![]() ![]() Here you can see the two of them side by side. Interestingly, the Kovea Spider looks very similar to the end product of my modification of the Kovea Camp 5 that I did earlier. However, if your style of cooking requires a very large flame dispersion pattern for gourmet cooking, you may be more comfortable with the MSR Windpro II. I did not experience any issue when cooking thinks like rice. I found the flame distribution to be fairly good. It is reminiscent of the GigaPower GS-100, although quite a bit larger. The flame pattern of the Kovea Spider is wider than it is on the Kovea Camp 5, although smaller than the MSR Windpro II. In the picture below, you see my Open Country 2qt pot balanced on the stove at a pretty serious incline without any issues. While it is 0.7 oz heavier that the Camp 5, it is well worth the added weight. The stove is extremely easy to set up, allowing easy operation without worry about the stove moving or tipping over. This problem has been completely fixed with the Kovea Spider. As you remember, my biggest issue with the Kovea Camp 5, tested earlier, was that it was too unstable. The legs fold out very easily and lock into place, creating a very stable platform. ![]() The stove plus a 8 oz MSR canister fit inside my Open Country 2qt pot along with a windscreen, a lighter, and a bandana. Integrated igniters are always an issue for me, malfunctioning and adding unnecessary weight to the stove.Īs you can see, the stove folds up into a fairly small package. I am very happy that Kovea has chosen to offer the igniter as a separate tool rather than integrating it into the stove. It works well, but I find that I have little use for it, since I always have a lighter for that purpose. The igniter simply produces a spark when you press a button, igniting the stove. Inside there is a carrying pouch for the stove, as well as a remote igniter. To me that is the most amazing aspect of this stove, allowing it to come in at less than half the price of similar remote canister stoves by MSR and Primus. I am told that when the stove hits the US market, it will be priced somewhere in the $55 range. The only lighter remote canister stove of which I am aware is the Kovea Camp 5 which I reviewed earlier, at 5.3 oz. The next lightest stove currently on the US market is the MSR Windpro II, which comes in at 6.6 oz. ![]() The stove is light weight for a remote canister stove, coming in at 6.0 oz. It uses a standard threaded canister as a fuel, and as such is compatible with all such canisters, including MSR and Snow Peak. The Kovea Spider is a remote canister stove. If you are interested in any of the Kovea products, you can currently get them in the US through their Ebay Store. In the interest of full disclosure, the stove was provided to me free of charge for purposes of this test. It is not currently on the market, but will enter production shortly. They were kind enough to provide me with another one of their stoves for testing. I was recently contacted by Kovea, and was told that they are looking into entering the US market. As I mentioned there, Kovea is a Korean company that has had a good track record in terms of quality, and from what I understand manufactures a lot of products for better known companies in the US like MSR. If you have been following my reviews, you probably noticed that a few months back I did a review of a stove made by Kovea, the Kovea Camp 5. ![]()
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