Backpacking light pocket stove

[Widgy grub]

Hi all,
Had a day out in the woods yesterday, thought I would give the pocket stove a go burning wood...
Well it did the job very nicely, the only downside to it is that you have to feed it constantly... Anything thicker than your little finger is to big really

But made myself a lovely brew !!

 

[Nohoval_Turrets]

I have one of these stoves too, and I don't find them very practical. You really need to be feeding it all the time, and they don't really get much heat going. What heat there is dies quickly if you're not feeding it. I think they're just that bit too small to do the job properly.

I have the emberlit stove also. It's a bit bigger and heavier of course, but I find it a much more useful stove. You get more heat, you can use bigger wood, and it will work unattended for longer, so you can pay attention to your food.

Just my two cents.

 

[benp1]

I only use mine with meths or esbit, the wood burning option is a nice back UL but nice only used it like that once or twice

I use it with a Vaseline meths stove, used it last weekend on a wild camping trip in the Elan valley in Wales

 

[bearpark]

I love mine. In fact I have two (SS and Ti). I rarely use wood in the Pocket Stove for the reasons mentioned above, plus the mess. Normally I use a trangia meths burner or occasionally esbit/hexi tablets - here it is in action, making some dinner using esbit tabs http://youtu.be/pApvmN7k_FQ

And here with a trangia burner getting the bacon on

If people are after a wood burning stove I'd probably steer clear of this one, there are plenty of more efficient stoves out there for that. But as a small, versatile setup that can use multiple fuels I'm yet to find a better product.

 

[Widgy grub]

Great pic .. What's cooking ?

 

[bearpark]

Thanks man. I think it was some bacon, but there was quite a lot of good food on the go during that trip so I might be wrong.

The stove in the pic is the Ti version (notice the dull finish), the one in the vid I linked to is the stainless model.

 

[Graveworm]

I only use mine with meths or esbit, the wood burning option is a nice back UL but nice only used it like that once or twice

I'm the same, I carry mine instead of the Crusader for Esbit as it works just fine but weighs less and can use wood as a backup.

 

[Flecktarnbiker]

You can use esbit tabs in trangias??!!

 

[Podcast Bob]

Well you've hit the nail on the head guys, as I tell people I designed the Pocket Stove as primarily alcohol/esbit stove with wood burning as a back up, whereas the Honey Stove is wood burning with alcohol/esbit as back up.

Like the Evernew DX Ti Stand/stove you have to keep feeding them continually and that's about as small as you can go practically. Certainly the smaller the twigs the better and the bottom line, it does the job.

Generally if I'm wanting to sit round a heat source and chat I'll always use the Honey or Hive. If it is purely a case of having a brew and moving on, it'll be the Pocket Stove.

Thanks for the feedback though. Good to know.

Cheers. Bob

 

[petrochemicals]

dear bob, what about a folding woodgas stove ? Nice and big. And whatever happened to the wilderness stove ?