Camping Stoves: Features, Types and Tips for Choosing

These lovers of active recreation will not stop even the cold. And what could be nicer than warm up and eat hot, returning to the tent from the cold? In the tourist inventory includes a lot of useful accessories that make life easier, sometimes it is even a camp stove.

Portable camping stoves are designed to make field conditions in the cold season as comfortable as possible. The walking stove not only makes it possible to warm up in the open air or to warm the tent, it can be used to prepare or heat food.

There are a lot of varieties of tourist and camping stoves, differing in the design of different complexity, material performance, type of fuel used, size and technical capabilities. Some models provide an opportunity to heat only a small tent, others - to cook something or warm tea. And each model is designed to operate under certain conditions.

What are the furnace, consider in more detail.

You can find models of various designs, the distinctive feature of which is small size. Primitive device, small size and low price - the main trump cards of this type of stoves. Usually they are melted with chips or firewood, they do not have burning control, the principle of jet thrust is used. They are usually made of sheet iron. Some models have a cooking surface that allows something to be heated: for example, boil water for tea or fry something in a small frying pan.

Most often it is an ordinary gas burner, to which a small gas cylinder connects with a hose or screw connection. This type has its advantages: even a small portable gas cylinder will provide the stove with fuel, which does not have to be found on site for quite a long time. The device itself does not take up much space, but has more weight than mini-stoves. The design is nothing complicated, but requires certain skills to use.

Such a furnace is usually non-separable and has more impressive dimensions. The simplest design of a wood-burning stove may be of different configurations: with and without combustion control, with and without a hob, the principle of operation may vary slightly, it may even be collapsible.

Material performance also varies: from thin steel, stainless steel or titanium. The titanium furnace will cost more, but it has less weight and an impressive margin of safety, which ensures long-term operation. Such a stove is heated by firewood, dry wood and wood chips that you can take with you or get on the spot.

The simplest design, based on reactive air. Usually it is a pipe and a combustion chamber. The main task of the stove "rocket" or "flint" is heating water or cooking: such a furnace heats up quickly and cools quickly.

A separate type of construction, the main advantage of this type of stoves is compactness and low weight. It's important that You can take such a stove with you, put it in your backpack and go on a hike, for example, in the fall. Structurally, such furnaces resemble a brazier - it is a collapsible design of thin iron or stainless steel.

Separate type of stoves with air blower. Usually they are a small oven “chipbinder” with a battery-powered air blower. As a power supply, some models provide the ability to connect a power bank or other power source. In the upper part of the stove there is a holder that allows you to put the dishes on the fire and heat, boil water. Such a stove is an interesting, modern device that allows widespread use.

Such furnaces suggest fuel smoldering in the combustion chamber. These are non-separable models, which provide a spark arrester and protective screens on the walls of the stove, which increases safety. Fuel briquettes or firewood are used as fuel. A single load of the combustion chamber can provide heat in a tent for up to 5-6 hours, which is very convenient and economical. On such a stove, you can fully cook, heat water or heat the snow.

It is a closed type multibak. When assembled, it resembles a small suitcase, it is very convenient to carry. It is impossible to use such a stove in tents - the stove is intended for use exclusively in the open air for cooking dishes and barbecue.

The main advantages are low weight, ease of transportation, rich equipment and the ability to use the stove where it is forbidden to breed fires. The pipe is equipped with an effective spark arrester, and the legs allow you not to damage the grass cover. The set includes cutlery, some dishes and skewers.

Long burning stove: a single load of the combustion chamber provides heat for up to 5 hours; the smoldering mode allows you to save fuel and not to burn walls, which increases fire safety. It is a cylindrical design, which is installed on a collapsible frame. The weight of 3 kilograms and convenient form provide ease of transportation. The design allows the use of the stove as hot smoked smokehouse.

The furnace, running on diesel fuel and waste oil. A structure weighing up to 6 kilograms is a unit of the following units: a body, a removable fuel tank, a unit with a wick, a burner and a reflector. Such a device will warm up the tent evenly, you can cook food on the burner or heat the water. However, at the time of ignition and quenching can smell like diesel.

It is the simplest stove on the basis of a “scoop”: a steel cylindrical body, it is a firebox, with a mount for a pot or iron utensils at the top. Such a stove does not take up much space and does not require skills in handling equipment. At the same time, it allows you to warm up food or water, and also helps to warm up.

The market is saturated with a huge number of models and manufacturers. You can find a stove for any conditions. It can be a hike or a sortie with the use of transport, recreation "savages" or civilized with comfort. There are even such specific models as stoves for cauldrons. Factors of choice are the type of fuel used, weight, design and price. To choose a camp stove should be based on the following criteria:

• compactness - the furnace should not take up much space, or should be convenient to transport;
• weight - the product should be light, which is especially important in cases of hiking;
• simplicity of design - it is convenient when the product can be assembled at an intuitive level;
• ability to control the burning - there are models that do not provide this possibility, as a result of which the fuel quickly burns;
• high efficiency - the longer it burns and the more heat such a furnace gives, the better;
• moderate fuel consumption - its appearance and consumption is of great importance, because it is not always possible to take fuel with you;
• the ability to use the stove not only in the open air, but also in a tent, other conditions;
• multifunctionality - the presence of a large hob for cooking or heating food, as well as the ability to use the stove as a smokehouse;
• security - it is important that fire and sparks remain inside the firebox;
• screening - the inability to burn yourself on the body.

If the stove is heavy or not folding, it will be difficult to go hiking. When a hike involves a long pastime away from civilization, a wood-burning stove or a “tinderbox” will be more relevant than a gas burner.

If the stove is located in a tent, it is recommended to use a spark arrester on the chimney so that sparks do not fall on the tent and do not cause a fire. As well as to the walls of the tent, a safe distance should be observed (usually indicated in the instructions). A special mat should be placed under the stove to prevent embers or sparks from falling on the tent or things. The furnace is not recommended to be heated.

In field conditions, less stringent requirements: it is enough to clear the installation site to prevent the spread of fire in the event of careless handling of fire.

The review of the camping stove "Time does not wait" (analogue of "Shaitan buckets"), see the following video.