Originally Posted by
gregw
I've seen several reviews of small wood, wood gas burners. There a ton of youtube videos out there as well, but what you never see as part of a review is the clean up of the soot. The Bushcooker fits into a snowpeak 700ml pot, which means that all that soot goes right inside your cook pot. How do you deal with the clean-up?
Maybe put the stove in a plastic bag before it goes into the cook pot and then the cook pot goes into another bag before it's packed away.
I love the idea of these stoves, but don't know if I would want to do the cleaning. Backpacking maybe, but cycle touring, no. On a bike the extra weight of a bottle of alcohol is well worth the clean cooking conditions.
What is your experience with the cleaning part and storage?
I've used the pot stand of the mini Trangia as a wood burning stove. Just fill it with paper and a few twigs and it's good to go. You can feed the fire through the scalloped openings. Things get sooty, but if you want to save on alcohol it's a good option without having to build a full fire