SOTO
SOTO Fusion Trek with Micro Regulator
- Weight: 4/10 How much it adds to your pack.
- Packed size: 4/10 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: 7/10 How well it keeps boiling in a breeze, as sold, without an extra windshield.
Cooking real meals, not just boiling water: simmering porridge, sauces and pasta on a stove that sits low and steady
- Fuel
- Gas
- Weight
- 182 g
- Boil 1 L, still air
- Not published
- Windshield in the box
- No
Packed size 0.66 L, 11 x 10 x 6 cm Compare with a 2-litre bottle
Shorter than a 2-litre bottle and about as wide as one. Drawn to scale.
Where to buy
Absolute Snow £79.95 In stock. Sale price, was £99.95; 10% code not included. The page text also says 'Pre-order yours today', but the shop's stock grid showed 7 available on 2026-11-01. Free delivery over £100, otherwise priced in the basket.
View at shop: Absolute SnowAlpinetrek £99.95 In stock. Free delivery. Free UK delivery from £85 (£4.49 below that); the page says delivery in 5-7 working days.
View at shop: AlpinetrekTrekitt £82.75 Out of stock. Shown as 8% off £89.95; out of stock on 2026-10-20: the page is a pre-launch page that takes an email address for when stock arrives, with no despatch date. Free delivery over £65.
View at shop: TrekittUltralight Outdoor Gear £89.99 Out of stock. Shop list price £99.99. Free tracked UK delivery.
View at shop: Ultralight Outdoor GearPrices checked 8 Nov 2026 on each shop's own page; shops can change them. We earn no commission on these links; shops are listed by price. More
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 4/10How much it adds to your pack. 4: A bit below average.
SOTO gives 182 g, stove only (the pouch is extra), on its US page and on SOTO Japan's page: in the 180-299 g band, only just. Trekitt lists 179 g (a shop figure, which would be band 3); we band SOTO's. SOTO Japan's current model (SOD-331) has a single-jet 3.5 kW burner where the US page and UK shops quote 3,260 W (SOD-330); weight and stowed size are the same.
Packed size
From maker's figures 4/10How much room it takes in your rucksack. 4: A bit below average.
SOTO gives 11 x 6 x 10 cm stowed (SOTO Japan: 110 x 60 x 100 mm): 11 x 6 x 10 = 660 cm3, about 0.66 L, in the 0.6-1.59 L band. Trekitt lists 15 x 10 x 6 cm (0.9 L, a shop figure), the same 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 7/10How well it keeps boiling in a breeze, as sold, without an extra windshield. 7: Better than most.
The Great Outdoors calls the burner very wind-resistant, adding that a short windshield can still help in harder weather (4); Paul Messner says the lip round the burner and the low pot height protect the flame, and that on the same calm day he would still want a windshield on his MSR WindPro 2 and Kovea Spider, but he did not time it in wind (4); TheOutdoorGearReview says the built-in shield works okay but you will definitely need a wind block (3). None timed it in the 3-6 km/h reference breeze. Average 3.7 out of 5, so 7 out of 10.
In short
Good for
- Cooking real meals, not just boiling water: simmering porridge, sauces and pasta on a stove that sits low and steady
- Windy UK hills and shoulder-season trips, where the dished burner and regulator keep the flame going
- Two or more people sharing a stove, with pots from a small mug up to a large pan
Strengths
- Strong wind performance for a remote stove: concave burner head with about 300 short flames, and the pot sits low
- Best simmer control reviewers had used: Paul Messner cooked porridge, omelettes and pancakes on it; The Great Outdoors says it simmers very effectively
- Very stable: three legs that double as pot supports, 16 cm across (SOTO Japan); The Great Outdoors rates the leg design the best in its test
- Micro regulator holds output as the canister cools or empties; The Great Outdoors got a usable, consistent flame right to the end of a canister
- 3,260 W; TheOutdoorGearReview boiled about 470 ml in 2 min 55 s in still air
- The control knob is on the hose, so you can turn it down away from the flame
Weaknesses
- Heavy and bulky for a stove: 182 g and about 0.66 L stowed, overkill if you only boil water (The Great Outdoors, Ultralight Outdoor Gear)
- No built-in igniter: carry a lighter (SOTO, TheOutdoorGearReview)
- SOTO publishes no 1-litre boil time and gives no temperature rating. Its US page says the regulator keeps a strong flame in cold temperatures, and SOTO Japan lists winter camping among its uses and says the regulator keeps output steady at low temperature; we mark it winter-ready from those words, not from any reviewer
- Output is quoted two ways: 3,260 W on SOTO's US page and UK shops, 3.5 kW for the current model on SOTO Japan's page
Sources
We haven't tested this ourselves. Every score comes from these specs, tests and reviews.
ShowHide sources (8)
- SOTO Outdoors: Fusion Trek Stove product page (SOD-330: weight, output, size)
- SOTO Japan: FUSION Trek SOD-331 product page, in Japanese (weight, stowed size, output of the current model)
- The Great Outdoors (David Lintern): SOTO Fusion Trek review (tested against other stoves, 5 out of 5)
- Paul Messner (YouTube): Why This Japanese Stove Blows the Competition Away (bought, four weeks of use)
- TheOutdoorGearReview (YouTube): First Look at a Winter Ready Japanese Canister Stove, SOTO Fusion Trek SOD 330 (a viewer sent the imported stove, not SOTO; boil test)
- Alpinetrek: Fusion Trek gas stove (UK shop page: price, stock, 182 g)
- Trekitt: SOTO Fusion Trek Stove with Micro Regulator (UK shop page: price, stock, 179 g)
- Ultralight Outdoor Gear: Fusion Trek Stove with Micro Regulator (UK shop page: price, stock, 182 g)