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Bought a Kelly Kettle a couple of years ago which lives in the van for tea making duties after a ride or run, theory being I'll never be short of fuel. Mostly beech and pine round where I run.
Missing the point somewhat I bought a bag of pine to keep in the van too. Bit easier if everything is wet. Works well but it tars up the chimney and makes toast taste bad.
Tried a bag of vine clippings which burn too fast but make better toast.
What would work better? There's olive, oak and ash in the DIY shop. Istr ash was good according to the ryhme...
Either oak or ash burn hot and pretty much tar free once up to temperature. It's a quesion of the size of the lumps you can make. I use a plane to make really thin stuff for lighting and then progessively bigger for controlled burn.
Edit: if it's in the DIYshop it's probably been treated (unless it's sold as firewood), untreated for making toast.
Which wood for camp cooking?
Surely something nice and hard?
gather silver birch twigs to get it going then any finger-thick sticks of hard wood works best IME. Twigs to get the inferno, water-boil, then sticks for the hot core to cook on the firebowl. Add a few scraps of BBQ charcoal or broken briquettes if you want a longer burn
Dried birch gets my vote, although Ash is also pretty good.
Solo stove is supposedly cleaner, it heats air in a jacket around the stove and let's it into the smoke to achieve secondary combustion. Videos seen to show it working but I've no experience so...
@edukator looked in Leroy Merlín last time I was passing. Couldn't work out what was untreated or not
I'll take the boy out to help me find silver birch on Sunday.