Origo 3000

[Paddingtonbear]

Just bought an Origo 3000 after the many positive views on here and other forums. What is their fuel consumption because I am about to buy so online and I don't know how much to buy. I am off boating next week so fairly important I have some fuel although I still have plenty of parafin for the primus and the Beartrice. I now feel a bit of a wuss having an Origo.

 

[andygc]

Depends how much cooking you do
We get through a couple of litres in 2 weeks pottering around the SW, having about a third of our main meals ashore.

 

[Coaster]

We buy our fuel in 5-litre containers and usually keep two on board in a fuel locker, one in use and the other as a reserve. If you can do likewise I expect there would be ample for a few weeks' cooking.

Incidentally, ours is an Origo 6000 and the oven is used perhaps every other day when we're on board. We bought a dozen 5-litre containers several years ago and still have a couple unopened.

 

[oldbilbo]

Just bought an Origo 3000 ..... I now feel a bit of a wuss having an Origo.

You might feel different after hearing that the Royal Marines, in their repeated winter training exercise in the Norwegian Arctic, preferred the Origo-type stove and its fuel to other types on offer. With a little luck, neither you or I will find ourselves in need of 'snowholing'.....

 

[BruceDanforth]

The fuel consumption is a bit variable. If I fill it right up it seems to run out pretty quickly even with the seals put back on but if I just chuck a bit in each morning and then again before I cook my evening meal it seems pretty economical. You need to get the 4.5/5 litre cans though not those little bottles the chandlers sell.

Just bought an Origo 3000 after the many positive views on here and other forums. What is their fuel consumption because I am about to buy so online and I don't know how much to buy. I am off boating next week so fairly important I have some fuel although I still have plenty of parafin for the primus and the Beartrice. I now feel a bit of a wuss having an Origo.

 

[aquaplane]

I have run our 2 burner Origo for 5 years and never felt the need to buy in bulk online, or boxes of 12X1l bottles online either.

A 5l container of purple from Go Outdoors was £15 or so last time I bought some, lasted about a season IIRC, maybe a bit less.

3X2l Bio Ethanol from BnQ lasted us last season, that's slightly cheaper @ £5 for 2l.

All rough arsed calculations, there would have been stuff left to use up from the previous seasons and there will be some left now.