Formula for success when you have these elements.

Nice tip! 👌🏼

Some folks have tested various amounts of pellets, and found that 1 cup burns the most efficiently.

@@justinw1765 not sure how much a cup is but around 1 pound seems to be good and comes up just below the gas slots at the top

Thank you so much for your kind words. Absolutely! Someone who is nitpicking all the time will never be happy with anything. There is no need to "pick bones in an egg", especially when cheaply or reasonably priced.

These are cheap enough to buy without too much deliberation.

Yes. Should have used one. Thanks!

Thanks!

Cool!

Yes. Very well-made. I am very happy with this purchase. Thanks for watching!

And they are clean burning, too, with hardly any ash.

Thanks for watching!

I like your style!

One should be able to make one of these fairly easily using stainless steel kitchen pails. You are right about not able to find U.S. made products of this type, even if you wanted to buy American. At $22, there is just not enough profit incentive to make these, especially now the minimum wage is $15 an hour. I am OK with China making these low-priced items, as long as we can sell them our high-priced stuff that they can't make, like jumbo jets.

Also, nowadays you often can't tell where the stuffs are made. The Solo Stove, with similar design, is an American company based in Ft. Worth, TX, but I read they outsource their manufacturing to China. The most basic Solo cost $110, and the design may not be as good as this Ohuhu stove. I am not even sure if Solo was the first company to use this design. I read on Wikipedia that the gasifier stoves were also called "Chinese stoves" in the past, so there you go...

@@rmwtsou Exactly my point in regard to Solo's pricing. Thanks for the video Bob, great find!

Use any wood pellets. Buy the cheapest. No need for bottom mesh. Just add pellets directly.

Ha ha. Will have to go to PWR and make some hot tea soon. This little stove is great. Problem with my barren man cave backyard is it gets overgrown with weeds by summer and I will have to hire gardeners to clear it. Consider mulching it with bark. Thanks for watching!

@@rmwtsou one more thing...I was watching another video about the Sterno "Inferno" stove, which of course, perfectly holds a sterno can. It does look like if you wanted a cleaner burning fuel, you could maybe stick a sterno can in there?

@@dgunearthed7859 Yes, I have seen those before. This stove does come with a tray for solidified alcohol fuel. You can probably use liquid alcohol as well but that may be a fire hazard if the stove gets tipped over. By the way, I have just upload a new video of using the Big Horn Outdoors pellet-burning pizza oven. It is pretty cool. Thanks for watching.

@@rmwtsou Sorry Bob, I watched this video again and I was wondering about the torch. It looks like it fits right on top of a can of pressurized lighter fluid? Like the type of can you would use to re-fill say your Clipper lighter? Or is it a can of fuel specifically for that torch? Thank you. And I'm sorry about the haters below. For those of us who aren't handy (like myself) and can afford a $22 item like this, I think this is great. I mean at least you're not hocking that 4patriots gasifier star stove. It's going for $60 bucks. Now that's something to complain about! lol

@@dgunearthed7859 The torch fits right over any ordinary butane fuel can that is commonly used in household butane stoves. They are usually sold in packs of 6 cans in Asian grocery stores and are cheap. You can probably find them on Amazon. Here is an example of the torch on Amazon. It is cheap and very useful. Thanks for asking!

Sorry, when I made this video, I wasn't quite thinking about you. :-)

@@rmwtsou Haha! Ouch!

I have a mini butane torch that I use to light my alcohol stoves, so that's what I do, splash a half ounce of alcohol on the cheapest hardwood pellets to getter started. Hard to tell if it's lit, but u will feel it b4 u see it. Doesn't take long for secondary burn & not much smoke. Pellets burn for a long time, and u still got useable heat from coals, after flames go out & then nothing left but a bit of ash. I use methyl hydrate, paint thinner. Sometimes a squirt of hand sanitizer, sometimes scrape up a piece of birch bark & use that to light the hand sanitizer/alcohol, so u know it's lit. Fondue fuel works too, it's blue so u can see it burning, or fire gel. A piece of birch bark on top is not enough, but dispersed inside the pellets, maybe. Experimenting is half the fun, good luck

Let it burn out or pour water on it. It is easy to clean.

Cool sounds easy

Absolutely no soot. It is clean burning. No smoke, no soot.

@@rmwtsou Thank you for the quick reply. !!

There are side air holes at the bottom, the tray protects the ground from heat & falling embers. I use a double wrapped aluminum foil, carbon felt pad from another project, protects my wife's precious plastic table cloth on the patio table - leave no trace, right?

Absolutely no soot! It is clean burning, not even smoke. That is what gasification is all about!

Ok thanks. My experience is completely different from yours. I used mine for three months last summer going from Florida all the way up to Moosehead lake. Stopping in west Virginia and Maryland for 1.5 months. I used mine at least 2 times per day and soot from the 20lbs bag of pellets was terrible. I eventually decided to baton 0.5-0.75" sticks of extremely dry wood instead. I get nearly complete combustion with blue to clear flames. Your pellets are giving off orange flame which in my career as a chemist, denotes an incomplete combustion, but yet you have no soot. I wish I was so lucky.

@@samthai818 I have not used thus stove since the video but as I recall, when full gasification was achieved, the flame is bright and full, with absolutely no smoke or soot. All equipment remains clean an afterwards, there us only a little dry ash remaining in the burn chamber, which I just dump and there is nothing to clean. Absolutely no soot!

@@samthai818 perhaps you put too much pellets in the chamber and they blocked the air intake?

@@samthai818 Blue to clear flames? What are you burning, NG or hydrogen??

Ha ha ha

You're right, I woulda squirted the weed with some Round-up. lol