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A friend put me onto this recently and I picked up a bag of the stuff from a pet shop this morning for some preliminary resting.
It is cat litter made from compressed wood and I have been told it works well in wood burning portable stoves.
I tried it in 4 stoves and had good results with 2 of them. The pellets were easy to light using some bunched up bamboo leaves that cover much of my yard.
The first attempt was in two wood gas stoves. One was a Solo and the other a no name clone that was given to me and had not been used before.
One of the advantages of wood gas stoves is that they give off very little smoke and this held true with the pellets. The no name worked vey well and gave off a good flame for over forty minutes with a relatively small quantity of pellets.
The Solo worked ok but the course mesh in the bottom allowed pellets to fall through.
The next attempt involved an Emberlit and a Firebox. The Firebox worked well though there was some smoke. The Emberlit wasn't a success. The solid base didn't let any air under the pellets and it smoked excessively until I eventually put it out. The stove would need something to hold the pellets off the bottom to compete with the other stoves.
Has anyone else tried this?
I know the chief advantage of these types of stoves is the freedom from carrying fuel but I sometimes use them at home in power failures and there are times when I use them in campgrounds. Initial testing shows they have potential to burn much longer than twigs and might be useful for extended cooking sessions.
It is cat litter made from compressed wood and I have been told it works well in wood burning portable stoves.
I tried it in 4 stoves and had good results with 2 of them. The pellets were easy to light using some bunched up bamboo leaves that cover much of my yard.
The first attempt was in two wood gas stoves. One was a Solo and the other a no name clone that was given to me and had not been used before.
One of the advantages of wood gas stoves is that they give off very little smoke and this held true with the pellets. The no name worked vey well and gave off a good flame for over forty minutes with a relatively small quantity of pellets.
The Solo worked ok but the course mesh in the bottom allowed pellets to fall through.
The next attempt involved an Emberlit and a Firebox. The Firebox worked well though there was some smoke. The Emberlit wasn't a success. The solid base didn't let any air under the pellets and it smoked excessively until I eventually put it out. The stove would need something to hold the pellets off the bottom to compete with the other stoves.
Has anyone else tried this?
I know the chief advantage of these types of stoves is the freedom from carrying fuel but I sometimes use them at home in power failures and there are times when I use them in campgrounds. Initial testing shows they have potential to burn much longer than twigs and might be useful for extended cooking sessions.
