What kind of fuel can you burn in a Coleman stove?

White gas (aka naphtha, 100% light hydro treated distillate, or Coleman Fuel) is the first choice for most people in North America whether they’re headed out for a summer weekend or for a month-long winter expedition in the Alaska Range. Almost any pressurized-type liquid fuel stove will run well on white gas.

NO! In the US, white gas is the same as Colemans Fuel. Lighter fluid (either for cigarette lighters or the other type used for BBQ grills) are a “flashier” fluid.

Many camping stoves are okay to put on a plastic table. However, depending on the design of the camping stove, they could melt the plastic. That said, circumstances for every stove can be different. It’s always better to stay on the safe side and pair the stove up with a heat-resistant mat or table.

White gas is a liquid petroleum fuel often known as Coleman fuel, but can also be found under other names like naphtha or 100% light hydro-treated distillate, or LPG.

Relatively little has changed with the basic 425 design, except for multiple numbers and letters incorporated into the model number. You will find them currently on sale at Amazon. The nostalgia of these stoves in part is what makes them so attractive even amongst the new technology involved in camping today.

Coleman in Wichita made the popular 425 series beginning in 1948. These Model 425 stoves, in John Stendahl’s collection, are undated. Coleman used the parallelogram decals inside the top lids on their stove models beginning with the 425 Model above (upper image).

Two and three-burner stoves usually have two date marks: one on the case and one on the tank. The case marking is usually on the bottom and obvious. To see when the tank was manufactured, turn it upside-down and look at the underside of the mounting tabs. These date stamps follow the month-left and year-right format.

Butane or Propane? Because propane has a lower boiling point it is preferential for cooking at higher altitudes where the air pressure is lower. It is also slightly less volatile than butane which makes it ideal as an all-round camping stove fuel where safety may be important (e.g. if there are kids around).

Though Coleman fuel has an octane rating of 50 to 55 and a flammability similar to gasoline, it has none of the additives found in modern gasoline. Most burners will readily burn unleaded gasoline (or white gas), however.

Re: Difference between Coleman brand fuel and kerosene Kerosine is like Stove Oil, White Gas is Gasoline that’s being refined about 5 times more that Gas, there’s absolutely nothing the same about the two products.

After burning pure gasoline in a dual fuel appliance, you’ll want burn only Coleman Fuel. Coleman Fuel burns hotter, and generally better. It does not plug the generator tube, it does not nearly smell as bad. It works so much better.

If two stoves burn the same amount of volume of fuel (white gas or propane), per minute, than white gas will burn hotter at any given moment. What is this? If the propane stove burns at a high enough volume of fuel than the white gas per minute, then propane will burn hotter.

Ive been using this stove since I was 16 and while it does run better on White Gas, I find that it will work just fine on Regular unleaded. Ive ran prob 50-60 tanks of unleaded that through it over the years with zero issues, but White gas seems to go further on a tank.

A standard 1-lb propane tank will typically provide approximately 1 hours of cooking time on high heat.

Though Coleman fuel has an octane rating of 50 to 55 and a flammability similar to gasoline, it has none of the additives found in modern gasoline. Most burners will readily burn unleaded gasoline (or white gas), however.