TOAKS  Titanium Backpacking Wood Burning Stove - Small

Not much to say, stove is light, burns twigs well and I was able to boil 750ml of water in about 14 minutes (should be a little better with practice.) Unlike gas stoves, wood stoves need a bit more of your attention to keep things burning their hottest. The top-most piece of this stove also pairs well as a pot stand for the toaks alcohol stove and that setup achieved a 6 minute boil time burning everclear. The only suggestion I have for toaks is to make a more narrow/taller version of their mug so it can nest inside of this stove. I can fit everything but my mug inside of this stove and nest all of that inside my BOT700 pot.

I have been designing and building my own small wood gasification stoves for over ten years, including a small DIY that I have sworn by for backpacking. Until now. The Toaks small Wood Burning stove is is the best of its kind I have seen yet. Executed in titanium, it makes the right weight, and its configuration as what we call a Top Lit UpDraft gasifier (TLUD) gives the cleanest, most efficient and environmentally conscientious operation possible with natural fuel. It also works well with solid tab fuels where woodburning is not possible. Its nesting design is simpler than any other I have seen, and it fits both my present pot set and the Toaks pots perfectly. My highest recommendation: all pro, no con.

Works quite well. Only takes a few seconds to set up. It takes a bit of attention to get and keep the fire going because it’s so small but it also uses very little wood, so you really only need kindling. Takes about 15 minutes from first light to boiling 2 cups of water. I like that I’m living off the land instead of using fuel and it’s lightweight. It probably won’t work in a downpour though. The only problem is that there is not a lot of clearance for the holes on the bottom so I place it on a small camp frying pan so it has a nice clean steady base.

Bought this little contraption for when building a big fire wasn’t feasible or just needed some quick heat. First time having it went to a campground where they had cleared all of the big chunks of wood out leaving twigs and small branches. This came in handy for not only boiling water for coffee, but also making a quick soup until we could go into town and buy some wood and charcoal. Definitely saved the day. Burns efficen, and you can keep adding wood as needed without to much effort.

I bought this stove for versatility when solo camping. It nests in my 750ml Toaks pot. It's easy to build a twig fire in it and boil water, make coffee, soup, etc. Top notch quality and very light.

Wanted a woodstove since I didn’t wanna have to carry fuel. I prefer an alcohol fuel stove since they are quite & reliable. Sometimes a canister for convenience but the canister always seem to run out of fuel at the wrong time so as a precaution I bring an extra now I’ve got more weight. With wood stove you must collect wood how much wood? how much you gonna cook? It seems like no matter what I never seem to have enough wood if you let it burn down too far and you put fresh wood in it doesn’t burn, so you have to keep it fed all the time. Once you get it going works like gangbusters and I do like that and I do like real flames something about fire when Camping, it’s just a nice thing and it’s not noisy like a canister stove, but I do like the quiet of my alcohol stove. So now I’m bringing both alcohol and wood. As I get better with the woodstove, I’ll leave the alcohol behind. The TOAKS is one of the better designs I like how it fits together. It’s lightweight. I got the smaller model which seems very efficient maybe the bigger one could take bigger wood pieces and it would burn longer and I wouldn’t have to scramble for more fuel if to keep the flames going, but that really hasn’t been a problem yet. Sa with any new piece of gear, it takes some practice to figure out how to use it most efficiently.

I bought this with no clue what I was getting myself into. I don’t like packing out canisters and stoves and love wood fire so I got this and it works great. My only tip would be pack a little tinder if you can, I carry a decent amount in my steak bag.

Pros: (1) Light weight (2) No packing fuel required (3) Well designed; sturdy (4) Easier to cook on (eg: sauteing) than an isobutsne type stove, which just chars everything (5) Does not get clogged up, even after keeping the fire going for a long time (6) Mini campfire bonus Cons: (1) A bit "tippy" on its own, but this can be remedied by staking it down with a couple of tent stakes (2) Limited by the fact that you have to camp in an area that has access to firewood which is relatively dry (3) Takes longer to heat up water than a gas stove (duh) ***Side note: I recommend taking a retractable bellow with you as well to blow oxygen into the fire. Mine weighs 0.6 oz, is the size of a pen, and works great for directing oxygen straight into the fire without having to bend down and get my face near the flame.

I have used it for about 7 trips. Perfect for solo camping, but if need to cook for more than one it can be a pain.

I have not tried this yet since it is a gift for my grandson. However, it came with no instructions at all, not even a diagram for how to assemble it. I contacted REI via chat and was directed to the TOAKS website and found only a schematic of how to assemble it but still no instructions. I was able to find a YouTube video but since this is a gift I now have to direct him to watch that. All that being said, it looks like a great product and I will change the rating I gave it once we have been able to try it out.