The 9 Best Wood Fuel Backpacking stoves (2023 reviews)

Solo Stove line of stove come in a pretty wide variety of styles, so you can definitely find one that suits your individual preferences and needs. The compact solo stove design nests inside the companion solo stove pot 900 (not included) leaving you with more room in your backpack. It features a unique gasification and secondary combustion process that helps achieve a highly efficient and more complete burn. It's compact so takes up little space and comes with its own bag to keep it in.

The double walled base, bottom and air vents keep the exterior and base cool to the touch. It is best with small twigs or sticks and is easy to add fuel too. The design is lightweight but is still able to hold a rather large pot. Its unique gasification and secondary combustion process helps achieve a highly efficient and more complete burn. This is fuel economical and provides the necessary heat to cook small meals and boiler drinking water to survive.

Why We Like This:

Very good quality, easy to use and reliable
Clean burning, super light, and an essential for any camper or bug out bag
Very light weight so is easy to carry in a backpack

Best For cooker: Redcamp Wood Fuel Backpacking Stove

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Not everyone likes to purchase stove for their regular usage, but the redcamp wood fuel backpacking stove would be an anomoly. This portable camping stove will steadily burn bright, whatever heavy weight or high heat comes its way. Even if you just want a small simple campfire to sit around at night, this will do the job. It's just a nice, heavy gauge stainless steel stove. It cooks nice and will give you a good amount of heat. It has this design is unique for a ‘stick’ stove in that you have a large opening with a door so you can easily add more wood while using it.

It's well made and folds/unfolds easily. The unique full top grate with squared design make it sturdy and easy to use, and the ash tray helps keep embers off the ground. This stove also works well with the stanley adventure pot and cup set.

Why We Like This:

Simple enough to put together and works well with a variety of fuel
Burns a great fire with just bio fuel
Stainless steel will oxidize with the application of heat
Good for backup stove and emergencies

Best For Alcohol Stove: Canway Wood Fuel Backpacking Stove

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Compared with other stove in this category, the canway wood fuel backpacking stove has a convenient design. This is a nice little stove that folds up compact and has it's own carring. It's a Tiny camping stove that takes a while to get going with just twigs but, once it’s going, you can boil water, grill meat, and make s’mores. The mesh bag is great because it keeps all the black ash from getting on anything in your backpack.

This model is an amazing little stove, and you can be very innovative with your fuel sources too. There is room to feed the fire as the pot holder is in place. This is a must have for hiking/emergencies. If you're looking for something affordable, useful, and affective, this would be great for you.

Why We Like This:

Definitely concentrates the fire and makes burning even the smallest brush more efficient
Looks great, works for hiking and camping
Very lightweight and eliminates need for carrying fuel cannisters, plus no fossil fuels
Lasts plenty long enough with a full load of wood

Best For Your next hike: Stadelhorn Wood Fuel Backpacking Stove

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We know from years of feedback from readers, customers and amazon sellers, what most people want in a convenient and appropriate stove. The stadelhorn wood fuel backpacking stove is exactly that - it's a simple stove that hits all the right notes. This is a fairly large wood burning stove with a large, about 34 inch feeding port. It is easy to set up, and it boils water in a mmater of a few minutes because of the consentrated heat towards the top. It is easy to add more wood to keep the fire going. It fits together very easily and comes with a handy little pouch. It is a natural anxiety/stress reliever. It is a great lightweight stove which allows you to use natural fuel. It is easy to set up and use.

Why We Like This:

Works as wind screen and stand for most alcohol or butane stoves
Lightweight and very compact, comes with a handy little pouch
Packed stove is very flat and light
Draws air fast and heat up and cool down are appropriately on target

Best For Little twig Fire tea: Lixada Wood Fuel Backpacking Stove

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The lixada wood fuel backpacking stove might be a relatively new release, but it's still nothing short of impressive this year. This amazing foldable camping stove is a must-have tool for the outdoors, allowing you to start grilling wherever you set up your camp. It's very small,solid,flat to pack into a hiking backpack and it's PERFECT. It includes a tray to hold solid alcohol fuel. It is good for wood or fuel tabs. It is an inexpensive way to pick up a small biomass type of backpacking stove. It's small, lightweight, easy to use and inexpensive. It is perfect for a little twig fire tea. It is easy to fall apart until you have all plates in place.

Why We Like This:

Works perfect and has great stability
Good brand reputation

Best With oven: Voda Wood Fuel Backpacking Stove

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Voda line of stove come in a pretty wide variety of styles, so you can definitely find one that suits your individual preferences and needs. This allows you access to unlimited fuel while saving valuable space in your backpack. Cooking fish on this, will accomidate a small pot or even a large frying pan. It comes with a carrying pouch to add to that will sit more square and level. It is easy to assemble, and definitely will be easy to cook on.

This is a solid product and can place a cast iron pan on top. It packs flat which is nice for space saving. It is no longer a hard work, and no heavy devices are needed. This would probably be safe to bring camping as long as you have a very safe ground area, or put it in the fire ring.

Why We Like This:

You can use anything small that will burn, like dried leaves, twigs, grass, etc
Best used with a cast iron skill as it holds the heat longer
Good brand reputation

Best For single person: Emberlit Wood Fuel Backpacking Stove

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The emberlit wood fuel backpacking stove is satisfactory and appropriate and fits well with your regular usage. This stove gives you the added benefit of sticks/"wood" for fuel. It excels for single person water boiling, is good for single person cooking and two person boiling, is ok for two person cooking and then diminishes thereafter. It includes a small tray that can be used for solid fuel tabls. It provides the ability to forego the "leather" pouch and use a carabiner to carry the stove.

The Stove cools off very fast and fits nicely in the provided bag. The Titan takes on a beautiful anodized color with use, and it also cools down quickly which is great for day hikes when you just want to cook up a quick meal or beverage.

The fireant has the most effective use of the fire box when compared to the competitive stoves, side loading and plenty of draft to burn even damp wood, the Emberlit stove typically require less stroking to keep a nice burn going. It is sturdy, light, very stable in operation, and flexible in fuel usage.

Why We Like This:

Works great with trangia burner or zelph stove
Super lightweight and very easy to use
Light, compact, well built and cooks food
Very lightweight and an incredible stove

Best With few sticks: Onetigris Wood Fuel Backpacking Stove

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Onetigris offers a variety of stove for personal choice and yet maintaining quality in all the variants. If you are looking for a low cost light weight, pack able, multi use stove this is an excellent option. It'll hold almost any sized cook pot, and it is quite sturdy. It works well for single meals and easy to feed fuel in the front.

This little stove is pretty heavy duty and holds a cast iron pan without issues. It is made of a durable sturdy stainless steel material that looks like it will last/hold up well in the outdoors. You can easily boil water in a pot on top of this. It looks kind of cool and works pretty good with small sticks. This is surprisingly light for a metal stove.

Why We Like This:

Great packable stove, easy to assemble, multipe fuels
Perfect size for a backpack or purse, lightweight, and relatively easy to setup
Comes flat as a pancake and arrives in a bag

Best For emergency: MEETSUN Wood Fuel Backpacking Stove

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The meetsun wood fuel backpacking stove might be a relatively new release, but it's still nothing short of impressive this year, thanks to multiple price cuts and added new features over the past few months. The Mini Portable Wood Burning Stove, MEETSUN Camping Stove is quite lightweight and very compact. It is an unlimited amount of free fuel when hiking, and it easily collapsible into a compact size and packed in the mesh carrying sack for convenient storage. It makes it extremely portable and super convenient.

This backpacking stove comes with a barbecue grill, so you can also grill outdoors anytime, anywhere. It can also use essentially any organic material as fuel. It is perfect for someone that spends a lot of time outdoors and is trying to minimize volume and weight of what they're carrying around.

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