The Camping Stove I've Waited Years For 🔥

Hi Paul. I am a Serving Army Officer with 44 years Service behind me and have spent most of my spare time in the hills and mountains of the UK and overseas. I have watched your videos for many years and i would like to say a huge thank you for outstanding hints, tips, and amazing video footage of your trips. Take Care buddy, keep up the great videos!

Thank you very much Paul for brilliant video, will pay you later 😂😂😂 Glad you like it! Thanks Stripey

I really miss these kit reviews, especially for smaller upcoming companies. U can tell ur passion through the video and that comes across so well.

Thanks Paul for your graft with these lovely videos, for supporting a sibling wild camper with his fab little business, for making it “ok” to be a normal bloke, for involving your missus, for making me smile, and for having a very natural gift for talking about your/our interest so watchably (if that’s even a word!). I even got my missus to watch one of your videos and told her “This is the bloke I watch” so she could better understand (or permit!😂) my hobby. I’ve pledged £85 for the full set too as after starting in alcohol stoves, then trying gas, I realised on my Hadrians Wall sea to sea (to Tynemouth, past Wallsend) that alcohol is my go to hands down. Bless your good and generous heart ❤️

Thanks for this great news Paul 👍 As someone who just missed out on getting one of Norman's classic SNCs back in 2020 (for my Alpkit Mytipot 900) before he sadly passed away - it is great to see that another outdoor enthusiast has taken up the torch. Norman poured his heart into his products, and his clever design deserves to live on in a revised and modernised form. So good luck to these guys..!

I have three Stormin Norman cones and they are incredible. Norman was an incredibly nice and knowledgeable bloke, great to see the idea is returning

I've just pledged, the Kickstarter has now smashed it over the line thanks to your vlog, it seems to have given it enough impetus to easily make the target.

Thanks for introducing me to yet another piece of kit that I now feel like I cannot live without 😆. UPDATE: I've just backend their Kickstarter project 🙂

Pledged my dosh about 10 days ago, glad to hear its made the target now 👍👍. Just got to Puck you up slightly on one point. Trail Designs Caldera is very similar ( if not cheaper) so long as you use a reshipping service. Yes, granted, if you go for the Fissure Ti-tri, which is virtually identical to the Stormin cone, its a lit more, but a standard Caldera code is comparable on price. That said, I'm happy that we can buy UK made gear over US. Well done Stripey. Good effort 👍👍👍

Had no idea about Norman. Pleased I picked up several stormin Norman cones back in 2018. Good to see the idea returning.

The one problem I see with that is the use in wind; it may blow away spilling burner and/or fuel, once the water has heated and the pot removed for pouring into one’s crouton infested soup! Occurred to me the other day when I used my home made one when out on D-Day homage, silently trekking a French resistance track from France into Switzerland and it was very blowy amongst the pines and beech woods. Cheers.

The @PaulMessner effect - Kickstarter goal has been well exceeded! Well done @StripeyHatGuy, looking forward to it arriving.

Hi Paul, I’ve watched the Stripey hat guy for years now, he is hardcore. The cook system is a great wee bit of kit. Cheers James

Love it, the best solutions are simple, totally deserves to be a success

Love it and how light weight it is. Won't lie I could make this in my garage quite easily. Could source it from aluminum cans as well. Could also make them in different sizes. The mold and specs for this is wildly easy to recreate with a couple basic shop tools. Much better route to take then asking a company to produce it.

I made one of these from 2 baked beans tins I found in the rubbish. Good on ya.

Hi Paul, I bought the Stormin Norman cone back in 2019 after watching one of your videos. I have a fair few other stove systems but i always come back to the Stormin cone due to its simplicity and lightweight. Ive always felt lucky that i got one before Norman sadly passed away. Im pleased to see that the Stripy Hat Guy has released his own version as this is a brilliant system to own. Thanks for the video Paul.

I've already put my money down for this set-up....... I'm sure, fingers crossed, that they'll hit the target. It's a fantastic light-weight set, and as you've said Paul, should last for years if looked after. ATB

Looks interesting. I’m in Dallas, Texas, and I just spent a load to get the X-Boil, shipped internationally, after being unable to procure an original Caldera Cone. One disadvantage of the cone is that it only fits one pot, so offers no flexibility of which pot to take, whereas the X-boil accommodates different sizes of pots (to a degree). It also is not as fiddly to set up, since it is in one piece, with just little brackets set on top. The X-boil does take approximately 1.5 minutes longer to boil water, with the smallest of 3 included can stoves, than your new setup. It is more readily available in the UK, being from Germany, than it was for me in the U.S. I paid a chunk for shipping! Glad to see a new company onto this stellar design!

Nice to see one of these start ups actually offering something useful. Hope he is successful.