About this product
Single-burner stoves are fine until you want rice and a stew at the same time. The Naturehike Phantom is a double-burner built around that problem: two burners side by side, each with its own valve and piezo igniter, in a case that folds flat when the meal is over. Open, it measures 50 x 21.5 cm – a proper cooking surface rather than a token second ring – and the whole thing weighs 2.5 kg.
Output is 2,300 W, or 7,848 BTU per hour, which is real cooking heat. It runs on screw-thread isobutane canisters through a 46 cm hose, and that hose matters more than it sounds: it keeps the canister off to the side rather than sitting directly under a hot burner, which is both safer and easier to change mid-meal. The piezo igniters mean no matches, which anyone who has tried to light a stove in wind on the Ngorongoro rim will appreciate.
What sets this one apart is what comes in the box. Two grill plates at 17.3 x 19.4 cm and a griddle plate at 19.4 x 17.4 cm drop onto the burners, turning the stove into a table-top braai for nyama choma or a flat surface for eggs and pancakes. Take them off and you have two open burners for pots. That covers most of what a camp kitchen is asked to do without carrying a separate grill.
For Tanzanian use it suits vehicle-based camping, beach trips and safari camps rather than backpacking – at 2.5 kg it is heavier than a solo trekking burner, and the payoff is a stove that cooks for a group. It works as well on a veranda in Dar es Salaam during a power cut as it does on a camp table in Ruaha.
Naturehike Phantom Double Burner Folding Gas Stove