Dune 4WD Single Burner Butane Stove Review

What You’re Getting

A single burner butane stove with an SPCC steel body, an enamel top plate with a built-in wind shield, piezo ignition and variable heat control. The burner puts out 7,100 BTU and runs on a standard 220 g butane canister. Twin over-pressure safety devices eject the canister and cut the gas if the pressure gets too high. It comes in a hard carry case with a 1-year warranty. We paid $40 at Anaconda.

Quick Specs

Setting it up

The canister clicks into the compartment on the side and locks with a lever. Turn the knob and the piezo lights it, so there’s no need for matches or a lighter, then dial the heat from a boil down to a simmer. The wind shield is built into the enamel top plate around the burner, but in stronger wind it still loses a lot of heat, so we always keep a portable windshield with us.

On the road

It came on our three-week lap, Sydney to Adelaide, Melbourne and back, and it held up really well. With 7,100 BTU it handles a frying pan or a pot of water, and behind a folding windshield it cooks a stir-fry in the evening wind. One 220 g canister gives us two to three days of meals, including boiling water for coffee, eggs in the morning and dinners. It cooks one pot or pan at a time, which slows things down for a bigger meal (for that, the Dune 4WD Double Burner Butane Stove with Hotplate has a second burner and a hotplate), and like every butane stove it loses pressure in cold or freezing weather.

Packing it away

The stove packs into a hard, flat carry case, and that’s what makes it so easy to take on every trip. The case fits easily towards the back of our drawer in the 4WD, out of the way.

Which single burner?

We’ve also reviewed two other single burner butane stoves in a carry case: the Companion Single Butane Stove and the Gasmate Travelmate II with Hotplate. The Dune and the Companion are very close, with a little more heat from the Companion and a touch less weight for the Dune. The Gasmate costs more and is heavier, but it has the most heat of the three and comes with a hotplate.

	This reviewDune 4WD	Companion→	Gasmate→
Hotplate	No	No	Yes, reversible
Output	7,100 BTU	7,500 BTU	8,500 BTU
Gas use	152 g/h	152 g/h	180 g/h
Weight in case	2 kg	2.1 kg	2.65 kg
Price paid	$40	$40	$60
Our score	9.1	9.0	9.3

Conclusion: Dune 4WD Single Burner Butane Stove

The Dune 4WD Single Burner Butane Stove is a great little stove that came with us on a three-week lap from Sydney to Adelaide, Melbourne and back, and held up really well. It has a 7,100 BTU burner with piezo ignition and variable heat, a built-in wind shield, twin over-pressure safety and a hard carry case, and it looks nice too. It cooks one pot or pan at a time, a canister lasts us two to three days of meals, and butane struggles in the cold, so keep a windshield handy too. For $40 it’s a good pick for car campers, 4WD tourers and couples.