Alpkit
Alpkit Koro
- Weight: 6/10 How much it adds to your pack.
- Packed size: 5/10 How much room it takes in your rucksack.
- Boil speed (still air): 5/10 How fast the maker says it boils 1 litre in still air. Wind slows every stove: see Wind performance.
- Wind performance: 3/10 How well it keeps boiling in a breeze, as sold, without an extra windshield.
Budget cold-weather and shoulder-season camps: the brass preheat tube lets you invert the canister
- Fuel
- Gas
- Weight
- 124 g
- Boil 1 L, still air
- Not published
- Windshield in the box
- No
Packed size 0.576 L, 9 cm long and 8 cm across Compare with a 2-litre bottle
Shorter than a 2-litre bottle and thinner than one. Drawn to scale.
Where to buy
Alpkit £59.99 In stock. Delivery £2.99. Free UK delivery over £60. Alpkit says it is the only place to buy the Koro.
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Our ratings (out of 10)
1 to 10, compared with the whole market. Each says what it's based on. How we score
Weight
From maker's figures 6/10How much it adds to your pack. 6: A bit better than average.
Alpkit gives 124 g (packed size block), in the 120-179 g band. The Concertina windshield is extra: Chris Townsend's older foil one weighed 53 g and Alpkit's own weighs 110 g.
Packed size
From maker's figures 5/10How much room it takes in your rucksack. 5: Does the job. Average for wild-camping gear.
Alpkit gives 8 x 8 x 9 cm packed. As a box that is 576 cm3, about 0.58 L, in the 0.2-0.59 L band. Active Traveller says it slid into an 850 ml MSR Titan kettle with room to spare.
Boil speed (still air)
Estimate from maker's specs: fuel type (no boil time published) 5/10How fast the maker says it boils 1 litre in still air. Wind slows every stove: see Wind performance. 5: Does the job. Average for wild-camping gear.
Estimate from maker's specs
Wind performance
Estimate from maker's specs: windshield in the box 3/10How well it keeps boiling in a breeze, as sold, without an extra windshield. 3: Below average. Fine for some trips, not others.
Estimate from maker's specs
In short
Good for
- Budget cold-weather and shoulder-season camps: the brass preheat tube lets you invert the canister
- Solo walkers and pairs who already own a pot and want a light, low, stable stove
- Larger pots: three folding legs and wide pot supports carry group-sized pots (Chris Townsend)
Strengths
- 124 g titanium body that packs to 8 x 8 x 9 cm
- Remote canister on a braided hose, with a brass preheat tube and a canister that can be inverted in the cold (Alpkit, The Great Outdoors)
- SawtoothWild lit it at about -12 °C with a part-used canister and boiled a moka pot in 5 minutes
- Works with the Concertina windshield without overheating the canister (Alpkit)
Weaknesses
- Alpkit says it is 'suitable for mountaineering in subzero conditions' but gives no temperature rating and does not mention winter camping, so we do not mark it winter-ready
- No windshield in the box, and reviewers say one is essential in wind (The Great Outdoors, Chris Townsend)
- The pot supports have no friction and can rattle or fold when packed (The Great Outdoors)
- Marginally less efficient and slower than the best stoves on The Great Outdoors test
- Alpkit gives no boil time or output figure
- Only sold by Alpkit
Sources
We haven't tested this ourselves. Every score comes from these specs, tests and reviews.
ShowHide sources (5)
- Alpkit: Koro product page (vital stats: weight, packed size)
- The Great Outdoors (David Lintern): Alpkit Koro review
- The Great Outdoors (Chris Townsend): On test, Alpkit Koro Stove
- Active Traveller (Andy McCandlish): Alpkit Koro stove
- SawtoothWild (YouTube): Alpkit Koro Titanium Backpacking Stove (Will It Work In The Winter?)