Stainless Steel stove,Compact Design Perfect for Survival, Camping, Hunting & Emergency Preparation

I just received my Emberlit stove in the mail a few days ago (only two days with free non-Prime shipping!) and it didn't stay pristine for long as I immediately set to work making a fire in it using small twigs and sticks from around my house. It performed beautifully with a strong smooth flame out of the top of the unit if it is given a steady diet of sticks. It eats wood just a bit faster than I thought but burns clean, strong and hot. It helps a great deal that I can feed it slightly larger and very long sticks through the side port as they are burnt down (looks like you are feeding a robot!). I boiled some water for some hot chocolate in very little time. The stove is smaller than I thought, but I love the size and once assembled it is super sturdy. The only downside I can note is that it is fairly messy to put away with all of the soot on the inside of the stove. This will be the case with any disassembling wood-burning stove, but it is a nuisance and worth mentioning. The main reason I wanted to write this review is that I've read a lot of reviews that indicated it would be better at this price point if the stove pieces came with a case. MINE DID! It is not the most robust thing in the world but it certainly works. In addition to the large thick ziplock style plastic bag, the stove pieces also came in a flat sleeve made of woven bright orange nylon on one side and clear plastic on the other side, which is secured with a snap. Pictoral instructions for assembling the stove are printed in white on the clear plastic side of the sleeve. Its not the most durable looking thing in the world but it is a nice addition to the package. Also worth noting is that it came with the pot-stand cross bars even though they were not mentioned in the product description. I hope this review helps. Please up vote this review so people know about the new case :) ***Update*** Nov. 2014 Just wanted to add a quick update to this review to say that this little stove saved my bacon last weekend on a camping trip. My wife and I'd brought plenty of food but stupidly forgot to bring propane fuel for our stove. Not that we would have starved, but cold food is a bummer, especially when the weather is chilly. Firewood collecting inside the National Park Campground was not allowed so we had no way of heating up our food over a campfire, until I remembered I had my Emberlite :) Gathering small twigs and sticks from around our campsite was no problem and it gave us enough fuel to have some hot soup one night and the all important boiling water for coffee and hot chocolate the next morning. Really glad I had this thing with me :)

2ND Review" I still love this stove just NOT Outdoor Shopping the seller for this product. I purchased what I thought would be my 2nd stove as I stated in my review below. Only this would have been a gift to someone who also loves this stove and uses mine way to often. I also encourage a friend to buy at the same time I was purchasing mine. I got my purchase for a mere $12 and my friend paid full price. He got his withing 2days while I got excuses of the product is unavailable and you can always get something else blah blah blah or wait. As you know if you wait they make you wait SO LONG and you never get the product. SO THIS IS A WARNING NOT TO BUY FROM OUTDOOR SHOPPING BECAUSE IF YOU GET AN UNBELIEVABLE PRICE THEY WILL NOT HONOR IT!!!!! They could have compromised with me if that were the case but they didn't and tried to sell me the story of there are no more available when clearly they are still shipping them out even as I write this re-vised review it still doesn't say this item is unavailable. Also they didn't tell me it was unavailable until I contacted them!! If you really want the Emberlit which I say go for it! Get it at www.emberlit.com and not Outdoor Shopping. Again the stove is AWESOME just don't buy it from Outdoor Shopping. DON'T BUY FROM OUTDOOR SHOPPING>>>>>>>>> DON'T BUY FROM OUTDOOR SHOPPING>>>>>>>>> DON'T BUY FROM OUTDOOR SHOPPING>>>>>>>>> SPREAD THE WORD 1st Review: Awesome stove! I need to purchase another one. This stove folds down to almost nothing in your pack. Easy to get a fire going and burns for quite a while. I recommend you buy it now. No camper, Hiker or prepper should be without this stove. Easy to assemble and disassemble and stores flat. It weighs less than 11.3 oz & it's stainless steel. No need to carry fuel just burn some dead wood found in the great outdoors. The stove will hold the weight of any pot or pan. You can even drop the stove and it will not come apart. It's very sturdy. Great for camping, backpacking, bushcraft, wilderness survival, and disaster preparation. Awesome Camping Stove.

We purchased the Emberlit Stove and a Solo Stove at the same time to compare features and suitability for our motorcycle camping kit. They are both fantastic minimalist, eco-friendly camping stoves that have different personalities. The Emberlit folds completely flat and will store in almost no space at all, while the Solo takes up the same space as a typical 900ml pot or cup. The Solo requires essentially no cleaning, where the Emberlit needs to be wiped down or carried in a separate bag to prevent soot and ash residue from getting on the rest of your gear. Two important observations about the Emberlit Stove: 1. The panels will warp over time due to heating and cooling of the metal. While this doesn't affect its performance, it can be annoying to get the "ears" lined up when trying to assemble the unit. I have to use significant pressure to get the panels to snap down into each other sometimes. This same warping can also make the panels very tight to take apart after the stove cools down. I have learned to work around it, but it still annoys me. 2. The stove is not insulated at the bottom, so you have to be careful where you place it before you start cooking. The metal gets VERY hot everywhere and will scorch nearby grass (or a wooden picnic table... oops). In contrast, the Solo Stove is well insulated on the bottom and can be placed just about anywhere without damaging what it is sitting on. Overall, the stove is very light and performs VERY well with a variety of bio fuels. The fuel options are more flexible with the Emberlit than the Solo because of the open feeding hole on the side. This allows you to use longer sticks and branches to feed the fire than you could with the Solo. Another benefit of this side feeding is that your fingers are never very close to the hot metal like they would be with the small feed port in the Solo's pot stand. The flat bottom plate of the Emberlit also allows you to use solid fire starters (or Esbit fuel tablets) in this stove very easily. The Solo stove has a metal grate in the bottom that allows some solid fuel starters fall out of contact with the kindling. This is a minor point, but could be significant if you want to use fuel tabs for cooking. The Emberlit does not ship with a carry case or bag. They do offer one as an accessory, but the price is a bit steep. I took the recommendations of other Amazon members and purchased the Custom Leathercraft 1100 bag bundle (pack of 3 poly zip bags). You'll get three bags for less than the price of the Emberlit bag. The medium (blue) one fits the Emberlit like a glove, and you have two left over to stow other gear. So, which one is the "better" stove? For me, that depends on the situation. If I need a stainless pot to go along with the kit, the Solo Stove and Solo Pot combo is the winner. However, if I don't need the pot and I'm taking other cooking gear (e.g. MSR Flex Skillet), then the Emberlit is the winner because it folds flat and stores inside of other items. My verdict: you can't lose with this stove, it's just that good. Just buy one and you will try to find reasons to use it... that's what we did. My son (9 yrs old) and I sat outside on New Year's Eve in the freezing cold and watched the neighborhood fireworks while using this stove between our camp chairs to keep us warm and to toast marshmallows. The Emberlit was our own miniature fire pit. Emberlit Stove: $39.95 Bag of jumbo marshmallows: $3.25 Neighborhood fireworks and scrap wood: $0.00 Father and son outing: ... PRICELESS! How's that for value? I'd pay that 1000 times over just for that one night!

Great little stove. I've owned mine for over 3 years, and it still works like new. It isn't as shiny as new because of soot, but it works just fine. I've used it with twigs and small branches, esbit fuel cubes, and with a Trangia alcohol burner, and have never had an issue getting water to boil on this stove. You can even flip it upside down for a make-shift fire pit, and burn larger pieces of wood like a little mini camp fire. I really love how it folds up for a very slim storage, and can easily be packed in a pouch or bag. I carry mine in a slim, MOLLE mil-spec side pouch, and I would recommend something similar for a couple of reasons: 1. The stove will get dirty when burning wood and other fuels, and may rub off onto clothing or other gear. 2. The stove will be very hot if you try to, or need to pack it away too soon. 3. When you disassemble the stove for storage, there are some sharp edges that can poke through cheaper materials. A quality, mil-spec pouch will be rugged enough, and durable enough to handle these issues. If you are an ultra-light hiker, there is a titanium version of this stove available, but for the majority of people, I think the stainless steel version will be fine. Most people aren't going to notice a big difference between the two stoves. I haven't had a chance to use the titanium version yet, but from some of my past experiences with titanium gear, it can be very hit or miss. I can definitely say that this stainless steel stove is solid, and built to last.

This is a great piece of gear for backpacking, lightweight camping or even just a quick fire in the backyard. It comes together or apart in a few seconds, but it’s very sturdy, especially with the crossbars installed at the top. We bought the stainless steel model. My understanding is that the titanium model is much lighter, however, in a 30-40 lb pack, would I notice the difference? Probably not. After “breaking it in” first in our fireplace to ensure it worked fine, we took it in leau of a gas stove on an overnight backpack trek. The great thing about any wood stove is the limitless fuel around you. Even in the dead of winter, there were plenty of small branches, bark and fuel nearby. We brought along an Altoids tin with some tinder (cotton balls, dryer lint) and both at night and again in the AM, we easily got a little blaze started in the stove, which we fed with fuel once it was going. Unlike another wood stove model I have, there are no vents on the bottom panel of the Emberlit, so in short order you get a nice bed of embers with almost no worries about any dropping down and scorching the ground under the stove. With the large front opening and side vents, there seemed to be plenty of airflow into the fire. I think you could also use the assembled side panels as a small wind shield, if you needed to for some other purpose. It’s a hungry little beast, but also generates a great flame and a good amount of radiant heat, which was very welcome! We warmed and dried our socks and thin gloves on the metal side panels a few times. Felt heavenly. In the morning, I put a full pot of water on top of a decent flame, and boiled it in fairly short order. Your cooking gear will get some soot on it, but to me, that’s just part of the deal. At least with my order for Amazon, it came with a convenient carrying case (pro tip: pack some char cloth or tissues or cotton in between the panels when they’re flat so you’ve got plenty of tinder). Once it was cool, everything comes apart and fits flat. The pouch is small enough to even fit in your cargo pants, most likely. Downsides? Not many. It’s smaller than my other backpacking woodstove, with a smaller front feed hole, so I guess that’s a constraint, but not a big one, in my opinion. It’s plenty big for most sticks, downed branches and other fuel you’ll find. The only other downside I can possibly mention is that the edges of the metal were a little sharp. Certainly not “stitches” sharp, but I guess you could cut yourself putting it together. If you tried. I didn’t. Overall, highly recommend. Truly a great piece of camping gear.

The Emberlit stove was ordered on a Tuesday, and arrived on Saturday morning, just in time for a Cub Scout campout with one of my sons. I already had a Coleman two burner stove packed, but I tossed in the Emberlit as well. I figured this would be a great opportunity to give it a trial run. When I got our campsite sorted that evening I assembled the Emberlit without even looking at the instructions. There are many videos online showing the assembly of this stove, and it only takes seconds to put it together. It is extremely stable once locked in place. The location we were camping actually didn't have much readily available fuel in the form of sticks and twigs. I used regular charcoal briquettes for fuel. After about 10 minutes of burning the coals were ready for cooking, and I was impressed with how quickly I was able to boil about 4 cups of water in an IMUSA pot for tea, followed by some hot dogs for kids in a small pan. I added an additional 4 or 5 briquettes after a while and we toasted marshmallows for s'mores right over the Emberlit, using fondue forks. Worked flawlessly. I never fired up the Coleman stove, because the Emberlit took care of all the cooking needs we had. Best of all, after all the charcoal had burned, clean up was super easy. I simply shook the ashes out into the group campfire pit, and there was nothing left on the stove. It came apart as easy as it went together, and packed nice and flat in the pouch it came in. This Emberlit stove is going on every trip from now on.

This stove is great! If you are into survival, or backpacking, this is a MUST HAVE! It folds down to be about 1/4in thick, and is easily put together. It comes with a nice pouch, which is essential because the inside of this stove does get dirty with ash. I like this because you don't have to worry about carrying a fuel source. It literally takes a few dried leaves and twigs to get this thing to boil water. It keeps the fire fully contained, and it has great ventilation with a larger hole in one side which makes it easy to add extra twigs to keep the fire going longer. I did learn, however, that this stove might not be totally legal in many national parks, and possibly other places that require all camp stoves have an on-off switch. I used it in Yosemite anyway, and no rangers approached me, despite seeing me use it. I only ever boiled water in it, and if my tiny, contained fire could have possibly gotten out of control, all I would have had to do is dump that water I was trying to boil on top of the fire. I love this little stove, and will continue to use it on my trips backcountry!

I am a solo stove owner/user and for what it is it's a great stove with that being said I purchased the Emberlit a few months ago and have tried to destroy/melt/liquefy this thing by fire since and no can do! I've put the solo aside and have been using the Emberlit every chance I get, this item is light weight packs flat and assembles quickly and easily the pouch that comes with the stove is kinda flimsy but with some patience and Gorilla tape the pouch becomes very tough there is also assembly instructions on the pouch itself. I use canteen cups so the cross members to the stove are not needed as the canteen cup fits very well with no balancing act required, to give you an idea of the top surface area a military style canteen cup takes up about half of the top surface which makes feeding wood very easy from the other half of the top or from the generous opening on the side I easily can put 2 inch wide wood thru the opening on the side, unlike the solo stove this stove does not require pre-measured wood fuel to work I have put 6 inch plus in length thru the top and thru the side feeding opening there is no limit to length.The solo stove is a multi fuel stove and I believe Emberlit should advertise this stove as the same because it is, the cross members not only fit across the top as shown in the photo but also fit in the center during assembly which turns this stove into a wood burner, alcohol burner, esbit and heat tab burner (with double or triple folded tin foil to length on the cross members) and a sterno can will fit in it also making this stove a true multi fuel stove with no modifications just rearranging of the cross members.What sold me on this stove and maybe you also was a youtube video called "Emberlit upside down fire". This stove is the real deal and at $35 you can't go wrong I could have bought 3 of these for the cost of my solo stove and the alcohol burner for it.This is my new "go-to" stove and the solo is on the shelf.