Jerry Avins > wrote:
> Romanise wrote:
>> Need a Gas Stove, Electric hotplates are not suitable for some of
>> Indian Cooking.
>>
>> Thinking to buy a signle burner stove that comes with 2 cartridges
>> ( while one is being used other can get refilled)
>>
>> Question is where to get it refilled.
>>
>> Went to Halfords which sells cartridges, but could not tell where to
>> get a cartridge refilled.
>>
>> http://www.lidl.co.uk/uk/home.nsf/pa...I36NEJ004R3ED4
>
> Those cartridges aren't refillable. I expect that it contains butane,
> not propane or LP gas. GAZ is another brand. I don't know the British
> market, but I expect that it's not much different from the US.
>
>> that is what I am thinking to buy.
>
> Be careful about your terminology. Generally, containers called
> "cartridges" are small and not refillable. The smallest commercially
> refillable containers I know of are 10-pound versions of the common
> 20-pound tanks (sometimes called bottles) that are pretty standard on
> outdoor gas grills and travel campers. In many jurisdictions, it is
> not legal to store those indoors.
>
> The gas bottles used on the one- and two-burner stoves that caterers
> call hot plates usually use what are called Bernz bottles, after the
> torch maker that introduced them. Although Bernz bottles are generally
> discarded when empty, you can get an adapter to refill them from the
> larger available tanks. That process must also be done outdoors and
> away from buildings, and it is not legal to transport bottles that
> have been refilled. In my country house, I had two 100-lb tanks (that
> size is called "cylinder" -- outside and brought the gas inside with
> installed copper tubing. There are local codes that need to be
> follower to do that.
> Typical propane stoves for campers are http://tinyurl.com/62us8m
> http://tinyurl.com/5rsjwh and http://tinyurl.com/4l9t3u These use the
> tall slender 14.1-oz or short squat 16.5-oz Bernz-style bottles. The
> hot plates that caterers use indoors have no windscreens.
>
> Jerry

Here is a good alternative, as it can use regular petrol.

http://www.academy.com/index.php?pag...224-00660-3700