We love the stove using wood, but when using wood pellets it is basically a fill it once and then done. We have the Mesa size. We were initially excited that to be able to use wood pellets because we wanted to use it while camping. Because of restrictions on taking wood to another state and the small size of wood that the stove takes, we thought pellets would be the answer. However, a load of pellets burned up very quickly and then when more were added, they smothered the burning ones and then the stove turned into a great smudge pot, smoking up the whole camp site! We got it burning again and even trickling in the pellets it became smoky and took too much attention to try to keep boing that we just gave up. Some folks across from our site had a larger version of the stove and in talking with them, they too had the same experience when they tried to use pellets. In the future when we go camping we will just pack along some chunks of kiln dried wood and avoid the pellets.
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