A great wood stove for use in case of power failures, emergencies or camping. Though not recommended as a hike stove as it’s a little heavy (20 lbs.). It only takes a small amount of wood fuel to boil water for soups or coffee/tea. Very well made. No disappointment’s here.

I lived through the Texas February 2021, power outage. Like millions, for 5 days I had ZERO power and more than 200 people froze to death in their homes in the state (and that’s a low estimate). My house went down to 45 degrees inside my house and I vowed to never be so cold again. In the last few weeks, I’ve been looking for a wood burning stove to use in case of an emergency (I already own a Coleman propane camping stove) and if I run out of propane. I week ago I bought one of those stainless steel box stoves that are 6″ to 10″ in size and I thought they looked cheap and wanted something more robust and looked into getting a rocket stove.

After several hours of searching online, I chose the EcoZoom Versa Camping Stove and put it in my Amazon shopping cart but two days later, I found they all sold out everywhere and it was gone from my shopping cart. I had seen this Ironclad rocket stove during my search on Amazon. I also submitted a question to the seller asking if this stove had any ceramic liners but received no reply. With no reviews but liking the size, look and weight of this stove, I bit the bullet on Saturday (Oct 9th) purchased this stove for $109 and it was delivered the next day in a triple box!

Upon opening all three boxes (I had no problems with a damaged box) and the carry sack, and finally getting to the stove, I found out this Ironclad stove appeared to indeed be stout, heavy, and the instructions said it did have ceramic liners to contain the heat in the stove. The stove is almost a foot tall, a foot wide on top with a heavy cast iron top, and seems very well made. I have attached a short vid to see my new stove. All in all, this seems like a great purchase and I know I can cook food and boil water when we have another catastrophic power outage event in Texas, like we had in Feb 2021. The price has gone up by $15 bucks and it now cost $125 but I think the quality of this small rocket stove makes it worth it.

I expect more power outages in Texas in the near future because there aren’t enough power plants in Texas. Most power plants in Texas are privately owned, our population is booming and there’s just not enough energy to supply all the new households. We also aren’t connected to the national grid. With the purchase of my Ironclad Rocket Stove and bit of wood, I have a small portable stove that will keep be fed for the next power outage in Texas. FYI, this is not a hiking stove because its too heavy at 10 pounds but would be great for picnics, at dedicated camp sites, RV camping, or emergency use. All you need is a bit of wood and a lighter. If the stove doesn’t work well once the wood goes in, I will revise this review. Again, my item had no faults.

This rocket stove is amazing. I just used a handful of twigs from the yard along with some dryer lint to get it started, and it produced a very hot, very usable stove. It runs cool on the bottom so it didn’t heat up my wooden patio. Total time to boil water in a standard 10 inch cast iron skillet was 5 minutes from cold water to full boil. Virtually zero smoke with it’s combustion chamber re-burner design. It will leave a heavy soot deposit on your cookware. Comes with handy canvas bag and is surprisingly lightweight. It’s very well built and appears to last for decades. I highly recommend this for camping or emergencies.

This is not not my first rocket stove, I’ve owned an early model from when the concept was just being introduced. I bought two of these, one as a gift. The design is strong and much more efficient than what I have had, and lighter too. Someone listened to those reviews about enhancing the packaging as these arrived with no damage to the interior box or product. The extra wide lip on the cast iron cooking surface will increase stability when in use. Nice case included, and I suggest using the foam insert to add to the bottom of the canvas case to provide additional padding when you are transporting this over rough terrain.