SOLEFUN PORTABLE STAINLESS STEEL WOOD BURNING CAMPING STOVE FOR OUTDOOR COOKING PICNIC BARBECUE CAMPING

While I actually like this little stove, it may not really be what you're looking for. If you need a survival stove (I mean who doesn't), so you can heat up coffee and ramen noodles on nothing but pine needles and tree bark, this is the stove for you. If you're looking for something that you can use to cook a meal on while camping though, you may want to look elsewhere.PROs: It's small, portable, lightweight, and runs on next to nothing. If you light it properly, it gets REALLY hot and can do a good job heating water, although I could not get it to BOIL water on a single firing. It also has the option of using alcohol as fuel. I did not try this. I was looking for something that I didn't have to bring fuel for. It goes together and breaks down very easily once you figure out how. Even with the impressive heat coming from it, there was no warping of the metal. It held the pot I was using very well and seemed to be fairly sturdy. It also fit snugly inside the pot I was using, so it was really easy to carry them together. The mesh bag was great because I didn't get soot on everything when it was packed away.Unfortunately, it has it's issues. It's not good for doing any sort of cooking that would require more than a 2-3 minute fire, and if you did manage to keep it going longer, it really isn't going to heat anything except water well. It just gets too hot. If you set a pan on there and tried to cook food, you would very likely burn whatever you tried to cook. It also burns so hot that it burns out quickly. I did not have much success keeping it going for more than a few minutes, even when repeatedly adding wood to it. The holes in the bottom get clogged with ash after a couple of minutes which blocks the airflow enough that it was easier for me to let it burn out, empty, and refire it than try to keep it going. It produces huge amounts of smoke when you're lighting it, which could be good if you needed to quickly send smoke signals, but not so great for anyone standing nearby.Overall, it's a very fun stove, especially when you get that jet effect going and see a huge flame coming from it, but it's actual usefulness leaves something to be desired.

AWESOME stove! Works very well when used as a wood burning stove, although you'll need an ample of dry kindling and pencil sized sticks to keep it stoked. Like any wood burning stove, it will leave your pot full of soot. In my book, that's a small trade off for the fact that you have an unlimited supply of fuel when camping/backpacking.WHERE IT REALLY SHINES: I placed my Trangia alcohol stove into the burn chamber. The stove not only serves as an incredible wind screen, it TREMENDOUSLY increases the efficiency of the Trangia!!! The burn chamber greatly increased the flame that the Trangia produced and had my water simmering, and then boiling, in no time. I boiled 1 liter of room temperature water in 8 minutes flat. For comparison, it took me 16.5 minutes to boil 600ml (just over half a liter) of room temperature water when using my trangia stove with the Evernew Titanium cross stand sitting on top.If you carry an alcohol stove into the backwoods, I would go so far as saying this is must have. You'll save fuel, greatly enhance the BTUs that your Trangia puts out and have the perfect back up stove (wood) should you run out of alcohol or want to conserve it by using wood instead.For $16, I couldn't be happier. I'm going to buy one of these for my son and another one for backup!

It's pretty solid for the price. Not particularly good steel, but it seems like it'll hold up; there's no obvious weak welds or anything of the sort.I used it exactly once and it works well. Using nothing but small sticks, it builds good heat and if you keep feeding it, it could easily boil a pot of water.

Product works great where an enclosed cooking fire is needed. Just baton down some available small wood and away you go. Pinecones and such burn fast and it takes about 8-10 minutes to get a rolling boil on 2qt of water.

Easy to use, easy to clean, and easy to fold up and carry. It was able to boil a 2qt pot of water within 10 minutes or so using nothing but twigs and leaves, and left a clean pile of white ash with very little tar or residue.