I love the precision of your thoughts and speech. Nothing wasted on or off the trail! Great video thanks

Hi Mark. Watched this video some time ago. Modified my Lixada with the cross bars today and have halved the boiling time. Excellent suggestion.

THANK YOU SOO MUCH. I bought an aluminum 1 wide x 1/16 thick plate at ace and cut the cross pattern for the top of my small Lixada titanium stove and cut it so a pot would sit 5/8 inch Above the burners. WOW. What a difference. Before this, I was going to sell it on Ebay just to get rid of it as it would not stay lite with sticks or small chunks of wood. I noticed this stove has no holes on the bottom sides whereas other stoves do, spthat was going to be my 2nd try to fix the air flow but now it is perfect. Hardly any smoke when I put the pot on and burns beautifully. Just to be clear, this stove I am referring to is 3.5" wide x 4 1/4 " tall. THANK YOU AGAIN FOR HELPING ME GET THE PERFECT BACKPACKING STOVE FOR ME. ALLOWS ME TO USE WOOD OR ALCOHOL. PERFECT

Hi Mark Love watching your in depth reviews on all things related to the outdoors, you always have the answers to what we really want to know about a product. On the basis of this final review of the Lixada mini wood stove, I went ahead and bought one!. Such a cute little thing!, and so small and light to pack for a hike. Have used it both with wood and a Trangia burner, and used your tip of sitting the burner on top of the its screw cap for extra height, which worked a treat. I also found that with the one I bought that by sitting the Trangia adapter on top of the stove, enabled me to put a smaller than usual diameter mug over the flame without it toppling!. So a big thumbs up from me for this versatile dinky little stove 👍👍. Best Wishes Les Dartford Kent England

Good testing series on that stove... thanks for taking the time to film it! Very informative!

By far the best review for the stove. Thank you for all the information and ideas.

Nice little stove, and your research and testing has made it even better. Thank you for the video, Mark

Thanks Mr. Young for the good presentation and information. I like the modifications you made to the stove. I’ve been looking at this stove and the Firebox Nano.

Hi Mark, subbed your channel over here in Ireland recently. Great videos, nice editing and very clear advice and thoughts. Look forward to more to come. Oh and I ordered the lixada stove aswell.

nice video, nice voice, nice review.. its a YES for me! you're IN for the next round sir!

Some great suggestions here Mark. Thanks for posting. I'll be trying these out!

Excellent video. Well done, sir.

@ 8:32: "more preferentially" . . . wow Mark, you've got a magnificent vocabulary! I love listening to you explaining the intricacies of the modern backpacking stoves.

I just got one of these stoves today (first stove ever!) and it comes with the pot rests now. I'll be making a wind shield next I'm in the UK where it's windy everyday. Thanks for a great video

Great in detail review of the Lixada stove - thanks for sharing Mark!

Good video and thank you for posting. I like your idea for the opening to feed wood. I was able to fabricobble a stainless hinged door for the opening but I hadn’t thought of putting draft holes on the door. I’ve also made a stainless cross for the top. I use this stove some but still prefer a jet (wood gas) stove in the cooler months because it seems to preform better even with a trangia (another modified stove I’ve made).

Nicely done! I've got the larger version of that same stove which came with the pot stand and an alcohol burner included. I found that you couldn't get the snuffer cap onto the burner while the crossbars were in place so I added a couple of cheap stainless tent pegs to the kit. Not only are they useful for removing the hot crossbars to snuff the burner, but also for hooking into the holes on opposite corners of the main body to move the entire stove if the wind shifts unexpectedly, etc. Other uses include extra pot stands, fishing out the halves of the pot stand when you inevitably drop one or both into the fire, a poker while burning wood, and chopsticks to pick up any burning bits that fall out and put them back where they'll do some good. Hoping that my experience proves useful to someone :)

Nice ! The Firebox Nano sure is a dream although costs more . I almost got the Lixada but went for the Nano and I think for me it was a good choice . You'd love it . Have fun and nice mods !

I have two of these stoves. Your conclusions are right on. Thanks

Nice thorough review of the stove and a great channel Keep up the great work

Mine came today, with potbearers! I guess they looked at your review and went back to the drawingtable. Great review!

I agree that the side port is too large on these Lixada stoves. Appreciate all the time you put into this series. Thanks for sharing.

After watching this video I ordered this stove and it's matching Lixada alcohol burner for just under $16 on e-bay. I will be making the cross pieces and blocking plate, as you described for raising pots/pans to the sweet spot when using the alcohol burner. By the way I also purchased the Bio Lite cook stove and grill. Your videos are among the best on you-tube, even though they hit my wallet. LOL

Hello Mark, Great analysis and thanks for showing us how to make the cross stand. I have this stove and the cross stand will make it much more efficient and useful.

Nice pot stand Mark... looks effective and stable! I'm using the same stove quite frequently now, with sticks or pellets (as a wet weather back-up). Great light-weight system!

I missed this one... Good vid!

Thanks for the tips, really helped. I came up with something a little different but the principle was the same.

If I am going to use wood, I usually use a woodgas stove that I made. I like this stove with alcohol and have never had a problem. I actually did kind of what you did with a couple of pieces of coat hanger wire and it raised my pot up just enough. Good review.

Thanks Mark, excellent video and instruction!

Very cool, nice long term look at the lixada

Great info and presentation Mark. Thanks!

Thanks for the tips, I'll be doing those. I got the titanium version as a Christmas present, but due to lockdown in the UK, and I have no garden, I haven't tried it outside. My Trangia burner is too small a diameter for the plate, so that's been left out of the kit I've assembled. That consists of a stainless steel sandwich lunch box that doubles as a mess tin, so I've put a handle on the centre of the lid's underside so I can reverse the lid to use as a cover. I use an old Mini Trangia sprung steel pot grabber for the handle and a folding spork, small bottle of meths (fuel for the burner in the UK) lighter and anything else I can fit in like sachets of coffee and sugar etc plus a homemade centre fire burner as it's lighter than the Trangia. A single mug takes just under 4 minutes to boil. A tip for you and the simmer ring. This works on the Trangia. If your's is magnetic, get one of those small extendable magnets for getting to dropped screws/nuts/tools in awkward places, or you could just fix a stick with epoxy resin to a small magnet and use that to fix to the simmer plate to snuff your burner out.

Fantastic video sir. Thank you very very much. Great creativity

Great presentation, just ordered mine! I was a Whisperlite diehard but thought about needing extra fuel far from civilization.

I've just got one for Christmas and found my cup just fitted on the top but dubiously, that's when my dad noticed the trangia holder has a lip at the front and back that fits perfectly on the top of the stove so you can rest smaller cups on top. I'm not sure how it will effect air flow as haven't tried it yet but my cup fit perfectly now.

Love your videos! Can you recommend an entry-level twig stove? Some budget-conscious and more simple. I'd like to play around with one. Thanks.

Great video. Have the same hinged folding stove that I use with my trangia burner. Don't have any cross stands yet. but do have one question. If you put the cap under the burner on the bottom plate, will the heat from the burner itself harm or in any ways damage the rubber o rings in the cap itself???

You should try a few bent aluminum or stainless steel bicycle spokes (from a new or old bicycle wheel) that you can insert into a few pre-drill holes. I've seen many other DIY wood/alcohol stoves use bicycle spokes to hold alcohol stoves, used as grills for cooking over coals and/or as makeshift grill/pot stands when placed over a Dakota Fire Hole (and most of those DIY grill builds for Dakota Fire Holes had two round metal tubes [one that fit inside the other and both with about 15 - 30 evenly matched holes for the spokes to go through] to make a colaspable pocket grill for use on a fire or Dakota Fire Hole). The windscreen from a Dollar Tree store aluminum foil pan was a great idea. A sheet of heavy duty aluminum foil is important to keep in any fire or cooking kit. I keep a decent size sheet in all of my firestarter kits for many reasons. Sincerely, Jacob SurvivalGeek (KZfaq) kzfaq.info/love/fRsUPToBXp4ZIre__dJg4A

Got the hinged model with the small steel dish as I usually use Hexi tabs when a wood fire isn't doable. Been using an Ikea Hobo stove in moorland environments where wood is limited and it's often wet to concentrate the heat I have but this is a more easily backpackable option. Thanks for the vid.

Very good review / advice.

So this stove is not really designed well to begin with but satisfactory after diy modifications. Interesting, although I do like my little gasifier wood stove. I do use my trangia in it sometimes and it all fits neatly into my cooking pot. Nice to see what others are using too, it's all about finding what works for yourself I guess. Thanks for sharing!

Hi Mark, I wonder if the extra side panel might work just as well without holes? Thanks for all the videos, very watchable!

for my 5 panel ( M steel slotted tabs) Lixada, using the trangia lid to prop up the burner gives me 1 1/4" space (from the top of the stove to the burner's jets). I find, IF your Lixada came with the 'fire bowl' {and almost all of them do}, I just invert the 'fire bowl' in place of the 'ash tray' to prop up the burner and I get 1 1/8" space. Now that would mean you have to 'bulk' up your stove by carrying the 'fire bowl' (won't be AS flat pack as it would be without the bowl). But really, it's pretty easy to find a space for the 'fire bowl'. Those 'extra socks' or spare gloves take up MORE room than the 'fire bowl' does. And if one isn't willing...as suggested, the lid is 'close enough' (but remember, the burner gets HOT when it's low on fuel...TAKE OUT THAT O-RING, just in case the heat transfers). If anyone is curious, using the simmer ring under the burner gives me 1 3/16", but then...HOW do I snuff the burner? (thought I'd at least 'try' everything, see what diff. each makes) Same 'trick' works if you use the 'fire bowl' in the intended slots (the ones near the top) and use fuel tabs. 1 15/16" from the top of stove to bottom of bowl (as intended), 13/16" IF you invert the bowl. Of course, distance to your fuel tabs depends on thickness of the tab (so I measured to the bowl, as a reference). You can only fit ONE tablet on the bowl, if it's inverted.

Thanks, great little review

As always good advice and great video

I have the Bushcraft Essentials stove that this one is modeled after and had the same issues with airflow. Believe it or not it was a simple fix by just using the stove upside down and taking out the horizontal panels. It made for a lighter stove and better airflow to the coals and below the pot.

Mark, take a look at what Push Bike Girl does with her aluminum potstand cross bars and the trangia. I love this stove based on your recommendation I bought one this spring and found it to be almost perfect for cooking with a trangia. I use the burner on the base sitting on top of the cap, and made a simmer ring out of the bottom of a soup can as the simmer ring just doesn't seem to open up enough. The grill basket made a wee grill for the top so I can put a can of chilli or a small tin mug on top. Brilliant! And it packs into the bottom of my 775ml MSR Stowaway. I find I don't need a windscreen except in high wind.

very thorough, anyother great video. Keep them coming.

Thanks. Very detailed. Great vid.

Watching these videos while waiting for my stove to arrive. The lixada burner that comes with the stove seems to have jets on the lover ring as well so i wonder if that will work better at the standard height than the more trangia like burners

Excellent video

Great video, man!

Hi Mark, thanks for making these videos. I have a question though, as a wood stove which do you think is better, the folding wood stove or the wood gas stove?

Great Job and thank you

Thank you, from England :)

Very interesting thoughts Brother and great mods to improve this little stove. Do you think you can fit à FancyFeast alcool stove in the Lixada🤔🤔🤔 It's by far my favorite one. Usually when I intend to use it I don't bring one of my woodstove as It does not need a pot stand but having a double possibility is also something I like 😉 Ciao from Québec ⚜

the pot stand is a good idea, something I must look into to add to my stove too

Nice stove thanks

Awesome video

Great video well presented!

Are holes in the bottom of the stove plate necessary for good operation of the stove? I ask because I've seen other stove manufacturers make stoves with and without holes in their bottom stove plates.

Wow. Super informative.

Real good video. THANKS!!

I have one of these, but I have trouble keeping a fire going in it. I have only used it as a twig stove.

Wood burning stoves look interesting - but 3 things make me not consider using it. 1 - a video here on YT shows a woodstove placed on a treestump. The treestump started glowing a LOT even before the water started to boil... 2 - no good way to control the heat (except putting on less sticks). 3 - you need a substantial amount of sticks to cook rice or potatoes or anything like that. Love my Trangia, with DIY windshield/stand, weighing 79g, and made from a cooking pot that fits perfectly around the 0,9liter Trangia kettle. Good quality, decent control over the heat (simmer ring), good heat dispersion (aluminum kettle), relatively good weight, and good size for 1 person :P

Excellent Information I will make a cross piece for the top. Thank you.

Great video.

Hi mark I was confused about the pot stand dimensions. I was wondering how many cm the gap between the holes that were used to hold on to the edge of the stove were. I wanted to make one because I noticed that the fire had little air flow. Thanks.

I just bought a Lixada but its quite a bit bigger and comes with cross bars. I have yet to test it but I hope this one being bigger will boil faster. Any thoughts? Great content btw

I was thinking of using ready to go charcoal on mine.

Great video. Where did you get that burner is it the Alocs Professional New Mini Alcohol? I just got the stove. Also what alcohol do you use and is it hot enough to boil water? Thanks.

I like your wind screen.

Mark which of the Lixada flat pack twig stoves do you like best the tab joint or hinged joint? Thanks

It seems like you could trace and cut new parts from old license plates for these folding wood stoves. Just a thought.

Thank you. Very helpful.

Hi Mark, Don’t know if you’ll see this comment/question, since it’s on a 2 year old video. Anyway, I’ll give it a try. I’ve been a fan of your videos for several years, but this is my first comment. With all of your experimentation and testing of wood burning, twig stoves, would you care to offer a recommendation or two on the best one(s). My use is primarily for multi day backpacking and paddling trips where I’m moving from place to place, mostly in the Adirondacks and a bit in Ontario, so weight is a big consideration, along with cost, burn effectiveness, ease of loading/reloading, length of sustaining the fire, and ease of use. At least these are the factors that come to mind. Wondering what you might suggest. Just a few additional words of appreciation. I very much enjoy your nice manner, along with your straight forward, practical approach to explaining, demonstrating, and testing gear. Always look forward to new videos. I’m not sure if I’ll get an alert if you do respond to this, so I’d appreciate it if you wouldn’t mind also sending it to my email: gmagnes1 gmail com. Thanks again. Gerry

I just bought one of these after much research primarily to use with my Trangia. I received a small 3" square of 320 grit sandpaper with it. Any idea what it's supposed to be for? Great little inexpensive stove ideal for what I want it for.

Very good, Thank you very much

Very informative.

Mark I have a Tomsho gasifire stove I REALY like it stays clean When I burn that high effeint stove I made for it to clean any suet Out of the gasifire

good info mate, thx

If 1 inch is the best height off for the pot above the level of the burner rim, how do you account for the fact that a height of 1 3/8th inch is so much more efficient than 7/8th inch spacing?

Shows a pouch that fits into your hand: "A little bit bulky ...". ;-) (Did Lixada already consider to implement your improvements?)

Great video! Curious, 🤔 what type of alcohol did you use? Brand name, product name?

Hi Mark. I have exactly the same Lixada stove and ALOCS alcohol burner. From Amazon, I ordered the 5"X5" grill to set on top of the Lixada..hopefully that will work. However, if not, I will make the aluminum cross pieces you displayed. I also bought the Ohuhu windscreen (10-pc hinged folding screen) which is more than the height needed but it seems rather weighty. I may just have to continue using the solid piece of aluminum from Dutchware. It rolls neatly into a tight tube. I'll test the kit out in my backyard Hobo Camp before going into the woods of West Virginia. Another Lixada stove that works well with the ALOCS is the V-shaped model. For inexpensive wood burners, these Lixada stoves are worth the investment BTW you have a great speaking voice and sounds as though you are or have been an instructor..

Thanks a lot for this almost scientific study. I actually ordered this stove and your presentation will help me to use it in the best way.

You have a great voice for narration. A career in media would be a good choice.

A couple metal gutter nails for cross bars through those holes on top. Parallel not crossed.

Mark I have that same stove but mine uses no pins

I bot A mini gel stove and I use the Bars just like your I cooked four days. On it it was fun

Ordered a Steel Dragon from BeatingNature which looks very similar. £23 delivered is decent. Love a little fire.

I threw mine away. Using it as pot stand for an alcohol stove is a bit silly. I wanted a twig stove and this failed miserably after me giving it a few tries.

Thanks.

where did you get the aluminum cross bars?

is that your favorite wood stove for backpacking

I carry about 4-5 ciggy lighters. Pack,fire kit,pants pocket,jacket,daypack. Cant underestimate how much of a disaster it is if you cant light your fire

Mark I put my rack over the side over the hinges

is it just rubbing alcohol?

By the way, AliExpress has several of the Lixada Stoves and various other products at better prices than Amazon. I see many people dropship the same stoves from AliExpress on Amazon with an incredible price markup. Just a thought if you wanted to save a few dollars.

Good video. Well presented . I suspect you gave some training courses of some kind in your employment. Thank you.