hot tent stove reviews X-stove XL Wood Stove (Stainless Steel) Portable Cooktop for Hot Tent – Wild Wild West USA

hot tent stove reviews X-stove XL Wood Stove (Stainless Steel) Portable Cooktop for Hot Tent – Wild Wild West USAWho is this Stainless Steel Tent Stove for? This stainless steel tent stove is designed for car camping, hunting camp, winter camping, overlanding and survival kits. Those who prioritize function of heat, drying gear and cooking, without sacrificing function while camping in off grid locations. This wood stove is ideal for those who like to stay in the woods for an extended period, who need a portable, durable, and efficient renewable heat source.

Who is this Stainless Steel Tent Stove for?

This stainless steel tent stove is designed for car camping, hunting camp, winter camping, overlanding and survival kits. Those who prioritize function of heat, drying gear and cooking, without sacrificing function while camping in off grid locations. This wood stove is ideal for those who like to stay in the woods for an extended period, who need a portable, durable, and efficient renewable heat source.

• Overlanding: Those that want a standalone off grid heat source and cooking surface.
• Winter Camping: Those that are camping in remote locations, where you want a wood stove that you can fit large firewood pieces into.
• Hunting Camp: Those that want to have a "Base Camp" style remote campsite, and utilize the ability to dry gear and cook real food.
• Bushcraft, Survival Kits and Bugout Bags: Those that want a portable backup heat source and cooking surface to prepare real food and boil water. Especially important when things go south!

Tent Wood Stoves Specs

• Max Net Weight:  33 lbs (side window adds half a pound) 15kg
• Best for:  2-25 person tents
• Kit Includes:  Wood Stove, 8 Pipes (flue), Spark Arrestor, Ash Grate, Viewing Window, Coal Rake and built in Damper and removable Baffle (heat output efficiency) 
• Window: SCHOTT German Tempered Heat Resistant Glass
• Material: 304 Stainless Steel
• Firebox Size:  18.3" (length) x 10.6" (width) x 9.2" (height) 465mm x 270mm x 235mm
• Fuel Source:  Firewood
• Wood Pieces:  18" (length) 457mm
• Stove Pipes:  8 x 16.9" (length) x 2.9" (width) 430mm x 75mm
• Related: W-stove 3W Titanium Folding Stove
• Use case:  Car camping, winter camping, horse packing, bushcraft, overlanding and survival kit

Why a Stainless Steel Wood Stove?

Stainless steel tent wood stoves are primarily used for camping near a vehicle, or as a backup heat and cooking source in a survival situation. The material used is very strong, durable and has heat efficient properties. XL size steel stoves can burn larger firewood pieces over titanium designs. This design is portable, and standalone freestanding (no tent needed). 

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Build for Elk Hunting Base Camps where dry heat matters

After a full day in rain, snow, freezing wind, in hyperthermic conditions is where a hot tent stove completely changes the game. Cook real food on the large stovetop. The X-stove XL Tent Stove larger firebox produces enough heat to dry clothes, warm the shelter, and get you back into the woods again more comfortably the next day.  

• Dry clothes
• Morale boost
• Cook real food
• Boil water
• Wait out storms

Reliable Heat for Hot Tent Winter Camping

Winter camping changes completely once you can dry gear, warm the shelter, and maintain comfort long after sunset. The X-stove XL Tent Stove is designed for cold weather camping when you want use large firewood pieces, and heat a larger shelter. 

Whether you're camping in fresh snowfall, wet coastal conditions, or below freezing mountain temperatures, a heated shelter, cooking real food on the stovetop and the cozy ambiance of viewing a fire, make all the difference to stay in the mountains longer and more comfortably.

• Dry gloves, socks and outer layers overnight
• Create heat in your shelter
• Boil water and cook real food
• Remove single wall tent condensation
• Watch storms out your tent door with fire

Heat, Cook and Live Comfortably Off Grid

A freestanding tent stove gives bushcraft campers and survival minded adventures a dependable heat source, when you want to add large firewood pieces to a standalone fireplace, without needing a tent.

The removable stovetop gives you the ability to cook on a grate like a wood-fired bbq, or keep the stovetop on to boil water, cook real food and have a renewable woodfired heat source.

• Survival: Off grid emergency kits
• Bushcraft camping: Great for heating large tents and preparing food.
• Portable stovetop: Treat water by boiling, or add to freeze dried meals, or cook real food.

Heavy Rain just above Freezing in Camp

"When temperatures are just above freezing, high risk of hyperthermia, dependable dry heat changes everything. A base camp stainless steel stove gives you the ability to dry wet gear, cook real food in remote off grid campsites. 

For backpackers, hunters, bushcrafters and winter campers, it's not just about a wood stove making you more comfortable - it's about confidence to stay outdoors longer. Truly becoming the adventure fixture"

What makes this tent stove different?

The X-stove XL Hot Tent Wood Stove by Wild Wild West, is a portable lightweight and packable stove system comes with everything needed to heat a tent. Fits 2-25 Person sized canvas tents, teepees and hammock shelters. It burns camp firewood as fuel for heat and cooking on extra large sized stovetop. Kit includes a freestanding highest quality stainless steel stove, chimney flue pipes, spark arrestor, ash grate, viewing window, coal rake, built in removable baffle and damper. Perfect for those long cold winter camping nights!

Unique Wood Stove Features:

• Removable stovetop for campfire and BBQ mode 
• Stove Baffle (heat output efficiency) 

The X-stove XL firebox has a flat top surface, for boiling water and cooking real food with a pot or pan. Additionally, the top can be removed for an open fire pit.

This wood stove features removable and extendable legs, for customizing to your needs. The sections can be unscrewed for fine-tuning the height.

The foldable carrying handles, not only let you carry the stove, but they also fold out to let you dry, warming or store things.

The whole stove system stores by opening the door and putting all the parts inside. This makes it packable by hand, backpack, overlanding or where ever your adventure takes you!

Flat Stove Top Cooking

Being able to put a heavier pot or pan on the firebox top flat surface, is one of the biggest features of this wood stove. One of the best camping luxuries is making real food when you are outdoors.

The flat wood stove top can be used to boil water, place a small frying pan or pot, and even dry bake your favorite treat. The top can be removed as a standalone fire pit campfire, to cook on an open flame or add a (not included) grill.

Wood Stove Glass Door with Vent

The door on the X-stove XL was designed so that large pieces of wood can enter the firebox chamber easily. It has a sturdy handle, which you turn to lock the door closed. The sliding door air intake vent helps controls the burn rate of the wood. 

Additionally, part of the door is made of fireplace glass. We find this to be an amazing feature. The glass allows you to not only watch your fire for tent entertainment, but to see when your fire needs more wood. This also provides an incandescent night light in your tent.

Burns Wood and Handles Coals Efficiently

Each X-stove XL Tent Wood Stove comes with removable fire grate for more efficient wood burning. The grates allow for more air to get under the fire, which allows the wood to burn more evenly and efficiently. These two optional pieces can be added or removed as you chose. 

Adjustable Legs and Handle/Dry Rack

The X-stove XL Wood Stove has removable and adjustable legs which make for easy storage and packing.  We find this very beneficial for those who want to store, or pack the stove into smaller places.

Additionally, this stove comes with strong foldable handles, which will double as a wood stove drying and warming rack. The racks can be used to store cooking accessories, dry wet wood or even keep food warm.

Nesting Stove Pipe (Flue) Sections

The stackable stainless chimney pipe comes in eight sections, May have a total height of over 11 feet. They are designed so that each section will fit inside the fire chamber of the stove for easy storage. Each stove pipe is tapered, to make it easy to attach male and female ends and securely fit the pieces together. 

The Damper is bent at a 90 degree elbow and is used to fine-tune the burn rate of the fire wood inside of the stove. 

The unique removable baffle design makes the flame wrap around inside the firebox, before exiting into the damper section of the chimney pipe, which maximizes the heat output.

Note: Stove must be Burnt-in for the first time outside or in empty shelter. Use in an enclosed space at your own risk. Manufactured in South Korea. Wear gloves to assemble and operate this stove. 

Also known as the "X3 Tent Stove".  May have different small design tweaks than what is pictured.