The MSR Dragonfly Stove is a wonderful base camp stove which is lightweight and easy to carry in a backpack as you hit the trail for camping trips. Most camp stoves do not have a variety of heat settings but offer only on and off settings.
The MSR Dragonfly stove has won many awards for its dual valve design since it hit the market in 1998. This dual valve design provides full continuous and immediate control of the flame. Few camp stoves provide the flame control to allow you to cook gourmet meals or boil water extremely quickly. Users of this stove give it rave reviews, indicating it is a vast improvement of previous models of base camp stoves in the MSR line.
The three extra wide supports for pots allow you to place larger pots or skillets on your Dragonfly. The stove can burn white gas, kerosene, unleaded gasoline, diesel fuel or jet fuel, making it quality as a multi-fuel stove even though all the fuels are liquid. When folded, the unit is only 1/3 the size of the unfolded unit and it weighs just 14 ounces. The remote burner was pioneered by MSR and keeps the flame away from the fuel source, allowing you to use a windscreen for a hotter flame and more efficient cooking. The suspended burner cup lets the stove burn hot without reducing heat through ground loss. The jets are self-cleaning so you can be sure you have all the debris out of the shaker jet with just a quick wrist motion.
The Dragonfly liquid-fuel camp stove takes precision-simmering performance and puts it in a chassis that’s built to handle a variety of fuels and the frequent use dished-out by global vagabonds. Tough and stable, it excels in institutional and guide service settings. Its dual-valve design gives you the flame control you need for evenly heating large pots (up to 9" maximum diameter) of crowd-pleasing gruel. Of course, when the need arises to melt snow and brew-up fast, the DragonFly goes from zero to searing at the twist of a knob.
If using white gas as your fuel, a 20 ounce fuel tank will last 126 minutes, per manufacturer’s specifications. Kerosene in the same size tank will burn for 153 minutes and diesel fuel will last for 136 minutes. White gas, kerosene or diesel fuels will all produce one liter of boiling water in less than four minutes, a real accomplishment for a base camp stove of this weight and size.
If you enjoy backpacking, hiking, camping or like to take your van on road trips, the MSR Dragonfly stove is right for you. If you love the adventure in the great outdoors, you don’t want to miss eating well after working up a good appetite and the Dragonfly provides the means to cook meals as conveniently as at home. The price for this great outdoor stove is low enough any outdoorsman can afford one and the quality is not surpassed with any other stoves in this same lightweight, easily portable class.