Comments on: Biolite Camp Stove: a long-term user review https://abrightonboyblogs.co.uk/biolite-camp-stove-a-long-term-user-review/ Consumer issues, recipes and apolitical thoughts from a Brighton native. Tue, 16 Sep 2014 22:47:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Jon https://abrightonboyblogs.co.uk/biolite-camp-stove-a-long-term-user-review/#comment-5187 Tue, 16 Sep 2014 22:47:22 +0000 http://abrightonboyblogs.co.uk/?p=856#comment-5187 In reply to Lisa G.

What size of twigs have you been using, and where did you gather them from? It could be excess moisture, but packing them too densely can also be a problem. Near-vertical seems to be best. I’ve always found it perfectly reliable, and more so than gas. You need to build up heat gradually – the starter fuel is pretty much 100% used on just getting the temperature of the gases in the chamber to flashpoint, and after that you can feed larger, thumb-thickness sticks in to keep it going. Don’t feed in too much at once. Feed the sticks in one by one.

]]> By: Lisa G https://abrightonboyblogs.co.uk/biolite-camp-stove-a-long-term-user-review/#comment-5185 Tue, 16 Sep 2014 21:41:53 +0000 http://abrightonboyblogs.co.uk/?p=856#comment-5185 Great time here, thanks. Just received one as a present and tried it out in the garden today….nothing but smoke 90% of the time. Did get a boil in the end, I’m guessing the twigs I used just weren’t dry enough, I thought they seemed ok but I reckon that must have been the problem, a bit of that and also maybe pushing too much fuel in. Anyway, gonna have another try as it’s a nifty piece of equipment, not sure ill backpack with it though as not reliable enough as gas and quite a bit heavier than a pocket rocket with gas. Do you prod the fuel at all when it’s inside to make air pockets or do you just keep feeding the twigs in vertically? I was prodding it today hoping to make the smoke disappear!

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