Got several of these and a supply of tablets. They make the best backpacking stoves or for stealth camping. I have a screen I put on mine so no adjustment is necessary. I used to use a butane light weight backpacking stove, but I took one time on a trip, it worked out awesome, for the three days on the trail, there is enough tablets to have three hot meals, coffee. I've used several tablets and made a complete meal. Instant potatoes, gravy that needs water only, canned meats , canned vegetables. Or just boiling water for those dehydrated food pouches. Despite what the result is here.
Nice review. @2:30, it’s good that it’s tight to fold. I have an older version from the army that doesn’t have that feature, and I have to be careful it don’t collapse under my pots.
I used similar 40 years ago. It was included with your days rations in the UK Army. Only difference was the waxy solid fuel tablet was square about 1.5x1.5x0.5 inch in size
The tube type mini M&M containers they sell at cash registers in the stores are the perfect size to store and carry the fuel tabs and keeps the stink down.
FYI, to anyone who cares, the 6.1oz (173g) Sterno cans do NOT fit. The top of the stove is too low and the bottom of the pan will snuff the flame out. A shorter Sterno can may fit. Of course, it also works as a twig stove if you run out of fuel tablets.
I was thinking if you took some plyers and bent those sort spike looking metal peices down just a bit. Not enough that it stops it from closing all the way but enough that when you bend it in wards to make those pegs flatter. It would probably make it a perfectly flat surface for pots and pans so they dont wobble. Hope that makes sense to anyone who has issues using it like that. A little mcgyvering could fix that small issue with it.
If you think that stove is compact then check out the classic bundeswher esbit stove. That one is compact if annything, I was suprised myself when I got mine, its like a deck of cards👍also use a peece of tin foil to prevent the tablets from falling down. 😉
I saw another comment about the Sterno gelled alcohol cans, and I just wanted to say there's ways of making gelled alcohol at home so you can use an altoids tin of home gel for a wider flame to avoid hot spots
One guy made a little grate for something similar to that so you could use it wide open. Should have oriented it so the wind direction was against the solid side not through the open side. You lost a lot of heat the way you had it. The fuel tab was probably over a hole which is why it fell through. Reposistion the fuel on the plate. Position the cup handles away from the flame.
It's cheaper to buy two stoves. I just bought one for the first time to put in my EDC bag. I think I would use the fuel tabs just to start off a twig stove
Bought one in Thailand, $1 only with 8 square Esbit tablets. The stove was junk but worth it for the fuel tablets. I have Esbit stove bought for $4 army surplus, so the fuel is a bargain at $1.
It's a copy of an ESBIT Emergency pocket stove made in Germany and any stove you see like this is a copy of this stove I have 5 of them ESBIT is the original and it will hold 4 Esbit fuel tabs and still close and you use one at a time and you can use wood in it sticks of wood and it will boil water use a wind screen or block the wind to use out doors have fun with it
