Hey y'all, okay, so us out in camping, hiking, we've all seen these stoves. You can sometimes get them bigger to use as a campfire, but a lot of us have these small little backpacking stoves designed to make it easy to go backpacking as you can just find material to burn in it. Well the other day I found something out really cool. You can actually use wood pellets in them. So in this video I'm actually gonna go ahead and test that out and see how it works. I hope you join along as I do that. Alright so the idea is simple. You drop in two cups of your favorite wood pellets in this case I just use basic miskeet, cheapest brand, the cheapest ones I could find in a grocery store. And then from there it's just a matter of lighting this thing on fire. Of course that's always easier set than done, right? We tried it with a lighter first but I was having a hard time getting it to start. What's you looking at here is just a basic Vaseline soaked cotton ball and I have it on top and I use the one in the store matches to go ahead and get that thing set on fire. The first time you'll see it actually ends up failing and it just blows out. If you're wondering why I didn't put it into the bottom of it and started to fire that way I was afraid that if I dumped a wood pellet on I would just knock the whole thing out. So I just put everything on top, figuring it would just burn down from the top down giving me a good fire. You will see it goes out here in a minute and I do learn some lessons there. One dig yourself a little bit of a cave and drop this into it and lay some of them on top. Once you have to wood pellets kind of on top of the fire they start catching fire and we'll start smoldering down and burning down. Remember these stoves aren't actually designed to give off to most of the heat by the burning of the wood itself. It's the gases that generate and come through the holes and at the top around the rim that generate the gas that actually creates most of the heat and makes these smokeless fires. So you do want to kind of have a good smolder going as it goes down to generate the gas to come up and creates that massive amount of heat. So yeah here you can tell I went ahead and moved some stuff around drop the cotton ball back in, lay some of them on lay some of those pellets on top and then started to fire back up and from there it was not a problem at all. I'll go ahead and speed this up just a little bit so we can get to the part of the flame. Now this is sped up about 10 times so you can tell it does take quite a while for it to actually start building a good fire inside of it but you'll see here in a minute that once it does it's it's pretty awesome. Now we did want to go ahead and see if we can get water to boil with this and how long it would really take. So I did go ahead and pour off two cups of water and put it on the stove. Probably a little too soon just because the flame and the fire underneath it is actually still building but I figured in a situation I'm probably not gonna wait to put the pot on top. It's just gonna kind of almost pretty heat I guess as the gas starts building. Now after about another five minutes or so I was able to see looking underneath that now we actually have those gases. You can see how they start in the sea gases coming out through those holes at the top the ones that almost look like vent holes. Yeah this is kind of what it's supposed to be like and this is when it started really heating up to water fairly quickly too. So when I hit and I sped it up one more time to about 10 times the speed of record, the original recording, just to kind of give you a view of how long it takes for it to boil. I can tell you right now once the gases start the water was probably already in the 80s or so just because of the small flame below. But it only took another six minutes or so based on the length of the original recording for the water start boiling and it went to a full rolling boil. So we are talking start to finish about 10 to 15 minutes go ahead and get good two cups of boiling water. So that's a good thing I'm glad that this worked. Alright guys so what we just saw was a really cool solution. Now who's this for? Let's let's let's be real. We don't want to carry around bags of pellets just so we can go ahead and use the stove. So it's not going to be for backpacking. It's not going to be for you just your basic camping. This is going to be useful for not even car camping because you're going to have a good stove there. This is going to be useful as an emergency purpose at home. This is going to be useful for if you already have wood pellets, stoves or wood pellets, grills for you to go ahead and half. This is available to boil up water quickly in an emergency at home. To go ahead and quickly boil up with some chili or cook up some chili to quickly cook up some of those canned foods that you have sitting in your match and emergency rations. That's it. I would have loved to have had this back in that winter armor getting that we had in 2020. But no, this is not going to be useful to bring on camping trip but it's good to have it home from emergency purposes and good to know that it can do that. So yeah so this is Mike. I'm with right amount of camping. I appreciate you watching until the very end. If you saw any value in this please go ahead and subscribe and go and hit that notification bell for me and I'll see you next video.