Cookers and stoves - advice needed!

[Nyayo]

OK, before I spend loads of cash on something that I'm not going to use, I need some advice:-
What are the relative merits of the Honey stove, the Bush Cooker, the Bushbuddy and a basic charcoal-burning Hobo stove?

Any replies greatly appreciated

N

 

[Shewie]

I've only experience of the Honey stove from your list, it's a great bit of kit for having a contained fire and coupling it up with a Tatonka meths burner makes it a great set to have in the pack.

 

[MartinK9]

Home made hobo stove for me cost less than £5, and as Shewie says, adding a meths burner to it increases it's versatility.

 

[Firebringer]

I'm a big fan of hobo stoves, amazingly fuel efficient and pump out quite a heat. Fuels also effectively free and limitless.

 

[Shambling Shaman]

As above,

Ive got the honey and love it, but a home made hobbo to your speck is just nice as its a personal item

 

[Asa Samuel]

OK, before I spend loads of cash on something that I'm not going to use, I need some advice:-
What are the relative merits of the Honey stove, the Bush Cooker, the Bushbuddy and a basic charcoal-burning Hobo stove?

Any replies greatly appreciated

N

Well, the honey stove is light, versatile (especially when teamed up with a meths burner) and compact.
The Bush Cooker, Bushuddy and most hobo stoves pretty much have the same pros and cons. Can be quite bulky although most will fit inside a billy can, as versatile as the honey stove, and the hobo stove is cheap and chips.

If you have the money to spare I'd go for the honey stove, I don't have one yet but I might be getting one for my birthday on Friday If you don't fancy that then out of the Bushbuddy, Bush cooker and hobo stove I'd go for a hobo stove, it's very easy to make a simple stove but if you want to make a wood gas stove it's still very simple and there are numerous how-to's online.

Hope that helps,
Asa.

 

[bashabuddy]

Honey stove all the way for me too, either with pine cones or Tatonka burner!
(Well if a nice roaring open fire is out of the question!)

 

[Kerne]

I have a bushbuddy and LURVE it! I recently bought a whitebox stove to use when a real fire is out of the question and it sits inside the bushbuddy easily for storage/transportation and the bushbuddy acts a s a windshield when it is lit.

 

[durulz]

I use a good old Nimblewill stove.
It has the same advantage as the Honey Stove - collapsible and packs flat, but without the disadvantage (cost! - you have to make your own Nimblewill stove from the free downloadable plans. Just google 'nimblewill').
I have used a meths burner in it, a Green Heat fuel cell and, most of the time, use it to burn wood like a hobo stove.
Making that was one of the best things I ever did. Although it was a right pain cutting out all that stainless steel sheet. Arguably the best bit of kit I own.
And, since you make them yourself, you can personalise it and make it to the dimensions that suit you best.

 

[hiho]

Home made hobo stove for me cost less than £5, and as Shewie says, adding a meths burner to it increases it's versatility.

i only have a hobo stove, cost me 4quid all togethe rto make. £2 for the drainer at poundstrecher. and £2 for the billy... rest was bits lying around.

 

[Dozza]

Honey stove all the way for me too, either with pine cones or Tatonka burner!
(Well if a nice roaring open fire is out of the question!)

Does the Tatonka clip in the same way as the Trangia in the 4 side arrangement (as shown in their video)? Thanks.

 

[JonathanD]

I love my BushBuddy. Quick and easy to use, small and ligtweight and makes no smoke due to burning woodgas. Excellent for those stealth campers that want to enjoy a nice fire.

 

[Tom R]

I have used a trangia for amny years and its the most usefull burner I can think of. If you get the kit so that you can use propan its simpel and fast and will du all your cooking.

 

[Shewie]

Does the Tatonka clip in the same way as the Trangia in the 4 side arrangement (as shown in their video)? Thanks.

I had to give the plate which holds the meths burner a few licks with some wet and dry to take my Tatonka. Nothing major but it just needed something to help it drop in and out easier.

 

[jonnie drake]

I use a wee coke can stove with a DIY windshield. Not experimented with wood yet but I will be having a play with it soon.

 

[dave53]

hi all honey stove for me great bit of kit fold flat goes in my billy can with a scirroco gas burner triangia burner some hexi blocks and some fuel very compact if one fails youve got other options regards dave

 

[DaveBromley]

If you get an Ikea utensil drainer it fits into an issue canteen holder (thanks southey) si it is light weight, compact and it houses ALL my cooking equipment including 2 pans with lids my penny stove (which boils a litre in about 5 1/2 mins) cotton wool balls a tub of vaseline pencil sharpener and a disposable lighter. So it can be used as a wind sheild for meths burner or used with solid fuels! Can't really go worng with it i'll get some pics later and weigh it too

Dave