It's a brilliant little heater I use mine in my campervan and I have never had any problem with monoxide, I do use a detector. I use it on my normal stove. It's just as effective as my Propex heater without drawing power from my batteries .
always use 2 different CO detector. a family almost died here when they got woken up by a 2nd alarm because the first one that was closest to the wood stove didnt even trigger. i guess it depends on the air circulation or the programation of the CO detector.
The white wintery mug added a nice touch. I did like the warm glow that emanated from the heater. 30 minutes of warmth after removal from the flame is impressive!
Bought a second one of those type of heater to use on a tabletop hob like the butane stove you showed, first one I had I used it with a wood gasifier stove in December 2014 when I moved into my apartment without power or natural gas connected 🤣 (previous occupant owes a lot of money) I managed to boil water in a tea kettle for coffee as well as heating up canned food in an old mess tin (army style, pierced the can and put it in the mess tin of boiling water to heat through)
That's awesome.. Thanks for the info.. I've been thinking of buying one and i just got the same Biutain stove you have.. But i just happened to pick up a few of those heat canisters.. I didn't realize those are a "safe choice" to use .. Thx
I can see heating this up outside the tent then moving it to an 8" terracotta dish and pot over it once really hot and you could use it in the tent without a flame. It might even be of use with a candle inside it in the winter inside the tent or house. Get one of those 8-hour candles and it would give off some of the lost heat and keep the flame burning better than some ideas. Thanks for the review and doing this in the summer (are you crazy?). I've been watching you for a while now and you never let me down on your posts. Thanks again.
@@toni3558 I doubt it could be used with one. Those are too small for this type of application and don't produce enough heat. The single candle ones do have a heat plate at the top too. The three candle one might, but it has its own plate on top to make it into a kind of heater. A candle might work, as I said above, but very few things give out enough heat to make this device function. You could heat it up outside the tent and carry it in on a terracotta pot stand but that would be the most I would use it for. Most things with fuel are dangerous inside of a tent.
I'm in the process of making a heat drum for my Coleman 533 single burner.. it will be 6" by 6 3/4" with a Bail to lift the whole shebang and carry it around.it should put out about 8K BTU the stove is rated at 10K btu but there will be some loss.jim
You’ve made me an addict of your videos! I just recently discovered your blog and I’m checking everything, lol. I was thinking about getting this since I’m planning on Van/living for 4 months checking National Parks, of course I’d leave some ventilation open while using, together with a carbon monoxide alarm, run it just to warm up, transfer to a pot while is cooling off. I’ll put a fire mat together with a metal cooking sheet to make it safer. I have a fan on top of the wood stove I use at home that runs purely on heat, I can probably modify for this to stay firm, stable on top to move the hot air and I think that’ll make it even more efficient. I will order from your Amazon store. Keep up the good work and thanks.👍🏻
I have one of these . The one thing I did do was cut the protruding tabs off of the four inserts so that the radiant stove fits over the wire grate of my Sterno folding stove .
What would help would be a metal wind shield to make a reflector. If you get a duel fuel, butane x propane, stove you can attach to a 20# tank using a adapter hose. This would be good for use in a van with that advantage that you can adjust the heat low enough not to over heat or just use very little heat if you want to stretch your fuel usage.
Great for outside use with a wind guard, I found it to be quite wobbly on my vision square gas stove so I bent the fins out at the bottom to make it a bit more balanced as no matter which direction I put the fins in it wouldn’t fit for it to be stable enough in my eyes.. obviously there s that many different brand gas stoves on the market some maybe fit a bit better than others...If I’m doing anything wrong please let me know n any feedback much appreciated 👍
One could surround it with fire bricks to build up a heat sink and set the whole apparatus on a large concrete paver. Of course that wont work for backpackers.
Nov. 16, 2021: That $15.00 heater on the Amazon link is now $22.99. Thanks for the video. Nothing in the Amazon description tells how to use it or gives any precautions etc, which I think is very irresponsible of the Seller and Amazon. Your demo was very thorough and I truly appreciate all of your comments about the heater and the heat sources. I was thinking of using this inside a van.... I'd heat it up with the window cracked then turn off the flame and allow the unit to distribute the heat, off flame. In my area of SouthFlorida we have very few really cold nights, say below 40° but even 50° feels totally freezing for ME so, I just need to take the chill off now and then. This should do the trick nicely, plus a cup of hot tea or cocoa while the cover is warming up, I should be warm enough to fall asleep.
I decided this would be my heating system for winter camping and I just knew *UA-cam* would have a video on this puppy👍😊...Thx P.s... will this create condensation with the butane fuel?
Burning alcohol in these stoves - indoors - is completely safe. The byproducts of combustion are water and carbon dioxide. You will need some additional air so do provide some air flow into small enclosed spaces, but there are no concerns about carbon monoxide poisoning if you use alcohol.
Great little gizmo. Do you think you could put it over one of those safe heat cans if using inside? Is this worth the money as opposed to the homemade one you made back in 2016?
@@Iridium242 Okay Thanks- I am looking for that alcohol stove you love so much right now. I did not know that alcohol was such a clean burning fuel source. It makes me a bit nervous but think I will give it a try. So going to watch your video again
@@Iridium242 I searched this stove heater in UA-cam today and your video came up. And this review was done about a year ago, it is as if you’re like a psychic ! 😃 Thank you for the review, I was thinking of buying this for temporary use until I get diesel heater for my van.
I personally use t-light candles - 8 hour ones - bunch about 6 of those tightly together on a non flamable surface like steel and you will get a really hot colum of air rising in the room. I test it every winter and its really great. They are fab for boilling water in tins too. Il test this one day in a tent outside and see how long it takes. No doubt it will take less then 5 mins. I am not comfortable with gas at all because I cant see how it is behaving and hard to ccontrol if it misbehaves.
Please don't bunch tea lights closely together. Someone commented on a site the wax spilled into each other and ignited in a kind of explosion. It burst through the lantern holder and set his house on fire. Even the box warns of this.
You must calculate how quickly the candle flames are sucking the oxygen out of your space. It isn't just the fumes that the gas gives off, it is the amount of oxygen consumed by any flame, while you are exhaling carbon dioxide. It is the lack of oxygen that renders a person unconscious.... Every flame consumes the oxygen in every space.... that's the purpose of keeping a window open... to replenish the oxygen in the area faster than the humans, pets, and the flame, can consume it. If you have a pet in the area with you, they also consume the oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide so figure that their breathe will deplete the oxygen faster than you alone and increase the carbon dioxide faster. Those tealights are not as safe for sleeping or being in a small space as you seem to think they are, and you are using a quantity of them which increases the amount of flame and increases the speed of the oxygen being depleted.
Yeah I dont see why not, Once shot show is over we can give it a try on video! Its going to be super busy this week with the show and with other videos but I will give it a try next week.
Mine has just arrived and like you said in the your video the gas bottle gets warm. I have the same style stove as you use at 8:20. How worried do I need to be about this?
You could perhaps make a heat deflector out of heavy foil like those disposable trays. Cut a disk shape like a CD and cut a slot from the outside to the centre and just slip it in. This should give far more protection from the heat. You could also use the bottom of a large biscuit tin and it's easy to cut with scissors, that's what I'd do. I don't like loud bangs with lots of heat 🧨💥😲
9:57 That would be my concern with this. Are canisters and gas fittings for stoves capable of the sustained use and the radiative heat that this can heater puts off? I'd be afraid of a ruptured tank or gas line and a sudden fireball.
As long as your stove is in good shape and the flame is blue, you shouldn't get any monoxide. That said I'd always have more than one monoxide/CO2/smoke detector at varying heights just incase since CO2 sinks to low spots. Also a fuel rated extinguisher.
Carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide are two different things carbon monoxide is what you are worried about and it mixes equally with the air carbon dioxide is the stuff found in soda and it does fall
Yup, I plan on that for sure, it does not get super cold here often, (Nevada Desert about an hour outside of Vegas) but I plan on using it on the coldest day I can get coming up in the winter and doing a vid on it!
Where would I find or get that exact little stove and can? you used last? That little heater is cool! Not I. My tiny 2 room place but like outside, in winter for sure! Sometimes it’s so cold here I really like these
The BRS stove is the tiny one I did not show that wont fit because it is so tiny and small. Which stove did you mean, the brass one I showed that was an alcohol stove, or the stove that I actually did the test with?
This holds unburnt propane pretty good burning it up. These are much cleaner burning but yes in a pinch that would save your life and with Proper ventilation Unburnt propane doesn’t really matter. Carbon monoxide is the real killer so make sure you have a fan pull air in and on taking air out.
Did you try it? I wil try is in a few days in a 26ft Friendship. At night its around 4 to 6 degree Celsius. I'll let you know. Awesome review vid, thanks!
Sundays Comrad on Pinterest they make them by nesting together terra-cotta pots and turning upside down over candles. Doesn’t get hot enough to use as a heater, but you can put on stove but usually can’t handle the higher heat and ends up cracking. I like your soup can idea!!
I just used mine this past week when the power went out in the apartment and it worked well with the campy 2 stove. I'm happy to be a prepper!
It's a brilliant little heater I use mine in my campervan and I have never had any problem with monoxide, I do use a detector.
I use it on my normal stove. It's just as effective as my Propex heater without drawing power from my batteries .
always use 2 different CO detector. a family almost died here when they got woken up by a 2nd alarm because the first one that was closest to the wood stove didnt even trigger. i guess it depends on the air circulation or the programation of the CO detector.
The white wintery mug added a nice touch. I did like the warm glow that emanated from the heater. 30 minutes of warmth after removal from the flame is impressive!
Bought one years ago on ali for like 8 bucks.
Could come in handy in the dark winter of 2022 / 2023
:))
I ran across this video of yours, I've been thinking of buying one of these.
Fule canister will almost always be cold because of the expansion of the gas being used.
You are one of the top dogs with videos
Bought a second one of those type of heater to use on a tabletop hob like the butane stove you showed, first one I had I used it with a wood gasifier stove in December 2014 when I moved into my apartment without power or natural gas connected 🤣 (previous occupant owes a lot of money) I managed to boil water in a tea kettle for coffee as well as heating up canned food in an old mess tin (army style, pierced the can and put it in the mess tin of boiling water to heat through)
Did you ruin it with the word gasifier? I was thinking of going with one of those and bringing this heat sink along on colder trips
@@pedroclaro7822 nope it works perfectly even if it does glow bright yellow sometimes 🤣
That's awesome.. Thanks for the info.. I've been thinking of buying one and i just got the same Biutain stove you have.. But i just happened to pick up a few of those heat canisters.. I didn't realize those are a "safe choice" to use .. Thx
Good video, I saw one of these on amazon, and your review is useful, can see this being useful.
I've been looking at these for a while. I think in a deer blind would be an awesome spot
I can see heating this up outside the tent then moving it to an 8" terracotta dish and pot over it once really hot and you could use it in the tent without a flame. It might even be of use with a candle inside it in the winter inside the tent or house. Get one of those 8-hour candles and it would give off some of the lost heat and keep the flame burning better than some ideas. Thanks for the review and doing this in the summer (are you crazy?). I've been watching you for a while now and you never let me down on your posts. Thanks again.
Great idea.
I came here to see if it can be used with the UCO Lantern.
@@toni3558 I doubt it could be used with one. Those are too small for this type of application and don't produce enough heat. The single candle ones do have a heat plate at the top too. The three candle one might, but it has its own plate on top to make it into a kind of heater. A candle might work, as I said above, but very few things give out enough heat to make this device function. You could heat it up outside the tent and carry it in on a terracotta pot stand but that would be the most I would use it for. Most things with fuel are dangerous inside of a tent.
Really radiates the heat! 😎 Thanks Iridium dude! 👍
I'm in the process of making a heat drum for my Coleman 533 single burner.. it will be 6" by 6 3/4" with a Bail to lift the whole shebang and carry it around.it should put out about 8K BTU the stove is rated at 10K btu but there will be some loss.jim
Just got mine in the mail today. Can't wait to use it in the field during cold weather training
You’ve made me an addict of your videos! I just recently discovered your blog and I’m checking everything, lol. I was thinking about getting this since I’m planning on Van/living for 4 months checking National Parks, of course I’d leave some ventilation open while using, together with a carbon monoxide alarm, run it just to warm up, transfer to a pot while is cooling off. I’ll put a fire mat together with a metal cooking sheet to make it safer. I have a fan on top of the wood stove I use at home that runs purely on heat, I can probably modify for this to stay firm, stable on top to move the hot air and I think that’ll make it even more efficient. I will order from your Amazon store. Keep up the good work and thanks.👍🏻
That looks like a fantastic option to heat my Eureka one man combat tent. And hunting blind! Nice!
I have one of these . The one thing I did do was cut the protruding tabs off of the four inserts so that the radiant stove fits over the wire grate of my Sterno folding stove .
What would help would be a metal wind shield to make a reflector. If you get a duel fuel, butane x propane, stove you can attach to a 20# tank using a adapter hose. This would be good for use in a van with that advantage that you can adjust the heat low enough not to over heat or just use very little heat if you want to stretch your fuel usage.
One room apartment? Haha. I'm looking to use it in a mini van
Thanks for the video!, I've been looking around a lot to see this thing working. I'm planing on usig it with a rocket stove... lets see what happens.
I’ve just ordered one of these from Amazon UK for £7.99 👍🏻
Great for outside use with a wind guard, I found it to be quite wobbly on my vision square gas stove so I bent the fins out at the bottom to make it a bit more balanced as no matter which direction I put the fins in it wouldn’t fit for it to be stable enough in my eyes.. obviously there s that many different brand gas stoves on the market some maybe fit a bit better than others...If I’m doing anything wrong please let me know n any feedback much appreciated 👍
I wonder if you could use it in a van with a candle underneath. -Just a little tea light. What do you think?
One could surround it with fire bricks to build up a heat sink and set the whole apparatus on a large concrete paver. Of course that wont work for backpackers.
Where is a safe place to store this while its still radiating all that heat? I use it in my van so I want to store it when I'm done using it. Thanks
Thank you, I go through eBay. I'm buying.
Nov. 16, 2021: That $15.00 heater on the Amazon link is now $22.99.
Thanks for the video.
Nothing in the Amazon description tells how to use it or gives any precautions etc, which I think is very irresponsible of the Seller and Amazon.
Your demo was very thorough and I truly appreciate all of your comments about the heater and the heat sources.
I was thinking of using this inside a van....
I'd heat it up with the window cracked then turn off the flame and allow the unit to distribute the heat, off flame.
In my area of SouthFlorida we have very few really cold nights, say below 40° but even 50° feels totally freezing for ME so, I just need to take the chill off now and then.
This should do the trick nicely, plus a cup of hot tea or cocoa while the cover is warming up, I should be warm enough to fall asleep.
Check out eBay perhaps. That's where I ordered mine from earlier this year.
Very informative video. How will it do in your bedroom during a power outage with a small candle?
With a candle it should do pretty good, might get very dirty from soot but it would work
@@Iridium242 Thank you so much for your answer. I am buying that little heater for an emergency. It costs $26 now in Amazon.
Hello have you tried it with just a candle
This is interesting, thanks for the lead.
For a tent or a small room I use four t lights inside and they work quite well it gets very hot……
I decided this would be my heating system for winter camping and I just knew *UA-cam* would have a video on this puppy👍😊...Thx
P.s... will this create condensation with the butane fuel?
Yes, a little.
I wonder if it could be modified to use a candle inside, and possibly hung from the top of a tent.
I wouldn't put this thing anyway close to tent walls.
Too dangerous in my opinion. Plus hear raises thus you’d be getting little to none heat and taking a risk.
Hi ...I think that just warming water is a great way to contain heat ...of course if you want heat in the form of (infrared) radiation it is ok!
I have a stove like that that uses both, propane and butane.
Burning alcohol in these stoves - indoors - is completely safe. The byproducts of combustion are water and carbon dioxide. You will need some additional air so do provide some air flow into small enclosed spaces, but there are no concerns about carbon monoxide poisoning if you use alcohol.
Alcohol yes, safe, but lots of people use Heet, that’s methanol very poisonous in an enclosure.
Whats your guess on run time on that size fuel canister on low?
Great little gizmo. Do you think you could put it over one of those safe heat cans if using inside? Is this worth the money as opposed to the homemade one you made back in 2016?
Yeah honestly this one is bigger and radiates heat better than the one I made.
@@Iridium242 Okay Thanks- I am looking for that alcohol stove you love so much right now. I did not know that alcohol was such a clean burning fuel source. It makes me a bit nervous but think I will give it a try. So going to watch your video again
Testing a heater in the desert in August are you sure you thought this plan out
Yeah as I mentioned not the best time to test. it will be getting a test in the cold as well in a few months. lol
@@Iridium242 I still appreciate you testing these things. Even if it’s hot in your area.
That’s why it’s a test, before you need it.
@@Iridium242
I searched this stove heater in UA-cam today and your video came up. And this review was done about a year ago, it is as if you’re like a psychic ! 😃
Thank you for the review, I was thinking of buying this for temporary use until I get diesel heater for my van.
Might be neat to make an adapter plate for this to work with a BRS-3K.
I personally use t-light candles - 8 hour ones - bunch about 6 of those tightly together on a non flamable surface like steel and you will get a really hot colum of air rising in the room. I test it every winter and its really great. They are fab for boilling water in tins too. Il test this one day in a tent outside and see how long it takes. No doubt it will take less then 5 mins. I am not comfortable with gas at all because I cant see how it is behaving and hard to ccontrol if it misbehaves.
Please don't bunch tea lights closely together. Someone commented on a site the wax spilled into each other and ignited in a kind of explosion. It burst through the lantern holder and set his house on fire. Even the box warns of this.
You must calculate how quickly the candle flames are sucking the oxygen out of your space.
It isn't just the fumes that the gas gives off, it is the amount of oxygen consumed by any flame, while you are exhaling carbon dioxide.
It is the lack of oxygen that renders a person unconscious....
Every flame consumes the oxygen in every space.... that's the purpose of keeping a window open... to replenish the oxygen in the area faster than the humans, pets, and the flame, can consume it.
If you have a pet in the area with you, they also consume the oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide so figure that their breathe will deplete the oxygen faster than you alone and increase the carbon dioxide faster.
Those tealights are not as safe for sleeping or being in a small space as you seem to think they are, and you are using a quantity of them which increases the amount of flame and increases the speed of the oxygen being depleted.
I believe you are the only review of this product. I was curious if you could maybe use it as a wood stove? Let me know 👍
Yeah I dont see why not, Once shot show is over we can give it a try on video! Its going to be super busy this week with the show and with other videos but I will give it a try next week.
People use these in camper vans all the time. Put a cast iron tea warmer on top and you're in business.
If I keep it on, how long will it last with, say, a 16 oz propane cylinder using the spider stove?
I use it in my ice fishing tent to heat and cook, on low to medium it lasts about 3.5 hours.
6 minutes not to bad
When I'm out in the sticks time isn't that important if you get my drift just want to chill out and enjoy the camp
Mine has just arrived and like you said in the your video the gas bottle gets warm. I have the same style stove as you use at 8:20. How worried do I need to be about this?
You could perhaps make a heat deflector out of heavy foil like those disposable trays. Cut a disk shape like a CD and cut a slot from the outside to the centre and just slip it in. This should give far more protection from the heat.
You could also use the bottom of a large biscuit tin and it's easy to cut with scissors, that's what I'd do. I don't like loud bangs with lots of heat 🧨💥😲
Good review. Many thanks.
Thanks you for let us know
Does it fit on a jetboil minimo?
Anyone tried flipping this over and use it as a hobo stove? Set this on a rock and those legs become a pot stand ...
Nice video thank you for all you hard work in making and testing out gear will this fit a bio light or a jet boil stove thank you
Not sure, but chances are they will fit, those both have bigger legs and would most likely work.
9:57 That would be my concern with this. Are canisters and gas fittings for stoves capable of the sustained use and the radiative heat that this can heater puts off? I'd be afraid of a ruptured tank or gas line and a sudden fireball.
The heater/stove is cool but i am intrigued by the way you just made your coffee lol what is that device..?
That is called a Primula Coffee Brew Buddy its awesome I did a vid on it here: ua-cam.com/video/lNtHU1d8jP4/v-deo.html
@@Iridium242 Thanks i'll check out the video.
As long as your stove is in good shape and the flame is blue, you shouldn't get any monoxide. That said I'd always have more than one monoxide/CO2/smoke detector at varying heights just incase since CO2 sinks to low spots. Also a fuel rated extinguisher.
Carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide are two different things carbon monoxide is what you are worried about and it mixes equally with the air carbon dioxide is the stuff found in soda and it does fall
This is called a catalytic heater I got this for emergency in my car so I did not freeze to death
will it fit in to jetboil?
Nope just a bit too big I tried it on mine
@@Iridium242 thanks, Im looking for similar solution for jetboil but I guess not exist so far
Is this safe to use inside a van or rv? Thanks
can you turn this upside down and use it outside as a wood cook stove?
Yeah it would work like that
@@Iridium242 can I yours it outdoor for setting
I ordered 4 of these at 4.74 ea from china. Hope they are the same. They look same
Does yours work well?
Love it! Works great in my van. Way more heat than just using the burner.
Can I use candle?
Maybe you can show it it the winter when its cold and raining
Yup, I plan on that for sure, it does not get super cold here often, (Nevada Desert about an hour outside of Vegas) but I plan on using it on the coldest day I can get coming up in the winter and doing a vid on it!
Will it work with a candle
It will but probably wont be super hot
Thank you Sir.
Where do you get them?
Aug 13 2024 ,ordered from aliexpress 3.86$ free delivery
Can I use it outdoor for camping
yes no problem
Where would I find or get that exact little stove and can? you used last? That little heater is cool! Not I. My tiny 2 room place but like outside, in winter for sure! Sometimes it’s so cold here
I really like these
The small alcohol stove? Or the one I actually used to heat with as a demo?
Iridium242 is the BRS stove an alcohol one too? I like the last one but what does it use?
The BRS stove is the tiny one I did not show that wont fit because it is so tiny and small. Which stove did you mean, the brass one I showed that was an alcohol stove, or the stove that I actually did the test with?
Ok, I think I found the one you were talking about, its the Trangia Swedish one. this one here amzn.to/2KIJaEq
Iridium242 the one you actually used not the gold one
How do you think this might work with like a Solo Stove burning wood pellets?
It should
Just got 3 they are $20 now.
I'd just use a 1 pound empty coffee can, and add hole and grooves. lol
This holds unburnt propane pretty good burning it up. These are much cleaner burning but yes in a pinch that would save your life and with Proper ventilation Unburnt propane doesn’t really matter. Carbon monoxide is the real killer so make sure you have a fan pull air in and on taking air out.
Will it work with a penny stove?
Nice upload!
Yeah easily, its big enough on the bottom.
Interesting!
do you know of another water generator that makes water from the air---nevada is very dry and a solar hook up
Can you please use the heat stove cover on an alcohol stove in another video please?
Great video. Do you think this would heat a small cabin in a fairly insulated boat??
Did you try it? I wil try is in a few days in a 26ft Friendship. At night its around 4 to 6 degree Celsius. I'll let you know. Awesome review vid, thanks!
Bram ter Hoeven, How did it go?
@@stevencagney5505 he died of carbon monoxide poisoning
It looks like u could make one out of a stew can?
Sundays Comrad on Pinterest they make them by nesting together terra-cotta pots and turning upside down over candles. Doesn’t get hot enough to use as a heater, but you can put on stove but usually can’t handle the higher heat and ends up cracking. I like your soup can idea!!
mine smelt a bit first use
5:04
What is the name of this stove?
Thank you for sharing this great video...
I did learn a lot... God Bless you
Its a Gas One Butane stove, they can be had pretty cheap same design on all of them
@@Iridium242
Thank you for all your help.
This is a smart setup.
has anyone taken one apart to see it's components
I like it! Thanks for the review!
Would this work on an alchohol or wood stove 😁
Yeah I dont see why not, it should work with one
I got mine and it give off a weird smell. Anybody have this problem?
Mine did too when it was new, no longer gives off any smell
@@Iridium242 I decide to take the black cap off and the smell is gone. The black paint seems to be peeled off the surface also.
Thanks for sharing, atb 👍
from your demo did seem to radiate the heat,
There isn’t enough flame on low to catch fire to anything and the co2 is negligible