TOAKS
TOAKS Titanium Siphon Alcohol Stove
- Weight: 9/10 How much it adds to your pack.
- Packed size: 8/10 How much room it takes in your rucksack.
- Boil speed (still air): 1/10 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.
Solo trips and fastpacking where every gram counts: 20 g for the burner
- Fuel
- Meths
- Weight
- 43 g
- Boil 1 L, still air
- 11:00
- Windshield in the box
- No
Packed size 0.088 L, 5.3 cm long and 4 cm across 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 £36.99 In stock. Free delivery. Free tracked UK delivery.
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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 9/10How much it adds to your pack. 9: Among the best you can buy for this.
The burner alone is not ready to cook on, so we count it with a pot support. TOAKS gives 20 g for the burner and 23 g for its wire Stove Frame (sold separately for this stove), 43 g together, under the 60 g line. Ultralight Outdoor Gear lists the burner at 18 g and Spiguyver Backpacking gives 24 g; Jake Marcin weighed the burner at 20 g and the 23 g pot stand he used with it. TOAKS's TiStand (stand and windshield in one, 70 g) is a windshield as well, so it is not counted.
Packed size
From maker's figures 8/10How much room it takes in your rucksack. 8: Clearly better than most.
TOAKS gives 53 mm across and 40 mm high. Worked as a cylinder 5.3 cm across and 4 cm high: 3.14 x 2.65 x 2.65 x 4 = 88 cm3, about 0.088 L, in the 0.08-0.19 L band (close to the lower line). Without the stand.
Boil speed (still air)
From maker's figures 1/10How fast the maker says it boils 1 litre in still air. Wind slows every stove: see Wind performance. 1: A real weak point.
TOAKS publishes 475 ml of water boiled in 5 min 30 s (indoor test). Scaled to 1 litre by doubling the 0.5 L figure: 11 min 00 s, 660 s, in the 480 s+ band.
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
- Solo trips and fastpacking where every gram counts: 20 g for the burner
- Boiling water for hot drinks and dehydrated meals in one small pot
- Anyone who already has a pot stand and windshield, or will make one from mesh or foil
Strengths
- 20 g and about 5.3 cm across: one of the lightest and smallest ways to cook
- Two titanium walls less than 1 mm apart draw fuel up and vaporise it, so it burns clean and quickly. Jake Marcin found it ready within moments of lighting, much faster to get going than a Trangia-style burner
- Easy to put out and to pour unused fuel back, because the jets sit on the inside (Jake Marcin)
- TOAKS's indoor test: 30 ml of fuel burns for 11 min 30 s and 475 ml of water boils in 5 min 30 s
- Spiguyver's controlled tests boiled about 355 ml in 5 min 22 s to 6 min with 30 ml of fuel, and it burned out in about 10 min 45 s
Weaknesses
- A burner only: TOAKS says the stand in its photos is sold separately, and a pot placed straight on it puts the flame out (Spiguyver Backpacking)
- The stand Jake Marcin used held the pot about 3.8 cm up; he says another tester found a gap of about 2.5 cm boils faster, and Spiguyver used a gap of about 2.5 cm
- No flame control and no windscreen in the box
- Spiguyver found it much louder than other alcohol stoves he tested
- No independent test says how it copes with wind or simmering, so those two are estimates, not reviewed scores
Sources
We haven't tested this ourselves. Every score comes from these specs, tests and reviews.
ShowHide sources (6)
- TOAKS Outdoor: Titanium Siphon Alcohol Stove (STV-01) product page (US site, in dollars)
- Ultralight Outdoor Gear: TOAKS Titanium Siphon Alcohol Stove (UK shop page: price, stock, 18 g)
- Jake Marcin (YouTube): TOAKS Titanium Siphon Alcohol Stove REVIEW (weighed with stand and windshield, boil test on a windy day)
- Spiguyver Backpacking (YouTube): Stove Test Series - Toaks Titanium Siphon Boil Test (three pots, timed boil and burn-out)
- CoachBill315 (YouTube): Boil Fast Go Far TOAKS Siphon Stove Review (own purchase, timed boil)
- TOAKS Outdoor: Stove Frame (FRM-01) product page (US site, in dollars; wire pot stand, 23 g)