LOFI Stove Review: Light, Efficient, Battery-Powered Wood Stove

Wood stoves are fun at camp, but hard to justify on the trail. Fresh off Kickstarter, the LOFI stove is the best swing so far at a truly ultralight, wood-burning stove — power not included.

My journey with fire probably mirrors most outdoor recreationists. Since my outdoor adventures were inspired by a childhood’s worth of Survivorman episodes, I was bushcraft-oriented from the jump. Camping just wasn’t true camping without a fire.

Then the miles between camps got longer. I spent fewer hours at camp and more time on the things between. I went from open-fire cooking, to ever smaller and lighter stoves. Isobutane took wood’s place.

Then I spied an innovative little invention on Kickstarter — the ultralight inverse of a BioLite: the LOFI stove. It didn’t use an integrated (heavy) battery to power a fan and charge electronics. Instead, it relies on an external power source to ram air through a clean-burning wood gasifier stove. And, it weighs under 5 ounces.

I spent a year watching the LOFI’s crowdfunding campaign, but it only took one night for me to make it my main stove.

In short: The LOFI stove is a wood stove fit for the long haul. In an age when few people hit the trail without some kind of power bank, this wildly efficient stove can get 1-2 dozen times as much cook time with even the smallest battery banks. Is it techy? Oh, yes. Is it pricey? Yup. But boasting more fun, less weight, and longer burn times, the LOFI is a bonafide ultralight wood stove. That also raises some interesting questions about the pluses and downsides of a non-canister stove.

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