The quoted weight of 69g was a little optimistic, but that's nothing unusual, tipping our digital scales at 73.6g without the bag and 81.2g with. 73.6g is by no means the lightest stove you can find but is comparable with stoves like Snow Peak's Giga Titanium and the Kiro TI has more in its favour than simply weight.
The Kiro TI uses three pan supports that when not in use fold back in towards the centre and rotate around the main gas pipe to lie flat against each other. Despite this the Kiro TI is still a large unit as lightweight titanium stoves go. The extra height and depth of the supports give the stove a feeling of robustness that some titanium stoves don't manage and a real sense of being a quality build.
You don't get a piezo ignition with the Kiro TI but once lit the flame is both powerful and very easily adjustable. There's nothing unusual about the skeleton flame adjuster, it's a common design for lightweight stoves, but Edelrid have made their adjuster not only very smooth but also extremely sensitive. Flame spread is as "medium" as we've seen being neither too narrow for more than solo cooking nor too wide for small pans and it's certainly got enough power. In our standard outdoor test conditions it brought a litre of water to the boil in 3 minutes 8 seconds, which is a more than respectable time for any stove.
Overall the impression is one of typical German engineering and wondering how Edelrid have managed to build the stove at this size and still kept the weight down to under 75g. At an RRP of £40 and a street price closer to £35 it competes very well with much heavier and clunkier stoves with the benefits of weight saving but without any loss of power.
Price: £40.00
Weight: 73.6g
Colour: silver
Features:
- Lightweight
- Output 3000 Watts
- Consumption 80-240 g/h
- Cooking time 3:08 min ( Time taken to boil 1 litre of water )
- Transport bag included
Pros: Weight, size, stability and a very smooth and sensitive flame adjuster.
Cons: Not the lightest available
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