Just because it’s worked for anyone before is irrelevant – the point is you cannot reply on it to work every time, within the stated limitations Coleman claims it will work. If you read this discussion, you’ll see there are many others, experienced campers too, who also found Coleman’s gas to be unreliable. Remember, at summer temperatures, butane is a better fuel than propane, but its performance nosedives as it gets colder. Propane performs far better in cold temperatures, so if you will be needing to use your gas camping stove anywhere cold, you will need a propane/butane mix. To add insult to injury, when you raise this legitimate concern with Coleman, they immediately blame you.

The trouble with butane is that it really performs poorly in the cold, and your gas stove may completely fizzle out just when you’re most reliant on it.At best, not disclosing quite openly the limitations of their product also raises questions about their integrity.

I very strongly urge you to avoid their products, because it seems to me they may well have a quality-control issue. Anyone who is happy to go cold-weather camping with known-to-be unreliable critical kit needs to give their head a wobble. In fact, I’ve camped out in colder temperatures before, and the stove worked fine, also using Performance Gas at the time. During my camping trip, the gas I was using for my stove only worked long enough to warm a single tin mug to lukewarm.We are only able to comment on the testing we have done in controlled conditions and hope you have confidence to continue to use Coleman gas in the future. The failure of Coleman’s Performance Gas simply meant my camping trip was less enjoyable than I hoped for. Allow me to tell you about Coleman’s response: they refuse to accept any responsibility, and (excuse the pun) proceeded to gas-light me. Coleman Performance Gas simply didn’t work at lower temperatures, despite being well within the stated usage range.

To suggest it’s not compatible as it’s screw on like the majority of lightweight camping stoves is laughable. If you’re going to use a butane/propane fuel mixture and cold weather you’re going to need an inverted canister stove, or an adapter to convert your stove to an inverted canister stove. You would therefore expect Coleman’s Value Gas to have less propane than their Performance Gas, and that their Extreme Gas will have the most propane, right? The point is that Coleman may have a QC problem, as the last time I used Performance Gas, is was well above freezing, yet it failed.I stand by what I said, and wish to highlight this bit: “ We are defined not by our mistakes, but by our responses to the mistakes. That was my failing to do even better due diligence when selecting that supplier, and I accepted full responsibility.