Lunch in the Woods on a Firebox Stove

Hey folks, I'm out here in the woods with Scout, and it's a nice day, it's wet, the sun is shining but I'm still able to wear a sweater, my favorite kind of day, I had to get out, I had a pretty crappy couple days, cooped up in the house there, so my remedy, come out to the woods, cook up some lunch, hang in my hammock, ponder life, hang with my dog, I'll catch up with you once I'm in the bush proper, come, good boy, so as you can see, it's really wet here in the woods, but it's also really beautiful the trout lilies are poking up some of them have their yellow flower on them right now i'm seeing another little uh bluish purpley white flower that i don't know what it is i'm seeing may apples and uh yeah it's a beauty day i'm glad i'm out here i'm already feeling better so my plan is to set up my hammock and cook up some food i got a firebox stove after I got my last my last wood stove or my twig stove that bush buddy I got I've been kind of on the on the twig stove hop so I got this fire box in it's a lot bigger a lot heavier but you can have a full-blown fire in that thing so what I'm doing now is I'm going to set up probably in this right right in this area it looks really pretty right here and I see some dead maple to my right that I can cut so that's what we're going to do I think I can set my hammock up between this tree that tree i think that big tree is out of frame that i'm pointing at but there's a good spot the sun's coming at me this way so if we're filming i'll be able to put the camera where it is now and have the sun towards me there's little pools of water every here and there so let's go get thirsty or if i need to put out my firebox for some reason i got the water available got the plane overhead so we're doing good on that front all is well so i'm not sure how familiar you guys are with twig stoves in general or with the firebox like i've said previously that that bush buddy was my first twig stove and i'm an amateur at using them i've always just used fires to cook or alcohol stoves or whatnot so this one is a lot heavier like significantly heavier than my bush buddy i don't know the exact specs it's got to weigh a couple pounds though it's heavy but it's also durable and you can have a bigger hotter fire in this than you can in the bush buddy the way this works is it just folds out honestly it's pretty convenient that folds out and then this bottom tray just goes to the bottom i only had one fire i tried it last night in my backyard and uh i like it works good so you can see under under here under where i'm gonna have the stove i cleared out the the grass and the leaves and stuff um yeah so i'm just gonna actually i'm not gonna use the ash plate i have no need for it right now and then this would be the grill um i'm sure i'm doing it wrong i haven't even looked up how to properly use it yet but I will in the future I didn't know before that you the best way the most convenient and efficient way to do this is to use them standing up the log standing up like a Swedish torch or whatever it's called so that's what I've been doing lately I did it last night I did it on my trip there with my bush buddy works really well so for that purpose I only want pieces I don't know four or five inches long and they're going to stack up in there so I just found this dead piece of maple uh almost on the ground and it's dry enough and i'm just gonna make it new because there's no sense in cutting dead standing and then wasting a bunch of it because i'm only gonna use a tiny little bit of wood where i could let's go stop i could use that leave that oh my god dude i could leave that dead standing for um other times when i need more wood or a bunch super dry wood nearly all the wood i needed it took a matter of 10 seconds but i do want to split them down a little bit just so that the flame accepts the the split down wood a little bit easier than the rounded wood so i'll probably only quarter them up so even just in half but some of the bigger ones i'll quarter up and then the next step would be to make some shavings because i don't have any birch bark around here so i'll make some some wood shavings out of some dense dry wood and then i'll gather Gather a little bit of twigs around and I'm gonna sandwich those all in the middle as well Okay, so you can see it's all pretty much set up and I've just been making slivers now I put some twigs in there, but I don't really want to walk around and grab twigs I just want to make slivers. So that's what I'm gonna do And I made a bunch of good curls They're already in there these slivers are going on top kind of like a filler just to pack any any spots down so now all I've got to do is make some fine curls and ignite them with my fire steel throw it on and make a little tiny fire on top little little twig fire on top that way it'll start to burn down got my curls just gonna ignite them on this piece of wood here before transferring them over a little fire on top I didn't think this through because now I have this long stick sticking out but maybe I can just stab it down in there there we go no worries no harm no foul see if she goes now I let that sit and grow while I set up my hammock what do you think bud hey what do you say you're the good boy huh well it took some tweaking i do uh start the fire back up on top of it again in all honesty because my wood was a little bit wet i may have packed it too tight but this is all part of the learning curve and it's going fine now so i'm gonna hang out in the hammock and relax for a bit so i know i'm gonna oh bald eagle just flew up oh my god you guys that could have been more perfect i literally just laid down in this hammock i got a shot of my feet and i turned the camera towards myself i'm looking at the camera and in this blue sky this huge bald eagle just flies right over top of the trees that is unbelievable no mistake in it white head white tail that's pretty cool anyways um i'm sure people are going to ask what i like better the bush buddy or the the firebox and in my in my opinion in my mind they're two different animals i'm never going to take the the firebox out on a backpacking trip it just weighs too much and i don't really need that much fire inside a contained thing on a backpacking trip canoe trip i'm going to take my bush buddy it's part of my solo cook set it fits inside of my 900 uh snow peak titanium 900 so that'll be good but in all honesty this firebox is good for more than just camping or quote-unquote bushcrafting or anything like that you can what if your power goes out you need to cook you know what i mean um maybe you can't have a fire maybe you don't have a lot of wood whatever this thing will run very efficient on like a quarter of the amount of wood that i would have to burn in my fire pit in order to grill a steak and you can grill a steak on top there's there's a grill with it there's um all sorts of rods that you can adjust how high your pot's gonna go i can show you all that too but um I like them both I've only used both of them a handful of times this is only my second time using this like I said so I really have no informed opinions other than my personal opinion of it which they're both good stoves they're both uh serve their purpose so yeah I'm happy to have both of them I'm happy that I've started um experimenting with twig stoves like I said I've been been doing this outdoor biz for a long time and I've only ever made my own hobo stoves and gave up on that because they didn't ever work really that well but yeah back to the food i guess see how that stove's going going strong i'm just gonna wait i'm gonna wait till this dies down to coals because i don't want super super high heat got my scrambled eggs in this old nalgene there we go that thing is piping hot it's a bit too much butter i think i'm gonna do that for now it's looking good so once this melts up i'm pouring in my scrambled eggs and all i have for scrambled eggs. I did it at home. It was two eggs, a touch of milk, some cheese, and then wild onions I threw in there too. So that'll cook up nice. You can see the little baby wild onions in there. I left them whole. I really enjoy those things. Oh, come on. A little sketchy. I think I recovered. I think I recovered. Oh, buddy. To say that I'm pleased with how this is cooking would be a gross understatement. So now all I want to do, that thing is done i need to take it off there i'm going to eat it right out of the pan so it'll still continue to cook anyway i'm just going to throw english muffin on and i don't think that i even have to drop the grate or put it on the the pegs i think that there's enough heat still at the top of this thing the ashes and the coals are like i don't know an inch from the bottom i think there's still enough heat to grill this at the top oh she done she done that goes on the ground my grill is just going to sit on top until i figure out how to actually do it properly and then yeah that'll work i believe i spoke too soon they are getting a little crisp up there but this thing's not even that hot so what i'm going to do i'm going to take um two of these pegs i have no idea what he calls them the pegs for it and i'm going to slide through on both sides down about halfway i'll knock this little hinge down and then i can fit i'm sure i can fit both of them in there without dropping them in fit both those in there and that'll that's super hot down there that'll cook up in no time so nice and crispy this is happening now i hadn't even considered doing this before but i ate a piece of the omelette it's phenomenal you gotta make the old the old breakfast sandwich though when you're out right let the omelette on on the uh toasted english muffin let's go it's not getting any because there are onions in it i'll give him little pieces that i know don't have full onions in them um but he'll be okay until we get home I promise on point and then to break it down you just pop up the bottom it all kind of just folds on itself and then you've got the ashtray the grill and the four pegs ready to go little pillow Phil you gotta bring your down pillow on a day hike right that sun went away it is nice out it's like uh I don't know cool breezy feels like it's gonna rain this is this is ideal temperature outside no bugs frogs chirping i went for a little hike i grabbed some leeks um yeah so i think we're just gonna hang out with scope for a little bit longer hang in the hammock um this is the end of the video i'll put the link to where i got my firebox stove in the description i'm sure you guys are already familiar with firebox stove and where to get them and all that stuff i know i'm late to the party on the whole twig stove thing like i was saying so regardless link will be in this description i hope you guys enjoyed the video hope you found it a little bit useful and i'll see you soon with another video thanks bye