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

I OffRoad in my Jeep quite often and I wanted to test out a few of the portable stoves out there. This is one that I found a lot of enthusiasm around and decided this item would make my cut. Pros: -Little Weight - Relatively inexpensive at around $20 - Burns almost anything you put in it - Stainless Steel - Assembly in less than 10 seconds - Pieces fit together easily Cons: - A bit flimsy (Base and Pot Stand) - Constant feeding of combustable material - Takes a bit of time to cool down after firing, so you can't use it and move on quickly So I had a chance to test this out recently and compared to other portable stoves that could run you $100 plus. With some caveats, this little stove really performed. The stove come in a net storage bag to secure the pieces for travel. The stove comes in six pieces and can be fitted for wood type fuel or alcohol. Each requiring a different setup. Wood fire setup takes 5 - 10 seconds. The alcohol setup takes about 15 - 20 seconds as more pieces are required. You also have to option of cooking on a grill top or pot stand. (Instructions come with the unit on setup for either wood or alcohol) Pieces the unit comes with - Base - Double Wall Burning Chamber - Burning base - Pot Stand - Grill - Alcohol Tray All pieces seems to be pretty solid with the exception of the base and pot stand. The base is not made of as thick of metal as the rest and the pot stand legs are in my opinion just asking to be broken. But time will tell and I can understand wanting to keep the weigh of this down for hiking, etc. Wood Setup requires - Base, Burning Chamber, Burning Base, Stand or Grill Alcohol Setup requires - Base, Burning Chamber, Burning Base, Alcohol Tray, Stand My first test was Wood Fuel. (Note: this this will burn other solid fuels like Charcoal, Wood Pellets, etc as well.) Alternate fuel may not be a bad option or you will have to keep feeding this stove constantly with little twigs to keep the fire. Its not that bad but it is require attention. I opted to start the fire with twigs and then once I had a good fire going add wood pellets to help feed it. This little stove gets HOT. Once you have a good fire going you can boil water in minutes. However, one draw back is that of course, you are unable to really control the temperature. So this stove is best used for hot drinks and/or quick meals. Extended cooking sessions are not its primary use. For what it is .. it does a great job. Next test was the Alcohol Tray. You can use either Esbit Fuel Tabs or Denartured Alcohol. While these fuel types will last a while longer than the wood feed fire. It is not nearly as hot of a fire. I tested this with my Stowaway Pot (1.6L) I fits in nicely for stowage. It also allows for the storage of additional items like fuel cells or wood pellets, matches, etc. All in all, this little inexpensive stove is quite worth its meager price. An excellently built rocket style fire unit that is light weight that any enthusiast should have in their pack.

It collects soot fast but keeps working. I found it rather difficult to get a fire going the first few times just because I had bad airflow, but when you figure it out, it's incredibly easy, and it seems quite safe (as far as fires go). It's very portable, but MAN, it'll get a good amount of heat going for the right amount of time to cook a burger on the little teeny grill, or roast some peppers, or a hot dog. You'll be cooking parts of your meal separately, but it's so fun and the fuel is free. I find cedar bark and leaves make a good start, then I add small branch cuttings. I have not even used it for camping because I keep it on my patio for at-home, short-term fires. Bonus: ashes are collected for the garden.

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.

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.

I bought this stove originally 6 years ago (different name, same cheap PRC made stove) and also bought a couple Solo Stoves (Lite and the Titan). First of all I hate to give this 5 stars as it is made in PRC. But have to give this stove its props. In many buses and circumstances it is better than the Solo stove which costs 3-4x more. Note, not in all ways though. If I am trying to hike light as possible Solo Stove lite can have an edge as it is a bit lighter though it is bulkier. But this bill is offset in that a solo stove nestles perfectly in a pot. This stove is hard to nestle into anything but a Toak titanium 1100 pot set in which it fits perfectly. Bulky size but good fit where my solo stove fits into things like my Snow Peak 1400 Trek which is a hit smaller. Next edge to Solo stove, you will not break it! This stove is also solid but you just have to be careful of the 3 pot holder arms. When packed they won’t break off. But when using it just take care w them. Again they aren’t flimsy but there is that potential. Note the pivot arms on the Ohuhu allows you to use large pots than the Solo stove. Also you can put the 3 arms in the full open position for most pots and cups or you can place them all fully upright and flat to do smaller cups and it does hold. Now here is where the Ohuhu outshines the solo stove light and is equal to the Solo Titan. It just burns wood way better. The increased chamber size allows better air circulation and thus better burning fires. You can even burn semi wet wood wood in here once it gets going! Of course need to start it with a bit of dry material, but once this wood stove gets going the gasifying effect burns most anything you throw in it! Note also looked at the Toak titanium stove but didn’t bother buying it as I know comparing the solo lite to the Ohuhu/solo Titan the small diameter and size will not allow full air gasification. Size does matter for gasification! Next the Solo Lite and Titan is a thing of beauty. This is not quite as elegant but does the exact same job maybe better. Like comparing a Jaguar XK coup to a Nissan/Datsun Z car. Both do the same job but one is 1/4th the price. But…a big but…..this stove will also keep you warm in many low temperatures as a warming fire. The solo stove not as much as smaller. Of course you would have to tend this fire a bit as a warming fire but if you know how to work this stove it can roar for 20-40 minutes without having to reload it! Finally the Solo Stove has an easy loading port cutaway for loading wood. This is nice. Ohuhu you just have to life your pot to put more wood in. But then again if you load this stove right you should not have to load more fuel while cooking. So how to load and this is where folks make a mistake. You must load it too down. Think of an upside down fire. Load big Chuck or cut tree limb rounds at the bottom. Smaller and kindling at the top. The gasification burns top down. I like to cut about 1” dis by 2-3” wood for the bottom and stack it in. This will burn a good 30 minutes before reload. In the end either wood stove is great as you are not carrying fuel w you. Just find it on the forest floor. Note, I also if wet out bring a few wood stove pellets or other just to start a fire up before using the semi wet stuff. But if it’s not a totally rain soaked forest floor anything should burn easily in this stove. Finally the alcohol tray/stove it comes with works just fine. But it’s better to get yourself a Trangia or Solo Stove alcohol stove to nest inside of this for a wet weather backup since they can carry their own fuel no need for extra fuel bottles. The tray/bowl style alcohol stove that comes w it though feather light uses about 1.25 Oz of alcohol to bowl a cup of water. A typical Trangia stove is about .75 OZ to boil a cup. I just bought this stove again as an extra to keep full time in my Jeep for emergencies. Pretty much same cheap stove I bought 6 years ago, but the quality did improve some. For $19, survival or long hunt/hike situation where you can’t carry all the fuel you need this does the job! The fact it also can work as a heater for 30-40 minute stretches without reload is a huge bonus. The fact this is $22 as of this writing. Can’t go wrong. If debating between this and Solo, they both are awesome. Just one is a Jaguar one is a Datsun 280Z. Can’t go wrong w either. Solo is just a tad more sturdy.

Let me start off by saying that I love this little cook stove. I could see how some would have problems with it initially if you proceed with what you understand about fires and try to build a single fire in it. Wood fires burn from the bottom. The heat is in the bottom, it typically draws air from the sides and you want to get a good mix of heat, fuel and oxygen. If one of these is out of balance, you're not going to have a good fire. In order to make this stove work, you need to make two separate fires. One that will work the way that you know a fire works and the other with slightly different rules. The new rules make this stove _incredibly_ efficient and mostly indifferent to the size of fuel for the main burn chamber. Setting up for a cooking session is pretty straight forward if you understand how you'll be burning your cook fire. First set up your main fire by packing the chamber up to the air inlet at the top of the inner chamber. Tighter is better, counter to a typical fire. We're bending the typical rules of fire making. The starter fire is built the way that you would build a typical fire, tinder, kindling, and probably a little heavy on the tinder because the airflow isn't particularly great for this top fire. You just need this fire to last long enough to heat up the top of your cook-fuel sticks in your main chamber. Once that starter fire does its job, you're gasifying the cook-fuel. You have your heat at the top right around the air inlets and this combusts the gases out of the cook-fuel sticks. It's almost magical how this little guy throws out the flames apparently separate from the fuel. Without understanding how to work this stove, you're in for a cold meal. Play with it before you want to cook on it. One note on performance, I boiled a pint of water in about 6:30 once I was burning the main fire. That's pretty good for twigs and small sticks. The longest I could get a single loading to burn was about 18:00. More than enough to heat up two meals. I purchased the Ohuhu mess kit as well and it nested perfectly saving me room in my pack. No real cooking tests with that kit yet. Positives over similar DIY: - known working design - sturdy - nesting and packable with the Ohuhu cook set (!) - fun, get right to the fun without tools or seeking out cans - flexible (use an alcohol can stove on the solid fuel tray (tray and pot holder only) or use solid fuel with the whole setup) Negatives vs DIY: - not as long lasting (maybe efficient?) a burn as some DIY (not that I think I needed more cook time or had a problem gathering enough fuel) - somewhat large (totally negated by the ability to pack it in the cook kit - pricey as compared to salvaging cans from the recycle bin (not compared to what other stoves in this class cost)

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.

I really like my Ohuhu stove. It packs well, puts off a lot of heat, and works great with wood pellets. I can get a 30-45 minute burn off of about a pound of wood pellets. Plenty of time to cook what I need to. My one gripe, and it’s a pretty big one, is after using this stove only 3 or 4 times, the feet that you rest the pot on became very wobbly. Eventually (while cooking) the rivet on one of the feet gave out, and the foot fell off. I was able to finish cooking that day, but another foot fell off as I was putting it away. I emailed the company and they sent another stove free of charge, but the feet are attached the same way, unsurprisingly. I guess if you weren’t planning to use it a lot, it should work fine. If you plan on serious backpacking/camping/hunting, I might consider investing in a better wood gas stove. EDIT (8/21/2019): After posting the above review, I was contacted by a representative from Ohuhu. They offered to send me another stove, but I explained that they had already sent me one after I emailed them a few months back. I now have two (the broken one, and the replacement). Then they offered to refund my money, to which I refused, and explained that they make a good product for the price. The stove is what it is. It is a decent, cheap stove. I won’t be upping my star rating, although after witnessing their customer service, I would put this stove at 3.5 stars if I could. It is NOT the best stove on the market, but I think I paid like 18 bucks for it, and it works pretty good for that price. I am happy with the stove, I will just need to be very careful with the feet that the pot/pan sits on.

Das Ding ist der Hammer. Ich bin total begeistert. Wenn man es richtig befüllt, mit möglichst trockenem Holz, bis maximal knapp unter die seitlichen Öffnungen, bekommt man eine sehr schöne und vorallem rauchfreie Flamme. Bis es richtig brennt entwickelt sich natürlich erstmal Rauch, wenn es aber die richtige Temperatur erreicht hat, kommt die Vergaser-Funktion schön zur Geltung, was man an den vielen kleinen Flammen sieht, ähnlich wie bei einem Gaskocher oder einem Flüssigbrennstoff-Kocher. Die Auflage ist recht groß gehalten und eher für mittlere bis breitere Töpfe ausgelegt. Mit dem beiliegenden Grillrost kann man aber auch eine Auflage für kleinere Gefäße bilden. Das Feuer brennt auch bei kleinsten Mengen Holz sehr lange und es reicht tatsächlich, alle paar Minuten ein oder zwei kleine Stückchen nachzulegen. Es sollte eben nicht zu hiel swin, da der Vergaser den Rauch sonst nicht abziehen kann. Nach dem Abbrennen hat sich eine schöne Glut gebildet, die für die kleine Menge an Holz, die verwendet wird, sehr lange heiß genug war, um mit dem Grillrost auch kleinere Sachen darauf zu grillen. Den Behälter für Flüssigbrennstoff habe ich noch nicht getestet. Wie es sich mit anderen Materialien als Holz schlägt, weiß ich auch nicht. Das Teil ist auf jedenfall ein Upgrade zu meinem bisherigen offenen Hobo Kocher.

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This lightweight, dainty-looking stove has earned the rare honour of living in my vehicle. It sets up in a few seconds. Stuff it full of twigs, pocket lint, a little bit of paper trash, and pretty much anything that will burn, and give it a flame. If it's overstuffed or too damp you may need to coddle the flame for a couple minutes, but nothing major. There's a bit of smoke to start with, but even that catches fire pretty quickly. Can you cook a whole grilled meal for 4 on it? No. But for a quick ramen or hot drink it's just fine. Is it as fast as a gas stove? Also no. And I did have to refill it once to get the water boiling, but that's because I was heating a regular stainless steel pot holding more than a litre of cold water. It was still faster than building a whole campfire, and it was burned out and cooled off enough to put away by the time we finished our ramen. A windscreen isn't necessary, but it might help speed up the cooking a wee bit. If you put the little dish for fuel underneath the whole thing, it will catch most of the ash. Just don't block the airflow from below or the fire will go out. I don't think it would stand up to heavy usage for long, as the burn chamber is a little thin and will probably eventually rust or crumble. What you get for a few bucks is a tiny, easy, convenient stove that will use almost any dead plant matter for fuel, even if it is damp. 5 stars for working as well as the description says it does.

As described and ideal and compact enough to fit in bags of all sizes

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