Best Portable Camping Stoves in Australia – Cook Wherever You Are!

People cooking food whilst out camping can fall into many categories. There’s those who love to BBQ and tend to take any chance they can to bang out some snags on the campfire or grill.

Likewise there’s the baker who likes to use a camp oven to churn out loaves of bread, stews and pot roasts, impressing their fellow campers along the way.

But what about when you want to recreate an easy meal from home with minimal fuss and no cumbersome and unpredictable cooking over campfires? In this case, a portable camping stove can fit the bill. They run on gas, so turn on and heat up instantly, come in different sizes and can come with multiple burners.

Cooking on a gas stove is the closest experience you will have to your home kitchen, whether you are cooking a stir-fry, a pasta sauce along with some spaghetti, a batch of rice or some boiled or steamed vegetables – gas camping stoves are easy and will produce the results you are after quickly. So read on as we break down the best camping stoves on offer in Australia right now.

Best Portable Camping Stoves

Coleman Hyperflame FyreKnight 2 Burner Stove

The Coleman Hyperflame FyreKnight 2 Burner Stove is an impressive looking stove with its own carry case, quality materials and simplistic usage. However, it tends to fall a little short of the other camping stoves when it comes to actually using this to cook food.

The turndown on the burners is quite poor, with minimal adjustment available on the knobs. This means that the burners tend to blast out a lot of heat, making fine-tuning of your temperatures a pretty big issue.

This is fine if you like to boil water or cook on a super-hot fry pan or wok, but if you are trying to simmer foods then you may have problems.

Customer reviews are very mixed with the majority of people happy with this stove, but for those that are not happy – it’s a pretty sharp contrast.

Reports of the knobs breaking off within the first few uses, the piezo lighter stopping working, the temperature control issue and a gas regulator issue that causes the stove to stop working completely has left a small, but loud contingent of reviewers not recommending this product.

These appear to be design and manufacturing issues that a stove costing over $200 should not have. While we like the look of this stove, it’s hard for us to recommend it.

Companion 2 Burner High Output Stove

A very similar model to the Coleman FyreKnight, the Companion 2 Burner High Output stove is a solid performer offering the same two-burner setup inside its own carry case. Unlike the FyreKnight, the Companion stove has great temperature control which means you can cook with a range of heats from simmer to a fast boil with no fuss.

It comes in at almost $100 cheaper, is a couple of kilos lighter and doesn’t have any of the reported issues of the Coleman FyreKnight – making this a solid two-burner stove that won't disappoint the camping cooks.

It’s not perfect, however, and while the majority of the reviews are 5 stars and super happy with this stove, there appear to be some manufacturing issues affecting some units.

Dented lids, flimsy side wind protection that you have to bend a little to make it sit correctly and a grill that can warp when heated too long at max temp have all been reported.

These are all covered by warranty, but they are something to take into consideration. When it comes to cooking on a two-burner stove, the Companion High Output is a solid performer but by no means perfect.

Coleman 3 Burner Eventemp Stove