Bush Buddy Stove

[Fishenough]

Hello happy campers,

Has anyone tried, or use, the Bush Buddy camp stove, made in BC Canada?

We just acquired one which seems like an useful little well made stove that'll see use on trips involving just one or two of us. Simple, well made, a bit pricey and wouldn't be surprised that after a year of field testing it might just be something to hang on to. Fried up some perfectly done grilled cheese sandwiches during a shore lunch last week, doing a much better job then the photo's in there web site - using a good base of coals not flames. Sorry no didn't take photo's or Ketchup (providing the hot lunch for fishing and the new fishing partner complains 'where's the ketchup', the nerve. LOL.) No affiliation btw.

Cheers

 

[computeruser]

Looks pretty interesting, especially here in the forests of the midwest where there is no shortage of combustible materials to use as fuel.

 

[RHINO]

i have made a few versions of my own,,,, its not a bad little stove but is slow compared to more conventional offerings.

 

[Fishenough]

i have made a few versions of my own,,,, its not a bad little stove but is slow compared to more conventional offerings.

That's cool, have you tried one of yours versions soy powered?

I have a Whisper lite and a Colman peak already, but like the idea of not using a non renewable resource. Changing the way we do things in our household; donated our outboard motors, sold my chainsaw, trying be a resumer not consumers, and decommissioned our gas lawn mower.

 

[RHINO]

nice fish, i have been making life changes as well.
matter of fact i have made a stove that will burn bio but it smokes too much and leaves too much deposit on the pot. i have also made a few variants to burn a couple charcaol briquets, wood chips, denatured alcohol blah blah, lately i have been building various styles of solar ovens, both in a backpack size and bigger for vehicle use. they are very promising and really do work.

 

[hoser]

I have used the Sierra Stove and it really puts out a lot of heat. Probably boils water 2+ times as fast as my MSR whisperlite. It uses batteries but will still work without them. The downside besides needing combustible material is the deposits left on pots.

http://www.zzstove.com/index.html

 

[Lynn]

...the deposits left on pots.

I hope you know the old Boy Scout trick. Before you cook over the campfire (or Sierra Stove, in this case), coat the outside of the pots with dish detergent.

 

[hoser]

That is one I didn't know. I was never a boy scout!

 

[Fishenough]

Thanks for the good ideas, the camp kit dish soap has hardened the right consistency for cook ware coating and I'll see if the work with the sticky soot of vegetable oil.

Rhino your full of good ideas; hadn't thought of a solar oven for years. It was 10-11 years ago I built one with my daughter out of car windshield reflector. They do work, but the temperate wet coast isn't the ideal place; to many tall trees and cloudy days. We're moving to a tropical locale this years, hence the vehicles (and everything else) for sale, and will have to go solar again.

:suning:

 

[RHINO]

thats cool you and the girl built one, but if you do one again dont use the car reflector deal, not very efficient radiating heat. you can purchase now reflective stuff that is literally like chrome and stick it to all manor of things, even the underside of an umbralla for a real nice colapsible solar stove.

those are some cool delicas you have....

BTW attach a battery powered fan to the bottom of tha bush budy and make your own zip stove. like a tiny blacksmith forge

 

[Fishenough]

Funny how you don't notice something till your looking for it, for example when some one reminds you. Was looking early at this pellet stove and just found they also sell reflective stuff as www.cleardomesolar.com. Fired off an email as now I'm looking forward to successful solar cooking in Thailand.

Cheers