Stoves

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.

With the year winding down in a hurry, ​here's a look at the best camping gear we put through the wringer in 2018. After all, spending time outdoors is what gear innovation is all about, right?

The Singapore-based designers behind the Ember Stove aren’t ones to complicate things, taking to Kickstarter with a compact two-piece cooking solution designed to slide into your pocket and fire up with just a handful of twigs.

A team of ETH Zurich students has come up with a unique design for a wind-proof camping stove. Its shape, only made possible by additive manufacture, shields the burner from harsh winds and allows the device to boil water with high efficiency.

​We've seen more than a few handy wood burner camping stoves over the years. There's nothing overly fancy the Kombuis, but with a thoughtfully designed chute for its biofuel, it might just take the least amount of effort to keep burning.

A variety of innovative camping stoves have arrived recently, from the BioLite that turns heat energy into electricity, to the GoSun, a solar oven that can boil water in 30 minutes. The latest device making a play for campsites is the Morphcooker, a portable, battery-powered electric camping stove.

​​Almost seven years after introducing its clever wooden stove that generates its own power, BioLite has given its low-emission campsite cooker a makeover. The CampStove 2 also runs purely on wood but features an onboard battery to use the power at a later date.

Many outdoor users might consider "outdoors" and "technology" words that should never be used in the same sentence. But regardless of what traditionalists think, technology is infiltrating outdoor recreation and sports in a big way. We found it everywhere at the recent Outdoor Retailer show.

UK-based outdoors company Anevay recently unveiled a portable wood-burning stove that looks like it could be a good fit for small-living enthusiasts and off-grid types. The firm says that the Frontier Plus can be safely used in a tiny house, van, tipi, or even a tent.

Cooking fires are a major source of health problems for millions of people in developing nations, who use them on a daily basis. In an effort to address the problem, RTI International has developed a cook stove that burns cleaner … and that powers gadgets.

The ACE 1 stove from African Clean Energy combines elements of solar and biomass power to offer an eco-friendly cooking solution that also charges electronic devices. The stove is a cooking/charging solution for connected campers, developing nations and remote, off-grid dwellers.

BioLite has been slowly growing its line of outdoor cooking-charging gear. Its latest product, the BaseCamp, gives campers more power for cooking and charging gadgets. It can serve as both grill and stove, while storing enough power to charge tablet computers.