SOTO
SOTO Amicus (without igniter)
- Weight: 8/10 How much it adds to your pack.
- Packed size: 8/10 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: 5/10 How well it keeps boiling in a breeze, as sold, without an extra windshield.
Budget three-season stove for one or two people with a small to medium pot
- Fuel
- Gas
- Weight
- 75 g
- Boil 1 L, still air
- Not published
- Windshield in the box
- No
Packed size 0.129 L, 7.5 x 4.3 x 4 cm Compare with a 2-litre bottle
Shorter than a 2-litre bottle and thinner than one. Drawn to scale.
Where to buy
Ultralight Outdoor Gear £38.99 In stock. Free delivery. List price £41.99.
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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.
75 g (SOTO, without igniter) sits in the 60-119 g band. Ultralight Outdoor Gear lists 70 g without the bag.
Packed size
From maker's figures 8/10How much room it takes in your rucksack. 8: Clearly better than most.
SOTO gives 4.3 x 4.0 x 7.5 cm stowed: 4.3 x 4.0 x 7.5 = 129 cm3, about 0.13 L, in the 0.08-0.19 L band.
Boil speed (still air)
Estimate from maker's specs: burner power figure (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
From reviews 5/10How well it keeps boiling in a breeze, as sold, without an extra windshield. 5: Does the job. Average for wild-camping gear.
OutdoorGearLab found its small exposed burner head blew out in moderate to strong gusts; PaleoHikerMD timed 2 cups at 2 min 37 s still and 5 min 41 s in wind (117% longer, 2 on our table); SectionHiker liked the recessed burner head but did not time it. None used the 3-6 km/h reference breeze.
Reviewers disagree on this.
In short
Good for
- Budget three-season stove for one or two people with a small to medium pot
- Walkers who want to simmer as well as boil without paying for a regulated stove
- Summer and mild-weather wild camps in sheltered spots, with a windscreen if it blows
Strengths
- 75 g and about 0.13 L stowed
- Four spring-loaded pot supports that lock in place and take pots from 4.2 to 11 cm wide at the base
- Reviewers praise its simmer control and the long valve handle that stays away from the flame
- Triple O-ring valve seal
Weaknesses
- OutdoorGearLab says it blew out in moderate to strong gusts, and PaleoHikerMD timed it 117% slower in wind (2 cups, 2 min 37 s still, 5 min 41 s windy); SOTO says the recessed burner helps in wind, but only SectionHiker agrees
- No regulator: power falls in the cold or as the canister empties, so it is not a winter stove
- SOTO publishes no 1-litre boil time, so boil speed is an estimate, not a reviewed score
- Most reviewers tested the igniter version; the burner is the same
Sources
We haven't tested this ourselves. Every score comes from these specs, tests and reviews.
ShowHide sources (6)
- SOTO Outdoors: Amicus Stove without Igniter (weight, size, specifications)
- SOTO Outdoors Europe: Amicus (power output, pot support size)
- OutdoorGearLab: Soto Amicus review (igniter version, lab and field tested)
- PaleoHikerMD (YouTube): Soto Amicus vs Soto WindMaster, with wind boil test
- SectionHiker: Soto Amicus canister stove (sample from SOTO)
- CleverHiker: Best Backpacking Stoves of 2026 (SOTO Amicus Cookset Combo)