Petromax Rocket Stove RF33

Excellent base camp wood burning stove. Definately not for backpacking! Well engineered and weighty. Very pleased with this as an extension to my stove collection. Some comments: Loading tray is handy. Door needs a catch or prop. I got a bag (elsewhere as not stocked by HH) and would suggest doing so to ease portage and stop soot transferring. Handles good and zero heat transference, very stable and perfect for cast fry pan or Zebra billy. Top marks!

This was purchased after seeing one in use on a motorbike camping group… guy had one in a sidecar for transport The stove is beautifully made, quite heavy but engineered very well So easy to light… I placed a couple of pieces of cotton wool balls wiped on Vaseline onto a piece of wooden kindling and lit it with a fire steel The stove has such good ventilation that it burns wood fiercely wry no effort We’ve cooked a few meals on this stove and very pleased It’s more of a base-camp stove or just to enjoy cooking outdoors at home I also bought a travel bag for the stove elsewhere as I couldn’t see one in this store

Had one of these to use when a group of us go out off roading with out 4x4s we have been using wood pelets which burn clean and do not leave a residue on our stainless steel pans Can't recommend this enough but test first with fuel you are going to use to get cleanest burn

Once you have got used to wich size fuel to use and it's placement this stove burns smoke less and hot.It will soot up the bottom of pots but even the most clean burn stove will ,just cover the bottom of pans with liquid soap to make them easy to clean .Don't choke the fire box with fuel and it will burn very clean when up to temp. An excellent product perfect for emergency use or camping maybe a little heavy to carry a long way . Check out the reviews of the silver fire stove on youtube you will be impressed.

Bought this for a five day sea fishing trip in October - wanted to be able to cook outdoors as much as possible (albeit in the garden of a small seafront cottage). Works flawlessly. Does create a bit of soot on the bottom of pans - mostly if you don't let the flames build up before using. Very hot - I had a cast iron pot , cast iron griddle - both ideal . Also tried a thin steel frying pan which tended to get too hot directly above the flame. Worked so well that in the five days we were away we didn't use the indoor gas hob for anything other than making coffee (and only then because the coffee pot was too small for the outdoor stove). This is a great stove if your camping with the car, or to complement the BBQ in the back garden - more interesting than gas. Too big for backpacking etc.

had this a week now, and tried it with different woods and amounts of same.. bought it to compliment an outdoor cook system in the back yard PROS--- puts out a great amount of heat CONS--- extremely sooty... extremely smokey...... ruins any pan that comes into contact with it....ruined nice skillet, took 2 hrs to clean...... device itself gets filthy, difficult to clean...very smelly and taintd food..... nothing you cant make out of stones or bricks.... very expensive..... constant feeding of wood into chamber makes it onerous work... wild claims by manufacturers on the burn efficiency basically over stating lack of smoke and soot plus claims of secondary burn etc All in all once purchased, its a white elephant and wont be used because of the above... suitable if absolutely nothing else is available... totally dissapointed