Primus Gravity PZ

Bluff
Reviewed: 03 November 2010

Works very well

Light and compact

None, but I prefer canister top stoves as they tend to be more compact

A very good stove but quite expensive

Iain Ballantyne
Reviewed: 20 October 2008

CAN'T BEAT IT

Power
Wide burner
Stability
Reliability

Don't like the colour
Piezo is duff

Had this 18 months and been used on hundreds of camping trips never giving any trouble since removing the sparkler . ok its heavier than the can top stoves but it has several advantages as has already been said.

Peter Clinch
Reviewed: 01 September 2008

STABLE, EASY TO USE GAS STOVE

very stable design;
easy to adjust flame;
comes with wind-shield and reflector base;
reasonably light and compact for its type.

piezo lighter is a waste of space;
cannister-top designs are lighter and more compact.

The Gravity (which now seems to have changed to the "EF" designation as of late summer '08) comes in a natty wee pouch with a separate compartment for anything you want particularly secure: we stock a spare lighter in it, more on which shortly...
Taking it out of its bag you simply unfold the ends of its 4 legs, screw the valve into a gas canister and optionally place it on its fold-up reflector and inside its folding windshield. The stove is low slung so the windshield can be effective while not too big, and with 4 widely spaced feet it's remarkably stable in use. The fuel feed includes air intakes and passes over the burner so it helps ensure the gas emerges pre-heated and mixed with air for a good burn.

It's gas, so there's not much to go wrong... except the piezo electric lighter. That lasted several whole hours before it broke (the heat shrink around the trigger button, errrr, shrank and rendered the button un-pushable), an even worse performance than my OD Camp 3 micro-stove which at least struggled back to life to be used a second day before it broke... These things just seem to be too fragile and unreliable on a well-used stove so you need back up of lighters/matches anyway: I wish they'd just not bother and charge a few pounds less, at least I could spend it on something useful like beer!

But let's not dwell on the lighter, as it's not something limited to this stove, and the stove works very well without it. It's a fair price and it does what's needed well.

Paul Cummings
Reviewed: 15 February 2008

GREAT STABLE STOVE

Stable, Piezo ignition

Heavy

This is a very stable stove, but with the windshield and everything it weighs in at 430g. I still tend to take it when solo in preference to my MSR Rocket for stability, but with groups I take the MSR for its lightness.

Daniel Parsons
Reviewed: 26 July 2007

EXCELENT STOVE RECOMENDED

Has a nice wide burner heats larger pots well, vairiable flame is good for simmering to boiling fast, relitivly sturdy for weight, light enough to carry in a pack but easily strong enough to hold a large heavy pot of water ignition is brilliant wire a little temprimenal but with tweaking i havent had a problem yet lights with ease but the best fethure has got to be how low to the ground it is makes the whole stove very stableand seperate gas canister conection allows you to tip the canister on its side as it runs out heat reflecter/wind sheild works really well to speed up boiling.

the casing on the starter wire cracked so he spark jumps to the fule hose before it gets to the stove so but if you pull the wire away it works fine

Briliant would recomend it to anyone maybe a little heavy for super lightweigh freaks but easily light enough for hiking and there is enough control to cook any meal simply excelent.