Alcohol Stove

Great stove! Simple and very effective for what I needed. As a solo camper, I highly recommend this product. Lightweight and compact, it’ll take up all of a fistful-sized space (this excludes fuel source which was in its own container). Output and speed: I filled the canister with fuel (denatured alcohol) about 1/4” from the top and the heat was compared to low on a gas stove. After a couple of minutes, it ramped up and gave me a nice steady medium-high heat. Never timed anything but I never had to wait long for my pan to heat or water to boil. I didn’t use camping cookware, just a small pan and pot from home and still got great results. I’d say, with the foods I cooked, I had a good meal in 10-15 minutes. Never cooked till I ran out of fuel but there were times I snuffed the fire to add more fuel (going from making coffee, to cooking a meal). Safety: Though I used a pot and pan from home, I will be shopping for more appropriate cookware. My pan was way too heavy for the stove and I had to manipulate/bend the stove a little to properly hold the pan. Where I went camping had a burn ban, so I used the firepit to use the stove in case of an accident (which my heavy pan almost caused a couple of times). The biggest safety concern is not properly setting your cookware atop or the fuel canister getting knocked over causing a disaster. Exercise caution when finding a place to cook. Definitely recommend this stove to all the solo campers, hikers, backpackers, and emergency preppers. Also recommend getting some type of shield to put around while cooking to keep the flame in place from wind.

Good kit. It's fairly robust and sturdy. It's easy enough to use but I would have liked better instructions. Even the little bag that it fits in is ok quality. For the price it's very good. My use is for power outages, heating water for coffee etc which it does well enough.

Ok first the bad: as received this is a very sub par alcohol stove. It works, the construction is sturdy, but the holes are drilled incorrectly and the stand is not bent correctly. If you look at the photos I posted with this review you'll see that the vents are drilled (punched?) in two sizes and alternate. The small holes are something like 0.8mm and the larger holes are somewhere around 1.3mm(ish). I have no idea why they did this. For the stove to function properly the holes need to be the same size. I used a pin vise and some small drill bits to enlarge the small holes to 1.2mm and then used a 1.5mm bit to enlarge all of the holes. The difference is about five minutes to boil for 16oz of water in a controlled environment test. After the modification this little $16 stove will boil water almost exactly as fast as my small Trangia. Before the mod it took almost 5 minutes longer. The other issue is the stand. As it comes the stand will not support the burner in the position in the picture on my review properly. This picture is taken after I've bent those tabs in to fully support the burner. Also the little handle on the simmer ring is cut too short on one side on this unit. No big deal, I can just replace it with a leg from a large binder clip, but still. The final downside is that this stand is NOT a windscreen. You will NEED a windscreen if you're using an alcohol stove outdoors, and will almost certainly want one indoors as well. The manufacturer claims this is a windscreen. It is not. In any way. Ok on to the good! For $16 this thing competes with my $25 small Trangia burner (after 5 minutes with a pin vise and some drill bits). Which also didn't come with any kind of stand. The construction is super sturdy, it's much sturdier than I expected for $16. I picked this up to put in a travel kit so I won't be selling off my Trangia, but if I didn't own a Trangia I wouldn't feel compelled to buy one because the performance difference is negligible (after the mods to this one). In short, if you don't mind doing a very minor bit of modding this is a great way to save $10 and pick up a decent stand in the bargain. Well worth the money for what you get for $16 and a little elbow grease.

Really nice little stove. Filled 3/4 full with denatured alcohol and was able to light it with one strike of a ferro rod. Placed it under the upside down stand with no control lid. 20 minutes to get 20oz (2.5 cups) hot enough for a dehydrated meal. 30 minutes to a rolling boil. 58 degree day. Light wind but stove never blew out. Not a super fast stove but certainly good enough for emergency use. Used less than half the fuel in that 30 minutes. Zero soot. Definitely would buy again.

This alcohol stove is pretty standard in size and quality to similar stoves on the market. Price wise, it's on the lower end of the scale. I like that it came with a combination pot stand/wind breaker. It also came with a very nice drawstring carry bag that stops most of the rattling, protects the stove, and keeps everything together. All of the parts seem to be sturdy and everything fits together very well. The first time I used it, it lit easily, and bloomed quickly. I use the yellow bottle Heet as fuel. It works just fine with this stove, and is available in lots of stores. The pot stand works well with larger pots and skillets, but if you want to use a small cup, or a Stanley cook set, you can turn the pot stand upside down over the stove, and then you have a nice area to set smaller cookware. The pot stand is only mediocre as a wind break, and alcohol stoves really need a good wind break, so I use a folding aluminum one, but a home made foil one would also work well. Overall I'm as happy with this stove as I am with my more expensive name brand stoves. I keep stoves in various emergency kits, and camp gear kits, so I get to make comparisons between the different brands. So far, this stove performs as well as any of the high price stoves. If I need another one, or want to buy one as a gift, I would definitely buy this one again, and I highly recommend it to anyone needing a good camping, or emergency kit stove.

Fantastic, sturdy and well made. It's my first alcohol stove. Burned methyl hydrate and it lasted about 30 mins on a fill up. I usually use a canister style stove in the back country however I will try this in my rotation!

Much lighter than similar products and burns hot. Time will tell if it is a durable. The stove stand needs a wind shield if you are thinking of using it outdoors and, like virtually all such stands, it is too wide to accommodate mugs or narrow based pots! .

Me encantó, luego luego que llego y antes de tiempo previsto!, la probé calentando leche y haciendo un huevo y con solo 1/4de alcohol hice ambas cosas perfectamente y me quedo alcohol todavía, me encantó su peso y diseño!

Excelente calidad . Funciona de manera perfecta.

Super cool little stove for $20 bucks.. stand fits good and doesn’t get hot.. Little gadget to adjust and/or extinguish the flame works pretty slick. Runs forever on hardly and fuel. Haven’t stored it with fuel in it but looks good and I’m pretty sure there wouldn’t be any seepage issues. And comes with pretty decent little storage bag. I’ve only used methyl hydrate which is available in 4L jugs at any hardware or auto parts stove. Burns clean, hot and no suet. 4L would probably last u like 4 years. Hardly burns anything