Camping gas cartridge buying guide
Updated: 23 October 2026
You are standing over a camping stove or a small cartridge barbecue, and the amazon.co.uk page says EN417, bayonet, or only butane bottles. Those are different collars, and the cheaper pack is useless if it will not meet the appliance you already own. This camping gas cartridge buying guide is the order to use before you compare unit prices: valve first, then the fuel line, then a pack count the listing can reconcile. The eight kept listings, with the captured prices and stars, are on the [gas cartridge comparison](/hub/grills-and-barbecues/gas-cartridge). Start with the collar in the photo.
You are standing over a camping stove or a small cartridge barbecue, and the amazon.co.uk page says EN417, bayonet, or only butane bottles.
You are standing over a camping stove or a small cartridge barbecue, and the amazon.co.uk page says EN417, bayonet, or only butane bottles. Those are different collars, and the cheaper pack is useless if it will not meet the appliance you already own. This camping gas cartridge buying guide is the order to use before you compare unit prices: valve first, then the fuel line, then a pack count the listing can reconcile. The eight kept listings, with the captured prices and stars, are on the gas cartridge comparison. Start with the collar in the photo.
Our top picks
| Badge | Product | Connection | Fuel stated | Listing conflict | Note | Price | Offer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best overall |  Green Haven Green Haven C500 butane-propane mix, pack of 12 | EN417 screw | Butane-propane mix | Some reviews mention other pack sizes | 9.4 | about £46.48 | View offer |
 Straame Straame 227 g push-fit, pack of 8 | Push-fit | Butane | Unit count says 1 | 9.2 | about £11.99 | View offer | |
| Alternative |  Green Haven Green Haven butane 8-pack, bayonet bullets | Bayonet / non-threaded in the bullets | Butane | Title says EN417; one bullet says four cans | 9.2 | about £11.99 | View offer |
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Three connections, not one standard
UK cartridge cooking uses three connections that look alike in a thumbnail and fail in the hand. A screw can, often sold as EN417 or C500, has a threaded Lindal-style valve you turn in. A push-fit, or bayonet, can has a notched collar: you push and turn. Cadac’s catalogue treats that 227 g nozzle can as an SSN-29, separate from a threaded cartridge. Campingaz Easy Clic is a third clip. It will not screw into a Jetboil-style Lindal stove.
EN417 on a title does not prove which collar is in the box. The Camping and Caravanning Club separates pierceable type 200 cans, which stay on until empty, from valve cans you can remove. In this set, one Green Haven page prints EN417 in the title and bayonet in a bullet, and a UK review says they are not screw-type fittings. An adaptor sold beside the listing is another product.
Fuel line after the valve
The valve decides whether the can connects. The fuel line decides whether it still makes vapour on a cold morning. Most rows here say butane. The Camping and Caravanning Club says liquid butane is hard to turn into gas below about 4°C. A March pitch may not.
Only one listing puts a butane-propane mix in the title. No blend ratio and no net gas weight are in its attributes. A reviewer’s 70/30 remark on another page is not the manufacturer’s formula, If you only camp in summer and the valve matches, plain butane is the ordinary buy. If you cook at dawn in April, read camping gas cold weather before you treat butane and a mix as the same shelf. Propane in the name does not turn a bayonet can into a screw can.
A check you can do on the doorstep
Count the cans against the title, the bullet and the weight before you pack the car. The bayonet page says eight in the title and the unit count, and four in one bullet, at 2.67 kg. A titled 6-pack at 1.13 kg cannot be six full cans beside the 2-pack at 1.27 kg. A pack-of-8 title and a unit count of 1 cannot both describe the parcel. You cannot price per can until one of those numbers is the number in your hand.
Then match the collar to the stove, not to the words camping stove in a bullet. If the photo and the stove disagree, stop. The outdoor sequence is how to fit a gas cartridge. Empty cans do not go in the household bin. Cornwall Council and Suffolk Recycling both keep camping-gas cans out of the kerbside bin.
Which shelf to stay on
If the socket is a notch, stay with a named push-fit. If it is a thread, stay with a C500 page whose bullets say a threaded valve. If the morning will sit near 4°C, the mix has to be stated on that same valve. If the title, the bullet and the weight disagree, do not invent a price per can. None of the eight kept titles is a Campingaz CV can, and a bulk title that never names a valve is not a matched collar.
Common questions
Why will Campingaz not fit a Jetboil-style stove?
Campingaz Easy Clic is a clip. A Lindal screw stove, the sort many Jetboil-style burners use, expects a threaded EN417 valve. The two do not interchange, and none of the eight listings kept here is a CV can. A push-fit butane pack or a Green Haven C500 does not feed an Easy Clic stove. An adaptor is a separate product, not one of these cartridges.
Do I need a regulator for a cartridge stove?
A direct cartridge stove takes the can on the burner. It does not use the 28–30 mbar butane regulator you fit to a patio cylinder. Liquid Gas UK’s typical cylinder settings are 28–30 mbar for butane and 37 mbar for propane, and the regulator must match that appliance. Do not put a cylinder regulator on a cartridge valve it was not made for. If the manual asks for a regulator plus a cartridge adaptor, follow that manual.
What if the title says 8 and a bullet says 4?
Treat the parcel as unconfirmed until you count it. The bayonet listing is the clear case: title and unit count say 8, one bullet says four, the price is about £11.99, and the item weight is 2.67 kg. A pack-of-8 title against a unit count of 1 is the same kind of clash. If the count is wrong, raise it with the seller. It is not a stove fault.
Is the cheapest 28-pack the same valve as a named push-fit?
The page does not say. That listing’s title says 28 butane bottles at about £29.99, the size field says 20, and no line says EN417, screw or bayonet. The named push-fit states push and turn, and 227 g. Reviews on the bulk page include cans that never engage. Until you know the collar, the headline price is not a substitute for a named valve.
Should I buy a mix if I only camp in summer?
Not for the temperature. A stated mix is the listing to look at when mornings sit near 4°C, and only one page here puts a butane-propane mix in the title. In warm weather a butane can on the correct valve is the ordinary choice. A mix does not fix a wrong collar, and that page does not print a degree rating you can pack against a forecast.
Related pages
Sources
Public UK sources used for this comparison. Listing prices, stars and review counts are the amazon.co.uk figures for these ASINs, captured on 20 October 2026. Retrieved 22 October 2026.
- Liquid Gas UK, Consumer Guidance Sheet 28 (2022) (retrieved 22 October 2026)
- Camping and Caravanning Club, gas for tent campers (retrieved 22 October 2026)
- Campingaz UK, gas families (retrieved 22 October 2026)
- Trangia, gas burner guide (retrieved 22 October 2026)
- Cadac 2024 consumer catalogue (retrieved 22 October 2026)
- Cornwall Council, camping gas canisters (retrieved 22 October 2026)
- WildBounds, camping gas explained (retrieved 22 October 2026)
- LeShuttle, carriage of dangerous and hazardous goods (retrieved 22 October 2026)