{"id":12,"date":"2018-06-20T01:59:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T08:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/sierra-stove-1\/"},"modified":"2018-06-16T21:24:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T04:24:25","slug":"sierra-stove-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/sierra-stove-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Stove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There I was, in driving rain, cooking breakfast under a tree over an intense, portable fire. Fresh coffee and scrambled eggs.<\/p>\n<p>It was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00H6Z7UI2\/cooltools-20\">Sierra Stove<\/a> I got for $52. It&#8217;s a mini-forge, forcing air into a small insulated chamber where a double handful of twigs (or dung or whatever) can heat water in a couple minutes&#8212;just a little longer than a butane stove, but with NO fuel or fuel containers to carry. One enthusiast hiked from Mexico to Canada cooking with one, claims Chip in The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/ASIN: B016GRP8A2\n\/cooltools-20\/cooltools-20\">Compleat Walker IV<\/a>. Chip himself now claims to camp largely solar&#8211;with backback solar charged batteries running his flashlights and his Sierra Stove.<\/p>\n<p>The basic unit I got weighs 18 ounces and is clever and well-evolved. Accessory goodies can be found at the manufacturer&#8217;s site. The newest item is a titanium version that weighs only 10 ounces, for $129.<\/p>\n<p>I was impressed at how little fuel was needed, and how funky it could be. A switch offers high or low speed on the fan, driven by one AA battery. No igniter &#8212; my Bic failed me in the rain, but a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B004P5XOTA\/cooltools-20\">Lifeboat match<\/a> and lil&#8217; firestarter saved the day. Unlike butane, the Sierra Stove does blacken your pots and pans, which is the main nuisance &#8212; they go in Ziploc bags anyway though. All in all an impressive little rig.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll all want one when the economy collapses completely and we have to live homeless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lite-weight stove burns fuel found along trail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[86],"tags":[985],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31688,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/31688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}