Customer Reviews

Century 14,000 BTU Heater/Cooker

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3 star:		(2)
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1 star:		(1)

 

 

I had a few months to shop casually for a portable heater like this one, and I went to every local sporting goods store I could find, as well as Wal-Mart and Target, to give local retailers a chance to make the sale with me.

As it turned out, some of the more "hardcore" outdoors retailers, such as "REI Co-op", and Turner's Outdoors had only one brand (REI) or no brands (Turner's Outdoors) to sell. Wal-Mart only had the Coleman brand, and many other sporting goods stores had NOTHING to show in the way of a heater. Many of the current retailers lack of inventory offering which is supposedly saving them from carrying "dead stock" or "slow movers" is merely weaning cusomers OFF of the store-based retail format, and ONTO the Internet as a first-choice retail format for buying goods.

I rate this heater and it's versatility a 5+. It has nothing to wear out, it's made entirely of steel, it has an adjustable heat range, it can be very HOT, and when flipped around, it can heat a pot of water in short order. I used it for heat, as well as heating a pot of water for an outside early morning swapmeet venue, and it worked great. I will look forward to using it on my next camping trips for late evening poker games on the outside picnic table...

shipping was on time but when doing the assembly of the heater to the holding bracket it will not stay in the slots and the bracket was welded to the heater so it does not fit in the holder properly. the heater should sit upwright. It fit into the stand and falls to one side until the propane bottle supports the whole heater assembly.

After doing some research on heaters for high altitude camping, we decided to purchase this heater, despite the other reviews. It has been a great heater for us! Any noise that this heater makes while operating isn't at all annoying or loud. It stayed lit without any problems (you have to hold in the red gas valve until it catches) and it kicks out a LOT of heat. We've used it with the small propane cylinders, as well as with a hose and large propane tank. It's fairly small and very light-weight so it does well being stored in our pop-up camper. We have not used it as a "cooker," just for heat, so we can't comment on how it does in that operation. But most important for us, we haven't had any problems with it operating in the mountains at 7500 feet. We do have to caution our children when it is on so that they are aware of it and don't get too close.

Bought this to heat my canopy area behind my teardrop trailer when camping in cold weather.I have three walls on the canopy when it,s up and this little unit puts out enough heat to keep the area very comfortable! Product can be adjusted to low or high,on the low setting the BTU is roughly about 10,000.Another factor thats neat is it can be used as a stove also for heating coffee or one pot meals,great for emergency use!!Another great thing is the unit can use 1lb cylinders or run off a 20lb bbq cylinder,a 20lb'r being more economical!! A word of caution this unit should not be used in a enclosed area because of carbon monoxide and if you have young children in your family,the unit does get Hot!!! little one's could get burned. Amazon .com did a great job on shipping,as alway's, Thanks again Amazon!!!

This is pretty good heater. Definitly does the job of heating. My only complaint is the noise it makes, especially during start up and while on. I bought it to heat a deer stand and the excessive noise is not welcomed!

It would not stay lit when standing-up as a heater (thermocoupler seemed to be defective). Did not put out very much heat. Amazon did not want to take it back (outside the return window). DON'T DO IT!