Its Electric - Camp Wood Stove by Bio Lite

[@Kenbur]

Thanks for the video, Andy, really appreciate your input on this. I bought one (a Biolite 2) almost 3 years ago(?) around when this model first came out. Thought I'd share my experience with you. I have used it several times while camping/picnicking with family and friends. I have cooked hot dogs, brats, steak, chicken on the grill attachment, and heated up water for dehydrated food, making coffee, etc. The only thing is that there was a learning curve for me. I used it a few times to get the hang of how much to load the stove, how to use the fan settings, how much twigs, wood chunks, or pellets, etc. to use effectively for the cooking or heating I was doing. Some of that info is in the instruction book (a very small print booklet with lots of pages), however, they do have videos now that explain the lights, the fan use, and the overheating which shuts the unit down so that it doesn't overheat and destroy the electrical part. One still has to experiment with different biomass to get the hang of cooking on it though, but once you do it works great. It is heavy as you said ( I think between 2 and 2 1/2 lbs with grill), so for me, it's not for hiking unless I'm doing an overnighter or short weekend that I want to grill - so that is a personal choice. Open fires are frowned upon where I do a lot of my hiking so this stove (which is okay to use) or obviously another type of stove has to come along, however - the charger on this works perfect for my phone, tablet, and chargeable headlamp, hammock lights, etc. and so I don't have to take a power pack or worry about energy use. That makes it a great choice for those occasions. Now it permanently resides in my car boot (when not in use) with a pound of wood pellets and a small bag of split wood chunks and is magically produced anytime I want to boil water, gril/cook some food, or even have an open fire and I really hadn't planned on doing that sort of thing when I left home. Sorry, this might be too long for a 'comment', but I thought I would share what I've learned from using this as you have shared so much knowledge/information for your subscribers like myself. ATB stay safe.

[@JohnWalshLegend]

I got one of these last Year Andy, (minus the Grill) and tested it a couple of times during normal family camping, and I got over 1 hours burn on pellets about 3 quarters full. Very quick to boil a pan of water too. These are very efficient and clean, well worth the money. Nice review!

[@wolfbisbing486]

That is one of the most effective camp things I’ve seen yet. Love the electric generation from just doing normal camping stuff. Genius. Thank you for showing that. Oh and that generator would be supreme on a camping wood stove.

[@Kathy_Is_Blessed]

I like the looks of this and how it works but the sound of the fan....a no-go for me. Same reason I don’t have a jet-boil type stove either. Nice review Andy!

[@kentsurvivalgearreview586]

I know what you mean.. its about the same noise as a gas stove.. good on long trips for quick boils but not so much for chilling in nature

[@jamesellsworth9673]

@@kentsurvivalgearreview586 Since I put up with gas stove noise for decades, I could live with this for cooking: modern light doodads would make the battery resevoir much better company than my gas lanterns.

[@robhenshaw6845]

Unnatural sound?

[@techforenergyltd9834]

I started owning BioLite products with the Campstove2 which you just reviewed and was almost disappointed with it until I tried using wood pellets. Normal twigs or small wood pieces make refuelling the stove a constant demand in your attention and difficult to cook with. Using wood pellets by filling the stove with pellets to about 10-20mm below the heat probe and lighting it on top REALLY solved all problems as you now get a maintenance free fire which burns almost 100% with very little ash and residue for about 45-50 mins. This is perfect for cooking or looking away from it for a couple of minutes without the fire dying. But if you are cooking for groups then the Basecamp stove is truly awesome. We fed our family of 5 for 2 weeks using both stoves and the basecamp one comfortably runs off wood. It really benefits from a small grate to prevent coals chocking up the burn chamber. We use this as our portable bbq and are cooking in 5 mins compared to charcoal bbq’s which have to cool down. It’s better at charging stuff, with a bigger battery and I charge powerbanks with the Basecamp stove. Adding the green egg set of grill grates really helps even out hot spots and cook fantastic tasting food, but I would say the grate is essential for cooking longer than about 40mins. The Basecamp stove fan is also almost silent... I also bought the BioLite lantern as a work light for dark spaces and phone charger if running low. All awesome products with multiple uses.

[@matthewbeddoes8472]

I have this as part of my bug out pack. I like it as it burns well with small sticks and pine cones with little or no smoke (won’t draw attention to my location) and brings water to a boil quickly. The ability to charge my phone, radio or gps is a great plus. I don’t carry the grill with me. Sure I can cook with regular fire pit but there maybe situations that I don’t want the light and smoke being seen. To be able to boil water quickly, eat and move on in less than 30min is my goal. Great video for those that have seen the product on the shelf and decide if it fits with their needs. Thanks

[@OoavastoO]

They also now make a pizza dome kit for their larger base camp burner, solar products and a whole slew of lighting options from headlights to table/tent lanterns and string lights. I have one of their rechargeable headlights and it's brilliant! (pun intended!) SUPER bright with several different settings (dimmable, flash, red light). It's also a very light.....light! I don't even know I'm wearing it most times. Great and pretty ingenious products. 👍 Great review Andy! Hope you're keeping safe and ATB from Nova Scotia 🇨🇦 - Darby

[@davidcann6021]

This is just a peltier unit, you could build one or buy a bit of it off ebay as they're used in electric cool boxes, just need to reverse the current. What they should really build is a unit to stick next to a fire to generate power. Take a look on Ebay you can buy the components off there for a fraction of the price.

[@dianebannister965]

A nice bit of kit Andy, thanks for showing it x

[@ebony5766]

I have had a bio lite since 2014. They work great! If you completely turn the fan off the fire is completely manageable and the battery charges very quickly. I bought mine before they had all the bells and whistles, so I just use a metal camp cup and a cook kit on mine, works perfect!

[@andrewbrown6522]

I heard the generator portion tends to burn out quickly?

[@ebony5766]

It hasn't for me. I use it to top off my phone. You don't need to keep the fan running constantly as Andy does, I only use that when I first light the stove to quickly get it going. If you have really dry fuel you don't even need it.Once you finish cooking remove the generator portion if you want and charge your phone that way. Great for days solar is impossibke, great for cooking.food. I.don't use any of the add on attachments, I have the basic burn pot and generator and cook with my mess kit.

[@steveallen1333]

Really enjoyed this Andy, seeing this type of kit was really interesting, don’t think I’d go for one just because of the noise. Thank you for showing it 👍🏻😁

[@saskcop1775]

Turn on the fan immediately and it will light right up.

[@moongoddessselinka]

We love ours. We also have the fire pit and the hanging lanterns by bio lite. We use our stuff while Rving and it sure gets attention from others while being used.

[@expat0149]

I have had one of these for a while now , also have the grill attachment and the coffee maker , works a treat .The abiltiy to generate electricity is fantastic .

[@andykjohnsonjohnson7622]

Nice review Andy 👍. A fishing buddy of mine, got one last year. Supper cool gadget. Then pulled it apart, to adapt it to a small wood stove. Working Awesome for the hot tenting, had to make additional branches. So we didn't melt it 🤪

[@seikoskx]

Bought mine for 60 bucks with the grill plate and light pretty happy about the buy.

[@JohnHawkins]

I bought one a while back as I was really excited about the idea of turning twigs into electricity... but after a few practice runs in the garden I eventually decided it was just a gimmick really. Too heavy/bulky for backpacking in practice. If you have perfectly dry wood in the right shape and size it works but using twigs often just seemed to generate smoke, noise (from the fan) and not a lot of heat for cooking or electricity for charging. When it came to an actual backpacking / camping trip I just took a BCB Firedragon stove and a powerbank. As you say though it might make sense for a long trip in the wilderness where eventually the weight / bulk / cost of powerbanks might exceed that of the biolite stove.

[@toddkohut5993]

A hot tent stove with this tech on the side would be incredible

[@alanjewison2224]

These proved vital in hurrican katrina.power and heat through the debris of disaster

[@kentsurvivalgearreview586]

a good point Alan, thanks

[@TNBushcrafter]

I could totally see the biolites for people that live 100% off grid. They still need to charge things. The sound is a bit obnoxious but no more then my svea or coleman white gas stoves. Not like you'd spend hours with your stove running. I've almost bought a few of their products several times since they released them.

[@DebbieNobodyneedstoknow1]

Very cool! I can see off grid uses ✨👌

[@jasonbabila6006]

I have a bio stove and had it for about four years but I haven't used it much, it works great and gets hot very fast but I had to keep adding wood very often when the impeller fan is on high, and to charge a phone, it's best to keep feeding it with wood constantly with the fan on high or medium for the phone to charge quicker.

[@garymartin4485]

Ooh hot tent chimney attachment nice to see

[@saraskold9631]

we have the stove and the pia dome bundle base camp kit and love it !! i am a stove junky I want to get this bundle too

[@techforenergyltd9834]

Go for it! It’s very useful when car camping to have a 2nd hob. We used the Basecamp for grilling meat and the campstove 2 for the rice and veg with wood pellets. Family of 5 fed for 2 weeks all meals like this 👍

[@anneli1735]

🤔 just in case volume/weight and especially money won’t matter this one seams to be a funny gimmick to impress 🤪

[@MrSmarty1973]

not really gimmick. ive seen these bout for a few years not and from wot folk hve told me theyre pretty good things to have

[@dezmondwhitney1208]

Great Review. What a useful piece of kit. Thank You.

[@George196207]

Your thoughts on a wood stove in a camp same as mine ! May get way more power over a way longer time period. Better review than some I watched.

[@rialobran]

You're 'mixed grill' worked well (that made me chuckle when you said that) It's really strange you mentioned the tent stove, I wrote to a company a couple of weeks ago that make woodstoves asking them if the tech was available to make a small generator to light a house kitchen with LED's or similar and charge appliances. I haven't had a reply.

[@Antagonistic]

You have my full attention Andy - no competition from Simon today!

[@kentsurvivalgearreview586]

haha, :p

[@rw3035]

Great to have a usb light to shine at your fire 👍

[@1956vern]

Awesome little device! The thermal fan is noisy! Interesting!

[@Shane-Singleton]

Honestly I was thinking this type of thing would be more expensive than it is. Surprisingly affordable considering what you're getting. I did a quick look at their fire pit and that seems like it would be a very neat addition to a vehicle or canoe camp setup where you aren't having to hike very far with the gear as the pit weighs over 19 pounds. Very interesting piece of kit.

[@Shane-Singleton]

@Benghali In Platforms You're right. I was just now watching a review on the fire pit and the fellow just mentioned about it not charging itself unlike the small stove. For me that would be a bit of a deal breaker. In that instance i'd probably go for more of a Winnerwell folding fire pit to save on space and go with the little stove like Andy has here potentially.

[@gwydionball4114]

@@Shane-Singleton I have the fire pit and from a full charge (without then using it to charge phones etc) it will do multiple BBQ sessions - obviously if you're talking about all night parties it might not last out but a weekend with BBQ Friday and Saturday plus a bit of burning after then fine - you don't have to use the fan but it does really does help keep the smoke down unlike normal fire pits. (Sorry Andy this is different product!)

[@Shane-Singleton]

@@gwydionball4114 For me something like this I would like the added utility to be able to light a fire, get it going, and be able to have the option to charge my battery on my phone up in an emergency. Say if I had forgotten to charge my extended pack, or forgot to bring it, etc. even if the pack on the machine were low or drained.

[@longrider42]

I rented one of these for a week long back country bicycle trip, August 2018. I was not impressed. Maybe it was because I was over 6000 feet above sea level, and all I had to burn was pine. Nice fire, but hardly any recharge ability. Maybe at a lower altitude and with hard wood, might do better. Good thing I had an Anker Power core battery and solar panel to charge my devices.

[@beexiong2995]

My brother has one. We started cooking at the same time. I had a standard charcoal grill. I finished cooking first and we ate what was cooked on my grill. His bio grill didnt cook his meat thoroughly enough after several hours. He gave up and threw it on my grill

[@derekmcmanus8615]

What an extraordinary device!

[@rodbennettakakampzite5448]

Nice video Andy! Very interesting concept... I like it!

[@theohaugen241]

If the unit lasts it lookz like it might be a good unit .

[@tlembro]

They have a small wood stove as well runs on wood or charcoal

[@hazetheherd2214]

Interesting bit of kit !

[@beanoc6675]

If bio Lite adressed the fact that you can NOT change the battery, so when (about 1 year ) the battery does not hold a charge any more, all you have is a pricey hobo stove,

[@thesurvivalist.]

Change them out for lifepo4 batteries, they have a far greater lifespan of 20,0000 cycles! So about 20 years

[@beanoc6675]

@@thesurvivalist. agreed , there are better batteries out there but biolite is a sealed unit, you have to break it to get to the batteries

[@thesurvivalist.]

@@beanoc6675 Thanks!

[@snapperdile]

is the constant humming from the fan as annoying as it sounds like it is? dont know if i could put up with that...i like hearing the sounds of nature when i'm out

[@kentsurvivalgearreview586]

its louder on camera due to the directional mic, but I do agree, if you use gas its no worse

[@lokisdad8626]

When we were kids you just put your hotdog on a stick and stuck it in the fire. What's next, campfire microwave?

[@linedanzer4302]

Professional chef's tent next to sleeping tent complete with convection oven pizza oven sterling silver sink and marble countertop? ☺😏

[@shropshireladoutdoors743]

Yep not going to survive without all this stuff and a supermarket nearby this is just a outdoor cooking program

[@enricodale]

This technology was developed to help prevent respiratory diseases due to the use of wood burning stoves in developing countries - it looks like they are now using the technology more widely. I applaude this. This has wider issues, glaciers in Northern India are becoming so blanketed in black smoke particles from local villages that they are melting due to warming from the absorption of the sun's IR rays.

[@liannislam9006]

I prefer wood stove you can also burn coal in them. I have a mine bbq one :) I think it is better than electric one cause electric too much noise and you might attract predators in the forest some want to keep a low profile.

[@jameswilson6717]

I like the concept of this Andy a great idea but it’s probably not practice to carry this about for a trekking camp.All the beest pal stay safe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@MetallicrealitE]

I treated myself to one of these and also the base camp pizza oven stove. I was sent a damaged base camp stove by biolite and when I asked to return it and get a replacement the biolite customer service was atrocious. I ended up having to threaten them with trading standards to get them to comply with basic consumer law (replacing something that was damaged on arrival), their last email to me ended with them saying they would send me a replacement but I was never ever to contact them again. Absolutely disgusting! I brought directly from them happy to pay a bit more to support their charitable works, NEVER AGAIN! This replacement worked lovely (athough I had to use a leg from the damaged one (which they didn't want back) as the replacement one they sent was missing a leg!). It worked lovely twice, then about 6mnths later I tried to use it on a camp and the battery had died. There is no way to charge the battery at home (bad design) and I really couldn't cope with dealing with biolite again so that was the best part of £400 wasted I was gutted especially as I had spent so much on the pizza oven lid too. So far so good with the biolite2 (which you can charge from home) and grill, although it is very slow to charge things from. My advice is do not buy direct from biolite and don't waste your money on a base camp stove, with the grill attatchment the biolite2 is plenty, if you want pizza just order one to be delivered.

[@paulelliott6673]

I think I saw the mark 1 in use for phone charging after New York had a major winter storm and power cuts

[@jamesellsworth9673]

It would be valuable to know just how much electric power and so on is storeable in the battery in this system...and how well the system holds a charge. As it stands, a good few basic needs are catered for in the marketing package. A good light over a cook pot/frypan is always useful in the hours of darkness or twilight. The pot looks quite fine with silicon insulated handles and the ability to do a Ramen noodle package or to boil water for a pouch-cooked meal. In hot and humid weather, I like to run a USB compatible fan in a two-person tent and it is much nicer if it can run 'all night' or near enough to that for natural cooling to take over.

[@outdoorsurvival7730]

I wonder if I could cut the same type of holes on the side of a tent stove and just use the power unit on it if it gets it’s power from the heat electrode

[@SoundandNatureSuffolk]

Been wondering what this is like for a while, nice one for the review Andy!

[@cbb1362]

I get it, I really do, it's a fabulous piece of kit but I go into the woods to get away from too much tech. I still keep my phone with me though.😀

[@kentsurvivalgearreview586]

it has its place :)

[@jonathandingle]

That's brilliant, love it

[@barabralister916]

The USB ports ha e been changed recently. Does the stove and the fire pit attachment have the new USB port or an adapter ??

[@Makeem95]

Are you allowed to use something like this at UK camping sites?

[@RobMcDonald-kj5ky]

Will it still charge the battery when the fan and the lights aren't on and will it still charge a device when powered off?

[@kennethsarnes2087]

Andy, does the cup, that you boiled water in, fit into the grill at the hole where the fuel was added? If so you could cook and heat soup or water at the same time for a complete meal. Really enjoy your videos!

[@jpallen719]

Coolest thing I ever saw. There on back order but iam getting one.....

[@mclostinthewoods]

It's interesting. It's obviously not a backpacking stove, so I'm curious what the use case is for car camping. If I didn't want to use propane, why would I buy this Biolite stove over a Solo Stove, Firebox, or Bushbox stove? I've seen the Biolite in use and it looked like a struggle to keep it going, especially with the pot on. That may be better now with the newer unit, but it was an issue. I have and use a Firebox Gen2 5" stove when car camping and have a Nano I use sometimes when backpacking. Those stoves are great. Not criticizing the Biolite, just wondering what the sales pitch is and who the intended customer is. Other than being a gear nerd, why would I want one?

[@janwaller3585]

Pretty amazing technology

[@maryhairy1]

What a stove!

[@LaconianConcepts]

Great review brother!

[@bobloblaw2342]

love these reviews, thanks again!

[@catsamazing338]

Would be good to hear the weights of these items?

[@TheRealGonzalo]

Great video! I’m in the market for a good knife, what type of knife are you using? Especially when your cutting small pieces of wood, any suggestions on a knife? Thanks

[@kentsurvivalgearreview586]

I use a condor bushlore, personally I love it, its done everything I need it too

[@emoanarchist96]

Has anyone tried putting that power unit on other stoves or building something similar in to something to use when hot tenting? Would be an interesting alternative to solar panels on shorter darker days but I can't really find much info on how the power generation works.

[@ziemniakipastewnenieczerni3998]

You forgot to try grill with fan speed 2 or more

[@kevinoshea2870]

Looks great but noisey..👌

[@kentsurvivalgearreview586]

yeah, bit blowy haha, I guess not really noisier than a gas stove though

[@Enjoymentboy]

Very interesting but have to admit I am torn on this. Part of the reason I head into the woods is to get away from modern life and technology so taking another means of using electrical technology just seems counter-intuitive. But I can also see it being handy for charging a GPS unit for instance. But my god that fan is annoyingly loud and would be a deal breaker for me. Would hate to be out in the silence of the woods and then have that horrid whine droning on like that. It would just kill any relaxation or solitude | was out there for. But cool tech nonetheless.

[@eldubs]

For me the idea of getting away camping is to be away from usb chargers, wire's and electronics. I can see its great for disaster areas and like you said developing countries but for me it stick with bushbox.

[@davidprior6437]

Great video, any idea how much these are in £ or $AUD? Thanks 👍

[@bansheemania1692]

I Can not believe how Expensive These got... They used to be 50$. Now it's 140$ just for the biolite

[@claramullen]

Hi Andy this is a very interesting stove lot of components so not for backing but would be nice for car camping. Is it very pricey?

[@kentsurvivalgearreview586]

nah, I wouldn't want to back pack with it, canoe trip is the best use I could think of but everyone has different needs. its not too bad considering what you get.. the alternative is a stove, power bank and solar panel I guess which would add up

[@theconezy]

@@kentsurvivalgearreview586 I use it for bike camping. Weight isn't as much of an issue on my bike vs. backpack. Being able to go an a few weeks trip and not worry about having to charge my phone is nice.

[@jurivlk5433]

Imagine charging your E-Bike with this! Probably only 5V and how many amps? But certainly enough for charging a phone or camera!

[@nzdarkelf2451]

Would be interesting to see how it goes charging up a laptop or phone, or running something from the battery without the fan/fire going.

[@christianluggert9052]

You can forget charging a laptop, even charging a phone takes forever. That little LED light might be fine though. In my opinion it generates just enough electricity to keep the built in battery for the fan charged.

[@the_original_skytiger]

lol Some people just gotta have every gadget that comes out.

[@Jkauppa]

how about a steam-hotair wheel, its just an waterwheel

[@Jkauppa]

they call them angel turbines

[@Jkauppa]

diy thermo-couple, any two different metals

[@Jkauppa]

carbon-iron

[@Jkauppa]

both locally easily available, charcoal-iron

[@Jkauppa]

pig iron

[@kenneth6731]

After a few uses, mine melted.

[@hendrikarqitekt6286]

There’s one other company in Belgium selling this for ages. 😂🎉🤩🪄🛸 A lot of noice in the woods, it seems it is a kind of glam thing, are you really going that way? I hate it already.

[@thesimulatorguy4248]

Please make a full English with poached eggs

[@petersmith6974]

Nice. But the noise is a drawback.

[@joegoins9894]

If that could charge a 📱

[@kentsurvivalgearreview586]

puts out 3w power and has a 2600mAH battery built in :)

[@hmarc417]

Just drill a hole in the side of your camp stove and hang this unit on it next time you go camping. nothing special just use unit. and do a re-review with the new mod.

[@carmenslee6234]

No the bigger version was developed for third world countries. This little job is just the camping stove. Dunno how far they have come developing the big version yet! Haven’t heard about it anyway.

[@colinclifford5713]

£249 for a camping stove

[@sorenbaek9626]

Even after burning for over three hours I could not get my unit to charge up over half way, infact it only lites up three green lights with the fourth flashing away for hours and not any further. This makes it next to useless if you want to charge anything up post cook or later in the evening. Don't bother this gadget is a gimmick, not worth the money. You'll use it once which in validates any chance of a refund then store it at the bottom of a cupboard under an inch of dust.

[@Daniel-xv9hx]

I’ll buy it from you

[@frankfox8784]

Fairly poor review of a really excellent product. Perhaps should have had a bit more experience with it before making the Video or at least read the instructions

[@mattparker9726]

this is such a terrible design, since it uses Peltier devices to make electricity, why not put them all around the source of heat? Terribly inefficient. 3:50 I assume the cold side is simply ambient temperature? Why not use water as a coolant? If you fitted it with aluminum CPU coolers and piped cool stream water through it you could have more heat differential, and thus a steadier flow of electricity, though output would be limited by the single Peltier device. For 229 pounds (dunno what that's in USD) I could make a MUCH more powerful design, and so could they. This is a gimmick. you are paying for a bit of control circuitry and a battery attached to a single 5 USD Peltier device. The molded plastic is an unnecessary additional cost, and environmentally unfriendly. Are the metal parts stainless steel? Or Aluminium? How big is the battery pack inside? A single cell? Three? I would LOVE to get them to send me a unit so I can tear it apart.

[@vespasian266]

what a load of crap.... buy a firefox stove or similar, if you must get a battery pack and small fan.. as much as I want to believe the battery charges up on the fire I simply don't believe a word of it. what your seeing when the bar moves up is exactly what to expect when you warm up a battery. glorified con job.

[@RobbertvanHaaften]

You shouldn't eat animals man, That's a newborn baby that was murdered... We all wanna live, Be fair eat vegan. ✌🏼

[@countryside_guy]

Wrong place for that sort of thing 🙄

[@MetalBuddhaHead]

If you think eating vegan doesn't cause death and destruction to animals or the environment you are mistaken... The manufacturing and delivery alone....

[@exiletsj2570]

I love Biolite stuff. This stove is a melding of our oldest and newest technologies, in a nice useful little package.

[@jasonlund6770]

I’ve been so close so many times to adding the stove to my basket, it’s great to see a full review on it, I’m still not sure as I love my jetboil which does it all apart from the charge bit, that said I do think you should coin the idea about hot tent application, this would fit right in 👍👍

[@kentsurvivalgearreview586]

Its definitely a niche I think, has its place but for some a small power bank is enough. I suggested the hot tent thing to them but I don't think marketing were very interested in passing it along.. id make one if I had knowledge, you can buy thermoelectric generators on ebay.

[@OoavastoO]

@@kentsurvivalgearreview586 Could you not just slightly modify an existing hot tent stove, (small hole for the heat sensor and a simple method of attachment), and use the actual Biolite battery pack/fan/charger itself? No reason I can think of why that wouldn't work. The only thing is from what I can tell, they don't sell the battery pack/fan/charger unit separately so, you'd end up buying this stove anyway. But still, can't see why it wouldn't be interchangeable with a modified hot tent stove. 🤷‍♂️ (sounds like a neat project/video idea for an ambitious and creative KZbinr....*hint hint*😉)

[@tjk355]

Ingenious device The noise though..... I go to the woods to escape the sounds of the city.

[@UrbanGrrl69]

Nice review, you don’t see these used too often I guess coz of the price tag. The gasification and fan looked good.

[@bansheemania1692]

The price Tripled...I was going to get one(just the Burner" now it's 150$

[@GraysOutdoors]

Always seen these on the shelves never seen one work before. Another good review

[@sdsi68]

Always wondered about their stoves, thanks for the video 🤙🤙🤙

[@mistery00t29]

This isn't too bad...especially for an emergency when you dont have place to charge your phone... Nice intro...nicer than on main channel 🙂

[@xaraxania]

That's an interesting gadget, a little bit rich for my budget but it's good to see these things put to the test and who better to do it than you Andy. thanks for the demo :)

[@dorsettyke]

Nice vid' Interesting technology. Very useful in certain situations. I bet you were happy when the fan turned off and that whirring noise went away. I was!! 😁

[@jamesevans164]

I think it would be around $500 in Aus? Great idea.

[@merlinch4256]

I confirm your statements. I also tested wood pellets in this stove and it is a good option, but I would suggest to use hard wood ones, as they last longer (same as in a wood stove or a fireplace). The difference was really huge. Grill: well, it works, but it remains a small (and bulky!) one :-) Using its lid to control the heat is quite effective. While using the grill, my experience is to refuel it regularly, with a small amount each time, too avoid big flames, as they tend to burn the meat and to bring soot onto it. Hence, a little less wood or pellets will give enough heat but smaller flames. Another way to "control" heat is to observe the grill, as there are different areas, speaking of heat. Typically, the sides are "cooler" :-) Thank you for this interesting video. ATB

[@gwydionball4114]

Big thumbs up for reviewing a Biolite product - (I'm amazed its taken you so long!) They're amazing bits of kit supporting a genuine cause for good. Can I talk up their social responsibility aspect - theres a real issue in developing countries with cooking on open fires - fundamentally (anyone who's gone from a living in a house with a wood burner or multi-fuel stove to an open fire will understand) a closed stove burns so much more efficiently than an open fire ie you need less fuel for the same benefit, but to have a closed stove costs more money up front. Also as noted in another comment they've proved their worth in disaster relief. Yup, not a lightweight camping bit of kit but good fun for car camping - I have the fire pit and it genuinely works as a BBQ and also the fan unit very much helps reduce the 'smoke in the eyes' effect you often get from normal fire pits!

[@enricodale]

Thanks, Andy. I came across this idea - a fan driven stove - a few years ago. It was developed for use in regions that had to use open, smoky fires indoors. The smoke from the traditional indoor cooking fires caused respiratory diseases. This method makes the wood pyrolyse and produce combustible gas that burns much more efficiently with much less of the nasty, carcinogenic smoke. So yes, you can heat hotdogs on a fire in your garden (taking five minutes?), but if you need to cook food INSIDE your (one room?) home taking hours, plus heating water for washing and cooking, that's a totally different prospect! Respect to the inventors! It looks like the system that generated electricity for the electric fan now also charges a battery and provides a 5V USB output.