Cook n Escape Ultralight Titanium Wood Stove - Room for Improvement

Cook'n'Escape Titanium Wood Stove
$34.99 USD
Weight
all in 7.9oz / 225g
Stove-all 7.0oz / 199g
Stove-only 4.6oz / 129g
Height 5.1” / 130mm
Width 3.78” / 96mm
Burn Chamber 4.1” / 105mm
Pot gap ¾” / 20mm
Material titanium

[magiccarpet.]

Hi mark I have a handy tip for you for simmering. As a fellow keto enthusiast for 8 years now I like to cook on the trail. Simmering on these stoves is fairly difficult with twigs. My titanium pan gets a hot spot in the middle and cold around the outside. Solution!!! Remember your school days and the bunsen burner in the science lab. At laboratory supply shops you can get stainless mesh for the bunsen burner stands. They come in two main sizes and they also have an asbestos free ceramic ring in the centre to distribute heat more evenly. I use various wood stoves, mainly the lixada titanium tower, and the mesh without the asbestos is cut to fit the inside for wood pellets. The asbestos free ceramic disc mesh is used on top and the Simmering in my titanium pan is amazing. No more burn spots. My keto pancakes are golden brown from edge to edge. Recipe supplied on request! Thanks for your great work. Cheers

[charlesknight]

Mark … Hey and hi!!! I just had to say that you and Luke (The Outdoor Gear Review) both exude integrity!!! If it is said by either one of y’all, I believe it!!! Excellent constructive criticism!!! You keep making videos like this and I’ll keep watching!!! God bless you and yours from me and mine!!! Chuck Knight from Atascocita ( Houston), Texas, USA!!!

[thedriftingspore]

Oh man, Oct 15 is coming. I'm daydreaming now which stove I will take out first. Thanks for sharing Mark.

[Badger]

Appreciate your video and the warning about the problems this stove has! I'm not looking for anything new right now, but at least I'll know to stay away from this version of this stove.
Even before you talked about the stove's problems, as soon as I saw you hold up the front panel, I thought, "Boy, that's a really big opening for putting in twigs - I wonder if anything falls out of it?" And sure enough, in your burn example, stuff started coming out. It looks like this stove was designed by people who have never taken it out and actually tried to use it, since so many problems would seem to mean that the design team doesn't really understand how a twig stove is supposed to work, and the problems caused by a "fidgety" stove assembly. You were putting that bottom plate and grill plate on in nice weather - imagine trying to do it in the cold with gloves on?!?

[eyeofthetiger]

G'day Mark, I reckon you've summed it all up. I also reckon companies would be mad not to at least listen to constructive criticism, whether it be a little or a lot. I guess what they do with the feedback is another thing entirely ; ) Cheers Duke.

[terenceroder]

This was a stove I purchased about 6 months ago which led me down the rabbit hole to further expeditions with Überleben, Lixada, Bushcraft Essentials, Firebox and Seige Stove. (All and many I now own.). I have remedied the problem involving the stove base panel. I simply raise the panel up over the base corners and pin them with barbecue or poultry skewers inserted through the base holes back to front. It lends further structural integrity to the unit and helps act as a more integral ash pan. I’m happy with the stove and use it for my Trangia burner. I am going to experiment with it further and see if it will adapt to the Trangia canister gas burner or the Emberlit burner. If necessary I can drill the stove pin holes for securement. The Army instilled in me the mantra: “Modify, adapt, inprovise and overcome”. The latter is also the descriptive for Überleben, loosely translated, of which I’m also a fan and devotee. My wife does not miss her two skewers from the kitchen drawer.

[stephenmcguire]

I kida like it.
The bottom plate is a good thing
If the stove with out the botton plate was on uneven ground any side of the stove could lift or drop causing the side hooks to seperate making the stove fall apart while in use. The bottom plate gives rigidity and a overall flat surface to sit on and would keep the stove from shifting or sliding as you prepare food besides just letting it set and "just boil water"
I understand about the top plate. Most likely the stove would be hot by time you would add the top plate, burning your fingers or you would need to use leather gloves as you did or a universal tool to install the plate. I am a long distant hiker. Ultra lite backpacker.
I have never take leather gloves or a universal tool. I only take a knife and a sporke.
I like the idea of the fire grate being able to be placed in a second position for a alcohol stove.
Price is reasonable
Weight is excitable
Your leather gloves alone weigh almost as much as that stove weighs, so if weight is really a driving factor, I would leave the gloves and take the stove.
You could use two twigs to install the top plate, out in the wild.
Love your program!!!

[alexpervanoglu]

Really similar to my Petromax stove and i haven't ever had that fall apart.

[derekneumann]

Uh-Oh!!! Mark is a Bowing-Whistleblower. Stay safe, Mark!! ;)

[auroraborealisknives]

Thanks for the review: not all stoves are created equal

[kevinmccarthy]

Hi Mark. Not one of the better stoves you had to review. I still recommend you try Skyemac stove. Luke from Outdoor Gear Review recommends this stove. Large feed port opening. I have fed wood 3 inches in diameter and 2 feet long. My everyday stove. This stove you reviewed is about same price here in States. Much better stove. I have had at least 200 burns in it. Keep reviewing!

[redsorgum]

I often wonder if anyone in those companies ever used/ tested their own products. Especially when they copy other people's products, and still can't get it quite right. 🥴 ✌️🇨🇦🇺🇸✌️

[JerryShaver-vbnd]

Too much wrong right out of the gate. Thanks just the same mark, catch you on your next video

[jimf]

I can certainly appreciate a company coming out with something more affordable by cutting a couple corners, and a Ti at that price is cheap, but this is junk. I hate those giant doors that Chinese companies seem to love, and the accessories are useless. For the ventilation, they need a smaller door, smaller bottom grill, but then they will need a little more all around on the sides.
Mark, I have never had those interactions with companies and YouTube as you have, but I’m not sure why you seem to refuse to do negative ones. I see other channels that simply say to them "ok, but it will be an honest review, good or bad". Why I’m saying this is that as viewers, I think we’re just as glad to get a heads up to get something, as well as to stay away from something, and not waste our money. Yes, your style gives a more positive spin, because it’s not all complaining and negative, but I’m sure there’ll be at least one viewer saved from disappointment thanks to this one.
For me, that giant door, no secondary ventilation on the sides and pot stand and ash pan would have done it, but if I saw that "wrench" thing, I would have immediately laughed it off, and moved on.

[darthkek]

We'll always have Lixada for affordable twig stoves made of Chinesium!