Not really bothered what type of flame comes out of mine TBH - as long as it burns the wood I put in it, provides a bit of heat & allows me to brew & cook.
Decathlon mini wood burning stove.
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It’s for putting fire gel in.
It‘ll probably not surprise you that I have a bag of it.
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That bit is for putting either a solid fuel block or flammable gel in.
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I reckon you need to use more fuel or the heat source will be too low and therefore too far away from kettle to work properly.I did look at the size of the pellets and the size of the holes in the cooker to see if I needed to get a bit of gauze to stop them falling through. So I set the cooker up, poured a 300g bag of pellets in, then lifted it up to see how many made it out the bottom. Not too bad.I gave it a couple of taps on the workbench but no more fell through. I reckon it’ll be ok without any smaller sized attachments. View attachment 299016View attachment 299017
I got the 300g amount from some chap on YouTube who did his own experiment with them. I’ll have a go myself tomorrow and report back. It may well need more / less depending on what you’re doing.
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I’ve still got some gel that I used for preheating in my Whisperlite rather than risk a fireball when making a brew in my tentIt’s for putting fire gel in.
It‘ll probably not surprise you that I have a bag of it.
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In the video- it is the Solo Titan stove- recommended and you really can cook more than a fried egg on it.
Smaller stoves - usually ok ish for boiling water - just- but a real PITA as need you to keep feeding it- fresh dry wood then takes too long to get going and your cooking is back to ...uncooked. ( unless you are using startup twigs which just dont burn long enough. catch 22.
Smaller stoves - usually ok ish for boiling water - just- but a real PITA as need you to keep feeding it- fresh dry wood then takes too long to get going and your cooking is back to ...uncooked. ( unless you are using startup twigs which just dont burn long enough. catch 22.
I got the 300g amount from some chap on YouTube who did his own experiment with them. I’ll have a go myself tomorrow and report back.
The Chinese knock-off copy is etched ‘Lixada’.
I have now worked out what ‘gasification’ is.
It’ll be fun, if nothing else, pratting about with the stove, some wood and some wood pellets.
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I suspect it'll be fine for a quick stir fry but won't handle a proper brew
When I used kindling the other day in mine it boiled a full kettle easily within 5 mins. It stayed hot for about 15 mins after that without adding any extra fuel.
There was some lengths of decking left over at my mother’s, which I sawed and then chopped up for kindling for her log burner. I’ll cut some of that down a bit which should be OK. It’ll be free, if nothing else.
From watcing the videos and other tips in this thread, thank you Udders etal, it looks like 300 gram bags of wood pellet things, should be good. The odd thing is that I have reinsured several wood pellet plants in Sweden but I had no idea what a wood pellet actually looked like. Every day, a school day.
From watcing the videos and other tips in this thread, thank you Udders etal, it looks like 300 gram bags of wood pellet things, should be good. The odd thing is that I have reinsured several wood pellet plants in Sweden but I had no idea what a wood pellet actually looked like. Every day, a school day.
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Udders wood pellets look like rabbit food to me!
The one's I was thinking are more like the size of Phurnacite cobbles.
3 or 4 in yer little tin box stacked high with plenty of air gaps all around.
Those tiny things will just smother the flames until the heat bursts through.
Or as Flintlock points out, just use your hunter/gatherer instinct to source some dry timber, lichen or birch bark and experiment - That is after all the fun of it.
It's to be hoped that the insight gained will help save a few quid off of the next renewal.
“Off to look up what a Phurnacite cobble looks like !”
I‘ve never had anything to do with these wood pellets before but apparently they burn from the top down to the bottom.
I’m guessing any oxygen needed will get drawn in from above? Dunno, I’ll find out tomorrow. Aah, they are just coal briquettes.
#Stupid fancy wording!
Wood briquettes might be a better search ...
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Eco Oak Briquettes 400kg Dumpy Bag
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The prices to reinsure anything to do with waste / recycling and / or wood (sawmills, wood processing and the like) have gone through the roof. Nobody in the Nordic insurance markets will touch them, so they have poured into London. We‘ll only touch the bigger ones; feck knows what happens to the smaller sites.
The most interesting thing I have done recently? The place where ninety odd percent of Sweden’s glass bottles go for recycling. It got tarred with the label ‘waste’ so nobody would insure it locally. By trying to understand what the site did, I got underwriters in London to understand that it was not ‘waste’ in the conventional sense (everyone imagines town rubbish recycling and, worse, scrap yards) and that they should instead accept what was actually a very simple and safe process. In short, the insured do nothing but grind glass bottles down, a ‘cold’ process. Someone else, not our client, then recycles the ground-up glass, which is the ‘hot’ bit. I also pointed out that insuers needed to confirm their ‘green credential’ and what better way to do it but through the fellows who deal with 90% of Sweden’s bottles. Bingo! It’s one of the few bits of insurance broking that is still quite fun…. Convincing several people that something is better than it might seem and to actually listen for once, as to why they should insure something, rather than saying “You know we don’t do waste, Richard, feck off!”. Happy days.
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All fun. I gave my small wood burning stove away a few years ago, same as the £14 one here, lovely to use, but I got fed up with trying to remove the encrusted soot from the kettle, also got severely told off at a MAG rally for using it as they had a 'no fires' policy, kept arguing that it wasn't a fire but a stove, they won, though they were disappointed not to be able to use their fire extinguishers which they'd rushed over to my tent with
As far as I can make out, it’s from the bottom, hence the ‘jets’ of flame that come from the sides.
It’s quite funny really. I am going to use this ‘thing of wonder’ when out and about in my motorhome, which has an oven, a microwave, a three gas and one electric hob and a BBQ. Will I never grow up?
