WINTER CAMPING STOVE TIPS!!! Improve Stove Efficiency and Increase Space in Your Hot Tent! 

A good coal base is key to closing dampers and holding heat. Closing up with just fire chokes the flames. Coal base produces heat and simmers wood, giving a slow burn. That’s when you close up, retain heat, get a long burn time and don’t have the fire die. Thanks great camp.

That was an awesome idea for the baffle. How difficult is it to bend the titanium? I have the Seek Outside tipi and titanium break down stove and have thought of doing the same thing that you showed here but had not decided on a baffle method yet. A baffle in the top of the stove gives a better cooking surface on top of the stove as well as burns up sparks much more efficiently instead of sending them up the stove pipe to exit and fall on the tent.

Thats critical thinking. Good to know one can turn that lid around and still latch it. Very nice sir and Thank You!

great idea on the baffle!

Your dog seemed to pay attention to what you were doing throughout, 10/10 student

Smartest thing I've seen yet w/ a tent stove. ⛺️ AWESOMENESS. ...Alan in 🇨🇱

Thanks man, great tip! Should reduce the risk of sparks big time as well.

Solid tips. I've struggled with this very space issue too many times. I will be adopting this idea. Thank you.

When my Seek Outside stove arrives I was going to make a baffle, but yours is so much better than the way I'd intended. I will also make a stack robber, modelled on the design by the much missed Woods Walker. With an adjustable air intake vent, a baffle, a stack robber and a damper, it should be possible to prolog the burn time and retain as much heat as is possible with a tiny stove. The use of charcoal briquettes should also help extend the burn time. Thank you for sharing your excellent baffle. Subscribed.

That's really interesting. I have a Luxe 3W, have to try this.

I just got a stove and tent. Was already thinking of putting the pipe to the front. That baffle is a great idea!

Good idea! If you travel heavier and use a stove fan I position it so it blows towards the pipe to extract heat off of the pipe. Most pictures show a fan the opposite direction where more heat is wasted going up the pipe.

Yes! great tip! I wish more companies provided baffles. There are certain RU-vid's who have said baffles aren't even necessary... This video made me a subscriber.

Thanks for making this video! I just got a luxe hexpeak 2p and the wild wild west stove and the space at the door is super tight when using the inner mesh, so much so that I was regretting the size of the tent. I was considering moving the pipe to the front because of all the wasted space but wasn't sure it would work...your baffle solution is perfect!

That is great idea to turn the stove top around 180 degrees. I believe the stove for those Bereg Russian UP-2 type tents also has the stove pipe coming out the front of the stove and also has a baffle. That configuration certainly does push the stove body back away from the center of the tent and gives more usable space.

That is a great idea. Thanks for the video! I was wondering though if having the flue in the back of the stove with the baffle would be just as efficient? Which do you think is better? And if the flue is at the back, how do you place the baffle? To the front or to the back?

Had the same idea you best me to it !! Looks great and seems to work 👍

The primary air coming in the door will dictate how the burn occurs toward the output, that is why one end to the other end. [edit], good idea with the baffle shuffling heat and smoke from front to back to front.

awesome tips. I just got this stove today and plan on cutting myself a baffle as you;'ve done. Any tips on what to cut the baffle with ? or how to get a good fold on the foil once cut. Thanks!

Absolutely outstanding! I need to do this with Nortent Titanium wood stove

Awesome idea! How far down does your baffle dip into the firebox? How much consideration do you think that sizing needs? I’m going to do this to my stove as soon as it arrives! Thanks for sharing!!

I've been pondering on a thermal vermiculite board, yup it is expensive but put under the stove it would reflect up and equally reflect the cold beneath it. If you got a 1000mmm x 600mm you could cut it in half use half as board to sit on.

Great ideas 👍🏽

Damn that’s an awesome idea! I consider a stove without a baffle a deal breaker, even more it’s a deal breaker if it doesn’t have replaceable baffles as an accessory. You rigged that stove to resemble the design of RBM Caminus stoves. They have it setup the same way, stove pipe exit is in front instead of back, and baffle plate positioned like yours so that it both reflects heat back into the fire for reburning, and makes the heat have to maneuver around the baffle plate before going up and out of the flue. I would love the Caminus stoves if only the damn baffle wasn’t fixed, and if you could easily swap them out with replacements.

Nice man... dig it.... Your design already creating thoughts of potential lightweight dual combustion chamber type ideas... modifications to your innovation... Create even more retained heat and cleaner burning pack stoves... (possibly?)... You're pretty nearly there would think.... (And that just as is the spawning nature of all creative thought processes and innovation, that of themselves, and their existence, tend to lend themselves to doing....)

very clever, thanks

very cool! how much does this extend the burn time? (How long was your overnight burn before vs with baffle?) thx

Wow! What a great idea.

The dog is so cool he is really curious about your inventions. Do you have a video where you can see when you fire it? How much wood can be saved?

Great innovation. I'd like to see that stove burning with the baffle in place.

The best way to keep heat is to prevent cold air to enter. The stove not only does that by its fire-draw but also sucks the air it just heated around itself 🧐 So I would have above all set an air intake with a pipe from outside of the tent to the back of the stove. Then fully pushed the metal plate at the back and just kept the outake as well at the back. Thanks for the video, greetings from Switzerland 🙂

Excellent! Do you have more smoke in your tent when you start the fire (with your baffle and stack front position)? Once it is hot, I guess that everything is alright...

Great tips, thanks man.

That baffle makes that tin box more like the sort of modern stove that would be in a house. I just bought a non-collapsible stove and I suspect that I’m going to need to fit a baffle to that.

This is how a lot of modern, high efficiency home stoves do baffling. Always seems like a shame to push all the heat outside. I did a baffle plate on my non-folding stove but I also just bought a stove pipe damper. Will see how both perform.

I was watchin a few guys they set it up with chimney in front for more even cooking.

Nice mode

Thanks for the video. I run the Winnerwell Nomad Medium and am considering having a baffle fabricated for my stove. I've taken heat measurements of my stove pipe and I feel like I'm losing a lot of heat right up the pipe with some inefficient burning. Would you advise that I make one that's removable and have them fabricate a bracket for a titanium or 304 stainless baffle to be inserted? I'm not sure what to do...either way it would just be a couple of welds.

Would you be able to give dimensions of your baffle piece (and distance of gap from top edge of side of stove down to baffle) to help me cut mine? I only get one shot, if I screw it up, I don't have a bunch more chimney to cut up. And how di you make those crimps so it "snaps" down onto top of sides? Do you have a sheetmetal crimper? Also, have you continued to use this stove? How's it holding up? Thanks for the time, and for letting people know about these great improvements.

Great tip! I am thinking of doing it myself. But not sure. Since I will have the flue at the back of the stove, would it still make sense to have a baffle?

Good ideas! Does it smoke much out the door set up that way?

With a grate, a baffle and a damper, all that's missing is secondary burn.

SFARCO: Your Innoovative Idea is Intersting. However, i am concerned about the possibility of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning that can be caused by breathing in Combustion Fumes within the confines of a tent. As you know, the fumes can be colourless, odourless and deadly. Have you used a carbon monoxide detectour to test the air quality within the tent, when burning the stove over an extended period of time ?

great ideas

The flue pipe at the back of the stove for a more efficient burn.

Perfect

Your baffle principle is called a reverse flow and it is how some professional BBQ smokers work.

I riveted in a baffle in my Kni-co stove. Ive noticed alot if creosote on top the baffle if i run the stove damped down. Do you think this burns off ok the next time I run it? Do ypu notice more creosote build up at all?

You think this stove is proper for a Tentipi 7?! I plan to take this combo...

Might sound like a silly question but what did you use to cut the baffle from your stove pipe to get clean and straight edges? I think this is a great idea but the only thing I can think of is the shears I have for duct work but those leave a very small serrated edge after cutting.

Great setup buddy, I have a Russian titanium spark arrestor or smoke stack robber for the chimney pipe. I think it's the most essential thing for these TI stoves. If you're interested in my video feel free to check it out.

I have a jack with a 3.5-inch diameter hole, but my pipe is 2.5 in diameter. Is there a way to fix this after-the-fact?

Great video. New subscribers here. Let's stay connected.

Hi! How big is the baffle gap? Was the baffle material burnt in prior to this mod? I have approx. 90cm of pipe that I cut of, but this is burnt in, so it keeps it shape as a pipe...

Does titanium cut easily with a regular tin snip?

This didnt work for me, got smoke inside the tent when opening the hatch.. think i cut the baffle too short so i didnt have a good gap, only about 1-2cm gap, you mentioned 2.5cm which seems better but still i wouldnt risk this, but even if i keep the pipe in the back it will still be better with a baffle so its not completly useless :)

Nice 👌

My titanium wood stove got so hot it started glowing, i got kinda worried that it was going to melt

The winnerwell folding titanium stove is $700 CAD. Absolutely ridiculous. Build your own for $40 with materials from Home Depot. Smh 🤦‍♂️ Two issues I see with these little lightweight stoves that are sold without baffles. First, the guys who are spending the big bucks for these stoves are not the guys who are going to be making their own stove baffles lol. 🤣 Second, all lightweight fold up backpacking stoves, titanium or not, warp bad after the first few uses. The warping opens up air gaps all over so they are not air tight. Dampers only work if you have an air tight stove. This means these stoves will burn hot and fast no matter what your damper settings are with most of the heat being lost in the pipe as the draft sucks it right out of the tent. The other thing is that titanium stoves are made of titanium which is a *poor* conductor of heat. So in the worst case, after you spend $700 on one of these fold down titanium beauties without a baffle and use it a few times you end up with a warped leaky box that will burn hot and fast with most of the heat being lost up the pipe no matter what your damper setting is so it’s going to take you an hour or so and half a cord of firewood to boil water on them in your 500 ml steel cup for your coffee.

If you let it loose, you will lose it.