kampMATE Lightweight Camping Stove

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kampMATE Lightweight Camping Stove
Price: $19.99
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Lightweight is not 1.1 lbs for a frame only campstove.

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You could not get away with much less if you wanted it to last more than one burning. I have a different model but similar in that it collapses to fold and pack flat. It is made of decent gauge steel and puts up with a lot of heat without warping or softening and bending under the load of a cook pot. Round ones that do not collapse can be made of thinner material because of the structural integrity of a cylinder.

Having said that, I will pass be cause a) I have too many stoves and b) $20 with shipping is too much (I paid $10 with shipping for mine).

Also, the opening in the side to feed fuel would make this stove inefficient and smoky - there is no way for the wood to get hot enough for gassification. You need a chamber that can draw air down the sides to get hot enough to do that.

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I realize there is a trend towards these wood-fired camping stoves (BioLite, etc) but I don’t think people realize how difficult it can be to gather enough wood of the correct size to cook on these stoves. Add a rain shower and it’s even worse. Then there is the issue of smoke-these can never be as clean burning as a gas or white fuel stove. And some camp areas even prohibit you from gathering fuel to burn.

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I have to agree the opening is way to small to keep feeding wood into that stove. 1.1 pound ouch that is way to heavy for this small of a stove. The littlbug junior is only 5.5 ounces and bigger. If I want to carry something that is 1.1 pounds then I will carry my littlbug senior and I can put a dutch oven on it if I need to. Even with both stoves that are wood burners they do convert to alcohol burning. Of course those stoves are way more than the 20 dollars of this stove.

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Butane canisters run about .5 lbs for 10-15 hours burn time, 20 if you are lucky. That is not counting the burner.

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Came for the pedantic arguments about “lightweight” from the ultralight gear mafia. Was not disappointed!

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If you’re backpacking and you’re keeping to 1/3 your weight for everything, every bit matters.

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Ha ha, I couldn’t resist this one. They actually say “Ultra Lightweight” in the listing title. That is absurd. I’m not a big fan of Esbit stoves, but I would take one of the original Esbit folders (6.3oz w/ 6 fuel tabs) backpacking before this one.

I hacked an old aluminum bottle into 3 pieces and riveted it back together to make a <2oz alcohol stove that works just fine for the trips I do. I just fill up a handful of those little energy shot bottles with HEET for the fuel.

This stove does look kinda cool though. From the little photo, I kinda thought it was a shiny chrome-colored bounce house at first.

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Prepare to spend 30 minutes waiting for a simple cup of coffee.

A nice, lightweight backpacking stove is worth the money.

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For those of you that care about ripoffs and buying from USA based companies, this is a blatant copy of the patented Emberlit stove invented by Mikhail Merkurieff.

I have a couple of his stoves and they work great. He’s also a really nice guy, so please support him instead of buying these.

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I LOVE my SVEA 123!

There. Now stove comments are complete.

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I have about 7 different wood/tablet/alcohol burning stoves from Esbit to Sterno, including 2 alcohol stove, made out of 99 cents mini flash light, 2 gasfier stoves made out of regular soup cans and bigger 1 gallon can (not the paint can). And that’s not including my gas stoves… I also have this stove. This is not ultra light. It’s very sturdy and well built. It’s also big compared to my Sterno or Esbit so you can place bigger pot on it. I like it.
There are many good reviews on youtube. My only gripe is that it’s not foldable, so you have to assemble it to use and take down when you are ready to move.

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Agreed! At this price point, it is not terrible… but the Vargo Titanium Hexagon stove I have is 4.1 oz. More than double the price, but you can get a much lighter similar stove if you have the cash.

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I think the point of the original post was that canister stoves are not much more weight.

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Ditto on the Emberlit stoves; they’re good and sturdy, and there are Ti models for gramophobes. Whether a vendor is a nice guy or not is not as important, but good service is, and Emberlit provides that as well. Emberlit’s designer steel flint strikers are nice as well, and they throw good, hot sparks.

Eschew this suboptimal replicant for the real thing.

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I love the littlbug junior stove at 5.1 ounces plus it is 6" Tall x 5.5" Diameter. I love the fact that this stove can be used with alcohol so it is dual burning stove. Of course this is an american made product with great support.

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It’s not a backpacking stove, it’s a camping stove. :wink: Sometimes I think backpackers forget that there are people who get out there, and don’t do things the same way they do. It doesn’t make them wrong, just different.

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If you’re car camping, which I did this past weekend, I wouldn’t use this at all. We hauled in some 3-burner grill with a 20lb propane tank.

This thing doesn’t seem to adequately fill a spot.