Stoves

Dutch designer Arnaud Desseyn has graced our pages with a couple of interesting portable stove designs before. The FireTower is his latest creation, featuring a neat rocket stove design that folds flat and slides into a book-sized bag for easy carry.

A new solo stove from Japanese outdoor gear maker Camp Ooparts offers a clever way to stay true to the "leave no trace" ethos, featuring a slide-in bed for the fuel that keeps the whole operation up off the ground.

There are times when less is definitely more, and loading up a backpack for a trek into the wilderness is certainly one of those times. Here's a handful of compact camp stoves that can get you cooking with materials that can be sourced on your arrival.

Founder of Trayvax wallets and Kimbo campers, Mark King, brings together EDC and overland adventure with the Trayvax Ration. Something of a vehicle-adventure mess kit, the Ration packs a single burner and space for food, water and utensils.

Unlike thermoelectric camp stove/chargers that rely on live fire, the new Gen Stove powers up electronics with waste heat from LPG-fired cooking. It provides an easier, more universal solution for cooking and charging simultaneously.

Bringing its lightweight gear expertise to car camping, Swedish gear maker Optimus blurs the lines between car camping and backpacking with its new two-burner Gemini stove. The extra-slim stove carries easily, whether by motor vehicle, bike or foot.

Earlier this year, GSI Outdoors introduced the Pinnacle Pro stove, the thinnest dual-burner car camping stove our eyes have ever landed upon. It has now turned to crowdfunding to get this sleek stove onto campground tabletops everywhere.

The Survival Stove Head tool is a camping accessory that takes the idea of lightweight minimalism to the extreme, with the ability to turn an empty can into a cooker and doubling as a sharp knife to help prepare your kindling for mealtime.

Look quickly at the Home & Camp stove from some angles and you might think it's Snow Peak's latest vacuum-insulated tumbler. But it's actually a single-burner stove packed away inconspicuously inside a cylinder body.

Even when camping in a large vehicle, eventually you run out of space. So, it can pay dividends to opt for slimmer, lighter gear. You'll have trouble finding a slimmer, lighter camping stove than the GSI Pinnacle Pro, a laptop-thin dual-burner.

The Noori mobile rocket stove comes complete with a barbecue grill, pizza oven and fire pit. After two years of designing and testing the components of the prototype, the team added a few additional accessories before launching it on the market.

The outdoor gear market is saturated with super-compact, ultralight backpacking stoves, but the new Primus Firestick looks quite different from the pack. The 3.5-oz burner packs into a cylinder that's smaller than a can of Red Bull, sliding easily into a pocket or backpack pouch.