Straame Camping Gas Will Fit Your Camping Stove. Your Weed Burner Is Another Story.

The One Thing to Check Before You Order

These are push-fit cartridges. In camping shorthand that means bayonet-style: the can drops sideways into a cradle on the stove, you line up a notch on the rim, then clamp a lever down to lock it and pierce the valve. There is no thread on the top of the can. Nothing screws onto it.

If you have a portable single or double burner stove, the kind that lives in a plastic carry case and sells for about twenty quid, this is exactly the can it wants. That is the fitting the vast majority of UK camping stoves use, and it is why most of the reviews on this listing are cheerful.

The problem is that the listing also advertises the cans for gas weed burners and blowtorches, and plenty of those appliances use a screw-on connector instead. Four of the 100 most-recent reviewers bought them for exactly that and were caught out. One review titled AWFUL reads "Does not fit gas weed burners as thers is no thread on the tin Description is wrong". David C. puts it more calmly: "These are not screw fit canisters and will not fit most blow lamps or weed burners." A three-star from teddyboy is blunter still: "These are not compatible with all weed burners".

Now, it is not a clean split, and this is where it gets muddy. Other reviewers use these on weed burners perfectly happily. Edinburgh girl, who uses these for exactly that job, says they are "very easy to attach to the burner". Mel Raven left five stars under the heading "Weed killer". Some weed burners and blowtorches take a push-fit or clamp-on adapter, some take a screw thread, and the two are not interchangeable.

So the rule is simple. Go and look at the appliance you intend to feed. If it grips the can with a lever and a cradle, you're fine. If it screws onto a threaded collar, buy a different can. Two minutes of checking saves a one-star review and a return.

227g Cans, Eight of Them, and Very Little Else Going On

There is no clever engineering to review here, and that is fine. Each can holds a net weight of 227g of butane, which is the standard size for portable gas stoves in the UK, and the pack contains eight of them. Straame describes a universal tip adapter and a self-sealing valve, with a push-and-twist action to fit. That is the sum total of the spec sheet.

One reviewer noted the cans turned up "in plastic-wrapped bundles of four", which matches how these things usually ship. Same reviewer admitted taking a punt, expecting to send them straight back, and then found they "fitted the stove perfectly".

The most useful long review on the listing comes from Gary, who bought them for a portable single-burner. He confirms the fitting: "They are standard bayonet-style cans, so once you line up the notch on the rim and lock the lever down, they work a treat." He also flags the one build niggle worth knowing about, which is that "the metal collar on the top feels a tiny bit softer than the premium ones". His advice is to be careful lining the notch up in the cradle so you don't bend the rim, because a bent rim won't seal. That rings true for budget cans generally and it costs you nothing to be gentle.

Worth repeating the safety wording from the label while we're here: keep them out of direct sunlight, and out of reach of children and pets. Butane cans and a hot car boot in a July heatwave are not friends. Store the spare seven somewhere cool and shaded, not on the parcel shelf.

On a Camping Stove, They Slot In and Get On With It

Strip out the weed burner confusion and what's left is a long run of people quietly pleased with a cheap can of gas. Seventy-four of the 100 most-recent reviews are five stars, and the pattern in them is boring in the best possible way: it fitted, it lit, it cooked, it lasted.

Ryan sums up the tone: "no issues with fitting to my stove worked as expected great value". Maria Jefferies uses them constantly and says "Never had any problems". Gary reports a steady blue flame that "handled cooking my breakfast without any drama", and was pleasantly surprised that each bottle seemed to last as long as the pricier camping-shop brands. Ali Zaib describes them as easy to connect, quick to start and steady in the flame, which is about all you can ask a gas can to do.

The repeat-buyer signal is the one I'd pay attention to. Andy is on his second purchase. Noman khan ordered again and mentions the gas pressure being good. Arthur Evans simply says "I need to buy more of them". Nobody re-orders a canister that let them down halfway through a fry-up.

The best real-world stress test in the sample comes from Vetty, who took them to a festival and ran them through a Tesco and a Halfords camp cooker: "Did a lot of cooking over 4 days and still have some left". For a four-day festival, that is a properly good result and exactly the scenario where running out is most annoying.

Eleven Minutes or a Four-Day Festival? The Burn Time Argument

This is the one real disagreement on the listing, and it is worth picking apart properly rather than shrugging at.

Nine of the 100 most-recent reviewers say the gas went faster than they expected. Some of them are furious about it. Timlesleyd bought them for a summerhouse heater and reports that previous canisters "have lasted for at least 5 to 6 times longer. These have run out after only 15 minutes." RB, at two stars, says they "Ran out really quickly compared to recognised UK brands". Glenn rider had a first can last 11 minutes, though his review has an interesting tail: "Canisters since have lasted longer". Thomas Paul went with "Very limited gas content", and almaz noted they were "no too full but is ok".

Then look at the other side. Stevie gets "1half hour 2hour out can". One reviewer tested to about three hours of low heat on a camping stove. Paul makes "many of brews and still only on first can". Darren murdoch calls them "very long lasting". MG found they lasted longer than expected once switching stoves, which is a hint at what's going on.

Two things explain most of that gap. First, appliance draw. A patio or summerhouse heater burns gas at a completely different rate to a stove ticking over under a kettle, so a can that gives you two hours of brews will empty in a fraction of that time feeding a heater on full. If you're buying these to warm a shed, be realistic about how long 227g of butane is going to last. Second, temperature. Butane goes lazy when it's cold, vaporising poorly as the mercury drops towards freezing, so an early-spring or late-autumn UK pitch will always give you weaker performance and a shorter apparent burn than a warm July evening.

That said, I don't think it's all user error. A first can dying in 11 minutes when later ones from the same box run fine, plus a scattering of "not too full" comments, points to some variation in fill between cans. It's a budget consumable and it behaves like one. Most people get a good can. A few get a duffer.

Beyond the Campsite: Blowtorches, Allotments and Power Cuts

A surprising number of buyers here aren't campers at all, and that changes how you should read the star rating.

Blowtorch users are well represented and mostly happy. One reviewer says they're "very good for blowtorch", another used them on a blow torch "with good results" and rated the longevity and burn heat. Brian, a five-star, points out that "Butane is great for soft soldering most plumbing etc jobs", which is a fair shout if you've got a plumbing job coming up and a cupboard already full of these.

Then there's the allotment crowd. Shed painter fits them to a gas hob for "making warm drinks at the allotment", which is a lovely use for a spare can. Rachel bought them for her husband to take fishing and rates the flame performance and the low gas consumption.

And a proper little cluster of people buy these purely as insurance. Sparrow bought them "for emergency reasons in case of prolonged blackouts etc". Chucky's entire review is "Standby power outage? Camping? Handy!". Muncher bought them just in case of a power cut. Eight cans and a cheap burner in the cupboard is a sensible bit of household prep, and at this price it's an easy thing to justify.

All of which means the 4.6 star average is being fed by a fairly wide mix of appliances, not just camping stoves. Judge it accordingly.

About That Cardboard Box

The most-upvoted critical review on the listing isn't about the gas at all. Earl Gray of East Sussex left three stars with a complaint about the shipping box: "Good product at good price BUT Seller made NO attempt to properly pack what are hazardous flammable cans of gas, just a thin flimsery cardboard box only which provided NO protection to cans being punctured/dented etc in transit. Seller must do better!"

Two more of the 100 most-recent reviewers mention a torn or ripped box on arrival, though tellingly neither reports gas actually escaping. Mooniiplaits Crochet still gave five stars: "the packaging isn't great - box was torn. However, gas was fine. Would buy again." Derekr54 blamed the courier rather than the seller.

My advice is straightforward. When the box lands, take all eight cans out and look them over before you put them in the garage. Check the rim and the collar on each one for dents and check the base isn't bowed. A dented can with a distorted rim is the one that won't seal in the stove cradle, and a punctured can is not something you want sitting in a hot car. Anything that looks wrong, don't use it.

Delivery gets a mention too. Two people in the sample say their order never turned up at all, one of them still waiting after about four months. Against that, Michael Crowther's parcel went missing, he contacted the seller, and a replacement arrived within two days: "Excellent customer service. Will buy again." Amazon's returns process covers you either way, but it's worth knowing that hazardous goods shipping does occasionally go sideways with this one.

Who Should Put Eight of These in the Boot

My rating: 4.3 out of 5.

Buy these if you run a bog-standard push-fit camping stove and you're tired of paying camping-shop prices for gas one can at a time. Weekend car-campers, caravanners, festival-goers and anyone with a burner in the emergency cupboard are the sweet spot. Eight cans covers a whole summer of brews and fry-ups for most families, and the running cost per meal drops to almost nothing. Check today's price on Amazon, because bulk is where this listing does its work.

Don't buy these if your weed burner or blow lamp screws onto a threaded canister, because there is no thread on these cans and no amount of hoping will put one there. Don't buy them expecting a summerhouse heater to run all evening on one, either. And if you're wild camping in March at altitude, a butane can is the wrong fuel for the job in the first place, regardless of who made it.

What you're getting is a competent, cheap, standard-size butane cartridge that fits the stoves most of us actually own, with a small chance of a shy can in the box and a shipping carton that could stand to be tougher. For a consumable you're going to set fire to and throw away, that's a deal I'd take every season.