Lixada Camping Stove Stainless Steel Lightweight Wood Stove Alcohol Stove Burner for Portable Outdoor Camping Cooking Picnic BBQ

A solid and good bit of kit. It all goes together and works as it should. It also packs down nicely.While there are lighter, more compact and convenient cooking options, this makes a good smokeless fire, and also packs down inside the 14cm zebra Billy can. So gets used as part of my heavier car camping set up with out with my partner.

I bought one of these cookers for myself, and I have been pleased with the performance , mostly done under test conditions or put to very limited use in the field. I am part of a bushcrafting group where the use of the cooker was not really encouraged because, due to the size of the group all the cooking had been done over a campfire. It is also fair to say that the arrival of this piece of kit was not met with great enthusiasm by the group leader. Today there were only three in camp, I was first to arrive and had set up the cooker to make myself a coffee. I when my two friends arrived the cooker was then used to cook for the three of us using, crucially, a large multi pot setup belonging to the exservices member of our team. This was the biggest test of the cooker to date, and it passed with flying colours, in fact it performed so well that the person who had previously stated he was "not a fan of woodburning stoves " has now ordered one of his own.I have as I said earlier carried out a number of tests of the stove, I have used three different fuel sources wood, a spirit burner and chafing gel of the type you might use in a portable Bain Marie setup. The chafing gel is quite cheap to run, burns for a long time but does not provide the greatest heat, however if you are cooking something and want to simmer for a longer time it is a good solution. I have used two different brands of spirit burner and the results have been consistent. the cooker increases the efficiency of the spirit stove by reducing the time to boil by about 25%. The spirit stove will sit inside the cooker and I have used it without adjusting the cooker in any way. I cannot give figures about the stove when using wood, only because the actual performance would be dependant on the type of wood being burnt, so I refer back to the real life situation that happened today, an experienced former soldier is indeed "now a fan". I have included a picture of the stove, the secondary burn can clearly be seen here as the jets of flame come from the small holes inside the cooker, it should be stated that this was a test carried out indoors using a spirit stove, this explains why the boil time was reduced..

I bought this as part of a low impact bike camping kit. As such, I'm pleased with it; my example weighs 462 grammes packed in its stuff sack. The alcohol dish and grill - neither of which I think you're likely to need if wild camping - together weigh 40 grammes, so the pack weight can be reduced to 422 grammes.It isn't nearly as fast to boil as a gas stove - so far I'm averaging 30 minutes to boil 500 milliliters, although this may improve with practice. It seems to burn best with very small twigs (8mm diameter or less), and, obviously, best with very dry twigs, which may not always be available where you camp. Nevertheless it will burn, and will boil water, using dead spruce twigs collected after rain.Getting it lit isn't easy, or I haven't yet found an easy way to do it. I'm currently carrying a small plastic bag filled with with kitchen paper damped with linseed oil as kindling, although dry leaves are obviously fine if they're available. I also tend to find I use about six to ten matches before I've got the thing alight. I have not tried lighting it in falling rain, and can imagine that might be difficult.Hot ash will fall from the bottom and some flame emerges from the top (as well as quite a lot of smoke). I don't believe it would be safe to use this inside any tent that you could pack on a bike or on your back, and I don't believe you'd want to anyway. It also should not be used when placed on anything combustible - find a flat stone.Do not use the alcohol dish if you're burning wood, it blocks the air intake from the bottom of the ash box and results in incomplete combustion (and consequently much less heat). I haven't tried burning alcohol and consequently can't comment on whether it works.It seems adequately well made and if not mistreated should last a long time, so I see no reason to go for one ot the US-branded alternatives which cost four times as much.

Bought as a gift for my nephew. Can’t return as bought almost 2 months ago (yes I get presents on time).No instructions included either. Seems impossible to feed the burner as there are no opening. Please check your returned item and don’t resell used ones

The media could not be loaded.  Brilliant little stove. At this price it’s a no-brainer. You’ll use more wood than you think boiling a couple of cups of water and of course, you will need to have a basic understanding of fire-lighting and feeding just as you would if you were using a full-sized camp fire, but this model has a few features that I think make it stand out:It has a decent sized feed hole, so you can feed fuel to your fire with a pot on top.It has good airflow and the design (where the fire mostly sits inside an inner compartment) means that the outside gets less hot than some stoves I’ve tried. Wearing gloves, I could easily move the stove around while lit without singeing anything.It packs well; As you’d expect, the 3 sections fit inside each other to minimise the packed size.When assembled, the stove is quite sturdy and providing you place it on a decent surface and aren’t a muppet, you’ll have no problems.The included net case is a bit naff and you’ll probably want to replace that. But that’s not a big deal.