As Bob learned it is a rocket stove and you have to have the water tank/chimney onto the base for it to work. You are right a grilled cheese is excellent along with your tea or coffee. I love mine I just wish I would’ve bought the smaller one instead of the big one. It’s just me and I always have plenty of coffee left over for my thermos. Note: only heat water in the tank and nothing else. The pot/pan on top is for soups and such. When you’re finished? Dump the water and put it back on the heat like you would cast-iron to dry it out before you store it. I bought mine in mid 90s and it has the cork stopper like originals.
Kelly Kettle has a use that no one talks about- it is amazing at churning out hot water bottles fast. Two small hot water bottles in the inside pockets of my ski jacket and 4 big hot water bottles in my bed and I rarely ever even think of turning the heat on in my camper. Kelly Kettle has paid for itself dozens of times over in saved propane.
I have to give you the gold star on this excellent review. I watched it 4 times. You were excellent in giving pros and cons on each cooker. I'm impressed with the way you corrected yourself on the Kelly cooker... anyone else would have re-shot the video, but you did this in one take... You're totally unpretentious. I strongly suggest that you make this a regular feature, perhaps a quarterly review... I am interested in your opinion on the firebox stove, as well. Many thanks 😀
Love the Kelly kettle! Just important to remember not to use it on a wood or plastic surface, because the base will burn/melt it... Also important to not overfill it with water as it will start splattering out when it boils, potentially burning you, and it will extinguish the fire in the base.
I have a little MKettle which I take on my day hikes so I can make coffee of tea. I love that little thing. You can use an alcohol stove in the burner as well. I always carry a one oz. bottle of alcohol tucked in the burner in case I don’t feel like starting a fire. They are so much fun to use!
Back in the 60s my father had a thermett the same as the Kelly stove he kept in a sack with wood and a bottle of water so when traveling you could pull over an where and have cup of tea I think they were made by thermos
Very good video. Enjoyed the comparison. I agree with you about the portability and time. For backpacking I would use the Solo Stove, for survival and quick hot drinks and in areas where large wood was scarce the Kelly Kettle, but for van living and car camping where size and weight are not as much of an issue I would go with the larger and longer burning Rocket Stove. Thanks for the review!
This is an older vid because Kelly kettle now has a mush better whistling plug that you dont have to remove while using it. The top cooking platform is mush improved. And starting the fire in the kettle is easy when you follow directions. Turn to the wind and start fire in the top.
Sweetie, you used the Kelly completely wrong, and used the handle to take it on and off in a way that was quite dangerous and can burn you. There is a learning curve. Also, you can use an alcohol burner in the Kelly, easily.
I'm leaning towards the solostove because I will more than likely be going camping solo. I don't see myself being in a rush. When I grill, using charcoal, I am never in a rush. I am doing it to relax, hangout, and listen to some good music. I also like how it holds all of the ashes inside until you dump them. I am not worried about being in any situation where a fire hazard would be an issue, but it's nice knowing that the solostove keeps all of the ashes inside after they burn out, minus whatever might escape from the top of course.
Hi, great video! Just thought you might like to know that the Kelly kettle boils faster if you face the hole at the bottom of the kettle into the wind. It’s a storm kettle so it likes a good breeze. Also if you don’t want to burn yourself when taking off the kettle then hold the handle at 90 degrees with one hand and the chain with the other hand. 😊
T S The story that came with mine was Irish fishing guides would have these on there boats. Pull to the bank to make tea for there customers to wait out bad weather. Preloaded with water, wood.
For those that want the cheap version that lets you do some cooking with a few sticks: take a look at the Ikea utensil holder that people are turning into stoves. Less than $10 and you have a functional stove.
Thank you! i never knew about these! I have electric items but the problem is i dont have a portable generator to plug it in so I'm glad to learn more!
If all you need is boiling water then go with the Kelly Kettle. If you want to cook food in a pot or pan then a Solo stove or Silverlight stove are really terrific. A rocket stove is good if you want the fire torun for some hours.
Thanks Bob, but for now I'll stick with my Sterno Stove. I have 2 of them and I travel quite a bit on a motorcycle do space is my first consideration, and the Sterno stove is about as small as they get unless you get into the $100 range for some back packing stuff and even then you've got to carry a bottle of fuel that is about 4 times the size of a Sterno can. That said if I was in a car I'd go for one of the wood stoves you demonstrated. Thanks again.
I have a few models of the solo stoves and two of the Kelly kettles (1 aluminium and 1 stainless). I have accumulated a few other stoves as well. My favorite is the solar oven and solar cooker.
I've built a few rocket stoves in various materials over the years, but most of the time when I'm camping I use the fire ring method. By closing all but 1/4 of your fire ring you have developed a cooking area in 1/4 of the space (increasing the area when you have a larger group). I keep a 1 burner LP gas Coleman stove in case it rains. After Bob's recommendation, I also bought a Gas One single burner butane stove. Although I've just use the butane stove once I think aluminum would work faster than my cast iron pans on it. All this to cook with & I don't have a microwave😂
Have you ever seen an outdoor oven/grill called a Cobb Cooker? I have one and it uses an ingenious method of convection heat to make an oven. I used only 4 pieces of charcoal briquette and was able to fully cook (bake) a half dozen big pieces of chicken and afterward I cooked 2 large hamburger patties & toasted the buns. I could have even cooked more food as I has heat for at least an hour after I finished the burgers. Both the chicken and burger was cooked to a well done state. It is the most efficient camping oven I've ever seen.
I love my Kelly kettle. I boil my water, then if I’m cooking something that needs water, I throw the grate on, add my food to the pot with the boiling water and let it simmer.
1 scrunched paper or dry grass in base then put top on. Fill chimney with twigs, light from bottom and watch it boil. If you have twigs or dry leaves you have hot warer!
I’m almost 💯 Irish and bought my self a Kelly kettle. ☘️You have to have a space between the base and the cook pan. They make an attachment for the stove. It’s so light weight. I really love it. Just can’t be using it now due to such dry weather and fire restrictions
Ik ben fan van jouw programma's. Woon in Nederland en heb deze week mijn Kelly kettle binnengekregen. Ze hebben enkele leuke accessoires er bij nu. Misschien eens nieuwe vlog maken? Ik ben erg tevreden namelijk!
This is a great video. Thank you! I'm just wondering 1) when or where there is a no-burn statute, can you still make a small fire for cooking? And 2) have you tried (or could you try) using the solo alcohol burner under the Kelly Kettle?
The kelly stove would be exceptionally for the well healed if it had the same container, but made with stainless steel so it's healthy long term. the rocket stove that I welded up boils a large pot (not lobster pot in 7 minutes with no smoke, so I'll hold with that one. The fourth option isn't a clean burning rocket stove, but it does well and considering it folds up it's great. The one you like is what I'd get if I didn't have one, though mine is smaller. That one has a safer foot print if someone gets careless.
The problem with wood stoves like these is you have to use them outside unless you can rig up some type of chimney and get the proper draft going. Also, they can't be used in areas with burn bans. And if you want to cook something that requires a little finesse with the heat control, it's harder to do with these. Takes lots of practice.
Yea, sorry that's not a rocket stove on your right. It's a stove of some sort. If you had a real rocket stove you would see the fire from the bottom being pulled up. The 🚀 effect. The stove in the middle was pulling air from the bottom sending it up heating up the water. That's a 🚀 stove effect. So many people making L shaped rocket stoves out of 4" square tubing with an insert between to add wood or wood chips controlling how much air gets inside the bottom controlling your flame output. Very cool stuff! I do like your video, out trying different stoves and seeing what they can do or what you can do with them is always fun and imaginative!
I tend to always go for my ol trusty tin soup can and gasoline. a little tip, if you carry plastic straws you can piece them together and siphon the gasoline out of your gas tank on your car. be sure to clean the plastic straws and reuse them. Fail proof no doubt.
You should gave put a pot on top of the kelly kettle. When you are living like this you will be cooking meat and veggies as well so seeing how fast it will boil water in a pot would let us know how well we can cook on it.
I have a little backpacking stove that burns twigs and pine cones. The fire becomes very hot. The secret is a tiny bellows run by an AA battery. It does blacken the pots. Thanks for the info
BOB, aint the kelly stove the stove that the IRISH fishermen used on their boats to make tea? the IRISH sea is pretty cold water and a cup of tea sure would warm a hard working fisher man up on a long day, my choice if i could only have one stove would be the ROCKET stove, as there is no shortage of fuel where i am living great video,, is there an update on the $4000 tiny solar off grid cabin?
I just ordered a Firebox Stove. You should do a review on that also. Awesome compact stove. The ones you reviewed seemed a bit too large for van or car life.
Rocket Stove is hotter, and burns without smoke, but the one you have is a fake Rocked Stove! A real Rocket Stove has 3 compartments and a smoke stack. So the real one is the best of all!
But everything about you Bob and what you've been posting within two weeks I'll be living the full Boondock life or the converted truck camper just had a quick question I bought the fantastic fan and I want to get a roof cover in case it rains but there are so many different models of covers different prices do you know of one that'll best fit with the fantastic fan while the lid is up just thought you might run into this
Hummingbird 8700 Its a rocket stove and the hole is actually for air. Not saying you cant use it for wood feed but its pretty small and most of us throw longer twigs in the top like Bob did.
Mitch Seveer but that’s where the heat comes out! Like I said, I just use small twigs and they fed in just fine in the bottom, where you would feed any rocket stove. Think about it. Do you feed other rocket stoves from the top?
Rocket stoves are awesome but the design on that on is poor. You could improve it greatly by having a half pipe over the wood feeding rack and an extension tube on top. They should be shaped as a capitol L. There is also an optimal feed tube to chimney height ratio but I don't recall what it is.
With a Kelly kettle you can cook and boil water at the same time. Time it right you can sit down to a fry up and mug of tea at the same time. Nice.
As Bob learned it is a rocket stove and you have to have the water tank/chimney onto the base for it to work. You are right a grilled cheese is excellent along with your tea or coffee. I love mine I just wish I would’ve bought the smaller one instead of the big one. It’s just me and I always have plenty of coffee left over for my thermos. Note: only heat water in the tank and nothing else. The pot/pan on top is for soups and such. When you’re finished? Dump the water and put it back on the heat like you would cast-iron to dry it out before you store it. I bought mine in mid 90s and it has the cork stopper like originals.
Kelly Kettle has a use that no one talks about- it is amazing at churning out hot water bottles fast. Two small hot water bottles in the inside pockets of my ski jacket and 4 big hot water bottles in my bed and I rarely ever even think of turning the heat on in my camper. Kelly Kettle has paid for itself dozens of times over in saved propane.
I have to give you the gold star on this excellent review. I watched it 4 times.
You were excellent in giving pros and cons on each cooker. I'm impressed with the way you corrected yourself on the Kelly cooker... anyone else would have re-shot the video, but you did this in one take...
You're totally unpretentious.
I strongly suggest that you make this a regular feature, perhaps a quarterly review...
I am interested in your opinion on the firebox stove, as well.
Many thanks 😀
Just bought the latest ecozoom that comes with the air vent. I ❤ it. Thanks to this video I made the right decision for myself.
Love the Kelly kettle! Just important to remember not to use it on a wood or plastic surface, because the base will burn/melt it... Also important to not overfill it with water as it will start splattering out when it boils, potentially burning you, and it will extinguish the fire in the base.
Jessica O'Brien Or just put a pot upside down under it to protect the table. That’s what I do!
I have a Kelly Kettle, it’s a beast at boiling water with just sticks.
Stuart Stuart - Agree! The most efficient system to boil with a few sticks ... a wonder ! I love my Kelly kettle!
It really is! Hands down fastest at boiling water with very little fuel and smoke. I love mine!
I have a little MKettle which I take on my day hikes so I can make coffee of tea. I love that little thing. You can use an alcohol stove in the burner as well. I always carry a one oz. bottle of alcohol tucked in the burner in case I don’t feel like starting a fire. They are so much fun to use!
Back in the 60s my father had a thermett the same as the Kelly stove he kept in a sack with wood and a bottle of water so when traveling you could pull over an where and have cup of tea I think they were made by thermos
I find the metal clanking sounds and the banter in this video humorous after a long day of telework. Thanks for the video ... it was stunning!
Thanks again! It is very important to lift the Kelly kettle up at 90 degrees to avoid burning of your hands...
Very good video. Enjoyed the comparison. I agree with you about the portability and time. For backpacking I would use the Solo Stove, for survival and quick hot drinks and in areas where large wood was scarce the Kelly Kettle, but for van living and car camping where size and weight are not as much of an issue I would go with the larger and longer burning Rocket Stove. Thanks for the review!
4th option is the Firebox Stove. Multi fuel stove that folds down to about the size of a DVD case.
This is an older vid because Kelly kettle now has a mush better whistling plug that you dont have to remove while using it. The top cooking platform is mush improved. And starting the fire in the kettle is easy when you follow directions. Turn to the wind and start fire in the top.
Blast 7 hours after video posted Amazon sold out of the 3 stoves. ☹
Sweetie, you used the Kelly completely wrong, and used the handle to take it on and off in a way that was quite dangerous and can burn you. There is a learning curve. Also, you can use an alcohol burner in the Kelly, easily.
Marie? I thought your name was "Karen".
Marie good comment: Some people don't handle criticism so well. You did great explaining the safety involved. Sometimes it just falls on deaf ears.
Marie Angeli Is it easy to explain the correct way? I’m very interested.
When I build my rig it's going to be a camp chef stove/oven with the highest btu for higher elevation love ya Bob(Legacy)💞
I'm leaning towards the solostove because I will more than likely be going camping solo. I don't see myself being in a rush. When I grill, using charcoal, I am never in a rush. I am doing it to relax, hangout, and listen to some good music.
I also like how it holds all of the ashes inside until you dump them. I am not worried about being in any situation where a fire hazard would be an issue, but it's nice knowing that the solostove keeps all of the ashes inside after they burn out, minus whatever might escape from the top of course.
Hi, great video! Just thought you might like to know that the Kelly kettle boils faster if you face the hole at the bottom of the kettle into the wind. It’s a storm kettle so it likes a good breeze. Also if you don’t want to burn yourself when taking off the kettle then hold the handle at 90 degrees with one hand and the chain with the other hand. 😊
I bet Kelly kettle designed for rain and a quick cup of tea:)
It would work great with Sterno.
Jim Carter I never thought of that! I’m gonna give that a try!
T S The story that came with mine was Irish fishing guides would have these on there boats. Pull to the bank to make tea for there customers to wait out bad weather. Preloaded with water, wood.
For those that want the cheap version that lets you do some cooking with a few sticks: take a look at the Ikea utensil holder that people are turning into stoves. Less than $10 and you have a functional stove.
Love my Kelly Kettle.
Thank you! i never knew about these! I have electric items but the problem is i dont have a portable generator to plug it in so I'm glad to learn more!
If all you need is boiling water then go with the Kelly Kettle. If you want to cook food in a pot or pan then a Solo stove or Silverlight stove are really terrific. A rocket stove is good if you want the fire torun for some hours.
We love our kelly kettle.
I'm glad you changed your mind about the Kelly Kettle. I've got the base camp model and it will boil the kettle full of water in under two minutes.
Try a Silverfire rocket stove with a Dragon Pot. I love it.
Nice comparisons.
Hi Bob. Good video. Very useful for stove shopping.
Thanks Bob, but for now I'll stick with my Sterno Stove. I have 2 of them and I travel quite a bit on a motorcycle do space is my first consideration, and the Sterno stove is about as small as they get unless you get into the $100 range for some back packing stuff and even then you've got to carry a bottle of fuel that is about 4 times the size of a Sterno can. That said if I was in a car I'd go for one of the wood stoves you demonstrated. Thanks again.
Thank you.
I have a few models of the solo stoves and two of the Kelly kettles (1 aluminium and 1 stainless). I have accumulated a few other stoves as well. My favorite is the solar oven and solar cooker.
Which one is the solar that you like? Do u have a brand? Ty.
Thanks for the information Bob. 👍
Great video ✌👏✋👍😎💚 Thanks Bob from Saudi Arabia
Kelly kettle needs the plug in to boil properly. Mine is new and they come with I whistle now
Thanks Bob 😊
The parks and forest service have regulations concerning wood fires...and big fines. Maybe you could do a part 2 to inform your viewers?
This is so fun!!!
I've built a few rocket stoves in various materials over the years, but most of the time when I'm camping I use the fire ring method. By closing all but 1/4 of your fire ring you have developed a cooking area in 1/4 of the space (increasing the area when you have a larger group). I keep a 1 burner LP gas Coleman stove in case it rains. After Bob's recommendation, I also bought a Gas One single burner butane stove. Although I've just use the butane stove once I think aluminum would work faster than my cast iron pans on it. All this to cook with & I don't have a microwave😂
Have you ever seen an outdoor oven/grill called a Cobb Cooker? I have one and it uses an ingenious method of convection heat to make an oven. I used only 4 pieces of charcoal briquette and was able to fully cook (bake) a half dozen big pieces of chicken and afterward I cooked 2 large hamburger patties & toasted the buns. I could have even cooked more food as I has heat for at least an hour after I finished the burgers. Both the chicken and burger was cooked to a well done state. It is the most efficient camping oven I've ever seen.
I love my Kelly kettle. I boil my water, then if I’m cooking something that needs water, I throw the grate on, add my food to the pot with the boiling water and let it simmer.
Wow I really needed this info thanks !!!😜😜😜🙈🙉♥️♥️
thanks
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Hands down, Kelly kettle wins.
1 scrunched paper or dry grass in base then put top on. Fill chimney with twigs, light from bottom and watch it boil.
If you have twigs or dry leaves you have hot warer!
I’m almost 💯 Irish and bought my self a Kelly kettle. ☘️You have to have a space between the base and the cook pan. They make an attachment for the stove. It’s so light weight. I really love it. Just can’t be using it now due to such dry weather and fire restrictions
Great video
Thanks for the comparison! I never knew these little wood stoves even existed.
Trangia 25 system with a firebox 5” and you are completely covered - complete cook system for both alcohol and twigs/wood
Would you test the kelly with 1/4 C wood pellets. Is it enouph to boil the 5 C water?
Ik ben fan van jouw programma's. Woon in Nederland en heb deze week mijn Kelly kettle binnengekregen. Ze hebben enkele leuke accessoires er bij nu. Misschien eens nieuwe vlog maken? Ik ben erg tevreden namelijk!
This is a great video. Thank you! I'm just wondering 1) when or where there is a no-burn statute, can you still make a small fire for cooking? And 2) have you tried (or could you try) using the solo alcohol burner under the Kelly Kettle?
The kelly stove would be exceptionally for the well healed if it had the same container, but made with stainless steel so it's healthy long term. the rocket stove that I welded up boils a large pot (not lobster pot in 7 minutes with no smoke, so I'll hold with that one. The fourth option isn't a clean burning rocket stove, but it does well and considering it folds up it's great. The one you like is what I'd get if I didn't have one, though mine is smaller. That one has a safer foot print if someone gets careless.
kelly kettle have a stainless steel option.
I'm sure anything is faster at boiling water than my RV stove. However, the good news is that I don't burn much. 🙂
The problem with wood stoves like these is you have to use them outside unless you can rig up some type of chimney and get the proper draft going. Also, they can't be used in areas with burn bans. And if you want to cook something that requires a little finesse with the heat control, it's harder to do with these. Takes lots of practice.
Great👍❤️
Good job..!
Yea, sorry that's not a rocket stove on your right. It's a stove of some sort. If you had a real rocket stove you would see the fire from the bottom being pulled up. The 🚀 effect. The stove in the middle was pulling air from the bottom sending it up heating up the water. That's a 🚀 stove effect. So many people making L shaped rocket stoves out of 4" square tubing with an insert between to add wood or wood chips controlling how much air gets inside the bottom controlling your flame output. Very cool stuff!
I do like your video, out trying different stoves and seeing what they can do or what you can do with them is always fun and imaginative!
I tend to always go for my ol trusty tin soup can and gasoline. a little tip, if you carry plastic straws you can piece them together and siphon the gasoline out of your gas tank on your car. be sure to clean the plastic straws and reuse them. Fail proof no doubt.
the Kelly Kettle was made for use by fishermen in open boats... all weather!
That kelly kettle was great. And the green one looked really nice and all day... think stew.
It would have been nice to watch you build all the fires
You should gave put a pot on top of the kelly kettle. When you are living like this you will be cooking meat and veggies as well so seeing how fast it will boil water in a pot would let us know how well we can cook on it.
I have a little backpacking stove that burns twigs and pine cones. The fire becomes very hot. The secret is a tiny bellows run by an AA battery. It does blacken the pots. Thanks for the info
Great Video, Bob !!! I never anything like that Kelly stove !
Hi Bob, how about putting a pan on top of the Kelly kettle? With the kit?
If you have all day shine on the sun too.
So how do you use the kelly kettle to cook on?
I have the rocket stove and I love it.
Can you use these when there's a fire ban?
BOB, aint the kelly stove the stove that the IRISH fishermen used on their boats to make tea? the IRISH sea is pretty cold water and a cup of tea sure would warm a hard working fisher man up on a long day, my choice if i could only have one stove would be the ROCKET stove, as there is no shortage of fuel where i am living great video,, is there an update on the $4000 tiny solar off grid cabin?
Was something wrong with my phone! See you now!
aside from the solo, those things are so huge
alos, many place are no burn and or they only allow wood fires in designated pits
That's why I'm leaning towards the solostove. Plus it holds the ashes inside until you dump them.
Does the kelly make coffee ? So important
Joel Rees - the Kelly boils water.... if you have a small French press , you can make excellent coffee
I just ordered a Firebox Stove. You should do a review on that also. Awesome compact stove. The ones you reviewed seemed a bit too large for van or car life.
Rocket Stove is hotter, and burns without smoke, but the one you have is a fake Rocked Stove! A real Rocket Stove has 3 compartments and a smoke stack. So the real one is the best of all!
But everything about you Bob and what you've been posting within two weeks I'll be living the full Boondock life or the converted truck camper just had a quick question I bought the fantastic fan and I want to get a roof cover in case it rains but there are so many different models of covers different prices do you know of one that'll best fit with the fantastic fan while the lid is up just thought you might run into this
You feed wood into Kelly Kettle base through hole, not chimney of kettle
Hummingbird 8700 Its a rocket stove and the hole is actually for air. Not saying you cant use it for wood feed but its pretty small and most of us throw longer twigs in the top like Bob did.
Mitch Seveer but that’s where the heat comes out! Like I said, I just use small twigs and they fed in just fine in the bottom, where you would feed any rocket stove. Think about it. Do you feed other rocket stoves from the top?
Can't see you??
"I have made fire"...Tom Hanks!
I wanna get the rocket stove. It's $83 on Amazon.
Rocket stoves are awesome but the design on that on is poor. You could improve it greatly by having a half pipe over the wood feeding rack and an extension tube on top.
They should be shaped as a capitol L. There is also an optimal feed tube to chimney height ratio but I don't recall what it is.