Tomshoo Wood Stove Gear Review

[@tonypattison7971]

You should try stacking the sticks vertically and quite tightly and then light from the top.Cotton wool smeared with vaseline is a good way to start up.Also try using wood pellets (cat litter) Again lit from the top with some tinder. The small tray is for bio ethanol or methylated spirits (i think you call it denatured alcohol in America).You can also use gel fuel or hexamine tablets.If yo turn the fire basket upside down then the burn is closer to the pot and works much better.I have been using my stove for 5 or 6yrs now and its my go to stove and my favourite.Mine fits inside my billy can along with my fire kit and makes for a nice compact set up.I hope that you enjoy your learning journey with it.👍

[@melissahoffman4687]

Next time, add all sticks into the stove, then light your fuel up. Don't put sticks over the fire. That's what snuffs it out, making is smoke.

[@fringescience1000]

Thank you for the video brother. You can get rid of that blackening with ez off oven cleaner.

[@melissahoffman4687]

You can soak twigs, or wood pellets with denatured alcohol in a gallon bag overnight. That may stop the soot problem. Worth a try.

[@Andy-nc3xk]

Great vid thanks Andy from buxton uk

[@steveneugene339]

the solid fuel tray can be used to cook a egg also . Good vid.

[@seasonstudios]

Good review. I think that one is the most versatile of all the copycat cylindrical gasifier stoves. Great stove.

[@Steve-ns2hb]

Excellent review. I love the gasifier chimney effect. I found this stove nests perfectly in my 2 qt pot. The little bowl there I believe is for if you want to burn alcohol also..at least I saw a Chinese vid where the user poured 1 ounce of fuel into the tray.. Very informative vid bro. I suscribed to you channel. I liked the honest methodical way you went about figuring out this stove for the first time. Probably you just needed a wind screen for the esbit..try that asvit should work.

[@theoutdoorguys7091]

Thank you for subscribing. This was literally my first time using a twig stove. I was going for a raw, real overview on this stove. I honestly have not used an alcohol stove. I only ever use iso-butane, and my MSR Dragonfly. Esbit hates me... haha.

[@davidcooper6704]

Lay an upside down fire - large chunks of wood in first then twigs then tinder on top. This will give you a better burn time. The fire will burn downwards as suggegest by their description - Coxial downdraught gasification stoves. Have a look at some videos on Solo stoves, for example. Their are so many folk who get the fire lighting method wrong. My over priced Solo stove came with instructions but my Tomshoo cheapy did not. Hope this helps.

[@williamhervey6409]

Did you flip the fuel bin over before you used the solid fuel?

[@timetoreason181]

You are doing all wrong, this stove is top to bottom [top down] burning stove. Fill up with big fire wood and lit the top with wood shaving or similar and it will burn down and can add more later if you like. This is an excellent Chinese made stove except for the grill mesh.

[@Steve-ns2hb]

I disagree..The stove burns first at the bottom with a secondary burn at the top from the gasification effect. He wasn't wrong..if you view professional demos on other gasifiers, they stuff the stoves with leaves, grass, in the beginning. He got it working just fine here.

[@theoutdoorguys7091]

Hello, thank you for the comment. Understand this was my very first time using a twig stove of any kind. I wanted this video to be real, i could have edited out all my failures but wanted to show that its not as simple as some people show it to be. You could be right, but honestly the way I light this stove is with a small bit of solid fuel in the bottom, throw in the small tinder and work my way up to the bigger stuff. Your right about the grill mesh it sucks, they shouldn't even include it.

[@timetoreason181]

@@theoutdoorguys7091 Do not think you failed demonstrating it correctly in your first go. I myself learnt by experiments and have same or similar one working for few years. I am not going to explain the sciences of lighting fires but some can and should be done top down due to various situations. Rather than focusing ONLY on the traditional way by forcing yourself it to work [giving an impression that this stove is useless] you should have demonstrated other ways which would have given more colour to your video, and also encourage new comers to do safe experiments. Even though most Chinese products are craps, there are a lot of new innovations and much superior products available and for a lesser price. My Roxon multitool beats highly spoken Leathermans and Swiss Army knives and same goes to 8'' chef's knives. To add more there are excellent Chinese made photographic accessories beating ridiculously highly priced equipments. I do not want to buy a more than A$ 1OO Leatherman with cork screws, bottle openers, nail clippers or nail files but my lesser priced Roxon does with excellent superior steel at par with my trade tools, without nail clippers. Yes some do love to flash around A$ 1OO nail files!!! Take care and stay safe. I watched through out thinking you go the other way around as it is not a design fault. Cheers.

[@truthseeker7759]

This is a top down / upside down fire pit, period. No offence intended. This is an excellent fire pit and do not have any design faults. Yes true it is Made in China and sad to say a classic. If anyone does not know there are many ways of lighting a fire. To say in short top down is one unique way and there is a way in stacking fire wood, larger at the bottom stacking up criss-crossing the layers with smaller going to the top where you lit the pile. This method create less smoke and gives out more as the gases that create are burnt off due to heavy burning logs underneath. gives out more heat and clean light. Far better than the tipi fire method he tried to demonstrate, Tipi is one of many ways of making fires. Lots of laughs reading that some like to pay Leatherman Victorinox for nail files, corkscrews etc. Yes laughable, I have few of these including very hyped up collectible Leatherman Super Tool of the early 9Os which is a work safety risk. Yes then we did not have Ganzo or Roxon and we admired them for egoistic nationalism and paid a useless premium. I do have a Roxon S8O2, with interchangeable super sharp long lasting blades and it is my workhorse in the woods now. Sadly it is hard to know about superior Chinese products as that is how China operates producing more junk. Oh I missed DJI drones, world class, unbeatable and manual prime lenses Chinese make too.

[@Steve-ns2hb]

@@truthseeker7759 No. The design and engineering is meant for a bottom to top burn. If you fill the burn chamber completely to where the only place to start the burn is on top, combustion still occurs, but optimal and primary burn eventually occurs first in the bottom, with a secondary burn at the top. You're just perpetuating what you've been told..its a myth though. No offense.😀

[@jimmcnally7853]

I have one of these and is great. Your wood burning techniques are problematic. You are adding more fuel just after lighting and asphyxiating the burn before it has has a chance to get going. Add fuel a little at a time until fire has has a chance to get going. Alternatively, stack fuel to just below the air holes, then light on top for a top down burn and don't add anymore fuel until at least half has burned. Bottom up lighting will not burn efficiently due to diminished oxygen coming from below to upper levels which will mostly char but not burn and you will get lots of soot as you found out. Don't be too anxious to get it going,

[@theoutdoorguys7091]

Thank you for the comment and advise! You are correct, I figured this out about 4 times after using this stove that if you fill it below the holes, and just feed it sticks as needed it will burn a lot more efficiently with less soot. I have contemplated doing another follow up video highlighting that fact. Most people will use a product for months or weeks before posting a review video, I wanted to show the product from a fresh standpoint of someone who just picked this up and wanted to cook on it. I felt that showing the issues I ran into while lighting the stove and such would lead to some conversation and also show people they are not alone when trying to light one of these for the first time with no experience... lol.

[@omersun]

Nice video. Top to bottom fire would be much more efficient. Stove burns approximately 30 minutes without any feedings. Also, instead of that ash plate, you can consider putting a flat metal sheet under the stove which doesn't block the air inlets at the bottom.

[@williamhervey6409]

The "ash cup" is also s cup for cooking with alcohol 😊

[@sramm]

I've always wondered why people don't treat hexamine like any other fuel. If 1 doesn't do the trick it simply means you should have used 2. You see it all the time on KZbin videos. If a hand full of sticks doesn't bring water to a boil...add another hand full.

[@Radoslaw731]

I just am wondering why oh why people use so thin pots 😂😅

[@joepedophile5528]

Maybe you should read the instructions first to see which parts are what before commenting. 🤔

[@arnoldarnold4944]

Amateur