Description
Compact pocket-sized stove designed to stow neatly amongst your gear and be barely noticeable when carrying. Quick and easy to set up and use for a variety of outdoor cooking scenarios.
Simple and strong 4-piece design made entirely from marine-grade stainless steel, for high temperature resistance and durability against rough treatment in the great outdoors, time after time. Integrated ‘disruptive airflow’ windshield for use in windy conditions, without the need for a separate windshield.
Unique design can be used either way up, for a narrow or wide opening, allowing you to boil water in the smallest of metal camping mugs and cook with much wider pans just as effectively. Perfect for making your morning hot drink and a fry-up.
Can be used with Exogel, solid fuel tablets and alcohol fuel gels. It can also be used as a twig stove, or as a pot stand and windshield for popular brands of alcohol burner. It can even function as a mini-barbecue, giving great versatility out of one little stove.
DavidC –
Well, I said when I ordered one of these that I would test it and write a review when I got home. So I did test it this past weekend, in all functions other than the mini BBQ. The trouble is, it performed exactly as per the write up and pictures on Polymath’s web site, so anything I write would only be repeating what they said and any pics I took are very similar to theirs. So, just read above and all the details are there.
Basically, the stove is compact, solid, light (95g), easy to assemble, versatile and effective. At £7.99 it is good value for money.
Another nice one from Polymath.
Mike Wilkins –
An excellent stove, this is superlight ans works really well with a 400ml titanium mug with lid, for lightweight hiking its pretty much unbeatable given its extended versatility. I find it works best with a very small 30ml aluminium burner tin with a lid , these have a ceramic wool in with a stainless mesh these are low enough to give perfect burn height and are easily made at home. Trangia burners need a little hole dug to reducde the height. This is without doubt my favourite stove for day hikes and multi day hikes and uses very little fuel. On particularly windy days it does need another light and low windshield though.
Sam C (verified owner) –
Used mine for quite a while now. The metal used makes it a bit heavier than I’d like (would prefer titanium but I shudder to think what that’d do to the price) and I was worried that the cutaways at the corners would make those part snap off eventually with repeated assembly/disassembly but it’s still going strong a year later. I especially like how flexible the unit is, it takes hexamine no problem, and if you take out the base plate you can use an alcohol stove and still boil a decent pot of water.
Jack Corah –
it’s great. I have a few other alcohol stoves and various windshields but the stealth stove coupled with the phantom alcohol stove is pure perfection. I mean it, not a single niggle. I’m old school and like hexamine blocks too and it’s great with them too. There’s just so much versatility here. alcohol stove base, twig burner, gels burner, solid fuel, pellets, small cups, large pans… it does it all, and have you seen the price?! it’s a little weightier than you’d expect but with the phantom burner it’s all less than 80grams. Unbeatable.