I recently took my WoodGas camp stove to a soccer game with my daughter. I loaded it with fuel pellets and let it burn on a camera tripod. The weather was cold, rainy and windy. Soon, most of the parents were gathered around warming their hands at my portable warming station. I was the most popular parent in the place!On the low setting, the pellets burned a nice flame for one hour. I then kept it burning with a few pellets every 5 minutes or so. Don’t go to a cold soccer game without one.
Jim, Bonney Lake WA
Feb 15, 2007
“The camping stove burned the fuel evenly and made a great flame for cooking. We easily cooked two pans of hamburgers on one stove-full of fuel. I also quickly boiled water for coffee. As I walked around the park, all I could think of was how much fuel there was for the stove. And to think that one medium branch was enough to cook dinner.
I love this bullet-proof little camping stove. I had a huge smile on my face the whole time I was playing with it. By the way, “playing” is a misnomer – this is serious equipment. It’s well worth the $50 bucks or so to have this as an emergency stove or heat source in your survival kit (though you need to treat this like any open fire and watch out for carbon monoxide, especially indoors). Comes with a one-year limited warranty too.
I compared the Woodgas stove to the Sierra stove and I think the Woodgas Camp Stove is much better.
I received my mega stove a few weeks ago, but only had time to fire it up last night. I filled it with pellets and a little lighter fluid on top and lit it up. I was skeptical about how hot it could get, but it was amazing. Probably the coolest $190 gadget I’ve ever bought in my life. It was a little chilly on the driveway, and we’d just come back from a fishing trip, and were in for a couple hours of fish cleaning outside, so I fired it up and even from five feet away, we could still feel the warmth, and it provided some nice ambiance to an otherwise somewhat dreary chore. Running a propane heater for 2-3 hours would have cost me at least $13-15 in propane, and not looked nearly as cool as the mega–running the mega for 2-3 hours (it ran so long I had to dump the burning pellets in my grill to clean up) cost me about 75 cents of fuel.
About a year ago, the stove saved my life. I was on a kayak on a North Idaho river early in spring. After capsizing in the river, soaking all my clothes and sleeping bag, and developing hypothermia, I spent a subfreezing night huddled over 10,000 BTU of WoodGas heat. It was one of the worst nights of my life – and I’ve seen a few. But the stove gave me the heat to survive until morning.