Using The OHUHU WOOD Gas Camp STOVE With Wood Pellets
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- Using The Ohuhu Wood Gas Camp Stove With Wood Pellets
I have been using my Ohuhu wood gas camp stove for several years and have always utilised finger thickness, dead standing twigs and branches as a fuel source. Until this video!
My latest use of the camp stove has seen me utilise wood pellets as a fuel source with some surprising results.
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0:00 Intro.
1:48 What's in the bag?
4:16 Filling and lighting the stove.
7:49 Time to boil water.
08:54 Total burn time.
11:42 Overall thoughts on wood pellets as fuel
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I suspect the number is still less than those people who love to leave snarky comments on other people's videos.
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Mark Young, YT Channel of the same name, found putting more than 1 cup of wood pellets in at a time prevented gasification because the pellets were too tightly packed. There simply was not enough airspace to burn correctly from the beginning. When he tried using only 1 cup, it worked great!
Hi Diane Nordstrom and many thanks for taking the time to drop by my channel, watch and comment - it's really appreciated.
How much is a cupfull?
@@pheart2381 Based on personal experience three handfuls are roughly equal to a cup.
...bought one....used hardwood pellets and hand sanitizer...works hot and fast boiling a kettle....virtually smokeless....impressed!
Hi Mark, Thanks for sharing your positive experience with this type of stove
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Being in the states, a 25 pound bag of pellets was like $5 or something insane, three years ago. About a cup of pellets gives me somewhere around 30 minutes of effective cook time. But it depends on the pellets you use. I've done dozens of meals this way. I'm still on that bag.
BTW, that stove makes a GREAT little "fire pit" if you're on a porch or somewhere where you want to sit out on a summer's eve and enjoy a fire with some friends, but can't have an actual fire pit. Just put a paving stone or something beneath it to protect the table.
Also here in the US, you should have mentioned that you can get wood pellets in both ‘hard’ & ‘soft’ woods. Of course the soft word will not last as long, or burn as hot as ‘hard’ wood mixed pellets, so stick with them, the fire will also last longer.
After this video I decided to try pellets. With the intent to boil 2 cups of water I used a 3oz cup of pellets, 2oz of pine wood shavings, melted a teacup candle and poured over the shavings. Broke into chunks & spread over the pellets. Took 2.5 minutes to gasify, put the water on at minute 3, by minute 7 it was boiling real well. I think I can live with those results lol
Thanks for taking the time to share your own experience and experimentation with the stove.
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Thanks so much for a great insight into Ohuhu stoves. I've just bought one and they come with no instructions at all. I really appreciate knowing how to use it properly. Great that you experiment with different fuels too. The wood pellets really make sense for ad hoc and power cuts etc.
and get a piece of carbon felt, like used on welding benches. A 6"X6" square is a great base to put under the stove. The felt wads up to stuff into the bottom of the stove for travel.
+5USgRWFH Good tip, thanks for sharing 👍
Better to use a piece of heavy duty aluminum crinkled up and then mostly reflattened out (crinkled up to create air convection resistence i.e. increase thermal insulation by stilling air). The reason why it is better, is because it will reflect the IR radiating down, back up into the stove and cookware. It won't protect the ground quite as much as the carbon felt though, because it is not really insulating it much from conduction energy exchange/heating. But it is still significantly better than putting it on bare ground. A good portion of the scorching happens from IR radiating, and some from conduction (especially where the metal touches the ground). The convection scorching is minimal, because hot air expands/diffuses and then rises up to replace cooler/denser air.
Excellent, good information.
Thank you Keith, I'm glad you found the video to be valuable.
Thanks for that great video
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I have one of these stoves waiting at the post office for me to pick it up tomorrow. Been watching a lot of videos about it. Found that hardwood pellets burn slightly longer. But softwood pellets have much more natural resins in them. Therefore they burn hotter and a bit faster. I will be picking up a few bags of softwood pellets myself.
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Just found your channel. I have the same stove now for about 5 yrs. Love it. I just drizzle some hand sanitizer on top of the pellets and that works great, too. This distributes the starter evenly over the pellets.
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@@TheBushcraftPadawan Done!
I have done the same trial with wood pellets and igniting with a cotton ball at the top I find if i fill with pellets to just below the top gas holes i get around 1 hr 10 mins of good usable heat, this stove lives in my pack now i never head to the mountains without it.
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Just want to say hi and thank you for your videos. Because if you, I just ordered this stove off of Amazon for $17 and can't wait to put it in my truck for my next camp trip! You have a new subscriber
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I hope you have many adventures in your truck with your new stove.
@@TheBushcraftPadawan thank you! I've watched so many of your videos tonight 😂 right now I'm trying to wrap my head around the ceramic and bamboo try. I just can't fathom that working. My daughter and I go to the mountains at least once a month, so I appreciate channels like yours which help us get the most of our own trips. Tomorrow I will make my very first char cloth thanks to you. Perfect use of this old tin I've always held onto
@@TheBushcraftPadawan just wanted to check back in for an update. I didn't get the Ohuhu, I got the Gas One (absolutely identical to the Ohuhu and came with the BBQ grate which also works to hold your cup but was actually $4 cheaper, plus I have they're butane stove and like the quality so I wanted to stick with them), and I'm already in love with it. They are much better than I expected. I also got a 40 pound sack of wood pellets to use with the stove, and putting together my mess kit to carry the stove with. This really brings me back to my military time 😂
Woodstove Pellets can be found anyplace they sell Pellet Stoves. But it is also sold as horse bedding at Tractor Supply, equally as cheap. Both are the same as unscented pelleted cat litter, but much cheaper. They are all made from compressed sawdust, a byproduct of lumber mills, so it's ecologically friendly as well. Any can be used for any purpose. Home Depot even has them, but only in late fall, sold for Pellet Stoves.
I'm going to hazard a guess that you're based in the US? 😉
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Im very much interested in how your results came out.
I have been trying to come up with a good solution to burn wood pellets in a wood stove, and all burns, NO MATTER the amount of pellets put in the stove, are an hour burn.
I am trying different containers with holes to try to increase the burn, and not successful, all an hour burn time.
I studied the wood pellet stove vids and it becomes obvious that they are very efficient and the time increase is from the
wood being supplied as needed from the hopper, something I have yet to be able to do.
For a quick cook this stove is perfect I think. and really nothing is easier than the wood pellets, i think it may be easier than charcoal.
So my project moves on, we will see where it goes.
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I purchased a far simpler (non gasifier)wood burner off Ebay. Basically it had 4 stainless steel sides and folds down neatly into back. Was expecting much but it's saved me a fortune in fuel and I generally use wood find in hedgerows or old timber cut to size. I've even even cooked beef stews in it and got it to simmer for over an hour or so by chucking a few barbeque coals on after the initial burn. Generally boils a litre of water in about ten mins.
That is great endurance for the amount of fuel you used - one hour is great!!! As you note, there are probably better ways to ignite the pellets but I'd call this a win if you also consider the portability and availability of pellets. It's another option for those of us that use these great little stoves.
Thanks for watching David. I really must revisit this stove+pellet option using an alternative ignition process. One to add to the video ideas list 🎥📃
Lol portability. You're literally surrounded by wood and debris everywhere you would use this stove so please tell me why you would CARRY pellets into the bush? It literally makes no sense. If you fear the wood is all soaked on site then use the ohuhu as an alcohol stove. It's certainly more feasible to cary that than a bag of pellets the size of my air mattress that will only last an hour and is really only good for one use.
@@Thee-_-Outlier First, you don't have to have/carry a "big bag of pellets the size of [your] sleeping pad" to get 45 mins, to an hour's worth of burn from these stoves as is demonstrated - it's not more than a handful for each burn cycle. If you're going to be out for 2 days then at most not more than 4 hot meals would be needed which translates to about 4 handfuls of pellets. Secondly, pellets are a homogeneous fuel (size, density, and type), like alcohol, and so when properly lit you get a steady burn and a prolonged burn for a very little volume of fuel or weight penalty. Lol, it's really quite beyond me how somebody couldn't recognize this unless they have absolutely no experience using this type of stove or any experience in the outdoors whatsoever. I've had this exact stove and have been using it for about 2 years now. Even though I've never used pellets and gather and process the wood for it in situ, however I would certainly consider pellets to be a reasonable, practical, and viable fuel component option and plan to try them out eventually. None of your counterpoints are valid - sounds to me you just want to have something to sneer at.
Just used mine with heat beads 3hrs later still hot enough to reignite with tinder. Put 5 more heat beads in and Will check in the morning. 1am here in Australia. Oh yea first
I put a smaller amount of pellets, and then fill up gradually. Then it burns all the time with the wood gas. I also have the pellets in plastic bottles then the pellets stay dry.
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When I saw these for sale in a well known outdoor store in the UK, I was aghast. £5.30 per kilo. I live in Spain and we get 15kg wood pellets for 4.49euros. Also when I tried a smaller pot I found that pot was too low on the pot holders and the flames were forced out around the rim of the pot. It did'nt quite make the boil after 10.5 mins. When I used a larger pot it was higher on the stand and wider so the flames were more central on the pot, and it came to a rolling boil in 6.5 mins.
Thanks for sharing your own experiences with this type of stove Rodger, much appreciated 👍
I've heard of people using unscented wood pellet cat litter which may be cheaper.
Hi Craig, never heard of that stove before, thanks for showing that.
First thought those pellets were food pellets for the pond, looks exactly like the carp food we got over here haha
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wood chips, not pellets are the first thing I bought for this type of stove. My first gasifier has a side hole where you can put wood in so I figured wood chips would be better than Twigs cuz you can always drop them in the side hole and keep feeding fuel. I'm in Canada another Canadian prepper guy gave me the idea. Plus you can go to the hardware store and get different types of wood so if you're cooking some fish or something you get like a nice flavour to it maybe
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I jut make sausage and peppers on mine last week at a tailgate and I have a small one like the one in the video it’s reall great if you take time out like this to figure out heat and space
I hope you enjoyed your tailgate meal!
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Makes a huge difference if you use a windshield
I have a Silverfire Scout, which is much the same thing as an Ohuhu in that it a gasifier. I was wandering around Tesco after the first lockdown, and a pack of cat litter caught my eye. It was made from wood pellets, and was £4.50 for 10 litres. I had just been reading about wood pellets in gasifier stoves, so I bought a pack. Burns hot, burns long, and £4.50 is well cheap for a quality product. Because it is designed to absorb cat wee it is very dry, and compressed into pellets it is very dense. I measure mine into full stove and 1/2 stoves lots, tied up in dog poo bags. A half load is enough to boil 2 litres of water from cold in about 18 minutes when using a Silverfire Dragon Pot. A 10l bag is going to last a while...
ps before people start berating me for buying the dearer stove and pot, they are both Crimbo pressies, very thoughtful ones.
+Andrew Bagguley Hi Andrew Bagguley and many thanks for taking the time to drop by my channel, watch and share your own setup, it's really appreciated.
Lots of people have mentioned cat pellets so it's definitely something I'm going to experiment with.
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I tried BBQ charcoal in mine, lasted over an hour with a really hot burn and I didn't put a lot in.
Just for the sake of science, take an IR thermometer to measure the heat output at 10 min increments. At an hour, would be interesting to measure the actual temp this little stove produces. Could also measure different woods. Pine, hardwood and the pellets from this video. Just because it burns longer does not always mean hotter. I have a lot of Eucalyptus trees in my AO and it burns fast and hot. Thanks for the videos! Subbed!
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How can I re-fuel the stove while cooking something with it or boiling water ?
once top layer of fuel is blackened, it takes 7.5 mins for rolling boil a 500ml water container. I've done 780 tests with this stove.
LOL, course you have! 🤣🤣🤣
I have an identical stove, different brand. It burns twigs or pellets equally well, but I found it's a great stand for my alcohol stove if I want a quick fire to make a hot drink without having hot coals left to deal with. Also, the pot stand on top sometimes doesn't hold the pot very secure, but, if you turn it upside down it works great. Hope this helps. One more thing, a lump of pine pitch on top of your twigs will get it started in short order.
Would inverting the lid/pot holder reduce the amount of available space inside for fuel?
Biolite is nice.
but I bought a 50-lb. bag of wood pellets (the kind used in pellet stoves) for about $6 USD.
+5USgRWFH I shall certainly be keeping my eye out for something similar in the future, thanks for the tip.
Hi Craig,
Very interesting... I am also interested in all the comments about wood based cat litter being used as well. I will have to check at the pet supply store next time I am there buying litter for my cats... Cool video!
Take care and all the best from California 🧡
+ewjorgy Thanks Eric, there are certainly quite a few people recommending cat litter as an alternative.
@@TheBushcraftPadawan That kind of cat litter is wood pellets, just smaller packing , so good for us.
@@dozukime good to know.
These ovens are designed for twigs and sticks, so the holes in the bottom are designed so the ash from twigs and sticks can fall through the bottom, while the burnable wood remains in the top. The holes are much bigger than what keeps pellets from falling through. So either you accept that some burning and glowing pellets are going to fall through the bottom, or you put either several layers of rat mesh or one layer of mosquito mesh, probably best with some small holes punch into it ,in the bottom. That way the air still flows up, but the woods doesn’t fall through the bottom until it’s burned..
Yup.
Nice tip!
That looks very similar to a bio cat litter craig would be interesting to see if it's the same as it's probably cheaper and bigger pack
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I've certainly got my eye on alternatives once this supply has ran out.
Yep bio non scented cat litter identical 👍🏻
The best way to light it is by pouring in about 2 tablespoons of wood pellets soaked in alcohol. Spread em a bit evenly and light any one spot. The alcohol will all light up very fast and itll operate as an alcohol stove first and get warmed up and stert to gasify entirely smoke free
Maybe a little bag of woodchips next time?
Maybe!
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@@TheBushcraftPadawan I think with woodchips you'll have a faster and hotter fire but have to feed it more.
A few blobs of hand sanitiser would also act as fire starters, we all have it now anyway. Try it , it's great as it's a high alcohol content, especially the anti viral version.
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Would just like to say i thought this was a great video.
I'm surprised that wood pellets don't fall through the holes in the bottom of the tray. I'm thinking of buying one of these types of stove but I'm concerned about embers/ash falling out onto the ground and causing a wild fire..... do embers/hot ash fall through much? If so would a small, shallow cake tin or something like that underneath the stove solve this issue? Would love to hear your thoughts
Hi Andy and many thanks for taking the time to not only watch but leave such positive feedback about the video. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Whilst it is certainly true that embers/ash do fall through the holes at the bottom, the amount that falls through is incredibly small compared to the amount of fuel that is fed into it.
I have several other videos on my channel in which I show the small amount of ash signature that is left behind after using this stove.
Assuming that you are not using it in bone dry conditions, I would suggest that simply scraping back the top layer of leaf debris to bare damp earth underneath would be sufficient to mitigate against any ground fires.
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I was wondering whether a sheet of foil would work,or an old baking tray.
@@pheart2381 Aluminum foil or an aluminum baking on small cookie tray from the dollar store works fine.
Ohuhu sounds like a polite term for part of a ladies anatomy, seriously though I use the cat litter wood pellets if I'm out on the moors and wood is not common
+seanthomasdowd Cheers Sean, cat litter pellets are certainly an option once I've used up this current supply.
20kg bag of wood pellets here in nz $15
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Have you tried charcoal in combination with wood?
+Keith 28037 I must admit that I haven't yet experimented with using charcoal.
A squirt of alcohol on top of the pellets works very well.
I don't carry any form of alcohol when I'm out and about but thanks for sharing your tip for those that do.
Cat litter wood pellets work out about a £1 a lb.
Yeah, a few people have also mentioned the advantages of using cat pellets.
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The fire starter should be placed completely on the top of the pellets. Pellets burn best from top to down.
Thanks for that.
A better idea would be to figure a way to make the pellets yourself either at home, or in the field. You don't want to carry the weight of the pellets, even if it's just a kilo or 2.
The fire starters can be made at home as well: dip cotton makeup pads in wax, or coat cotton balls with petro jelly. Cheers.
Making pellets is easy, but it all depends on how much you want to invest into it.
A small electric pellet press is around $1200 (off the top of my head), and a hammer mill is about the same. I go by the belief that both are necessary for a consistent product.
The interesting thing is that you do not need to turn just wood into pellet fuel, you can turn other things like dried grass, or any other dried plant material. you can also get different dies depending on what you want. I am interested in 8mm pellets but they are difficult to find (therefore a bit expensive).
Have you tried using wood pellets infused with pine resin? They burn hotter and longer, but they do leave a small amount of sticky residue on the bottom of your cup/pan/kettle. Cat litter is the easiest and cheapest source.
I haven't tried the pain resin infusion. Thanks for the suggestion.
@@TheBushcraftPadawan Cat litter will NOT have any remaining pine resin because it's poisonous to cats and is destroyed in the kiln process to make the litter. Definitely not the cheapest source either; they sell for cats at higher price because most people don't understand it's the same as horse bedding pine pellets at $6 for 40 pounds.
@@jeffk144 thanks for adding some extra context Jeff, much appreciated 👍.
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Personally I wouldnt want to wait 25 minutes for a cup of tea. Maybe start with wood, make your tea then add pellets for a long burn to cook and keep warm.
+Graeme758 It's certainly an option 🗺️
Wood cat litter pellets are cheap and the same thing works great
Thanks for the tip David, much appreciated. Have a great weekend 👍
Chips and twigs work best trust me!!
Surely you should be eating the chips, not burning them 😉
@@TheBushcraftPadawan why would I eat wood chips?
@@TheUpsetter You wouldn't, but then you never said wood chips 😉
@@TheBushcraftPadawan I didn't people were so petty!!
The point of this eludes me. Who would carry a bag of woodpellets into the woods, which by name are filled with wood. I simply cant imagine anyone ever doing this except for a youtube video.
If somebody was camping *above* the wood line, then it's perfectly reasonable to expect them to take fuel with them.
Some people might take gas, others might take liquid fuel whilst others might take wood pellets.
I love this stove, you technically have unlimited fuel, you can always find dry twigs and snap them up. Great piece of kit. No good if you're in a rush but when I'm out in nature I like to take my time
@@TheBushcraftPadawan fist off comparing using wood/twigs to gas or alcohol stoves is silly as generally they all serve slightly different use cases. I'm also gonna go out on a limb and say like 5 total ohuhu stoves ever manufactured have ever even been above the treeline let alone are deployed in that use case lolol. Lastly I'll point out you walk thru the forest of trees and debris to get above the treeline. Are you really suggesting a hiker with the skills and knowledge to camp remotely above the treeline is gonna add wood pellets to his kit so he can use his ohuhu stoves above the treeline or is said hiker gonna take a different stove???
You should know I own this stove, I'm not knocking the stove. It's you that are suspect not the stove lol. Think about what you're suggesting. You're literally suggesting to add to your pack that already has a large stove footprint from this stove a handful size wad of wood pellets for every cup of water I want to boil???? It takes at least a handful size to boil one cup, especially above the treeline where you pretend to camp lololol. So for a 3 day trip you need 2+ liters per day of boiled water and water for meals daily that amounts to oh idk another 20 liter back pack full of pellets hahaha. That was a little hyperbole, but not much
I'm not entirely sure why you doubt that I rarely camp above the tree line when the fact of the matter is that I now live in a part of the UK, where there is very little treeline left, so it's perfectly feasible to go from sea level to up in the mountains without ever passing through a forested area. I do it all the time.
It appears that your entire tirade is centred around whether an individual should or shouldn't choose, of their own volition, to take a bag of wood pellets with them, if they wish to go out and enjoy using this stove.
Do you really have nothing else going on in your life to concern yourself with, other than the choices that other people might make when it comes to stove / fuel selection.
@@TheBushcraftPadawan I'm too lazy to collect twigs and small branches here in the AZ desert. Not a lot of trees around here.
I think the amount of starter you used I could have had a brew from it.
I did have a brew from it.
Had the the pot supports been turned inward, maybe the fire wouldn’t have been choked down so much. The cup didn’t seem to fit well.
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Possibly.
It would of been boiling if you had the hinges properly set you smothered the fire it has to have space gaping like a stove I have one and wood pellets are better just because they burn longer
thanks for that.
Your cup is smothering the flame as cup not big enough to sit on pot stand properly so do not get a proper burn mine boils fast when it's going and wood cat litter is alot cheaper for what is the same fuel
Thanks for your insights David 👍
" Try adding some non scented hand sanitizer to start the pellets faster ".
Thanks for the tip 👍🔥
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Wild Stoves wood gasification stove shows their stove using natural wood Unscented cat litter @ £10 for 25kg !!!
+Michael Yeah, I'm definitely looking for cheaper bulk options ready for when this small bag runs out. Thanks for the tip 👍
Why are u so concerned about boil time if your in the sticks your there to relax and unwind.
Don't be so inpatient
You should do a new review on this, but with some more accuracy, from what I looked at your 'tipping -in' those pellets looking from afar (The USA), it looked like about 1/4 cup? So I want to make some lunch maybe ramen, then I want to make a coffee brew, would 1/2 a cup do it? or 1 cup? or is 1 cup overkill and a waste of fuel? I will have to do some experimenting (wasting pellets) on a 1/4 ,1/2. & 1 cup and time it. So 'never mind' I will find out myself. You said toward the end that you got about 1 hour burn, on what looked like maybe 'less' then a 1/4 cup? Well I am going to have try this over here in the US as hardwood pellets are cheap about $5.equivalent about 0.11 quid per lb. Of course I have no idea what a 40lbs sack of hardwood pellets is in the UK? Comment by dianenordstrom2770 about 1 cup works great?!! 'but' absolutely 'no' feedback on how long that lasts? So trial and error, here we go. And 'no' I am not going to share my results I will just make a note on my phone the lbs, burn time water boil time etc.
Enjoy the experiment!