It weighs less than a snack bar, costs under twenty quid and slips into your trouser pocket — is this tiny titanium stove backpacking’s biggest bargain?

BRS 3000T Ultralight Backpacking Stove

Ideal for: Lightweight backpacking, thru-hiking, bikepacking, campsite camping

Not suitable for: N/A

The BRS 3000T is a pocket-sized, 26 g titanium stove that’s blown us away over six years of testing. Priced at just £18.95, it offers a simplicity that many bigger, heavier stoves envy. Sure, it’s slower to boil and hates the wind, but if you’re chasing the lightest, smallest, best-value stove for your backpacking adventures — this might be it. For UK hillwalkers and wild campers who’d rather wait with a view than carry an extra 300 g, the BRS 3000T is an absolute steal.

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BRS 3000T stove review

When we think about outdoor gear built to slash weight, it’s often a story of painful compromises or astronomical prices. Enter BRS, a relatively unknown Chinese brand that, if we’re honest, is more of a mystery than a household name. You won’t find their stoves on the shelves at your local outdoor shop — they’re sold almost exclusively through Amazon or occasionally AliExpress, which understandably makes some people a bit wary about trusting their hard-earned adventures (and dinners) to something with such murky origins.

And yet, despite the brand’s low profile, the BRS 3000T has quietly become something of a cult favourite among ultralight enthusiasts. It’s a micro stove built for hikers, backpackers and fastpackers who want to keep things brilliantly simple. Weighing just 26 g and packing down to roughly the size of two AA batteries, it pretty much disappears in your kit. At an RRP of £18.95, it’s astonishingly affordable — especially for a stove made of hardwearing titanium alloy that, in our experience, has proven itself time and again across the wild and blustery corners of the UK.

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How it stacks up on the market

Stacked against other popular backpacking stoves, the BRS 3000T carves out a very particular niche. Compared to the Jetboil Flash, which tips the scales at around 400 g for the full integrated system, packs down to roughly the size of a 1 litre Nalgene bottle and will set you back £150, the BRS looks almost laughably small and cheap. Sure, the Jetboil will boil water in a flash and shrugs off a howling wind with ease, but you’re also hauling around ten times the weight and paying ten times the price — all while losing a good chunk of precious pack space. It’s a classic trade-off: do you want a racehorse that demands room and money, or a scrappy pocket-sized underdog that simply gets the job done?

Drop down the scale and you hit the OEX Nasu Micro Folding Stove, a solid budget option at 75 g, roughly the size of three golf balls and costing £32. It’s still three times the weight and bulk of the BRS, and about 150% of the price. Then there’s the MSR PocketRocket 2, a long-time favourite for lightweight backpackers, which weighs around 73 g and costs £50-60 — over double the weight and well over double the price.

This is what makes the BRS 3000T so brilliant. It’s found a sweet spot that hardly any other stove hits — where minuscule weight, tiny pack size, honest usability and rock-bottom price all collide. If you’re the sort who doesn’t mind waiting an extra couple of minutes for a boil or choosing your spot carefully on a breezy ridge, it’s arguably the best bang-for-your-buck stove out there. For us, it’s become the obvious choice when we’re counting every gram.

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How we tested it

We’ve been carrying the BRS 3000T on our adventures since 2019, racking up well over 100 uses across the UK. It’s joined us for subzero camps on Dartmoor, where we’ve melted snow at -16°C, and we’ve sparked it up on airy summits in the Lake District after long scrambles. It’s kept us fuelled during multi-day winter crossings of the Cairngorms, and warmed us up on countless exposed days out in Snowdonia, including the top of Tryfan with the wind whipping around.

Through all that, this tiny stove has reliably boiled our water, simmered our pasta and kept us fed. Considering it’s basically the size of a matchbox, that’s genuinely impressive.

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A closer look at how it works in the wild

The genius of the BRS 3000T is really in how stripped back it all is. In the hand, it feels almost like a toy — impossibly small, impossibly light, with that bright pop of lurid green from its stuff sack. But the second you pull it out on the hill, you realise just how cleverly designed it is.

Flick open the retractable titanium arms and you’ve got a pot stand that’s surprisingly stable for something so spindly. They fold out smoothly, even with fat winter gloves on, clicking satisfyingly into place. Sure, they’re a touch more slippery than you might get on a premium MSR or Soto, so we’re always a bit mindful when cooking on rocky pitches — but after six years of use we’ve yet to see a pan go skittering.

Then there’s the gas flow adjuster, a tiny lever that folds neatly against the stove when not in use. Twist it open and you’ll get an impressive level of control. We’ve held gentle simmers by quiet mountain tarns, then cranked it up to a full roar to melt snow on Dartmoor in brutal winter temps. It’s these small moments of control that make you appreciate just how well thought-out this minimal design actually is.

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Of course, there’s no piezo igniter — and honestly, we’re glad for it. That’s one less fiddly part to break or fail when damp. You’ll need to carry a lighter or waterproof matches, but for us that’s never been an issue. If anything, there’s something deeply satisfying about crouching on a chilly ridge, striking a spark, and hearing that eager hiss as the stove comes to life. It feels like proper camp cooking — simple, hands-on, and wonderfully in tune with the places we’re lucky enough to explore.

Everything tucks away into that day-glo stuff sack, which is admittedly ugly but suddenly feels like genius when you drop it in thick grass or start digging through your pack at dusk. It even hides a spare O-ring, which we’ve never needed but are glad to know is there.

And at the heart of it all is that titanium alloy construction. After more than a hundred boils, ours is only just starting to show a slight warp. For a stove this small and this light, that’s brilliant durability. It’s become the kind of kit we almost take for granted — so light and tiny we sometimes forget it’s even in the pack, until we want a brew on a cold summit and there it is, ready to get the job done.

How the BRS 3000T ultralight backpacking stove performs in the UK

We’ve tested the BRS 3000T everywhere from icy Dartmoor wild camps to breezy Snowdonian ridges. Its lack of wind shielding does mean it’s slower to boil in gusty conditions — we’ve found it performs best when you can tuck it behind a rock, hunker down by a dry stone wall or use a lightweight foil windscreen. Even so, we’ve never really minded waiting a few extra minutes for a brew when there’s a moody panorama spread out in front of us.

In many ways, that’s part of the pleasure. There’s something quietly brilliant about crouching behind a summit cairn, stove gently ticking over, steam curling into the cold air while the world blusters on around you. And knowing that the entire setup weighs less than a Mars bar and takes up barely more room than a matchbox? That’s priceless. It means we never hesitate to bring it, whether we’re off on a multi-day slog or just grabbing the pack for a spur-of-the-moment bivvy. For us, it’s the very definition of kit that earns its keep.

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BRS 3000T Ultralight Backpacking Stove FAQs

It’s not the most powerful stove out there, taking longer to boil than a Jetboil or MSR. But with decent gas and a little wind protection, it easily handles typical UK backpacking needs — hot water for tea, pasta or porridge without fuss.
Surprisingly durable. After six years and over a hundred uses — from subzero Dartmoor camps to windy Lakes summits — ours has only just started to show a slight warp. For a 26 g titanium stove under £20, that’s seriously impressive.
Very easy. Screw it onto your gas canister, flick the flow adjuster and light with a match or lighter. The fold-out arms work smoothly, even with gloves. Just remember it doesn’t have a piezo igniter, so you’ll always need to bring your own spark.
Not brilliantly by itself — there’s no built-in wind protection, so it can take longer to boil in gusty conditions. A simple foil or titanium windscreen helps a lot, or just find a sheltered spot. For us, it’s never been a deal-breaker.
Absolutely. At under £20, it might be the best-value ultralight stove out there. It’s tiny, tough, weighs less than 30 g and does exactly what you need. If pack weight matters to you, it’s a brilliant investment.

The BRS 3000T Ultralight Backpacking Stove review: Our verdict

The BRS 3000T isn’t the stove for everyone. If your adventures are all about lightning-fast boils on exposed summits, or you like the reassurance of a built-in igniter and rock-solid wind protection, you’ll be far happier with a Jetboil or an MSR PocketRocket. Those systems absolutely have their place.

But if you’re a UK backpacker carefully counting grams, a thru-hiker mapping out long miles, or simply someone who loves kit that quietly does exactly what it promises, the BRS 3000T is an absolute gem. It’s so tiny and light you’ll forget it’s there, yet tough enough to have handled more than half a decade of our hard use. It costs less than twenty quid — about the price of a takeaway and a couple of pints — and has kept us fed and watered everywhere from winter Dartmoor to gusty Tryfan.

We’d argue it might just be the best-value ultralight stove on the market. For us, it’s an easy 10/10 bit of gear — one we’ll keep throwing into the pack for years to come.

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