ROCKET STOVE is the perfect wood stove. A portable wood-burning camping stove with a fire poker. For camping gear & survival gear, backyard cooking. Camping grill, outdoor events.

I really like this little stove. I use it very often outside my front porch. I got the King-sized version and very happy I got the largest version.I like that it only requires a few twigs and wood pieces to get started.You can use dry twigs, branches, trunks, or even traditional firewood, which you may have to split with a hand axe, to make them thinner.Another tip is to coat your wood with kerosene for a faster start and a longer sustained burn.If you use the wood chute, the wood burns quickly and hot, so you will need to tend to it often by pushing the wood further into the chute.If you want less tending and longer burn times, a tip is to stuff wood in the vertical pipe area.I have poured handfulls of charcoal, and lump coal, into the vertical chute, while the stove is already burning, and that charcoal maintains radiant heat well, although its not as hot of a flame for cooking as compared to wood sticks.It's a pleasure to cook on and will cook an entrée or you can boil water. I have used black cast iron, enameled cast iron, and a 16 inch metal wok.Use a hammer or mallet to hammer down the pot support flanges so they don't shift so easily and are more stable for cooking heavier pots.

First I will say that this rocket stove if Fun! I took it out of the box and put it together right away. Then took it out and cooked some very thick hamburgers in a cast iron skillet. I was expecting it to get too hot or cool down to much, but it did not. It cooked the burgers perfectly and without burning. All I used to cook were twigs, most of which were very thin. I would add a few twigs here and there, but it did not take much effort.I have since cooked a hotdog, and have fried an egg. Both turned out great. The stove had some rust inside the tube, but nothing to complain about. The stove is not beautiful, but it seems to be put together well, with good welds, so I feel it will last many years. I plan to try cooking many different things to see how it does, but so far it is really nice to be able to cook things using just skicks and twigs from the yard, and I do have a lot of those. Smile!

Wow, stainless steel and heavy plate steel used in the construction of this stove. Tried it out as soon as I got it with some tree branches I had lying around. It has a large fire box, so you can load it up with rather large chunks or any other wood you might have that fits in the firebox. Burn was extremely good and you can vary the flame by increasing or deceasing the air volume. Only smoked a little at start up. I bought this to cook using a discada, which I think it will do very well. Heavy duty built, heavy weight and should stand up to anything I might throw at it. Another thing I like about this stove is, the electronics are removable and outside the stove. Other forced air stoves I've seen, have the electronics built into the stove making it very easy to burn them out if not careful. My only issue is, the holding screw to mount the air blower unit on the stove, I would have went with a quick disconnect option. Haven't used, but wind screen and lid are nice too.

It’s easy to use. It’s sturdy. It isn’t light and I don’t think it’s meant to be.It isn’t fancy. It has sharp edges, came with spots of rust, the side looks like it was dented slightly from the factory, and some of the welds are iffy. That’s why I gave it 4 stars instead of 5, but none of that takes away from how well it works. It’s utilitarian, rough around the edges, and if it was cheaper I would have overlooked all of that, but it isn’t.It seems to work really well, very quickly heating up enough to stop smoking. It can require some finesse to run at steady temperature and adding fuel too late can cause smoking but that’s the nature of a solid fuel stove. I think it was actually designed to be a home/small restaurant stove, or maybe for street vendors, in places where solid fuel stoves are a fact of life. It has some clever details that would make it good for use in many non-western kitchens. You can empty the ash without moving the stove, and it appears the wind screen was designed to attach to a chimney and with a pot, wok, or the included lid the exhaust is going to mostly go up the chimney. But I don’t know, as none of that was really mentioned on the included sheet of paper.It has an English language warning label and basic instructions.As for camping, which is what they seem to be marketing it for on Amazon: I have several similar stoves, and for the sort of camping I do any of them would work better, as would most of the sheet metal rocket stoves. That doesn’t take away from this stove at all, but you can get a slightly smaller stove that works on the same principles but the legs fold up, the whole thing is lighter, and at least for me if I’m camping and need extra heat I’m going to cook over a campfire. It can be used, and if it matches your needs it’ll work well, but I won’t be taking it camping.I use it in the back yard “kitchen” with a wok, discada, or even a big stock pot. It needs a short table or even some cinder blocks to raise it to a comfortable height to use while standing, but it’s a decent height to use while sitting.

I looked at many styles of rocket stoves and this one caught my eye......definitely not for back packing but would be great for car camping as well as cooking out on the deck along with something on the grill.....welded construction.....very sturdy.....easy to use.....you can be cooking in minutes.....for the price....hard to beat

Compact stove for camping. Works just great with woodpellets . I use it at home often out on the deck when company comes and all the burners are full in the house and when im barbecuing meat and need side dishes heated. Not too heavy for portability.