My Vango Compact camping stove is rated by Vango as 3000W, and able to boil a litre of water in four minutes. If you read this discussion, you’ll see there are many others, experienced campers too, who also found Coleman’s gas to be unreliable. It contains a propane/butane mix, for a steady and consistent burn across a wide range of temperatures.

Featuring Coleman's double safety seal resealable screw valve the C500 can be be disconnnected and reconnected to your appliance in complete safety without leaks. With a propane and butane mix the C500 provides a steady and consistent burn across a wide range of temperatures.The C500 is not suitable and cannot be used with Campingaz products which use the Easy Clic Plus system. The C500 gas canister can be disconnected from the gas appliance and reconnected with out leaking, using Coleman’s double safety resealable valve. In simple terms, I was massively within the temperature range they claim that Coleman Performance Gas will reliably work at, yet it failed. All labels and swing tags are still attached to the garment, All labels and swing tags are still attached to the garment, and any boxed items are kept in the original box.

Connecting and disconnecting the gas canister from a stove is safe and easy thanks to the safety valve seal. Anyone who is happy to go cold-weather camping with known-to-be unreliable critical kit needs to give their head a wobble. During my camping trip, the gas I was using for my stove only worked long enough to warm a single tin mug to lukewarm.You would therefore expect Coleman’s Value Gas to have less propane than their Performance Gas, and that their Extreme Gas will have the most propane, right?

That was my failing to do even better due diligence when selecting that supplier, and I accepted full responsibility. To add insult to injury, when you raise this legitimate concern with Coleman, they immediately blame you. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Allow me to tell you about Coleman’s response: they refuse to accept any responsibility, and (excuse the pun) proceeded to gas-light me.Propane performs far better in cold temperatures, so if you will be needing to use your gas camping stove anywhere cold, you will need a propane/butane mix. Instead of showing the slightest interest into why their product failed, when I contacted them (privately) about this, they simply tried to blame me.