nothing
-packs small
-superior range of temp. control
-a well thought out design with a very good execution
-quality material
-burns clean
-needs very little maintainance
-technical qualities are first rate
-reliable

Bad Part:
Not much is actually bad. Its virtue of being small is also one of its vices. The tiny burner head doesn't spread the flame out very far(at low flow), and so there is a tendency to burn food just above the burner head, in a little black circle in the bottom of your Trek 700 mug. So, just stir your food more often?

Also, it is wind sensitive, so you must use something to keep the wind off. But what stove isn't wind sensitive?

Just buy this thing. Your back will thank you.
It would take a huge advance in backpacking stoves to obsolete this thing.

Just do it.

Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

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Jan

27

2009

(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)

 
5.0

It beat the Hindu Kush!

By lrsu

from Down South

About Me Outdoor Professional

Pros

  • Compact
  • Easy To Clean
  • Easy to Light
  • Great temperature control
  • Lightweight
  • Powerful

Cons

  • Everyone wanted to use it

Best Uses

  • Backpacking
  • Car Camping
  • Combat in the Mountains
  • High Altitude
  • Hiking

Comments about Snow Peak Giga Power Stove - Manual:

Great little stove, I used it while deployed in the mountains of Afghanistan. It worked every time. I beat the mess out of it and it is still going strong. No complaints.

  • Gift:
  • No
  • What Is Your Gear Style:
  • Minimalist

Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)

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Aug

30

2007

(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)

 
5.0

Good stove that folds down small!

By Davis2001r6

from Phoenix, AZ

About Me Avid Adventurer

Site Member

Pros

  • Easy To Clean
  • Easy to Light
  • Great temperature control
  • Lightweight
  • Powerful
  • Stable

Cons

    Best Uses

    • Backpacking
    • Hiking

    Comments about Snow Peak Giga Power Stove - Manual:

    This stove folds down small and will fit in about any cookset. Boils water fast, good in cold, doesn't burn through fuel. I've used it in temps down to the 20's with no problems. On a 5 day backpacking trip in the Sierra's 3 of us used this stove and didn't even burn through one canister of fuel. Pair this up with the Mini-Solo cookset and you have one lightweight kitchen set the size of a Nalgene bottle.

    Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

    (1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)

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    Aug

    11

    2009

     
    5.0

    It's Perfect!

    By oldcajunbackpacker

    from northern Louisiana

    About Me Casual Adventurer

    Site Member

    Pros

    • Compact
    • Easy To Clean
    • Easy to Light
    • Lightweight
    • Powerful
    • Stable

    Cons

      Best Uses

      • Backpacking
      • Car Camping
      • Hiking

      Comments about Snow Peak Giga Power Stove - Manual:

      Look! This stove is too small to be for real. The stove and fuel fit into the Snow Peak titanium mug for the most compact and lightest package imaginable. I tend to use freeze dried food to reduce weight, so all I need is something to boil water and make morning coffee. I carry the stove, fuel, and spork inside the mug and that's my entire kit. If you're looking to prepare fresh gourmet meals, I couldn't say. I'm just too old to tote all of that weight, so for my purposes you can't beat it.

      Stability requires the exercise of common sense. I don't take booze on my outings, so there is no problem.

      • Gift:
      • No
      • What Is Your Gear Style:
      • Comfort Driven

      Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

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      Mar

      5

      2009

       
      4.0

      Great little stove

      By scarabpeas

      from Portland, OR

      About Me Avid Adventurer

      Site Member

      Pros

      • Compact
      • Easy To Clean
      • Easy to Light
      • Lightweight
      • Powerful

      Cons

        Best Uses

        • Backpacking

        Comments about Snow Peak Giga Power Stove - Manual:

        I have had this stove for about a year and i love it. I used to have the MSR Whisperlite, but it was bulky, heavy and required to much work to operate (what with priming and all that).

        The SnowPeak stove is great. Small, lightweight, easy to use. The only negative i have discovered is that there's no windscreen. Anything more than a light breeze makes it nearly useless. In the past, i had to build a little screen out of whatever i had available. I just bought the windscreen and it appears that it will solve the wind problem perfectly.

        I have several SnowPeak items and they are so well designed. I'm a fan.

        • Gift:
        • No
        • What Is Your Gear Style:
        • Minimalist

        Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

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        Aug

        26

        2008

        (0 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

         
        3.0

        Lack of Stability

        By Tramster

        from Los Angeles, CA

        About Me Casual/ Recreational

        Pros

        • Compact
        • Easy To Clean
        • Easy to Light
        • Lightweight
        • Powerful

        Cons

        • Unstable

        Best Uses

        • Backpacking
        • Car Camping
        • High Altitude
        • Hiking

        Comments about Snow Peak Giga Power Stove - Manual:

        The cool factor is great,but if you are looking for stability this won't do it. The gas didn't not last as the time they promised even though I was at lower elevation campground.
        If these two factors are not your major concern, it's a great product for you.

        • What Is Your Gear Style:
        • Minimalist

        Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend

        (0 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

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        Aug

        14

        2008

         
        5.0

        Great little stove

        By Who wants to go camping?

        from Tempe, AZ

        About Me Avid Adventurer

        Pros

        • Compact
        • Easy to Light
        • Great temperature control
        • Lightweight
        • Powerful
        • Stable

        Cons

        • Not as thrilling in wind

        Best Uses

        • Backpacking
        • Car Camping

        Comments about Snow Peak Giga Power Stove - Manual:

        I bought this stove for backpacking and have loved using it. This little sucker will boil 20 ounces of water in a few short minutes! Supported enough weight for me to boil a 1.5 liter pot, and then throw in 16 crawdads we pulled out of the river.

        I've also used it car camping with the family to make a cup of coffee without having to start a fire, or wait for charcoal to be ready. My dad was jealous.

        Fuel canisters are reasonably priced, and to last a long time. I would comfortably carry one canister for a 3-4 day solo trip.

        The only down side is the stove is not nearly as efficient in windy conditions. I haven't bought the available windscreen yet, but it might be a good idea if you are heading to an area with high winds.

        Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

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        Jul

        29

        2008

         
        4.0

        Better than expected

        By Jason T

        from El Paso, TX

        About Me Casual/ Recreational

        Site Member

        Pros

        • Compact
        • Easy to Light
        • Lightweight
        • Powerful

        Cons

        • Hard to control in wind

        Best Uses

        • Backpacking

        Comments about Snow Peak Giga Power Stove - Manual:

        We went from the Canyonlands in Utah to Rocky Mtn Nat'l Park and enjoyed the stove to no end. It was recommended over the Jetboil, and in conjunction with the GSR dualist cook set made for a perfect fit in our pack. The results proved better than we expected. The only downside we could find is the wind would shift the flame and could possibly burn a finger if you're careless in reaching for the control knob.

        • What Is Your Gear Style:
        • Minimalist

        Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

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        Apr

        19

        2008

         
        4.0

        Hot !

        By Narrow Latitude

        from San Pedro, CA

        About Me Avid Adventurer

        Pros

        • Compact
        • Easy to Light
        • Lightweight

        Cons

        • Wind bad

        Best Uses

        • Backpacking
        • Car Camping
        • High Altitude
        • Hiking

        Comments about Snow Peak Giga Power Stove - Manual:

        I have been using one of these for a number of years. Doesn't get any better for light weight, adjustability and reliability. Mine has been there and back, believe me. The only problem I ever encounter is wind. I just carry the light MSR crunchable wind screen and find a nice nook to place the stove and it works fine. I have had one spillage with it once, but it made a nice little trail poem (Pink Animal Cookies), so it isn't the most stable like the MSR white gas stoves, but just be careful with it, and enjoy. I cook soups and pasta dishes from scratch outon the trail and the nice thing about this stove is how well it adjusts down to simmer where the white gas stoves will not without great careand constant vigilence. There is some waste with the fuel cans, so I still carry white gass when the weight is not an issue, but the Iso-Butane canisters are still lighter than white gas for long solo trips.
        I figure the small 110g canisters last me about 3 to 3-1/2 days depending on how much coffee and what kind of meals I am prepairing. I think I have got four days from one when I was more careful...but I gave that up.

        • What Is Your Gear Style:
        • Minimalist

        Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

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        Jan

        4

        2008

         
        4.0

        So Light-cooks fast-Keep out of wind!

        By My desert holiday

        from SLC,Utah

        About Me Avid Adventurer

        Site Member

        Pros

        • Compact
        • Easy To Clean
        • Easy to Light
        • Lightweight

        Cons

        • Poor temperature control
        • Unstable

        Best Uses

        • Backpacking
        • Hiking

        Comments about Snow Peak Giga Power Stove - Manual:

        Great little stove!!It can be a pain in the wind,brings down boil times big time.Not much of a simmer.Very light.If i lost it i'd buy it again.

        • What Is Your Gear Style:
        • Minimalist

        Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

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