MSR Dragonfly Multifuel

Pros: Fairly stable, can use multiple fuels, light, dependable, separate burner control.
Cons: Not as easy to use as a typical Coleman camping stove or your kitchen burner.

What is it? This is a small, single burner stove. It is designed for backpacking because it is lightweight and can be folded into a compact design. It is manufactured by MSR which means that it is a quality outdoor product. It is a single ...

Pros: Very compact, light in weight, adjustable flame,
Cons: Noisy while on, cost

My camping background: I've been camping before I can remember - my dad raised me right! I backpack as well as camping near the car. For car camping, when you can put all your gear in the trunk & not worry about weight, your typical Coleman ...

Pros: MSR build Quality and field maintainability. I can hear you now!
Cons: Expensive stove & slightly bulky, theoretically the plastic pump could burn or melt.

Well MSR has ruled the liquid fuel stove market for many a decade. I purchased my first one just so I could tear it apart and examine that plastic fuel pump too, hoping to discredit it for some fatal flaw. After reassembly of my first MSR stove and...

Pros: Relatively light, efficient, stable, easy to use, easy to simmer
Cons: Pump is fragile

I have only used this stove with white gas, and not in very strong winds.

The ability to easily adjust heat was well worth the extra money. I turn the flame down to the size of a candle flame to keep my tea warm. The ability to easily simmer...

Pros: Easy Adjustable Flame, Good Solid Base
Cons: folding legs back gets hands black

Go all out or not at all was my decision when i picked up a stove for camping. i don't do a lot of hiking and such but i do go camping quite a bit while climbing and this is a god sent. pretty easy too us (i did find myself having too peer into the...

Pros: you can adjust the flame without burning your hands
Cons: you probably don't need the features you're paying so much for

After several backpacking trips with a friend who already had a stove, I ventured out with less-equipped friends and needed a stove of my own.

I was told the Dragonfly was the best. Since I am not an expert, I believed what I was told, and I...

Pros: Excellent flame control, lightweight, sturdy, multifuel
Cons: none noted

If you want to do any type of serious outdoor cooking, your stove simply must be able to vary the amount of heat it puts out. Many camping stoves seem to be rather binary in their operation either full on or off, or involve tricks like keeping the bottle...

Pros: quality, design, weight, anything else that matters
Cons: price, maybe

Why did I purchase this equipment?

I wanted to upgrade from a very old (20+ years) SVEA stove I had backpacked with for years. I also wanted the versatility of a multi-fuel stove. I found the price of about $100 somewhat discouraging.
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Pros: It's the Best
Cons: Very Expensive

While I was a Ranger at Philmont Scout Ranch in '99, I found myself in need of a stove. With all the gearheads in the ranger department, I was under pressure to get the best. Well, that's what I did. This stove is the best there is, but you pay for...

Pros: Lightweight, compact, sturdy, efficient.
Cons: Waiting to re-prime if allowed to go out, loud.

This offering from MSR really is a gem. The lightweight body of the stove folds up neatly into its own stuff sack, along with fuel line, pump and windshield. This then fits comfortably inside a medium sized cooking pot. When unfolded, the stove is ...

Pros: lightweight, stable, great flame control
Cons: crappy plastic pump, expensive

I fell in love with this stove even though I used it on only on 2 trips before I parted with it. Its untimely demise was blamed on the plastic pump piece, which broke while I was attempting to pressurize the fuel bottle. Needless to say, I was eating a ...

Pros: Ultimate flame control, quick boil time, stable
Cons: Loud, a little heavy

The MSR Dragonfly is the best stove I have ever owned I first had the Coleman Feather 400, then the MSR Superfly and now I have the MSR Dragonfly. This stove is awesome because it has a stable pot surface, it performs very well in cold conditions, and...

Pros: Lightweight, simmers well, great focused flame on high
Cons: Trying to keep the aluminum foil pot protector around the burner is among the fine arts.

After twenty years of hard use my Coleman Peak 1 finally gave up. Well, blew up would be closer to the experience. It was time to buy a new stove. I wanted the variable heat of the Peak 1, but more than anything I wanted to get beyond cooking on top...

Pros: Easy to setup, easy to light, great fuel efficiency. Very stable cooking surface.
Cons: Heavier than pressurized can stoves. The typical plastic MSR pump.

I have used the Whisperlight and the Gaz stoves for about 15 years. When I discovered finer cooking in the backcountry, I realized I needed a stove that will simmer (nicely) in freezing conditions. After a lot of research and talking with outdoor sales...

Pros: Highly effective heat control allows to cook food more accurately, uses any fuel
Cons: Longer cooling times, steep price

MSR's new Dragonfly is a real big step above their whisperlite international. The adjustable flame size was well awaited for by backpackers, now you can actually simmer your foods and not have the burner on full blast all the time.
The stove accepts...