Floorless shelters and cooking food

[Jarrod Renaud]

Didnt think about this till right now. I spent a good number of nights in my Seekoutside LBO this september and since the evenings were all really nice I just cooked my food outside the shelter with my MSR Windboiler.

Any of you guys use gas stoves inside? Or should I worry about carbon monoxide?

I'll be using it next weekend and lows will be in the 20's and figured I'd be warming up my dinner inside. I'll have my wood stove but would rather just use the MSR.

Thoughts?

 

[5MilesBack]

Unless you're running your MSR all night I wouldn't worry about it.

In my wall tent I'm running a lantern, cook stove, and a 30k BTU propane tank top heater and I've never had any issues. However, I always do have a CO detector in that tent with me.

 

[Where's Bruce?]

I always prep/eat a distance from my shelter. I don't want unexpected company in the middle of the night...not bears, not marmots, not mice or ants.

 

[realunlucky]

I often cook dinner in my shelter. You'll have some kind of ventilation or condensation will be unbearable

 

[duchntr]

I cook in it all the time with my shelter all zipped up, no problems with bears or dying so far. Your right though its probably not the healthiest thing to do..

 

[dotman]

I don't think the few mins of burn time will put off much bad gasses to hurt you, if you ran it all night that would be different.

 

[oldgoat]

I ran a single mantle micro lantern all night to keep the chill off in my sawtooth with two people and no problems. With no floor and a stove jack, I imagine you would be hard pressed to build up gases unless it's snowing or something and it builds up enough to seal the gaps

 

[Backpack Hunter]

We do it all the time with no ill effects.

 

[Brock A]

Jonboy heats his tent up in the mornings with his pocket rocket. I don't think you will have to worry about anything.

 

[Becca]

I cook in floorless shelters on a regular basis, with no ill effects. Most often when backpacking it's just running the Soto stove to boil water in the Jetboil Sumo, but I have also pan fried fish will no ill effects. We don't pitch our floorless shelters tight to the ground, so there is truly a lot of ventilation and the actual burn time is pretty minimal in the grand scheme of things.


When we do boat or atv based hunts and can haul the 2 burner stove, I use that inside the 12 man tipi or even the floored cabelas guide model...I often use propane lanterns and even a propane buddy heater at times, but have never had any problems, aside from increased condensation due to propane combustion. I would never run a cook stove, lantern or heater overnight while I am asleep, but truly have never had any issues even with frequent use running them in the daytime.

 

[luke moffat]

I wouldn't worry about it in the least....but to each their own and I am no scientist but have never felt worried about burning a single isobutane stove in a floorless shelter....yeah I try to vent if in my double wall Hilleberg and using a lantern or stove to raise the interior temp a few degrees, but haven't worried too much in a floorless shelter.

 

[Travis Bertrand]

I use them inside all the time. Never a problem.

 

[Beastmode]

Jonboy heats his tent up in the mornings with his pocket rocket. I don't think you will have to worry about anything.

Really hope you are talking about a stove.....

 

[Brock A]

Really hope you are talking about a stove.....

HA!! You'll have to get a clarification from jonboy on that one.

 

[Jon Boy]

LOL just my stove. It's pretty nice getting out of my quilt when it's 70 degrees in my tarp.

 

[tttoadman]

I have always cooked and eaten in my tent. Either on the ground in a floorless or in the vestibule of the copper spur.

 

[Jarrod Renaud]

Cool, thanks guys! I won't have that nagging feeling that I'd quietly die in my sleep now