In this video I burn wood pellets in a small vegetable steamer and combine it with the Lixada "Little Bug" inspired stove. The results look very much like a wood gas stove #vegetablesteamerstove #lixada #woodpelletstove
I bought a vegetable steamer based on your recommendation. Then I removed the metal legs that came with it and bought binder clips. Attach the binder clips to the rim and they make amazing foldable legs. And the extra side of the binder clip then goes against the steamer leaflets. That way you can adjust it to any formation with the leaflets you would like. Super cheap and super simple modification to an already cheap stove!
Ha...well what a wonderful idea I just ordered a steamer and will get the pot cooler to top it off. Thanks so much for your ideas and your subscribers...all the best in the New Year God Bless.
Great video and a neat chain of thinking! The Littlebug Jr is currently my favorite stove. I think it has the perfect proportions for convection driven air flow. That convection and internal heat reflection creates a wonderfully robust fire that seems content to devour just any fuel I place in it regardless of type or quality. I think you're spot on about the strainer / littlebug inspired stove creating a situation where the wood gas flame heats up the fuel below it enough to support gassification without a primary burn. Thanks for taking the time to post this up!
I have found that the pellets work very well in my woodgasser. If you need to simmer something, like rice or stew, you can control the temperature better than with just twigs or sticks.
So I recently got out some of my twig stoves to use during our honeymoon adventure. I had my small toaks tower stove, the firebox nano ti that my wife bought me as a birthday present, and this little veggy streamer. I used the vegetable steamer one afternoon to pop some popcorn. I got that same gasification pattern without a outer wind block, just have to play with the opening size. At one point I got a really nice fire pattern and was able to hover the pot over top quite nicely to pop some popcorn. The steamer works very well as a solid base and wind block for my toaks tower stove at camp. Made starting the stove much easier since I could just start a small fire in the steamer as a firebowl, then set the toaks stove or the nano overtop of the steamer.
Congratulations on getting married. Sounds like you have a good handle on getting the most from these stoves. I just purchased a stove very similar to the Toaks in titanium that I will eventually be reviewing and of course, the Nano is hard to beat. Thanks for commenting
@@MarkYoungBushcraft @Mark Young Thanks. I used both at the same time to make breakfast one morning. Talk about having to be very concentrated on the task. You get distracted just for a minute and you got nothing but smoldering embers. A little $1.50 pocket bellows from aliexpress is a true hero when dealing with these little stoves. The Toaks style stoves can be a pain to get lit sometimes. I found its easiest to just put small tender in the bottom, and light it from under the stove. I know alot of people make a small tender on top, and do a top down burn, but all I mostly ever got was just a smoldering mess most of the time when i went about it that way.
@@AtomicBleach You may want to try a top-down burn for a longer burn time. Fill your stove with fuel then build a tiny starter fire on top. Once the fuel catches it will burn from top to bottom a bit more slowly
@@MarkYoungBushcraft most of the wood in my area is generally pretty wet. Even batoning the wood helps but so much. I've found its easier to get started the other way and just feed the beast.
I made one yesterday, but i recommand the largest size, its more stable.. bigger fire too, so cooking goes faster. I gave it 4 long bolts for legs (removable.)
That's a great little setup Mark, you always have great ideas. I like the fact you test them for us and that you seem so excited that they work better then you thought. Cheers my friend!
Another great video! From your earlier videos exploring gasification, it certainly showed secondary burn of the air coming in. A really pretty flame pattern going on there as well. Glad it worked out so well! And it gave you ideas for further testing. I'd call this one a rousing success!
Those pellets burned really cleanly. It does look like a wood-gas fire. That's much better than something just makeshift. I've seen commercial stoves that don't work that well.
@@MarkYoungBushcraft very modest kind sir(; the use of pellets in the steamer is such a great idea I already own the steamer just need some pellets🤙 Cheers Mark!!
I’ve used the little ones for years. Got the idea from Hiram Cook. I’ve yet to find a large one but still looking. Keep the great vids coming. I’m now on the look for the perfect can to make a ‘little bug’.
I found that a large coffee can almost works. Just a tiny bit bigger than the Little Bug but it could probably be modded to work. As well, veg-steamers may vary in size. Thanks for commenting
Since Hiram is no longer posting, Mark has become my go to guy on camping stoves, and more. I have really got into baking in the SS dog bowl ovens. My challenge has been heat adjustment with diy alcohol stoves. I have gone back and tweaked some of Hiram’s ideas and added Mark’s ideas and come up with a pretty good oven.
You make me want to come out and explore. Maybe you can make an inner tube for the brennerlestove, out of aluminumflashing to make it a gassifier? This is why I thought you where an engineer. cheers !
To confirm are you talking about the wider version of the Lixada "Tower Stove"? If so, I have not received it yet. Maybe a while but I will get to it. Thanks for commenting
Mark Young Yep, that’s the one. Incidentally, the windscreen I’ve been using is the19cm titanium foil, ( $12 ), paper-clipped to ~2cm larger than the 4 piece pot supports. Thanks for your excellent work, Robert Shirley
The disposable aluminum large baking pans 12"x9"x1.5" is sturdy enough to cut the aluminum protector out of the bottom. I made several of different sizes to go with various stores I have. Works well and weights nothing.
Ok, Mark, now we'd like to see it using twigs and maybe a lighter than, but equally well ventilated base to the vegetable steamer. I'm an older Appalachian Trail section hiker who looks at weight carefully. Thanks in advance. 👍
I made a can stove out of a three lb coffee can from Cisco. Tall ,wide. Burned it in today. Top holes did that thing with the fire. Put the small wok on there and I think there’s hope. Didn’t cook anything. I’m kind of into what you’re into. Fire!.small cooking Fires. Peace.
Good pick up Bruce. I did not notice that faux-pas myself. The water I boiled was used in my previous video on Waka Instant Coffee. I show taking the pot off the flame and pouring the water into my kuksa. Thanks for commenting
Very interesting. The pot is quite high up, which works well when you have a good flame, but less so when you have hot embers. It would be important not to lose that heat. I image it glows for another half hour?
Putting chips from a snack into wood, or wood pellets would also be a great fire starter due to the oils on the chips. Potato chips, Doritos chips, cheetos.
I bought it on Aliexpress. I just checked and don't see it now but I found something similar. www.aliexpress.com/item/4000539832355.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.1bf94b2fX1MC4u&algo_pvid=055eca9b-87f7-4e45-aad5-f0091aa71f65&algo_expid=055eca9b-87f7-4e45-aad5-f0091aa71f65-0&btsid=0ab6f83115963834400021340eeda0&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_,searchweb201603_
