I was intrigued by this stove which has just been launched at http://www.emberlit.com and decided to order one. I have a Spenton woodgas stove from http://www.woodgasstove.co.uk/ so I was interested to see how this batteryless wood stove stacked up.
The video on the emberlit site tells you pretty much what you need to know. I guess the obvious comparison is with the honey stove but what I liked about the emberlit idea was that it looked like a simpler, more efficient product. I don't own a honey stove so I can't make a direct comparison with that product.
The total price was exactly fifty bucks including shipping which works out at £30.52. What you get for your money are five stainless steel cut plates which slot together to form the stove. The weight is 11.3 oz which is great but the flat pack design is obviously a really nice feature. The stove slots together nice and quickly and is very solid. The finish is OK-ish...some sharp edges here and there so you do have to be careful assembling the product. I may take a file to it later to round off some of the edges. It was very easy to get a small fire going really quickly in the stove. Of course you get some wind protection due to the design. I believe the slight conical design of the Emberlit aids that process as well and helps the fire burn efficiently with little smoke. The USP of the stove is the feed port on the front where you can pack some larger sticks into the fire once you've got it going and nudge them in. I've let my Spenton woodgas stove go out before when I wasn't paying attention (you can't really see the fire with a pot on that stove) so the front feed port on the Emberlit is a god thing.
My first fire quickly burned nice and hot and I was able to get a half filled Crusader mug to the boil in a few minutes. The stove isn't great with small pots but there are a couple of workarounds. I turned the Crusader at a bit of an angle but I understand some other users have bent the tops over slightly or used a small piece of wire mesh or a couple of tent pegs across the top. It wasn't a deal breaker for me but if you use tiny pots you might want to take this into consideration.
I'm pleased with the product - it's lightweight, simple and packs flat and only needs a small handful of twigs for a brew and with a couple of bigger sticks quite capable of cooking a meal.
The obligatory pictures:
The newly arrived stove in bits
Snaps into shape nice and quickly
Lights up fast
Some sticks I had lying around inserted into the feed port and into the fire
Sticks fed into the stove - water bubbling away
A slight balancing act with this cup - bigger pots are no problem of course.
The wood burns away to ash, nice and contained. Although the stove gets hot of course no scorch marks on this wooden table.
HTH
Simon.
The video on the emberlit site tells you pretty much what you need to know. I guess the obvious comparison is with the honey stove but what I liked about the emberlit idea was that it looked like a simpler, more efficient product. I don't own a honey stove so I can't make a direct comparison with that product.
The total price was exactly fifty bucks including shipping which works out at £30.52. What you get for your money are five stainless steel cut plates which slot together to form the stove. The weight is 11.3 oz which is great but the flat pack design is obviously a really nice feature. The stove slots together nice and quickly and is very solid. The finish is OK-ish...some sharp edges here and there so you do have to be careful assembling the product. I may take a file to it later to round off some of the edges. It was very easy to get a small fire going really quickly in the stove. Of course you get some wind protection due to the design. I believe the slight conical design of the Emberlit aids that process as well and helps the fire burn efficiently with little smoke. The USP of the stove is the feed port on the front where you can pack some larger sticks into the fire once you've got it going and nudge them in. I've let my Spenton woodgas stove go out before when I wasn't paying attention (you can't really see the fire with a pot on that stove) so the front feed port on the Emberlit is a god thing.
My first fire quickly burned nice and hot and I was able to get a half filled Crusader mug to the boil in a few minutes. The stove isn't great with small pots but there are a couple of workarounds. I turned the Crusader at a bit of an angle but I understand some other users have bent the tops over slightly or used a small piece of wire mesh or a couple of tent pegs across the top. It wasn't a deal breaker for me but if you use tiny pots you might want to take this into consideration.
I'm pleased with the product - it's lightweight, simple and packs flat and only needs a small handful of twigs for a brew and with a couple of bigger sticks quite capable of cooking a meal.
The obligatory pictures:
The newly arrived stove in bits
Snaps into shape nice and quickly
Lights up fast
Some sticks I had lying around inserted into the feed port and into the fire
Sticks fed into the stove - water bubbling away
A slight balancing act with this cup - bigger pots are no problem of course.
The wood burns away to ash, nice and contained. Although the stove gets hot of course no scorch marks on this wooden table.
HTH
Simon.
