Never Buy Fuel Again! Solo Stove Lite & Pot 900 

one thing about your channel that i very much appreciate is that you don't have those ridiculously long 2 and 1/2 minute lead-ins. you just get right into the topic and i think that is great.

Speed isn't everything. The selling point is using and conserving natural resources encountered in the bush. Great little set up.

I love that thing. I've had mine 3 years. You can also burn a couple of charcoal brickets it for a nice long fire.

In addition to the things you covered, this stove is also a wood gas stove. If you practice getting the wood levels just right it will actually ignite the smoke and burn with a blue flame that will boil your water much faster. In fact, almost as fast as the liquid fuel stoves. The trick is to make your sticks into "nuggets", and feed them in to keep the level just below where the air ducts come into the upper part of the inside wall of the stove.

Consider wood pellets, which are used for wood stoves, as fuel for one of these. I think you'll avoid the problem of constantly feeding the fire, and you can carry a small bag of pellets in your pack. Don't rely entirely on the pellets but use them in conjunction with sticks and twigs

Ive never used a gas stove. Always use my solo and pot combination. Never let me down. Also great fun for the pyro maniac in me. Very reliable easy to get and keep going and considering you dont have to purchase fuel its free after the initial investment. Awesome vid thanks will sub.

I am also using this system as my cooking set up and love it. The one exception is that I also included the Trangia alcohol stove. The alcohol stove is an alternative fuel for when I camp late and don’t want to look for wood fuel or if I want to heat up some water for morning coffee from my tent. Best of all is that it nestled in the stove keeping the kit all together.

Outstanding explanation how to use the Solo stove, pot combo. I purchased one & kept it in my backpack all the time. As you mentioned, it take a while to figured out how to boil the water in less time. The way you explained it make sense to me. Thank you!

Thanks for the review! Just ordered one - can't wait!

Seems to me you're actually overfeeding the stove, hampering the secondary burn (as can be seen by smoke escaping the stove - it should be burned inside the stove!). That contributes to longer boiling times, as it reduces airflow and burn temperature. The fuel should reach only up to about the lower edge of the secondary burn vent holes.

I've been using this combination for about three years. It works great on a dayhike/backpacking trip. It really also rocks with a cast iron skillet when you are car camping. To speed things up I also use a small alcohol burner which nests into the pot and stove. Great review! love this thing

I just got one and I love it. More so since I can throw the garbage from my wood working hobby into it. You know shavings, cut outs etc into

Hi... ...wow I still have this small Solo Stove and YES I still use it after years of traveling around the world. It is amazing how little wood it needs to cook with this Solo Stove (Y) Really great stove and I still appreciate to own it !

First of all, you do a very excellent job of presenting information. No fluff or BS and easy to watch. Thank You. My dragonfly has been sitting for the last few years as I have been using an alcohol stove. I now learned of wood stoves and going to give those a try. I mostly bicycle tour and in addition to all of the reasons you mentioned, it would be fun to keep that stove going and give me something to do especially after setting up camp early. Plus who doesn't like staring into a fire to pass the time regardless how small of a fire. I am just trying to decide between the Toaks, the Solo and also the Titan. I read several reviews recommending the Titan over the Solo because of a quicker cooking time and because you don't have to feed it wood so often. Just wondering if that is all true and if it would justify the extra weight and size for one person.

I pack my little alcohol burner with my wood burner. It works great inside the wood burner if your in a hurry. And in a bug out situation if you need to be unnoticed you would still have a way to heat water or cook.

Great video! I really appreciate the time and effort you spent shooting in multiple locations. I've been fascinated with biofuel stoves and hope to pick this up one day.

A great review. Load stove then top lighting will improve stove efficiency and boil times considerably without need to continually feed the stove. This will get the best out of this stove. Thank you for sharing. Paul :)

hey I have the big solo stove and pot ... what I found the work great with those sure light BBQ briquettes... drop one or two of those in there Start the Fire and it's a big stuff 1 inch and 2 inch round stuff make a fire in there... use mine on kayak trips they work great...

My inclination would be to leave the pot off of the stove until you really got the fire stoked up (and easier to feed the fire). Then, the pot of liquid would come to a much faster boil being placed on a very hot furnace. Just a thought.

Thanks for the video review. I ended up going with the Solo Stove Titan and it exceeded my expectations.

I ended up putting my into a padded sack about it's same size and no worries about the one it's in. It had a little extra room for some fuel tabs as well. This is great for anything longer than two days out. But I keep packing my Jet boil for over nighters and such.

I switched over to the firebox nano this winter and it’s been so nice using twigs and sticks instead of a canister with a unknown amount of fuel remaining. Not sure if it would work with the solo stove but a toaks alcohol stove fits perfectly in my firebox. Only adds half a oz plus whatever volume of alcohol I bring, but give me more options in bad weather or if I’m feeling lazy.

This is not a fair test. The propane stove when lit immediately gives you the max BTU it is capable of. Lighting the wood stove you started the timer as soon as you lit it giving it no time for coals and fire to be at it's hottest.

I have been using the solo stove and wally world stanley cookpot. Bulky but works for cheap.

Have you ever tried the Toaks wood stove? I like it because its more compact, but also am very interested in this solo stove..any advice/suggestions?

Great review...very detailed, and at the same time impartial - one of the things I like about Gideonstactical :-)

I've had a Solo Titan for about 3 years or so and a Bushbuddy Ultra for almost as long. They're both great. Very much recommend a windscreen (Blackwrap works great). My boil times are usually around 10 min give or take a couple. Also pack a tiny homemade alcohol stove for those times I don't want to or can't gather dry wood (too wet, too dark, etc). As far a time goes - I'm not in a hurry when I'm in the woods. (many of them are perfectly sized to sit on top of an upside soup can sitting right inside the Bushbuddy (or Solo) so you can use the pot stand from woodstove, which also acts as a windblock and heat funnel of sort. But mostly I just dig not carrying fuel - especially the empties.

I don't like using fuel tablets, so I have an Optimus Crux folding stove for fuel (= fast) boiling & I use wood in my Esbit folding stove as well as my Bushbox UL Pocket stove which will also hold a Trangia Alcohol stove! Thanks for the video.

Beside my standard gas burner I also own this product. I think it's pretty neat. Solid quality and good burning properties. But you are right, it's really hungry for wood. Bu it'st no big problem, I guess. Greetings from Germany, God bless you.

I have the campfire model. It’s a little bigger but you don’t have to babysit it. Also take a few pieces of fat wood with you to get a hot fire fast. And watch for sales on the Solo website. I just got the camping forks half off.

Any word if a typical short propane-butane canister fits inside of the 900 pot, that way I can still use the pot in my pack if I decide to go with something like the pocket rocket for a trip?

Have 2 solo stoves. One I have had out on our home deck in the elements in Ohio 24/7 for the past 5 years. Still works great ! Been using the Pot for past 5 years everyday. Its a tank ! Both are well worth the price ..... Great Products !!!!!

Very cool product, very cool review. Thanks mate.

Hi Nice vid When I use my gasifier stove I vertically stack all the wood inside the burn chamber I put thicker wood (half split 1"rounds) on the outside and thinner wood on the center and light the center The fire builds very quickly and you get a very strong hot fire You will find the time comes way down and you dont have to sit a feed little twigs For a longer cook, take the pot off the stove and re stack vertically with thicker wood

I used an MSR Pocket Rocket for years as an easy quick method for cooking, and when the camping area wouldn’t allow open fires. I prefer to just dig a trench off the main campfire and cook over hot coals. But if we’re hiking ,or camping in a cold-camp, then a stove becomes useful. But a long hike (over 7 nights) makes carrying fuel canisters a bit cumbersome. I have used the military canteen cup stove for decades now, and have recently bought an Emberlit Fireant stove which works very well. I like the Solo Stove and Pot System.

It is some work but I cut thicker branches into tiny wood hockey pucks, they tend to burn longer till I get more sticks in.

Do u clean your pot , the creasote that builds up seems to be a pain , but that's part of the trade off ?

I have this stove and I love it! Most people that have complaints about it don't understand how it works or how to use it. It is NOT a hobo stove. It is a wood gassifier that operates by slow burning the fuel and then reigniting the smoke after it is super heated between the inner and outer chambers. Once it it reaches full "bloom" like an alcohol stove it will cook just like a fuel stove. The best way to use the solo stove is to pack it full of fuel and then use a fire starter on top( I use vaseline infused cotton balls) It will easily boil water and I never add fuel. There is a good deal of engineering that went into this stove........it isn't just building a fire in the bottom of a can. Understand the science of how this stove works and you will absolutely LOVE this stove.

Informative video. Looks like 2-4 times longer than the MSR, if you don't account for the collection and processing of fuel, especially in the rain... Interesting bit o kit with a lot of merit. Will it work with a trangia alcohol stove? Thanks and subbed.

Doesn't the stainless steel pot get burned up at the bottom after many uses, and is it still safe to continued use? Anyone know?

Greetings from the Coast Range of Oregon! Thanks for producing such a high quality, informative and entertaining video. I also have the same Solo Stove and 900 Pot and found my results to parallel yours very closely. I first saw it reviewed on Leon Patenburg's "Common Sense Survival" channel where I also got the following tip on pot options. Leon uses a GSI 40 oz. enamel cup with fixed handle; the GSI cup is approx. 4.25 inches tall with an inside diameter of approx. 5 inches. One liter of water fills the cup to within .75 inches of the top. The cup does not come with a lid; I use a piece of heavy-duty aluminum foil to cover the top of mine when boiling water. The Solo Stove (without it's black carry bag) fits perfectly inside the cup without rattling and provides a much sturdier container that won't dent or be crushed as easily as the 900 Pot. The 900 Pot is an excellent light weight pot, and it comes with a lid, but the heavier GSI 40 oz. cup provides near bomb-proof protection during transport. Also, for the budget minded, the GSI cup is less expensive that the 900 Pot. One isn't necessarily better than the other - there are compromises to both; I'm just saying the GSI cup is another viable option. It's been a couple of years since I purchased my GSI cup, but if I recall correctly, I got it on Amazon.

Really cool thx for info i like pocket rocket a lot but sometimes you just wont have enough fuel to work with especially if you're doing few day/ a week camp and carrying lots of weight.

not only not having to buy fuel pods, not having to carry fuel, great for longer duration hikes. I have a trangia and stove and fuel adds the weight up

Great video , great stove ! Love your channel

What purpose did the uncovered pot serve?

I've got this set-up also, but have never actually used it . . . crazy, huh? It just rests patiently inside my bug-out bag for an emergency. Thanks to guys like you, I'll know exactly how best to start a fire in it when the time comes.

I have the solo lite w/pot and the campfire w/pots along with the tripod.. They may be pricey but you get a top quality product. However keep an eye on the solo website they do run specials. I got the lite on a buy one get one free deal.

Hello for #1 gas stoves comes to full bloom at the start. #2 Wood stoves have to build up heat. So they are not comparable. People love Solo cuz what it is.

What kind of food could you legitimately prep for 2 people out on a hike or camp trip with the stove/pot combo this size? Just curious on debating which size would be to my liking. Thanks.

Thanks for vid. Great info

I have this stove and love it. You can fit a Trangia alcohol burner inside and even use that.

I like the stove and pot very much. Thanks

I have one of the stoves. I like it very much. It is so simple that a non prpepper such as my wife can use it. I use a different pot but I think this is the top product in its field.

Nice Video! A Thought: Like any fire, start with tinder and dead dry softwood twigs like pine. Once you get your stove started with soft woods, add dead, dry hardwood twigs and shavings such as oak, maple, etc. until the rocket stove is operating primarily on hard wood with occasional of softwood twigs. The hardwood sticks will burn hotter, less smoke, and make the gasifier / draft work much better and the fire will burn much longer without maintenance. Also, with dead, dry hardwood your boil time, once the gasifier is fully functioning, will be greatly reduced - 5 - 8 minutes. An added bonus is less tar on the outside of you pan. Remember, rocket stoves burn from the top down - not bottom up. Thanks! Author "Survive Until The End Comes" and "Sudden Survival".

What kind of leather gloves did you have on? Or recommend?

What jacket are you wearing? I kinda like it, is it good for cold temperature?

Seems like it would make a good heater as well?

How long does it take to cool the stove down

I use mainly heating pellet, and rarely any twigs and stuff at all. I carry the pellets in an empty Pringles tube, take some fuel gel in an empty after shave flask to light those babies up, and there it is! Works all the year around.

Have you ever looked at emberlit? They have a model that has a removable tray so you can use an esbit spirit burner or fuel tabs in addition to wood

Try and see if the ash pan holds liquid. I have a similar stove handmade by a guy in Alaska. I put a half ounce of alcohol in the ash pan and get a boil up as fast as my jet boil. This works better than putting a trangia inside, plus you can add sticks while the alcohol is burning. Good bye learning curve! Tip number two, get a small dry bag for the whole stove kit and your sleeping bag won't smell like smoke anymore. Love your vids! Keep on getting out there. :-)

I need to make a video camera selection, I want it to be 1080 digital and have a microphone (wireless option), do you have any suggestions for me? Thanksyou. I have a Solo Stove with the 900 pot combination. I got it so I will not be tied down to fuel storage. But I do have two very nice fuel burning stoves.

The Solo stove and 900 ml pot bundle is now $140 at Amazon. I bought mine separately a couple of years ago for $70 + $35. I wish I'd bought the Toaks titanium stove and their 750ml titanium pot for almost half the price and almost half the weight of the Solo. 😣

Also, this is good for a quick small fire warm up or fire starter in wintery conditions.

Awesome detailed review.

I have the Solo Titan and 60 oz. pot. Holds more wood and because you can't fill a pot to the top without boiling over, it's the perfect size to boil about 40 oz. My canteen is 39 oz. so it's good for sterilizing. Weighs a little more, does a little more, costs a little more.

How many hours will this thing burn before it burns through?

I recently purchased a TOAKS titanium, I like it because it is lightweight, but when assembled, (its three piece), it is taller for longer wood. It works great in my opinion. It is 5.6 ounces and fits into a 750ml toaks cup with a lid. So much better than most folding stoves, much more efficient. Don't field test one, you'll buy it!

I am hoping this fits inside a Maxpedition 12x5 bottle holder, inside of bottle holder is suppose to be 4.5inches and the stove 4.25

It's a super cool stove.

Very good, Thank you very much

There is another aspect of the solo (I have the titan), in a tarp shelter it does provide warmth. The bottom of the stove stays relatively warm, but you can touch it. I would not suggest that in a tent, but I use it as a heater in my hammock system.

I bought a Solo Stove and pot a few years back - I love it. It was expensive (I think I paid £90) but worth it as I think it will last for years. I've stopped taking a flask with me for tea on day hikes and take the stove instead for two reasons. Firstly, freshly brewed tea tastes better than Thermos tea. Secondly, slowing down to make a cuppa isn't a bad thing - you can sit and relax and take in your surroundings. If there isn't fuel available a Trangia-type alcohol stove will also fit inside the stove and can be stored there. Great wee stove all in all. As a side-note, do you get to travel? I think you would enjoy a trip to Scotland - long distance hiking routes, climbing and great wild camping...

my first burn took 25 min to get 900ml to a boil... the outside temp was 83F and windy. I think I used fuel that was longer than the diameter of the tank. My guess is that it should be shorter so that the fuel does not interfere with the ports inside the tank. I used hardwood that needed extra processing to be manageable and if I had softwood to use I would have been tending the fire more often than I was. Depending on how you packed and the type and duration of the trip I could make a case for bringing either, or both stoves.There is something to be said about instant gratification when it matters.

does the stove leave less soot

Very good system. Solo stove is almost perfect. There are some ways to upgrade it a little. Bottom of burning chamber: holes are too big. Small piece of steel net with small holes and wood burns longer. The top of stove: this part where you place the pot - holes are too big. You can use small tin can and drill lots of 3mm holes - flame will be more concentrate on the bottom of pot. I have very similar stove - but home made. I'm using as fuel dices of wood more less 1 inch long, loading stove from bottom almost to the top, about 1/4 inch below inside holes. Fire it from the top. My record with fire it and forgot was 30 min on pieces of branch and 45 min on wooden pellet. But it fuel need to be pack quite tight. Anyway it is super sytem. Of course extra video. Your channel is my no. 1 channel. No babling, no table review. Just facts and lots of fun. Thank you.

Solo stove for the win! You can have all the fuel you can carry but if you're stuck out there for an extra days and you're not sure if you have enough alcohol fuel but with the solo stove, as long as you see trees around you? You can relax knowing you'll NEVER run out of fuel.

Have you tried the emberlit? I was wondering how you would compare. I like the loading of the emberlit and how compact it is. Would like to know your thoughts. Maybe a review. Love the stove reviews!!

Is the ash plate removeable or do you have to use it like it is? I think I prefer my CORE 4 which is a pain to assemble at first but not as picky with the fire starting itself and lends itself to my Trangia if I decide to bring it with me. The Solo looks and seems solid it is just not my style, although I like the stove pot combo idea. I paired my stove with the 1.1 ltr MSR Stowaway pot(although it doesn't fit in the pot it is flat so it stores next to it very well). I definitely see possiblities for the Solo as an item in my car bag. Thanks for the video.

Yeah, but how many times can the Jet Boil heat up water before running out of fuel?

The Lixada brand stoves are great budget options. I have the wood burner , it cost 20 bucks tops and has lasted so far about 2 years. Fire ban I bring the pocket rocket type stove (they are legal here except wilderness areas during fire ban) (some knock off I got on Amazon years ago ) no fire ban I go with the wood stove. If you want the most efficient fire in these bad boys cut your wood and twigs to relatively uniform size no farther than the vent holes at the top. Dont over fill it should be about 3/4 -7/8 filled. Enough space in between the sticks for some air flow and all the sticks should be standing directly up. Drop a fire starting object on the TOP and light from the top. Fatwood shavings, magnesium, cotton balls, fire rope whatever you use. You will get about 30 minutes of burn from this setup without having to "feed the fire" if set up right. It took me 4 or 5 fires to get this process right but on one stove feeding I can get it to last about 30 minutes and boil water and cook a meal on it. They have been invaluable to me because Ive had the gas ones fail on me in the past.

Aaron, thanks for the great review, very detailed as always. Basically every question I had you answered, I guess great minds/Aaron's think alike! Aaron

Cut the kindling into small pellets .?

You might want check out silver fire scout stove. Same concept but packs smaller, easier to clean, and cheaper. Keep up the great work.

How long does it take for the stove cool off? If you were just wanting to make a "quick" cup of coffee would this stove take too long to cool off to be practical?

I found one of those in the desert. Couldn't find the lid or ring .

Sweet kit, definitely gonna pick this up

When I'm out in the sticks time doesn't matter I'm there to relax unwind chill so it's will boil eventually

I’m saving up for my Solo Stove Lite 👍and 900 pot

Great video and if u don't mind me asking what knife where you using this video

Good full spectrum review of the system. Too many of these reviews are during mild conditions.

excellent review looks like a really great piece of gear

Great review. Solo stove for me it is!

Great review Gents! What I like a lot about this type of stove, is that I will never have to carry fuel, NOR will I worry about running out of fuel! That is the best thing about this stove. The added burn time to me isn't a big deal. When out in the woods we shouldn't be on a schedule.

Several youtubers including Living Survival, Black Owl Outdoors, Patriot36, Wingman115, etc. swear the Silver Fire Scout stove is better? I have not done a head to head comparison but I know Ben (Living Survival has) and feels it's just a better system overall. I believe Wingman115 just did a review as well and loved it. It packs down better, easier to clean, more efficient and it's great quality. I was sold on Solo but then told me to try the Silver Fire before I purchased the Solo Stove. I'm sure both are great. Just an FYI folks. Thanks for another great video.

Your videos excel in part because you're "mic'ed up". So many videos have poor audio. Wish they were all using microphones. Nice review.

You should review the kelly kettle it’s amazing

subscribing for sure. awesome videos guys.

What about a vid cooking in a tent. Do you think the stove could be used a tent heater system?

Why do you wear yellow tinted lenses if they force you to squint? What is the benefit?