BioLite CampStove 2 Bundle Review, Grill, Kettle, Light
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- Опубліковано 9 кві 2020
- The Biolite Campstove 2 Bundle is a smokeless outdoor wood burning campfire alternative. A cooking system and electricity generator, all in one. The Bundle comes with a kettle pot, a grill and an LED light.
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I really enjoyed your review, thank you! I've had my stove for about 3 years now, and have never had any problems with it. It's my only stove on backcountry canoe trips here in Ontario, and I've never had any problems fueling it..I confess I do take a couple of ziplock bags of wood pellets in case of rain. It's an impressive design and so much better than having to worry about fuel cannisters.
Just got one. I work in the outdoor industry and am excited to see the industry address environmental issues through smart design. Excited to use it!
Watched this video last year and was really impressed. Just clicked it was you who made it. Scared me off from making stove review videos for a good 18 months 🤣
I forgot about this video! It’s one of those videos that gets a constant stream of views and very few new comments. I miss the warmer weather now! And also that filming location! Haven’t been back since I “temporarily” moved out of my studio over a year ago 😬
Great video! Thanks! I have the original and love it. Highly recommend. More work then a gas stove, but it makes the whole outdoor experience more fun and engaging. Cooking with real wood also makes the food taste way better!
Yeah sometimes extra work is worth it!
Just a comment ... when I bought mine 10 years ago it was explained that this is a middle-class product (First World) that they produce and sell at a high-ish price to fund their Third World products.
It is worth checking out their mission statement and having a look at the work they are doing in Africa, India and more.
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That pleased me.
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JUST BOUGHT MINE! THANK YOU!!!! Can't wait till it comes so I can use it! LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!!! :)
Thanks Sandra! 🙂
You can sometimes find camp stoves on sale at RV shows. I picked one up this year for $99 which included the stove, grill, pot and light! Sweet deal! I have really enjoyed this stove on my front porch lately and the fire TV is quiet entertaining. I like your idea of starting the fire with a bit of pellets at the bottom.
That was a great deal! I like sitting in the garden with it in the evenings, relaxing way to finish the day.
Doesn’t some of the money go to areas of the world to give them clean and safe ways to cook and light their homes? A bit of a charity based company.
Yeah something like that, it's a great idea: www.bioliteenergy.com/pages/mission
Can't wait for the chinese to sell a knock off of this product, one that poor people in 1st world countries can afford to also have cheap, clean & safe ways to cook and light their cabins, tents and shacks. Those poor people in 3rd world countries always get help with money, freebies and the new good stuff thrown at them by companies and charaties a world away while the poor and homeless in their own 1st world country freeze their asses off in the dark at night!
Be really nice if a company looked out their window to find the needy instead of to what's a tear jerker on TV and cool for celebs elsewhere.
P.S.- I once wished Angelina Jolie would adopt me too but, I lived in her same zip code so, that was certainly a no go no matter how poor I was as well.
Lol, I can't watch this after talking about violating lock downs! That's supporting crime
I bought one when they first came out got a great deal $150.00 U.S. It came with stove, light, grill, pot, and 10 2 Pound bags of Bio-lite wood pellets
I got it in The Netherlands a few years ago for 190EUR, where everywhere else it was 249EUR, Love that camp stove 2 bundle.
I fired it up this afternoon just for amusement :-)
But it needs permanently "food" :-)
The grill works well, no issues with it.
Thanks for your video
Mate this is nice peace of an outdoor review, thanks for that and for your effort you put in to make this nice video :) 🙏
Thanks!
Worth every penny ive got the original set ive used it for years now not a single problem with it. One trip i was on my mate was using a gas burner which he constantly bragged was so much quicker to use than the biolite he was correct but by the forth day in the woods he ran outta of gas lol and was then looking like a rite idiot as pleaded to use my setup..
Next time we went camping bingo he had purchased one himself..
Haha, yeah definitely advantages for multi day trips.
A kitchen scale is only like $10-12 and you can measure how many grams per boil/ use of fuel. You can easily calculate how many uses you'll get from a canister with a simple calculation. I know with the windmaster + heat distribution pot it's only about 7 grams per 2cup/ 500ml boil, so ten grams per boil will give you a generous buffer. Figure one boil for every hot meal/ hot drink. Easy peasy.
@@totoroben ok good luck with that id never trust a table to make my fuel calculations as something always crops up unexpected... i keep in a small pocket in my bag a compact methanol burner or esbit solid fuel tablets just in case.. i never never rely on tables same goes for gps gadgets i always carry a map n compass just in case. Good luck hope you don't run out of fuel...
@@squashedflyracing2310 i mean if your gonna be super paranoid about it, just calculate and go a size up.
The best way to fuel the biolite (have owned and used one for a long time) is to chop your biomass into small chunks, pack fairly stoutly into the canister, just below the uppermost air ports.
Light and burn from the top down as it is a gasifier stove, and you will have a burn that lasts easily 30 mins.
Remember, gasifier burn efficiency top down. Not bottom up.
When you burn from the bottom up, you greatly decrease your burn time and efficiency.
Also, as you experienced, a bottom up burn produces a taller, more uncontrolled flame
I've burned from top down using pellets. But find bottom up easier to light and lasts long enough for whatever I'm cooking. I'll experiment with it!
@@StephenJReid I can absolutely agree with that lol, unless I bring a dedicated fire starter or my tiny pen torch (perfect for lighting my biolite) top down can be a hassle to light lol
I've found that after loading, pulling out the middle stick, shredding the ends and lighting it works best!
kinda non-sense about gassifer stove, all wood stoves are 'wood gas' stoves.
All wood flames are wood gas derived through pyrolysis, any flames from combustible is wood gas, so it makes no sense to call it a wood gas stove. It is just a stove with an electric fan that feeds more air.
The "Wood gas stoves" terminology that are specifically called that are just stoves with analog heated chimneys that draw more heated air in. They would be more accurately named "air tunnel stoves", but that name doesn't sell very well compared to 'wood gas stove'.
The only issue with burning bottom up is too much wood gas produced at once for air to come in, rather than loading everything to burn at once, it is far better to only burn at 1/3 to 1/2 full at any time, lighting from below, and then adding small amounts of fuel as needed, each new block adding a few minutes of 'wood gas' to burn.
By lighting from top, you essentially reduce the heated chimney effect as only the very top of the chimney is heated, rather than a longer depth compared to burning from lower, resulting in a smokey and inefficient fire for much longer til the heated chimney is established (i.e. burning til more than half the load is on fire)
I think it's worth the money and I think it's also worth the space without the grill when you consider the space that fuel canisters and a cooking pot take up the only major negative for it is how heavy it is. For me, I think the little bit of extra weight is worth the convenience.
I love this so much and don’t really do any kind of camping! Going to be sat in my garden grilling shit up. Awesome video as always mate.
That’s going to smell terrible! 💩 👨🏻🍳 🤢
Stephen J Reid 😂
LoveIy review, absolutely love mine. Got it for $129 USA (yep $129 - had to view lots of auctions and keep trying) on eBay in 2019. Great for family cooking and once you get the hang of the fan and how it burns, you have a marvelous system. Love the fact it burns clean, pellets, twigs, paper, leaves, or any biomass you can find, charges my phone at end of the day - and depending on how long I am out - overnight versus a couple of days - its benefits far outweigh its drawbacks.
Definitely! Once you nail the trick of keeping it alight, it’s brilliant.
Got ours because we live in country and trees fall taking power with them. Between this, our Berkey water system, little buddy heater, and solar generator type battery, I’ve stopped worrying about outages. It’s taken about 10 years to build this up but it’s worth the saving. (My sweet grandkids love camping with me. )
Definitely a good one to have for an emergency!
First time here on you’re channel! Just used this in my backyard for the first time today! Practice right. 😊you’re video is great! Thanks! I used the pellets and some wood chips (fire starter) and created too much smoke cause I put the fan on too soon. Lesson learned. Thanks for the video!
Yup, definitely a sweet spot to getting it running right!
So cool, I'm gonna by one of them for going in Europe with my car!
Always good video, Congratulation for this quality! Hi from France
Hi You in France! Merci 🙂 It would be perfect for a road trip, don’t have to worry about the weight of it.
People questioning the cost? It’s a stove that is absolutely amazing I use mine all the time when I go kayaking find a secluded beach pop on some food. Also in the woodland whilst camping. Remember this stove charges your phone it could be a life and death situation no gas stove does this as I know of. Great editing I must say 😁
Thanks Nathan! It's a great stove, haven't actually taken mine camping yet but used it loads in the garden as a BBQ alternative.
Can't wait to try this in the Alaska outdoors. Great video by the way thx.
Thanks George!
I combined the biolite stove with the kelly kettle on top and that works even better
Fantastic! Just bought one. Keeping it in case of calamities like longlasting power cuts.
I backed the biolite back when it was a kickstarter, so I've had mine since about 2012 I think. You 100% can fill it before and then you no longer need to constantly feed it. When I'm just using it at home I basically fill it to the brim with pellets and use some cardboard or newspaper to get it started and that will run for close to 45 minutes with no upkeep.
Just came back from a camping trip and was still too lazy to chop wood so I ran to the local grocery and bought a bag of hickory wood chips. So not only is it a lack of work there but the fire is essentially flavored at that point. First night we did mexican rice and hamburgers, biolite cookpot running on high until it boils then stop feeding it for the 20-ish minutes to simmer. Then throw on the grill and go as hot and as fast as possible to get a good char on the burgers.
Haven’t tried hickory in it yet, actually difficult and very expensive to get hickory wood chips in Ireland.
@@StephenJReid can confirm! saw your wood slightly shorter so you can put tinder& small twigs on top, for a 'TOP DOWN BURN', will last about half hour. empty the coals back on top.. super efficient...
After bringing water to boil, you can cook on the closed feeding door while grilling. I cut to shape grilling mat to saute veggies, about 2/3 grill surface....
For solo, or couples lightweight, ditch the grill & kettle... 8in ultra non-stick skillet w/straining lid will do it all. (Not ultralight, but super practical)
@@StephenJReid & great content btw!
Can pair w/Coleman camp oven, for Backcountry microwave & fits a Popcan stove perfectly propped under the electric heat probe. ( Not sure how many btu's alcohol Popcan can put out)
Your depth of field shot is great!!
Thanks!
Very entertaining video. I bought this product about a month ago on sale and have yet to use it. Did I need it? No. Did I want it? Yes...
Haha, that's probably true of most things we buy.
This is so informative!!! Fantastic review; I love this kind of content!🌻🌼🐝
Thank you 🙂
Wow, great review. I will buy it.
Totally worth the money and it’s good for the environment.
Very true!
this guy looks like he just stopped at a whole foods to pick up the best ingredients to start a campfire and is now camping in front of a green screen,while morning flute music is playing in the background and bilbo the hobbit is skipping and whistling down the streeer
😂 Well they do say Ireland looks a lot like a miniature version of New Zealand.
turn in the man card right?
You gas man, great review. thanks!
We got ours for US 173. Looking forward to using it soon
What is US 173? Enjoy 🙂
I’ve been using the same Biolite 2 with grill. I bought 2 since I was cooking a ton for my family + one more adult (4 to 6 people) about 3 to 4 times a week. I have been using Biolite’s pellets as they were on a big time sale a while back (but I’m running low now and I can’t find them right now in Canada during the pandemic). I find the pellets are extremely convenient to get cooking right away and very predictable if I keep my settings consistent for each cook. I can cook two large pork chops, hot dogs and boil water on one session and maybe even more as I jack up the fan to burn out the rest of the pellets. I was able to buy a huge bag of pellets from Amazon that was even cheaper, but I’ll get around to using twigs and branches when people aren’t so pandemic aware (people get weird AF when they see you looking for branches in the forest). Lastly, I just received my Trangia triangle that you can put on top of the Biolite so my cast iron pan is raised higher for stability and less of a hot spot in the middle of the pan, followed by being able to add more fuel without lifting up the pan. Dutch ovens also fit a lot better.
Pork chops are amazing on it, also lamb chops, rib eye steaks, burgers, sausages. Love the smoke flavour. I’ve been burning a combination of pellets and dead wood I process myself.
Have you mastered the art of keeping it alight? I had it go out and go very smokey a couple of times but got the hang of it now.
Stephen J Reid Yah funny you should ask. After cooking lunch using the grill and cast iron pan, I serve up the food but I want the flame to keep going so I can heat up some marshmellows for my young kids (but I want them to finish lunch). I got the kids to gather some sticks and followed your advice (I’m also looking at getting a saw and knife, what brand do you have for the Saw and Knife?). I added some sticks to the half burnt pellets and I got the over heating alert on one of my biolites so it eventually turned off and adding any more fuel to it was just going to make the situation worse in terms of maybe overheating the battery. So right now as it’s still a very hot summer, I’m trying to master how to add fuel without making it way too hot.
A scaled up version of this would be quite cool I think, maybe twice the size. But this is a very cool gadget.
They have a much larger fire pit version
Awesome video, as a side note if the wind is blowing you should place the plastic component ( fan / battery ) upwind for saftey.
Oh yeah definitely! And also out of sunlight, found it overheats otherwise.
Nice, I have the Black Set and I recomend to use wood pellets they Pack small (you can just take a little back with you) and have a very good burn clean and power full! It also then doenst need any cleaning.
I’ve tired wood pellets although it’s tricky to find ones that are properly food safe with no additives
Thank you for the thorough review! What would you think of using this as an emergency home cooking device? Not indoors, of course, but maybe in the back yard or under a patio awning?
I’ve used it for cooking at home more than while camping. It’s great when I can’t be bothered waiting on the charcoal BBQ. Can be cooking on the grill in about 5mins (excluding wood prep).
I’ve cooked steaks, lamb chops, pork chops, burgers, sausages etc.
Just as long as everyone likes the wood fire taste, I love it, but not everyone does.
That is awesome! I want one!
2017 I got mine just before my Birthday for a camping trip I got the kit there a headlamp and sola torch all for £200.00 a cracking deal from Go Outdoors. I take that camping all year round with me because of how versatile it is for charging light phones and cameras.
Amazing bit of kit
Your superb editing makes me forget about the product😍
Thanks 🙂
The video quality of this vid is super crisp.
We really like your videos. Very informative. My wife ask me a question about which BioLite product charges quickest, or produces the most electricity? Is it the Camp Stove 2, BioLite BaseCamp, or BioLite FirePit? Many thanks, Harold
Great video! I love the opening but my favourite part is the wood cutting montage. I think this looks cool but can’t see a reason to buy. Unless you were looking at using it to power your lights or something with it as well. I have the head torch and it is brilliant.
Thanks 🙂 I'll maybe make a longer video sometime that's just wood cutting or something similar. You could power lights off it that had a USB connector. I have their Headlamp 200, it's great, is that the one you have?
@@StephenJReid Nah I've got the original 330 one. I can't get over the way that it doesn't move on my head even when I'm running full tilt. Absolutely marvellous piece of kit!
@@runningwithaj Yeah the 200 is the first running light I've used that was bright enough and didn't annoy me.
That’s a awesome back drop
Thanks, it’s behind a dump at the factory near my office 😂
I ordered the set up. I think its awesome and a decent price. I paid 225 us dollars.
I love mine, been using it for cooking at home instead of a BBQ. Cooked rib eye steaks on it the other evening, were amazing. There's definitely a skill to keeping it at the optimal temperature and stopping it from going out but I kinda get a kick out of that aspect. Sitting chopping up sticks as I cook.
Sebastien, when you put the Kelly kettle on top did you have to fill that with fuel also or did you just use the heat coming from the biolite? I was torn between the Kelly and this but if you can use both together I would probably do that.
Lol nice start to the video brother 🤣
Thanks Rodney! 🙂
Very nice clip
Thanks 🙂
I wish I had a need for that.
I'm like that with so much stuff, just want it because it's a cool idea or design 😂
I love it!!!😂
Is that where we filmed the action camera lightsaber battle? Have to say, my favourite part was the “wood preparation montage” 😂
Yes it is! 🙂 I’ll have to make an entire wood prep montage video.
Good quality!
Thanks 🙂
Who makes this? Brand name please?
Questionable cost! But very cool product. If I had money to burn (no pun intended), I would definitely get one!
Yeah it’s a very well made, functional luxury item. Camping equivalent of buying a fancy car just because 😂
How did you cool it down?
Tip out the ashes and it cools down very quickly after that.
Great video. What knife do you use?
It’s a Broc Forest knife from a local knife maker, Broc Knives
@@StephenJReid thank you mate. I really need a good knife for my camping
Woops, I skipped this video lat week. Can you charge your GH5 with it (who needs a cell phone in the woods)? Not sure the GH5 has USB powering or charging.
You could use an external USB battery charger for the GH5, so yeah you could charge it.
Holy editing!
Thanks Batman! 😂
So
How'd this compare to the lofi?
Depends on needs. The Biolite is quite a bit larger so can burn more fuel and has a very versatile range of accessories. The LOFI suits my needs much better as it’s about 1/8th the weight of the biolite. I’ve never taken the biolite camping because of its weight.
I found in practise the power generation of the Biolite was quite slow to charge anything
CinemaStovegraphy ! Thanks
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i have this product too, its one beautiful sooty machine, (sooty grilled food) and also rusts easily in burn chamber...grrrr
I've heard others way this, but not something I've had a problem with. I love the smokey taste it gives to everything you cook on it.
my favorite benefit is the lack of smoke. Only the best gasifier woodburners can do that,
but this one can charge my phone and also provide a decent lamp.
so yeah...
Lol, I and other people have built many versions of cheap, nonelectric gassifiers that don't smoke.
All it takes is a good gassifier design and attention to detail and you can make them from soda cans to paint buckets with no smoke and no powered blower.
If I wanted a good, cheap, compact way to charge a cell phone and a no smoke, high heat cook source I would go with a well built gassifier made from used cans and buy a seperate small hand crank or solar charger pack for much, much less money than the item in the video.
If even just the fan breaks on that in the video there is no charging and always smokey fire because the electric fan does more than fan the flame, it cools the cold side of the TEG element. If the fan doesn't work, the TEG won't produce enough power or possibly even overheat the internal circuitry in plastic housing & die during prolonged use. Then all you have is an expensive, always smokey inefficient fire pot with a detachable papwerweight mounted on its side.
Very nice
Thanks Alan! 🙂
Excellent review. Not sure if it’s worth the money, could probably do the same with a cheap disposable bbq. But it is cool. P.S. You made a horlicks of the horlicks.
Yeah but a disposable BBQ doesn’t look as cool as this 😂 Yeah I didn’t even drink the horlicks in the end, set it down for a min after the fire went out and was cold and full of flies when I came back. 😬
Stephen J Reid I agree it’s cool, I may eventually get one with the grill as I do like my gadgets and tech. 8 mins is really fast for 1 litre using just wood, on par with gas. Liked the VFX at the beginning, I really should learn more aftereffects stuff.
Its Pretty cool but a good traditional 🔥 is cheaper 👍🏿
Very true! And if I’m wild camping most of the time I’ll use a traditional fire. But I love cooking on this thing
Sooooooo worth the $$$!!! No extra $ or weight of gas or ass...🤪. Definitely worth it!! Have ours for years use it at home as well as out n about... BTW... wifey loves biolite!!! She wants the fire pit and base camp stove!!!!! Donations gladly accepted for wife’s video reviews of any/all biolite items. She is seriously biolite obsessed, it gets her hot and gets me cooking. #Bioliteloveya
I assumed you had over 1 mil subs based off that into
Thanks 🙂 Dress for the job you want, not the one you have 😂😂
This has to be what starts forest fires
3 watts of energy isn't much at all, that would take approximately 7.5 hours to fully charge my Pixel 3, that's a lot of sticks!
Yeah it's very slow to charge a phone, I think the charging capabilities aren't really a stand out feature. I rarely use it for that now.
Oooooo just covered myself in what??? Bollicks 😂🤣😂🤣
Should have left the bug in there.
Put a little crunch in your lunch.
We here in the survival world call them "smalls".
Just bought a used one for 60 bucks with grill, light.
Nice!
You can find these for $149.99 now.
PASSION OF COOKING SPECIALLY OUTSIDE THE HOME DON'T LOOK THE EXPY THINGS
Thanks! 🙂
I make spelt banco bread in heavy iron on my biolite. They dont sell the best bread in the world in the supermarket
Sounds tasty!
No offense to the product you’re showcasing, but if I’m being honest, my favorite part of this video was the montage.
Haha, no offense at all, I love that sequence myself! I planned, filmed and edited it before I shot anything else. I just wanted to experiment with a really nicely shot "bushcraft" montage. I was considering making a much longer video that you could just kick back and relax watching. No music, just well planned shots & sound design. Think that would be a good idea?
Absolutely!
Fire o meter LOL
Best kind of o-meter 😂
A small amount of atoms creating a large amount of energy.
Yup!
DID That vandal just STAMP On a Frog?
SACK the bugger!
No frogs were harmed in the making of this video 😂
Birch bark is the ONLY thing you need.
Live free do not live in fear lockdowns are fear
The only part that seems odd to me is the lack of igniter. It's already got an electric power source there, why not have a heating element or electric lighter built in for ignition? Just seems like a wasted opportunity to get more out of the battery.
You get what you pay for.
isn't this model also called the smokelss? LMFAO
You should try selling campers or something else.
But thanks for sharing. Have a good day.
I have owned the Biolite stove (an older model) some years ago. My take: it is NOT worth the money. There is still a lot of smoke despite the blower. Secondly the quality of the grill attachment is poor.