Originally Posted by
Rowan
I've also been intrigued by what I have seen of these since they first appeared about a decade ago.
I don't see that there is a fire danger issue (the same as with all other proprietary stoves) so long as the flame remains contained, and that comes down to user competence.
But there is always a lot of fuel lying around in the form of small, dry twigs to feed such a stove. However, I think both weight and the inevitable wait to get up to sufficient heat might (note, I said, might) be an issue.
I think there have been several posters here use them over time, although I can't remember who.
My expensive, and now unused, Evernew Appalachian cook set can be used as a wood stove. It's basically a TI cylinder with holes for airflow and big hole at the bottom so you can feed the fire with twigs. The big issues with wood burning stoves are the soot and the rate that they burn the small twigs that they use as fuel. IMHO they are not much of an improvement over simply getting a few stones together to hold your pot over a fire that you build underneath. Most organized or state campsite will have a firepit and I've never had any trouble finding enough wood on the ground to build a fire. I then wait for it to go down a bit and put my TI mug on the embers to boil water.