{"id":4594,"date":"2010-07-15T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T12:28:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-01-09T16:22:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T23:22:16","slug":"msr-xgk-multi-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/msr-xgk-multi-f\/","title":{"rendered":"MSR XGK Multi-Fuel Stove"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been using my XGK stove for over 22 years and it’s battered and sorry-looking but still performs wonderfully.<\/p>\n

What really sold me on it was that I had a career and life-change about 5 years ago and put all my camping stuff in storage. Last summer I retrieved and unpacked it all for a trip to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The stove fired up first time and performed flawlessly. It still sounds like a jet engine and boils water in a very short time. A triumph of simple, solid engineering.<\/p>\n

It enables me to cook food and make warm drinks in order to stay alive in challenging locations. I can source multiple kinds of fuel without having to be overly reliant on one type of fuel or (even worse) proprietary canisters. The rocket -ship sound makes me happy and reminds me of all the times when that noise signaled I would soon be fed and warm. Throw the stove in a backpack, duffel, truck bed, helicopter, and not worry about damaging it. Even it gets damaged or clogged (on Russian diesel, for instance), you can strip it down with a leatherman and MSR provide all the spares you need with the stove.<\/p>\n

It’s better than the rest because:
\nIt uses all kinds of fuel
\nIt’s simple and tough
\nIt’s lasted for 20+ years and I’m sure it will last much longer
\nIt’s saved my life on numerous occasions<\/p>\n

I also give credit to excellent boy scout training in terms of packing and cleaning equipment after use. I put away all my stuff expecting to use it within weeks; it turned out to be over 5 years in boxes in a friend’s hayloft; 100 deg plus in summer, down to -20 in winter. And yet because I’d been taught to put things away properly, everything was just fine and ready to use the day I retrieved it. So perhaps Boy Scout training should be a cool tool too.<\/p>\n

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Rugged multi-fuel stove<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[86],"tags":[985],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8464,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions\/8464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}