Camping Stove, Ohuhu Camp Stove Wood Burning Stove Stainless Steel Stoves Mini Portable Stove for Camping Picnic BBQ Backpacking Hiking Survival Emergency Cooking Outdoor with Grill Grid Carry Bag

This little guy works just as advertised. I already have a Coleman stove from the 70's, and a JetBoil I use regularly. I love the JetBoil but of course it needs gas canisters to work. I've been looking at this personal wood burning stoves for about a year and drolled over the expensive titanium ones, but couldn't justify the cost. I saw this one and figured it was worth a try considering how inexpensive it was. The entire stove is well made and everything fits well. Although I think I'm going to put part of on my grinder to shave off a little to make the fitment perfect on the top piece your pan or pot would sit on. Some improvement on that part would be needed for this to be absolutely perfect. I like the extra little dish for the solid alcohol, although it seems like fondue gel, or paraffin oil would also work. I haven't tried those yet, but it seems like it should work fine.On my first try (see pictures) I took it outside, added a few pine needles, twigs, small branches, and a little fire gel (because I'm lazy) and lit it. I didn't pack the burn material in completely, maybe a handful of material. It burned for a few minutes then I put on the GSI Stainless Steal tea pot. On my first attempt to boil water it took about 10 minutes, mainly because i kept messing around with the fire. I didn't realize that a) pack plenty of material in there initially, and b) when the flames stop, that means nothing. It's still very hot and continued to be hot for a good 30 minutes. After taking the water off and letting it cool for 20 minutes, I put it back on and it boiled again in 90 seconds (it was still pretty warm). I hate it when products come in a camp bag that isn't made well, such that you have to replace it when it's new. This stove comes with its own mesh bag to store it in and works just fine..This is just s really simple but effective design to quickly setup, boil water, or cook, warm your hands, or just gaze at the memorizing flames without the need for logs, fire rings / pit, or what have you. A couple handfuls of stuff laying around will keep you busy for an hour or longer.

So, this product had good reviews so I decided for $16.00 I'd take a chance on it. Arrived well packaged. All pieces were there. Stove assembly, and accessories, we're made of a good grade stainless steel. I have little doubt the quality will be enjoyed. Probably the weakest point is the pivoting grate supports. However, not abusing these with super heavy weights you'll be ok.Attempted a test fire using home made cotton/accelerate. For material I used about two hand fulls of small twigs and less than 1/4 round branch broken into small pieces. As ignition began the temperature rapidly grew. At one point the internal temperature was greater than 800 degree. My cup, holding about 7 oz of water began to boil in less than 3 minutes.As I experimented I found a tin foil barrier helped keep the breeze in check and the wood seemed to burn slower.Now today's experiment was just to become knowledgeable as to its operation and gain some working knowledge before in-the woods use. I have no doubt had I used pieces of seasoned blocks of wood, as mfg suggested, it would definitely have a stronger burn rate and longer lasting time.So, my opinion, this product will definitely reach temperatures of 212+ easily. A larger pot, cooking a meal, will certainly take longer, but for the price its well worth being a backup to alcohol. The small grilling rack would enable a rare meat to be prepared just like at home. Product also included a tough nylon carring case with draw string.So, if you're searching for a lightweight back up to your alcohol stove consider this and a valuable option that does a good job.

It is not as efficient as the DYI wood gasifier stoves I made from an empty paint can and Progresso soup can. However, my DYI stove is taller and don't pack as well as this one. This camp stove will NOT get to the pure blue flame state. I'm guessing that's because the height of the double-walled section is about half of the DYI stove. Filled to the max with hickory chips, it burned for about 30 minutes.It is well made and the parts fit together nicely. The bag fits just right.It's debatable whether this is as eco-friendly as advertised. Burning wood releases a lot of smoke particulates. Alcohol stoves may be cleaner in terms of environmental impact.One thing I don't like about wood stoves is that, even when they are burning efficiently, you get black goo all over your pot. In addition, if you want to try to minimize smoke residue, you have to wait until the fire has progressed, which means you have less usable time to heat your water/food. I probably got 15 minutes of heat time out of the 30 minutes it burned.Wood gasification works because of the convection flow that draws air in the top, out the bottom, up the sides, and out the top, interior holes. The wood gas coming out those holes is what is actually burning.One of the down sides of using wood gasification is that you have to use some of the burn time to get your stove heated sufficiently. Otherwise, if you just light the fire and immediately plop your pan/kettle on it, you'll get a lot of soot build up.Since the fire burns from the top down, as opposed to normal fires that burn from the bottom up, that means adding wood on top will also cause a sooty fire. The way I get around this problem is either limit the amount of water I heat up so I don't have to add wood to the fire OR burn a smaller fire to heat the stove up and then fill it up and light it on top so it burns efficiently.My preferences: This stove is too heavy/bulky for my style of backpacking and I don't like what wood smoke does to my pots. Consequently, I decided to use it as a backup stove for car-camping. If I run out of fuel for my other stove or just feel like having a fire under fire restrictions, this will work perfectly. In addition, alcohol stoves need a wind screen and this works perfectly with a Trangia-type stove.NOTE ON STARTING FIRE: Building a fire in this stove is different than most stoves. It's designed to burn from the top down. Fill the stove up with wood debris and then make a fire on TOP. Once the stove heats up, it will start drawing air and wood gas from the bottom, up the double wall, and into the top holes that are pointed towards the inside where it will ignite as a jet. Yellow flame is good. Blue is best.If you don't have a wood gasifier stove and don't want to build one, get this stove - it's cheap and good.