Wood-Burning Camp Stove

It looks as though the picture of the Chinese factory is showing them build charcoal. That shape (a cylinder with cones) is a form factor often used by the masses to cook food on the street – on a stove very different from the one you describe.

Here’s a link to an example: example charcoal

I’d double check the source of your picture. What they’re producing looks nothing like a component of the stove.

Appears to be coal, correct. Made in same factory as the stove bodies.

In Korea those coal cylinders are called Yon Tan. When I was a kid that is what was used to heat the water in the radiators in our western style house there. A truck would come and deliver huge loads of them. Dirty and messy but that photo brings back a lot of memories.

While this stove may not have huge application for the American market, it is important to realize the profound impact it could have on others throughout the world.

Here is a similar stove that has an ultralight backpacking weight- only 5.1 ounces! Bushbuddy Stoves

Re: coal produced in same factory as the stove.

Seriously? Look, I like the gearjunkie, good reviews and all. But it’s pretty hard to swallow the idea that the same factory is producing slick, shiny, metal stove bodies in the same place as working with all that coal dust. And certainly, the heat fired ceramic bodies won’t be made anywhere near the coal dust.

Not to mention, the coal cylinders have nothing to do with the stove (stove is designed to use sticks you push into the stove).

Even assuming there is some factory that does this. Why are you showing them producing coal cylinders?

The cover-up is disappointing.

Where do you purchase one? The website only allows for bulk purchasing.

We are still working on the website, but feel free to email me at ben@stovetec.net and I can help you order.

I thank Stephen for his willingness to test our stove and provide a review for GearJunkie readers.

I’m not sure where the picture of the stove factory in China comes from but I want to clarify that it is not the one that produces our stoves. We have a video that shows the factory where our stove is produced. You can view it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtwVO0g36_8.

Camping with the rocket stove from Stovetec- I baked apples and biscuits in a dutch oven over it, and also cooked brunswick stew, marshmallows, and hot mulled apple cider- and also heated water to do my dishes – loved it!

As a survivalist for more than 25 years and a wood burning camp stove enthusiast and experimenter, I recently purchased the two-door stove. For ease of use and minimal fuel usage, it is unrivaled. At $37 to $40, this is an incredible value. Get one.

I believe that the photo is of a machine for making a type of charcoal fuel briquette for an entirely different rocket stove.

Can purchase at:

www.stovetec.net

Website has video of actual manufacturing. Also some good videos on use at youtube. Good little rocket stove. And I also lived in Korea and remember the yontan’s used to heat water that circulated under the floor. And yes, people also cooked on them, but they were a real pain in the butt to get lit, even with the special starters. We would stack them so the holes in the compressed coal cylinder lined up. As the section that was burning moved up the stack, we would have to remove the lower, spent cylinders. A real pain, as stated!

They lost my interest when they raised the price from $34.95 to $65.

Initially this project’s intentions were purely humanitarian, but in less than 6 months they’ve turned completely into money grubbing capitalists…

Yea, too bad about the price raise. But they do have free shipping now. I have had my stove for a while now and love it.

I think their sales in the US fund their humanitarian projects…

I had recently purchased two wood burning stoves in valuable and affordable price. I had also lost my interest when I find that price has raised but I have got good choices of stoves from the site of