Jetboil Genesis Basecamp Camping Stove

Works great

I am a Scoutmaster and the Genesis Stove was purchased by our Boy Scout Troop. Most camping stoves, including our current high-end Coleman stove's do not cook well at lower temperatures. The knob goes from off to inferno. This is great if you are boiling water, but a problem when you need to cook French Toast or pancakes.On our first weekend out with the new stove, I cooked French Toast, a rice dish, and baked cinnamon rolls in a dutch oven on the new Genesis. As the advertising promised, the flame is fully adjustable (which blows my mind). It did find that the flame was not perfectly uniform around the whole circle when on the low setting. So, the French Toast didn't cook perfectly uniform. But that is a tolerable issue. All three dishes were easy to accomplish on the new stove.The stove was easy to clean, stored easily, and appears to be durable. It came with a case and a wind shield.I have one major complaint. If you attach the propane bottle to the extension before you attach the stem to the stove, then you leak a considerable amount of propane. It has a very poor gasket design. This is easily fixed by attaching it to the stove first, but none of our other stoves have this problem.Overall, if I had to purchase a stove for car camping, this would be my first choice. I say that having experience with the best stoves from Coleman and Camp Chef.

I attend a large camping event every year. I have used, and seen many options for cooking in camp. I have found this one to be the best after using it this year. Efficient on propane usage, very fine adjustment on burners, does great! Highly recommend, even at the price point.

I've tried several stoves over the years. This one has a truly adjustable flame -- a rarity for camp stoves. Expensive, but by far the best I've tested.

This thing is outstanding and I use it almost every day. I bought it for car camping but ended up using it mostly at home since it's such a good stove and I don't have to heat up the house with my regular stove and honestly I think it works better than our stove in our kitchen. Highly recommended.

The stove is easy to pack that is it's big plus. The burner adjustment is another.Both burners "idle down" very well. Yes, the flame propagation isn't uniform all around the burners when on very low settings but that is a minor announce and can be dealt with.The OEM provided windscreen is a joke so buy yourself some folding aluminum ones and ( I bought two) and that works very very well with the two burners.Fuel consumption is a bit more troublesome if you plan on using both burners at the same time frequently and as you go up in altitude. Spent a week at 9500' this past week and when cooking for 4 people, we were going through 1, 1lb can every day and a half. That adds up so beware. If you have the room, and you'll be at "base camp" for a week or so, if possible bring the 20 pounder and you'll be fine, if you have room of course.My plan now is to bring one of my old MSR's and some fuel (Which I have for the lantern anyway) as a back up as the last day I had to borrow a neighboring campers 1 pounder in case I ran out of fuel. Which I did btw just after I made 6 cups of water hot for coffee and oatmeal! Was able to let him have his full canister back but after having gone through 3 full canisters and running on empty on #4, I have now learned that it needs to have more fuel available on the longer high altitude trips if cooking for more than one or two campers. And that sort of cuts into the benefit of the compact design! Weighs about the same as my old 2 burner Coleman but when you add the fuel you'll need that advantage starts to shrinkOther than that, I like the stove very much. High heat output and great controllability of the burners makes it a nice addition to the base camp kit.

The media could not be loaded. over the last 20 years, I have used 3 different camping stoves, 2 large Coleman and this one. This is by far the best of the 3 and will never go back to my other stoves.The good: This one is compact even when used with the fluxpan, easy to clean, the simmer settings feel endless, and it packs a punch when you just want to boil water quickly for your coffee/tea.The bad: As much as I love the endless heat settings, it takes a while to perfectly dial what you want. It is too heavy for backpacking but perfect for Overlanding/car camping.The ugly: None so far. Just nitpicking: The plastic windscreen is useless... Just get rid of it.I just came back for 2 back to back weeklong trips in the middle of the desert with blowing wind and this thing performed flawlessly.

As my kitchen is in renovations I cook full time on a camp stove , so my observations are based on much experience. I had been using an economical Coleman 2 burner that was very basic, yet it always peand then pppprformed handsomely, boiling rapidly and adjusting easily. Yet it had no ignition and when I saw the advertised jet boil I was immediately convinced It arrived promptly and was beyond easy to assemble. It is very well made and sturdy. The support hfor the p asns is very good and holds various sizes of pan/pot securelyThe first con is the extremely limited position which one may attach the gas hose This limits severely where on a table it may be used. The next con in how slow the gas delivery is It takes fully twice the time to boil as the Coleman, and one must use a lid or it’s even longer. Overall I’m frustrated as the cons though less vital than the pros are more impactful on my day , time being so short these days. I t feels like one of those things that, with proper care, can last forever. If one has CV no time constraints then I would recommend it. But in my situation I regret the purchase.