WINTER CAMPING STOVE TIPS!!! Improve Stove Efficiency and Increase Space in Your Hot Tent!

I've been pondering on a thermal vermiculite board, yup it is expensive but put under the stove it would reflect up and equally reflect the cold beneath it. If you got a 1000mmm x 600mm you could cut it in half use half as board to sit on.

Great tips, thanks man.

A good coal base is key to closing dampers and holding heat. Closing up with just fire chokes the flames. Coal base produces heat and simmers wood, giving a slow burn. That’s when you close up, retain heat, get a long burn time and don’t have the fire die. Thanks great camp.

great ideas

awesome tips. I just got this stove today and plan on cutting myself a baffle as you;'ve done. Any tips on what to cut the baffle with ? or how to get a good fold on the foil once cut. Thanks!

Garbage idea. You destroy the flow of air flipping your flu around. The fresh air goes straight up the flu instead of stoking your fire. The rear of the fire will dampen from suffocation and cause more smoke.

Use an external air source hose !

Wow! What a great idea.

Nice man... dig it.... Your design already creating thoughts of potential lightweight dual combustion chamber type ideas... modifications to your innovation... Create even more retained heat and cleaner burning pack stoves... (possibly?)... You're pretty nearly there would think.... (And that just as is the spawning nature of all creative thought processes and innovation, that of themselves, and their existence, tend to lend themselves to doing....)

Genius. The throat or baffle idea is brilliant.

Great tip! I am thinking of doing it myself.

But not sure. Since I will have the flue at the back of the stove, would it still make sense to have a baffle?

Perfect

Excellent! Do you have more smoke in your tent when you start the fire (with your baffle and stack front position)? Once it is hot, I guess that everything is alright...

I was watchin a few guys they set it up with chimney in front for more even cooking.

Your baffle principle is called a reverse flow and it is how some professional BBQ smokers work.

The winnerwell folding titanium stove is $700 CAD. Absolutely ridiculous. Build your own for $40 with materials from Home Depot. Smh 🤦‍♂️

Two issues I see with these little lightweight stoves that are sold without baffles. First, the guys who are spending the big bucks for these stoves are not the guys who are going to be making their own stove baffles lol. 🤣

Second, all lightweight fold up backpacking stoves, titanium or not, warp bad after the first few uses. The warping opens up air gaps all over so they are not air tight. Dampers only work if you have an air tight stove. This means these stoves will burn hot and fast no matter what your damper settings are with most of the heat being lost in the pipe as the draft sucks it right out of the tent.

The other thing is that titanium stoves are made of titanium which is a poor conductor of heat. So in the worst case, after you spend $700 on one of these fold down titanium beauties without a baffle and use it a few times you end up with a warped leaky box that will burn hot and fast with most of the heat being lost up the pipe no matter what your damper setting is so it’s going to take you an hour or so and half a cord of firewood to boil water on them in your 500 ml steel cup for your coffee.

You think this stove is proper for a Tentipi 7?! I plan to take this combo...

SFARCO: Your Innoovative Idea is Intersting. However, i am concerned about the possibility of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning that can be caused by breathing in Combustion Fumes within the confines of a tent. As you know, the fumes can be colourless, odourless and deadly. Have you used a carbon monoxide detectour to test the air quality within the tent, when burning the stove over an extended period of time ?

Awesome idea! How far down does your baffle dip into the firebox? How much consideration do you think that sizing needs? I’m going to do this to my stove as soon as it arrives! Thanks for sharing!!

Does titanium cut easily with a regular tin snip?

Thanks for the video. I run the Winnerwell Nomad Medium and am considering having a baffle fabricated for my stove. I've taken heat measurements of my stove pipe and I feel like I'm losing a lot of heat right up the pipe with some inefficient burning. Would you advise that I make one that's removable and have them fabricate a bracket for a titanium or 304 stainless baffle to be inserted? I'm not sure what to do...either way it would just be a couple of welds.

With a grate, a baffle and a damper, all that's missing is secondary burn.

Absolutely outstanding! I need to do this with Nortent Titanium wood stove

If you let it loose, you will lose it.

Thanks man, great tip! Should reduce the risk of sparks big time as well.

That baffle makes that tin box more like the sort of modern stove that would be in a house. I just bought a non-collapsible stove and I suspect that I’m going to need to fit a baffle to that.

Would you be able to give dimensions of your baffle piece (and distance of gap from top edge of side of stove down to baffle) to help me cut mine? I only get one shot, if I screw it up, I don't have a bunch more chimney to cut up. And how di you make those crimps so it "snaps" down onto top of sides? Do you have a sheetmetal crimper?

Also, have you continued to use this stove? How's it holding up?

Thanks for the time, and for letting people know about these great improvements.

This didnt work for me, got smoke inside the tent when opening the hatch.. think i cut the baffle too short so i didnt have a good gap, only about 1-2cm gap, you mentioned 2.5cm which seems better but still i wouldnt risk this, but even if i keep the pipe in the back it will still be better with a baffle so its not completly useless :)

Might sound like a silly question but what did you use to cut the baffle from your stove pipe to get clean and straight edges? I think this is a great idea but the only thing I can think of is the shears I have for duct work but those leave a very small serrated edge after cutting.

Nice 👌

Good idea! If you travel heavier and use a stove fan I position it so it blows towards the pipe to extract heat off of the pipe. Most pictures show a fan the opposite direction where more heat is wasted going up the pipe.

Damn that’s an awesome idea! I consider a stove without a baffle a deal breaker, even more it’s a deal breaker if it doesn’t have replaceable baffles as an accessory.

You rigged that stove to resemble the design of RBM Caminus stoves. They have it setup the same way, stove pipe exit is in front instead of back, and baffle plate positioned like yours so that it both reflects heat back into the fire for reburning, and makes the heat have to maneuver around the baffle plate before going up and out of the flue. I would love the Caminus stoves if only the damn baffle wasn’t fixed, and if you could easily swap them out with replacements.

Solid tips. I've struggled with this very space issue too many times. I will be adopting this idea. Thank you.

The primary air coming in the door will dictate how the burn occurs toward the output, that is why one end to the other end. [edit], good idea with the baffle shuffling heat and smoke from front to back to front.

This is how a lot of modern, high efficiency home stoves do baffling. Always seems like a shame to push all the heat outside. I did a baffle plate on my non-folding stove but I also just bought a stove pipe damper. Will see how both perform.

The best way to keep heat is to prevent cold air to enter. The stove not only does that by its fire-draw but also sucks the air it just heated around itself 🧐
So I would have above all set an air intake with a pipe from outside of the tent to the back of the stove. Then fully pushed the metal plate at the back and just kept the outake as well at the back. Thanks for the video, greetings from Switzerland 🙂

Had the same idea you best me to it !! Looks great and seems to work 👍

Smartest thing I've seen yet w/ a tent stove. ⛺️ AWESOMENESS. ...Alan in 🇨🇱

Does the stove burn hotter with the dampers open or more closed?

very clever, thanks

Your dog seemed to pay attention to what you were doing throughout, 10/10 student

I have a jack with a 3.5-inch diameter hole, but my pipe is 2.5 in diameter. Is there a way to fix this after-the-fact?

That's really interesting. I have a Luxe 3W, have to try this.

My titanium wood stove got so hot it started glowing, i got kinda worried that it was going to melt

The dog is so cool he is really curious about your inventions.

Do you have a video where you can see when you fire it?
How much wood can be saved?

Great ideas 👍🏽

I riveted in a baffle in my Kni-co stove. Ive noticed alot if creosote on top the baffle if i run the stove damped down. Do you think this burns off ok the next time I run it? Do ypu notice more creosote build up at all?

Nice mode

I just got a stove and tent. Was already thinking of putting the pipe to the front. That baffle is a great idea!