Biolite campstove

[McCrae72]

Anyone use one of these? Seems like a great idea for extended trips wild camping.

[Chalky723]

If you're on a bike you've got a battery with you, otherwise you can carry a battery pack for £20 that'll last you a week.

It's a solution looking for a problem....

[Slowrider]

I love technology and it looks really cool. But for me its a bit too big. If I was driving a GS Van I might consider it. As Chalky723 says, you can charge everything from your bike. I carry a Jetboil as it packs down really small.

[MudFing]

We used one of these for about 5 months. Best bit of kit we had, useless at charging apart from emergencies as it was impossible to keep it burning consistently enough to charge. But for cooking it was great, for about 6 weeks we cooked every single meal on the biolite using only bits of twigs/branches off trees for fuel, this was in places where it was almost impossible to get hold of camping gas or where we didn't stop near shops for weeks on end. BUT for uk use, the little gas cookers, jet stoves are massively better/easier.

[McCrae72]

Valid points, and the charger bit isn’t really what I was thinking about, but not having to rely on gas, just foraging twigs etc to cook with seems like a good idea. It’s a gadget at the end of the day.

[markoh]

Why not go for a simple wood gas stove.


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