I use the Bush Buddy and am happy with it. There is a titanium pot that holds it so no wasted space in the pack. I put lighter and the strike stick inside along with some fire starter.

Good review. I think the mini is brilliantly designed. It does go through fuel the quickest, but for a lightweight backpacking stove with the primary use of boiling 16-24 oz of water rapidly, then moving on, it's spot on.

Good review! I was thinking about the mini but seeing this I have ordered one. NOW the wait! I'm also from Michigan, nice to see we are about and about. Take care.

The Bushbuddy Mini has a diameter slightly smaller than some of the wider/larger cans of vegetables/beans etc, as such, you can just use the lid from those cans (the lid that requires a can opener to remove, not the peel-back kind of lid) and place it under the Bushbuddy Mini and that will prevent any scorching of the ground below... Either that or use some folded up aluminium foil underneath the stove as an ash tray...

Great video

9:42 so now I see you should have 5 stoves, so a meaningful comparison can be made where 3 competative stoves can ALL be loaded and lit bottom to top. Rather obviously top down fires are fast starts and then slow burns. LET'S HAVE A MEANINGFUL COMPARISON!!! THANK YOU!!! (SEE IF THIS COMMENT IS ALLOWED TO SURVIVE!!!)

Good show! Thanks for the video; I think I will go for the Bushbuddy Mini.

I really like my BB mini. Works fantastic and with the less weight I can still add a toaks alcohol siphon stove and use the BB as a wind screen / pot stand and still be less weight than the others. Carry 2 oz for a day hike or a few more but still use twigs whenever to have limitless coffee. No fuel anxiety.

Great Review,,,, Iam currently waiting on my Bush Buddy,,, Another Fantastic wood stove is the Firebox G2 titanium.

I have the Toaks and found that, as the wood burns down, the flame gets too far away from the bottom of the pot to effectively heat my pot. To solve that problem, simply found the top to an imported cookie tin which could function as a stove bottom, riveted it to the bottom of the top piece, cut a loading window opposite the original one, added more ventilation holes, and have a very light, functional wood burner. It doesn't gasify, but it doesn't matter that much when I just want to boil a quick pot of water. All wood burning stoves leave soot, so that's not an issue with me.

Neat stove I'd love to add one to my collection but sadly they arnt available in my country

“Not a KZfaq-er...” casually has more subs than me... 😭 Great overview though! I’ve been thinking of grabbing one of these and I think you helped me narrow it down. Cheers!!

Might want to do a test - without the mini burning the board underneath it - that is added fuel... The other two will still need to have the ground cleared or allow them to burn what is below as well. While not as extensive if you have anything like pine needles they would go up quickly..

Looks like my solo cooker

The wood underneath is on 🔥

Thank you SOOOO much for showing dimensions holy shit

The lixada imitation of the toaks works better. It has different air holes you can also use it just using the two bottom parts and then its very close in design to the other two

Just bought a BB mini. Waiting 12-13 weeks for delivery!

I have the ordinal bushbuddy. Mine is the lighter weight version ultra at 5oz, they stopped selling that as version. You have to be careful with it but it works great. I think the original design is the best not burning the surface below. I use it at shelters on the floor all the time. Far worth it even at the original weight to carry an extra ounce for the way it works.

It's my understanding that gasifier stoves are supposed to be lit from the top.

You need to compare these two stoves with the BEST backpacking wood burning stove. The TRAIL DESIGNS TRI-TI and smaller SIDEWINDER titanium sheet stoves with their INFERNO inverted cone inserts are excellent GASSIFiER stoves. Plus these stoves san be fed larger pieces of wood while burning than the other two WITH a pot on top. You want a "collapsed view"? Look at these two stoves all rolled up in their Tyvek sleeve and stowed in their pot!

Hey Thanks for another great video but nevertheless Im a TOAKS man all the way

You should have used the Toaks Titanium small wood burning stove...you have wood above the secondary burning holes in the Toaks stove...the Toaks is a wood gasifier stove...but you have the wood in your Toaks above these holes... Great. Video ...thank for making it....please forgive me my biased was showing. I'm a Toaks kind of guy...the small works great also...it's about the size of a coffee cup.

The Tokes would be better for simmering and longer cook times for cooking things like beans.

You missed one. Referring to the bush Buddy clone , the Solo Stove Lite. Watching you light them I know I would never have a Bishbuddy mini. The reason I like the Solo Stove and Bushbuddy is the included ash pan in them. It protects the ground from any hot ashes. There is another reason.....I know the manufacture does not recommend this but that ash pan is leak proof. 3/4 of a ounce or so of Alcohol in it and you have a emergency alcohol stove. I found a KZfaq video on that , Alternative fuel for a Bushbuddy. Yes , I tried that with mine and it does work. You have to be extra careful with the alcohol and don't spill any. The upside is I don't have to take a separate alcohol stove to use in it.

The mini should come with an ash pan or something.

Dad Burnit!

Whick one of those do you like best?

The one on the left is the slowest

Bonjour so which one is the best ?

The missing bottom of the mini surely used the wood it was positioned upon as fuel, thereby obfuscating the results. A nice demonstrations regardless. I do not like the open bottom of the mini, possibly a manufacturing decision as opposed to it's overall functionality. Cheers!

Just for curiosity how much $$$$$

Unfortunately the lack of a bottom is why I won't get the mini. Why they did that is beyond me.

I like the toaks large version.The small version like you have sucks! It doesn't have enough air flow to cook properly! The large works much better.

toaks almost works like a wood burning stove, rather than a wood gasification stove

That Bushbuddy Mini looks like a forest fire waiting to happen.

( A PALAVRA DE DEUS ) ( Efésios. 2:8-10 ) "Porque pela graça sois salvos, por meio da fé; e isto não vem de vós, é dom de Deus. Não vem das obras, para que ninguém se glorie; porque somos feitura sua, criados em Cristo Jesus para as boas obras, as quais Deus preparou para que andássemos nelas." Se eu perguntar a Deus se serei salvo por suas obras, Deus responderá com as palavras do versículo acima que não, "porque pela graça sois salvos". Se eu quiser acreditar que minha fidelidade tenha algo a ver com minha salvação, Deus dirá que é "por meio da fé". Então, enquanto eu estiver vasculhando em todos os bolsos de meu ser para ver se encontro algo que possa dar ou fazer para Deus a fim de garantir minha salvação, ele me diz: "Isto não vem de vós", e completa dizendo que é um "dom", ou dádiva. Então, se eu ainda insistir e perguntar: "Será que não tem alguma obra que eu possa fazer, Senhor?", sua resposta será que a salvação "não vem das obras, para que ninguém se glorie". Então pergunto em que parte do processo as obras aparecem e ele me diz que é depois de eu já ter sido salvo, já que fui novamente "criado em Cristo Jesus para as boas obras" que ele preparou para eu andar nelas. E mesmo que eu as cumpra, no final para quem irá a glória? Para Deus. ( Romanos. 10:9-10,13 ) "Porque, se com a tua boca confessares a Jesus como Senhor, e em teu coração creres que Deus o ressuscitou dentre os mortos, será salvo; pois é com o coração que se crê para a justiça, e com a boca se faz confissão para a salvação. Porque: Todo aquele que invocar o nome do Senhor será salvo." ( João. 14:6 ) "Respondeu-lhe Jesus: Eu sou o caminho, e a verdade, e a vida; ninguém vem ao Pai, senão por mim." ( Atos. 16:31 ) "Crê no Senhor Jesus e serás salvo, tu e tua casa."

Solo Stove

Yeah guy don’t do these anymore