Using a twig stove at the Pinery Provincial Park, we show you what it is and how it works. Twig stoves are small, portable stoves that can easily be packed in a backpack and taken on day hikes or longer camping trips. These stoves use ‘twigs’ to fuel the fire to boil water and cook items that don’t need to be simmered.
This is our second time using this Soleader Twig Stove. On our first try, we boiled soup in a wider bottom titanium pot and used resources we could find in the immediate area. On this particular day, we have brought some dried tinder and twigs to fuel the fire in order to boil water for tea and hot chocolate.
Using a narrow Stanley pot wasn’t as efficient as the wider titanium pot, so we’ll probably stick to the other pot in the future (seen above).
Here are our tips from our second attempt:
1. Bring dry tinder with you, or gather along the trail and stick it in a pocket.
2. Do not leave the stove unattended, because the fire will go out.
3. Use small twigs to keep the fire burning, anything too large will not work.
4. Use a wider bottom pot to have more surface area to boil water faster.
5. Don’t use this stove for heat or larger groups.
Overall, we think this is a great little, portable stove and will continue to use it periodically. It doesn’t replace our other stoves and it won’t be usable just everywhere but it should be handy and fun to have in a backpack during hikes.
There are many different twig stoves on the market, including ones made out of titanium. The one we bought was from Amazon and was only $30, which we thought was a deal.
