Great info. I've got a Seek Outside Med Uturn for a 1p Xmid and it cooks in the small space. Great for a really light hot tent system. If I were to go for a larger tent and stove, I would opt for the Argali Skyline for the ease of setup and weight combination. If the folding legs were a concern, a few titanium tent stakes like Shepards hooks can easily keep them in position.
I wish this video was out when I bought my stove, but I still probably would have gone with the Lite outdoors stove. Very happy with it, though Ive only used it a bit. A bit finicky to put together, but Im confident I can do it easily in the cold as it doesn't use as small of parts as some of the other options. Also, it has rods that span the length of the stove to provide rigidity but also function as pot supports. I was able to boil water with a very hot fire. Box stoves would be able to boil water with a cooler fire, Im sure, but the Lite Outdoors did the trick.
I'm not positive, but I think that LiteOutdoors has the 2 stabilizing rods on top not only to hold the stove together but to offer a flat surface for heating pots/pans. Thank you for the review!
That's true, the other consideration is that because it uses a similar titanium sheet to the Seek U-turn, there is imperfections, and warpage, around the assembly of it, which can let smoke out, and lose some efficiency when compared to the hard sided stoves like the SO standard stoves, or argali.
@MyHuntingJournal I own a lite outdoors stove and have not experienced this. I dont think there's anything wrong with foil, but SO's foil is 90 degrees to a plate, so there's a seam there. Lite Outdoors has a good few inches of foil overlapping. The only place I've experienced warping is the door, which isn't terrible but I can't damp it down as much as I would like.
Well, I just took a look and they look really well built etc…but the lightest one comes in at a whopping 12.4lbs. Unfortunately, that is waaaay too heavy for backpacking purposes. As I outlined in the video…brackets and fixtures are nice features but add too much weight to be practical. Thanks for the message and best of luck this year!
