MSR
MSR PocketRocket Deluxe
- Weight: 8/10 How much it adds to your pack.
- Packed size: 7/10 How much room it takes in your rucksack.
- Boil speed (still air): 8/10 How fast the maker says it boils 1 litre in still air. Wind slows every stove: see Wind performance.
- Wind performance: 8/10 How well it keeps boiling in a breeze, as sold, without an extra windshield.
Walkers who cook real food, not just boil water, on a light stove
- Fuel
- Gas
- Weight
- 83 g
- Boil 1 L, still air
- 3:18
- Windshield in the box
- No
Packed size 0.179 L, 8.4 x 5.6 x 3.8 cm Compare with a 2-litre bottle
Shorter than a 2-litre bottle and thinner than one. Drawn to scale.
Where to buy
Cotswold Outdoor £69.95 In stock. Delivery £6.95. List price £85; free over £125 and free Click & Collect.
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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 8/10How much it adds to your pack. 8: Clearly better than most.
83 g without the bag (MSR) sits in the 60-119 g band. Live for the Outdoors weighed 82 g and OutdoorGearLab 93.6 g with the bag.
Packed size
From maker's figures 7/10How much room it takes in your rucksack. 7: Better than most.
MSR gives 3.8 x 5.6 x 8.4 cm folded: 3.8 x 5.6 x 8.4 = 179 cm3, about 0.18 L, in the 0.08-0.19 L band (only just). OutdoorGearLab measured 8.4 x 5.6 x 4.6 cm (0.21 L) and Live for the Outdoors lists 8.5 x 5.5 cm (a roll, about 0.20 L), both in the band above; we band MSR's figure.
Boil speed (still air)
From maker's figures 8/10How fast the maker says it boils 1 litre in still air. Wind slows every stove: see Wind performance. 8: Clearly better than most.
MSR gives 3.3 minutes (198 s) to boil 1 litre with MSR IsoPro, in the 190-229 s band. Live for the Outdoors timed 2 min 37 s for 500 ml in a breeze of about 10 km/h, and OutdoorGearLab 3 min 24 s for 500 ml at about 2,400 m.
Wind performance
From reviews 8/10How well it keeps boiling in a breeze, as sold, without an extra windshield. 8: Clearly better than most.
None of the four timed the 3-6 km/h reference breeze. Live for the Outdoors boiled 500 ml in 2 min 37 s in a breeze of about 10 km/h and found it almost impossible to blow out at full power (4); GearJunkie boiled water in a steady 8-16 km/h breeze with no windshield (4); Treeline Review says it is better than most stoves it tested but slower than the SOTO WindMaster in wind (4); OutdoorGearLab rates wind resistance 7.8 out of 10 (4), though it says it needed shelter from gusts now and then. Average 4 out of 5, so 8 out of 10.
In short
Good for
- Walkers who cook real food, not just boil water, on a light stove
- Exposed UK camps where a top-mount stove has to cope with some breeze
- Solo trips and trips for two with pots up to about 1.2 litres
Strengths
- Reviewers rate its simmer control among the best of any canister stove, with a broad burner head that spreads heat evenly
- Regulated, so output stays steady as the canister empties; push-start igniter built in
- 83 g and about 0.18 L folded, with a stuff sack in the box; Live for the Outdoors quotes a rated 3,200 W (MSR publishes no output)
- Wind lip on the burner head: reviewers boiled in breezes of 8-16 km/h with no windshield
- Four hands-on reviews, all of the current PocketRocket Deluxe
Weaknesses
- Igniter is the weak point: Live for the Outdoors needed up to six presses and OutdoorGearLab calls it not the most reliable; carry a lighter
- Three pot supports (12 cm across) are less stable than four-armed stoves such as the SOTO WindMaster; best for pots up to about 1.2 litres
- Treeline Review found it slower to boil in wind than the SOTO WindMaster, and OutdoorGearLab says it is somewhat susceptible to wind
- Regulated, but MSR gives no winter rating, so we do not mark it winter-ready
Sources
We haven't tested this ourselves. Every score comes from these specs, tests and reviews.
ShowHide sources (5)
- MSR (Cascade Designs): PocketRocket Deluxe Stove product page (weight, size, boil time)
- Live for the Outdoors (Matt Jones): MSR PocketRocket Deluxe backpacking stove review (hands-on, group boil test)
- GearJunkie (Seiji Ishii): Best Backpacking Stove Yet? MSR PocketRocket Deluxe Review
- Treeline Review: MSR PocketRocket Deluxe Backpacking Stove In-depth Review (four years of testing)
- OutdoorGearLab (Zach Lovell): MSR PocketRocket Deluxe Review (bought and field tested)