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This year iconic Swedish stove brand Primus is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the launch of the world's first Multi-Fuel stove designed to run off liquid fuels and LPgas. To mark this launch, Primus are giving away one of each of their innovative stoves below.

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In reply to UKC/UKH Articles:

Going on the Primus website's timeline, the first multi fuel stove was launched the following year (after the prototype), so the correct answer is one year less than one of your answers. I selected the closest one though!

In reply to Jamie Hageman:

I'm wondering how they define multi-fuel? I remember a stove a mate had in the 80's, Coleman I think, it could use more than one fuel, Coleman fuel whatever that was, paraffin, and petrol.

In reply to aln:

Ah, but the Primus is a true multi-fuel stove in that it can run on liquid or gas fuel

In reply to Jamie Hageman:

Aye OK that's fair enough I suppose. I used to use a beautiful brass Primus my dad gave me, from the 50's I think, ran on paraffin and had so much control, from a light simmer to a fierce quick boil. But it got harder to find paraffin, and a washer on the pump action died. We improvised for a while but eventually in the 90's it had to be retired. Shame.

In reply to UKC/UKH Articles:

I've had an omnifuel stove for sixteen years and it's been a damn fine stove too. One of the first things I did with mine was drill the legs off (the manual made it clear that the designers were very proud of the stove legs, so they probably cursed me for doing so) after which the stove fitted neatly into the base of the large-size Trangia stove.

Now it runs off everything except coal, laughs at wind, can run from a gentle simmer to a flame hot enough to make me worry about whether my pans will melt and only removes my eyebrows occasionally. Top piece of kit, even if it does sound like a jet fighter sometimes.

T.