An assortment of 'make shift' pot lids that make the stoves light and backpackable. From top left: An old faithfull frying pan/lid of many years service, sponge 'tins' from opportunity shop,

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Backpacking pots, pans, lids & lifters This is about backpacking pots, pans, lid and lifters that can be make backpacking cooking effective and enjoyable without needing to spend much. Introduction There are many pots that can be used for cooking on a blower stove. While most will do the jobRead More →

Share Stove cooking with two pots. The larger second pot is an effective cheap anodised pot (commonly available) with frying pan lid.

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The Share- Ultralight blower stove is small (~375g) but provides for cooking in two pots at the same time. It packs into a coffee mug which packs inside a larger pot.  The power of the stove comes from the addition of a small 5-volt blower fan that can be poweredRead More →

Ultralight blower stove formed in a hole in the ground.

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Rock-N-Hole ultralight blower stove A Rock-N-Hole ultralight blower stove (~125g including power supply) uses rocks and or a little hole in the ground to make a powerful cooking stove for an ultralight backpacker. The blower makes the ‘stove’ powerful with intense targeted and controlled heat, even with damp fuel sticks.Read More →

Simple direct connection of power supply to blower fan.

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This is a simple USB plug is a two-pin connector for laptop fans as used in my blower stoves. It is, cheap, robust, ‘repairable in the bush’ and compatible with the existing cables and sockets on the laptop fans. The laptop fan cables are designed for the gentle static environmentRead More →

Solo stove boiling a mug of water.

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The Solo ultralight wood stove and pot (350g) has a blower that burns the ends of long fallen sticks to provide fast, convenient and clean cooking. The 700ml cook pot stores the titanium stove body and all accessories. It can be used with larger pots. The derivative Share Stove can heatRead More →

The snow ultralight blower stove illuminated by the little LED light when mounted on a bush pole high above the snow surface. the bush pole has been driven into deep snow.

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A wood-fired Snow ultralight blower stove may have considerable appeal to those few people, like me, who enjoy this environment. Added to this, many of our Australian alpine areas have abundant standing fuel sticks on snow gums that have been ravaged by our all too frequent bushfires. Making a fireRead More →

Whisky top burner with riser (~9 g), with small clean concentrated flame.

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Backup alcohol burner A ~9g ‘whisky top’ backup alcohol burner is described. It can be used as an alternative ultralight way of cooking, on wood-burning stoves, when it must be used inside a tent in bad weather. Introduction This article is about a compact backup alcohol burners to use in myRead More →