Solo Stove Campfire Camping Stove Portable Stove for Backpacking Outdoor Cooking Great Stainless Steel Camping Backpacking Stove Compact Wood Stove Design-No Batteries or Liquid Fuel Canisters Needed

Just got ours about 2 hours ago and have been happily burning since. Tried boiling water in a tall coffee pot but height was the disadvantage for getting a quick boil. The stove worked amazingly and it started pouring here. Next, tried mom's old 6qt aluminum pressure cooker as a pot and it took about 15 minutes to heat about 3 quarts and another 10 to heat the water from the coffee pot added for a total of 6qts. Again the pot was the culprit in quicker heating as was the rain, but we held up an umbrella over the works. We are using this at home and are not sure what is the best pot to use, seems silly to purchase expensive pots just because they store the cooker well for us. We started it with twigs picked wet off the ground yesterday and dried on our oil filled electric radiator. They seemed to crack easily so we assumed they were ready for use. To start them going we used some corn husks and newspaper with vaseline. Bam! Easiest fire we ever started. Puts our expensive Grover Rocket Stove to shame, though this unit seems kind of pricey for what you actually get. But the dependable fire is worth a lot in an emergency and for that we give it high ratings. We cooked on a flat surface, table with a cookie sheet under it. It went through a good serving tray of miscellaneous pieces of wood, mostly oak/pine chips twigs chunks and when that got low, we added some pretty damp wood chips to it and it still kept going. A small bellow from Tractor Supply, (on sale now for about 9 $) helped if the flame burned low. We have not cleaned it yet, still outside in the rain cooling off. Everything does blacken so use the film of detergent on your pots...but watch the fumes. I think its so cool that so many of us bought this stove at the same time. Obviously we are all happy with this new toy. Enjoy! Do be careful, with wind the flame licks out of the entry port for wood and the can is very hot where the Rocket Stove had a large handle and stayed cool to the touch. Hopefully this device last a good long time.

I love my solo stove so bought this one for a gift. Perfect for tenting

It arrived today and I immediately had to try it. I am a bonfire nut. I build them BIG and HOT here at my house. I wanted something small for the six person table on my deck. After looking at many I decided on the Solo Stove "Campfire". I almost got the Mesa XL but didn't want to have to add the cook top that the campfire model already comes with. I'll be making s'mores, hot digs, popcorn for outdoor projector movies and it will also aid me when using the bbq grill to cook corn on the cob, baked beans, etc without heating up the house from using the oven. Super easy to use right out of the box. I used my homemade fire starter puffs. Added some kindling. Lit the fire starter puffs and the stove did the rest. About five or so minutes later I started adding larger pieces of wood. The stove handled it with zero issues. After I let the fire die out, it was completely cool to the touch in about 10 minutes. I dumped the ashes out and put the stove back into the included storage/carry bag. My girlfriend texted she was was about fifteen minutes from arriving. I pulled the solo stove back out and went through my original process and lit it again. She knew I had ordered it, but I didn't tell her it had arrived. I wanted to surprise her. When she walked up the steps and saw it going she said "babe I love it" and all kinds of ideas to put it to use followed. I am very happy with my purchase and the results it gave when trying it out. Can't wait to use it again.

Excellent little campstove that you can easily cook on. You can add twigs to it while it's cooking. No fire ring at the campsite, no problem.

I really like the Soli Campfire a lot. I'd never used a camp stove before, but I liked the fact that this one is supposed to burn the smoke too, producing a better, and I'd assume less smoky, fire. This is where I had to ding one star. It's really smoky when you burn wood in it. I don't know if the smoke is being burned or not, but I. An tell you that there is still plenty billowing out of the stove and blackening the bottom and sides of my pots and pans. The other reason for the ding is that the three little tabs on the cooking ring that you invert are just that--little. And a little flimsy. I use. 7.5" enamel pit to heat water and a 10" cast iron skillet for eggs on a regular basis. You have to be really careful to get the pans centered, as there's not a lot of margin for error. I ended up with eggs in the grass one morning, as the stove was slightly unlevel, and I ever so slightly bumped the skillet. I know, I know, operator error, but if they made the tabs just slightly longer/wider, one wouldn't have to be quite so perfectly careful when one is bumbling around at 5 in the morning in the dark in the wilderness before one has had coffee! That's the only negative though. It does what it's intended to do, and burns a nice, hot little fire. I use it every morning to heat water for coffee, regularly for eggs and toast, and sautéed some garlic and onions and added quinoa, water, salmon and fresh tomatoes at the end for a tasty dish! This was over the alcohol burner, and it used an entire canister and a little more. The burner seems to give about 15 minutes of fire. I'll do a full review of the Solo alcohol burner and the Solo wind screen separately. I don't know that I'd bother with the two smaller versions of the Solo stove unless you are a die-hard backpacker and space & weight is super crucial to you. I find that a fairly full stove full of twigs and kindling burns only long enough to heat enough water for 3 large mugs of coffee. A smaller stove would require a lot more feeding the fire, it would seem. Also, you have to break the twigs into pretty small pieces to get them all the way into the stove without sticking it and potentially allowing embers to escape. The smaller ones would require really teensy twigs, and twigs get to a point where it's really hard to break them by hand into such small pieces. If you use the alcohol burner, your stove (and your pots and pans!) will stay the beautiful stainless steel color your stove is when it arrives. But, an alcohol fire doesn't burn nearly as hot, which is actually preferable for things like quinoa or rice that you may want to simmer. The wood fire will turn the stove's cooking ring a sooty black, and you can never shake all the ashes out of the bottom, but it produces a nice, hot fire! Overall, I like it and would recommend the Solo Campfire Stove. Oh--it's about the size of a gallon paint can, just slightly shorter.

No need to cary fuel. Replaces need for open fire. Stove exceeds expectations.

I've tested this portable stove quite recently, and its lightweight design makes it comfortable for carrying around, especially when it comes to an emergency situation where using your regular stove would be impossible. For instance I've got an electrical stove, so in order to use it, I must have uninterrupted power supply to be able to use it. If the power supply gets interrupted, I have to use a gas stove or this wood burning stove. So what I like about this stove is that it's lightweight, and for this one being small, it also doesn't require that much space itself. It's made of stainless steel, so not only is that resistant to corroding, but steel is also a very strong material with a very high melting temperature, so it won't melt while being used as steel requires around 1500 Celsius degrees in order to melt. This wood burning stove doesn't only burn wood, which is pretty obvious, it could burn any burnable material. All what I burned in it was some wood, some old secrecy papers that I wouldn't need anymore, as well as some outworn socks, and obviously some broken cardboard boxes. Cardboard boxes burn a little slower than regular paper or outworn socks, but faster than wood, so it's always good to have some cardboard burning inside prior to firing up the wood, so that the wood will fire up easier. And it doesn't necessarily have to be used as a stove, it could just be used as a heating element as well. And watching the fire from this stove is fun as well. So this stove has got its advantages, which is very good. But just like everything else that has got both advantages and disadvantages, this stove is no exception. Wood burning stoves can't be used indoors as that would cause a lot of smoke, so I have to use it outdoors only. The stove's height is about 20 centimetres (the fuel space hight is even about 15 centimetres high), but a regular wood block is about 25-30 centimetres long, so each block would need to be no longer than half of their first measurements after getting processed in a lumber mill, otherwise each wood block standing inside this stove will be too high, even while burning, making it impossible to place a pot or a frying pan right on the stovetop. Also, wood burning stoves are usually not very budget friendly at a first look, but this wood burning stove should have a very long life-span, so having that long life-span in mind, it's not that expensive at all. It's not budget friendly for a short time, but the price is OK for a long time. I've put this stove to the test for cooking a dinner, and it works flawlessly. Boiling some water for potatoes, pasta or anything else you can boil, the water temperature needs to come up to about 100 Celsius degrees, so the stove doesn't require that much of feeding cardboards, wood or any other fuel into it. Frying is worse than boiling, all what it takes for the water to boil is obviously to reach a temperature of 100 Celsius degrees, but a normal frying temperature is at 180 degrees, so the higher heat that is needed, the more fuel the stove will consume, requiring a little more regular and high frequent feeding of fuel into the stove. So in summary I'm pretty happy of this stove.

Uso da anni la versione più piccola. Ho deciso di prendere questo per cucinare in caso di scampagnata con la famiglia. Con legnetti grossi come dita ci.si può cucinare tranquillamente. Anche la pasta.

Der "Solo Stove" ist ein echter, typischer Holzvergaser-Ofen - also keineswegs nur ein simpler Verbrennungstopf für Holz. Er wiegt nur 1 Kilogramm, und wird im praktischen Kunststoffbeutel verstaut, welcher mitgeliefert wird. Klare Kaufempfehlung: Einwandfreie Materialqualität, ansprechende Optik, robuster Edelstahl alles. Für Camper, Tramper und Outdoorfans top. Als Notkocher im Prinzip für jeden Haushalt äußerst nützlich und empfehlenswert. Unterwegs (an Grillplätzen, Lager- bzw. Rastplätzen), aber auch im eigenen Garten bzw. auf der heimischen Terrasse leistet dieser Kocher beste Dienste. Im Haus darf man damit nicht kochen. Der Solo Stove mit der Zusatzbezeichnung "Campfire" ist das größte der drei ansonsten bauartgleichen Kocher-Modelle, welche die Firma "Solo Stove" nun endlich auch direkt auf dem deutschen Markt anbietet. Er ist ein zuverlässiger Kocher, welcher auf ca. 3 bis 4 Personen ausgerichtet ist. Für Singles ist das kleinste Modell von Solo Stove zu empfehlen (kleiner, leichter und billiger), als Kompromiss gibt es von Solo Stove noch das mittelgroße Modell mit der Bezeichnung "Titan". Viel Spaß bringt die Anschaffung eines solchen Kochers auch für Familien mit Kindern (ab Vorschulalter): Allein schon das Aufsammeln von Tannenzapfen, Kleinholz und ähnlichem "natürlichem Abfall" des Waldes begeistert junge Jäger und Sammler. So kommt man schnell und mit viel Freude zum nötigen Brennstoff für diesen Kocher. Ist der Ofen erst mal erfolgreich entzündet (Zunder ist wichtig, Zeitungspapier kaum geeignet), dann brennt darin eigentlich alles Holz wunderbar. Ein Erklärungsversuch von Laien für Laien, wie die Verbrennung im Kocher in etwa funktioniert (das Wichtigste ist, sie funktioniert, und dies ausgesprochen gut ;-): Nach einer gewissen Aufwärmphase züngeln nach einigen Minuten plötzlich auch noch Flammen aus den ringförmig im oberen Teil der Innenwand des Kochers angebrachten Löchern. Diese Flammen verbrennen Holzgas, welches der Kocher aufgrund seiner ganz speziellen Bauart aus dem Brennholz zu gewinnen vermag. Der Kocher verbrennt dieses Holzgas mit Hilfe von Außenluft, welche der Kocher durch seine unten, auf der Außenseite ringförmig angebrachten Löcher ansaugt. Diese Luft wird im Inneren der Doppelwand des Kochers aufgewärmt, während sie dort nach oben steigt - bis zu den ringförmig angeordneten Auslass-Löchern in der oberen Innenseite des Kochers. Hier führt die heiße Luft zur Verbrennung des Holzgases, was man durch Flammenzungen aus den ringförmigen Löchern im oberen Innenteil des Kochers erkennen kann: Sobald und solange der Kocher so brennt, erreicht er seine höchste Effektivität. Klar muss man immer wieder mal bereitgehaltenes Kleinholz (durch die Aussparung im oberen Ring des Kochers) nachlegen, dann bleibt dieser Brennprozess so lange aktiv, wie man ihn benötigt. Im Vergleich zu klassischem, offenem "Lagerfeuer" ist der Verbrauch an Brennholz in jedem Fall ganz erheblich (und erstaunlich) niedriger. Dies sowohl quantitativ wie auch qualitativ: Man verbrennt mit diesem Ofen durchweg "Abfall-Kleinholz", welches jeder Waldbesitzer wohl nur allzu gerne aus seinem Forst verschwinden sieht. Am Ende staunt man, welch feine Asche im Boden des Kochers übrig bleibt - vor allem aber, wie wenig Asche da übrig bleibt. Nebenbei Holzkohle kann man mit diesem Kocher leider nicht produzieren (siehe dazu Anmerkung unten). Ebenso erstaunlich: Der (geschlossene) Boden des Kochers wird nicht einmal richtig warm, geschweige denn heiß. Auf den oberen Ring des Kochers setzt man dann einen Topf bzw. eine Pfanne, wo man Heißgetränke oder Nahrung zubereiten kann. Fazit: Diese alte und total simple Technologie ist bis heute unübertroffen. In weiten Teilen der (dritten) Welt wird so auch heute noch Tag für Tag gekocht. Unzählige Kocher-Hersteller rund um den Globus (fast alle sitzen in 3. Welt Ländern) bauen solche Kocher, derzeit fast ausschließlich für die Kunden in ärmeren Ländern Asiens, Indiens und Afrikas. Übrigens gibt es unter den zahllosen überseeischen Herstellern etliche (die Firma "Sampada" aus Indien sei hier mal als Beispiel genannt), deren Produkte grundsätzlich deutlich schwerer und größer sind als ein Solo Stove, aber nebenbei noch etwas Tolles können: Hier wird quasi zusätzlich zum Primär-Verbrennungsvorgang gleich auch noch Holzkohle als Abfallprodukt (statt Asche) produziert. Voraussetzung ist, dass man den Verbrennungsvorgang im richtigen Moment mit Wasser stoppt. Es fällt auf, dass kaum eines dieser Modelle in Deutschland zu bekommen ist. Die Wirkungsweise beim Solo Stove ist jedoch anders, hier ist keine Holzkohle-Produktion vorgesehen bzw. möglich. Dafür ist er auch kleiner, deutlich leichter, und für Laien einfacher handhabbar als diese Modelle. Sprich für Leute, die einen Holz-Kocher mit auf Tour nehmen möchten, ist der Solo Stove ideal. Mit diesem Kocher können Sie auch "unterwegs" aus überall zuhauf herumliegenden "Abfällen des Waldes" schnell und einfach Heizenergie zum Kochen erzeugen. Das fasziniert und macht Spaß. Generell ist ein solcher Holzvergaser-Kocher eine ökologisch wie ökonomisch absolut sinnvolle Alternative für alle Lebenssituationen, wo mal kein Elektroherd zur Verfügung steht. Ich kann die Anschaffung dieses Kochers daher nur jedem Haushalt empfehlen. Für Pfadfinder, Jugendgruppen, Camper und andere Outdoor-Freunde ist er ein absolutes Muss! Er ist eine der besten Anschaffungen, die ich je in meinem Leben getätigt habe...

Having never used a solo stove before I went straight in with ordering the largest available, since there were a few of us going away. It arrived within a day and is a really well-made piece of kit. Looks like it could be a part to a rocket ship! It was very easy to light using a firelighter and a few small twigs, then within no time we had larger twigs seriously kicking out some heat and boiling a 3 litre pan of water (well, in our case - soup). This would have taken several times longer without the stove and would have been very messy too. Being so lightweight we also took it on a recent beach walk, during which we were delighted to discover we could buy fresh fish so a delicious lunch was quickly cooked up. Cleaning up afterwards was easier than I expected. You do get some black soot on the bottom but since the stove is so clean-burning this is a very fine dust that easily comes off. Overall a really great piece of kit and definitely worth the expensive-ish price tag. I’m sure we’ll use ours for years to come. Worth keeping one in the back of your car along with a few dry bits of wood and dried food. Then you can always stop off for a brew or quick meal! Not a fault of the stove but some campsites are pretty strict with their no-fires policy – so if you care about breaking rules you might need to check what your site’s policy is before going away. In our case we were able to cook our food before anyone could complain about us burning wood.