Type Of Cooking Stove

I know with camping there are a lot of different options as far as the type of cooking stove to use depending on whether you are on an extending camping trip, or backpacking, or even camping at the local state park campgrounds. Some people small kerosene stoves or butane stoves, alcohol stoves or wood stoves, while others like cooking over a camp fire.

Recently I have been looking at the different sizes and models of the Titanium Wood stove. It is made well with strong legs and is to be used with a few sections of stove pipe inside the a tent. It has a solid flat surface on top for cooking food or just boiling water. The fire box is well made and the stove breaks down for easy transportation.

I like the idea of using it within a tent that has the build-in stove pipe hole, as well as, set up in such a fashion that allows outside cooking in a comfortable way. Anyways do a web search on this type of stove and see what you think in terms of safety and ease of use. My link appears not to work and so I have edited it out.

I was wondering what type of stove you use and if you like it, what are it's best and worse features? Have you ever used the Titanium, or a similar model?

This is the link to a video of the stove I mentioned. It seems like it would be a great addition to any camping trip where you wanted to use the natural cooking methods of cooking over a fire using wood, but also have a nice cooking surface that will hold a water kettle or a few pots or a skillet with ease. If you used it in a tent you would stay warm and have a great cooking area. The video's on-line show how well it works and and how the various parts of it are used.

 

I wish you would come back and talk some more. I liked what you said about the Titanium Stove, and agree with your comments. Just to have that flat surface to cook on or to keep a pot simmering on the back for later use would be a good thing. Plus, I don't think the pots would get that black soot build up using this type of stove. It would be a great stove to use outside at home as well in an emergency.

 

My brother has a small portable charcoal barbecue that I sometimes use. In my opinion food cooked over charcoal tastes much better than over propane. I haven't tried those other fuels so I can't comment and cooking over a camp fire is great too but I find that it can be very difficult to get an even distribution of heat which can make whatever you're making burnt on one side and uncooked on the other unless you frequently rotate it around the fire.

Also @2sweed I don't see any video... Is this the stove you were talking about? It looks like it might solve the problem of heat distribution that many encounter with a normal camp fire.

 

I like that different setup of a stove, but the one I was looking at is much different and provides more cooking space. Here is the video that you ask for...

 

That thing looks boss

 

Probably not as portable as the gas ones though.... and a pain in the ass to clean I'm sure.

 

I can imagine that would make your tent nice and warm on a cold summer night. A lot of people are surprised how cold it gets at night even in the middle of the summer when you're sleeping outside without a roof and 4 walls to protect you. Even though it's not much, a tent doesn't need a lot of heat to warm up.

Does your tent have a flap of some sort to help with ventilation? Or do you find that smoke from the twigs don't produce too much smoke?

 

Yep, you'll get quite nauseous and feel very sick. Great way to spoil and otherwise great outing.

Also for the tent heating, have you seen these Zippo hand warmers types of small heaters. I was looking at using one to keep in my jacket pocket when I go skiing.