SSW001 Stove.indd 24 20/07/2018 16:55 S S 1 6 : 5 5 SS 16:55 PRODUCT REVIEW: ANEVAY STOVES 024 SlingshotWorld PRODUCT REVIEW: ANEVAY STOVES 024 SlingshotWorld FRONTIER STOVESTARTER PACK&STOVE MULTITOOL (‘Starter’ adds Bag & Eco Fuel Pack to the stove) “This runs deep for me.” When I first saw this at a carp show, I said it was The Aga For The Outdoors. A vital need fulfilled - cooking at a camp out for catapultry. At the big weekend events, it is definitely a WIN to have the best field kitchen set up! F rom the age of 12, I went on birdwatching trips. Sometimes with the RSPB’s yoof division, the YOC and sometimes as the excuse for the head of the biology department to get his ‘twitching’ petrol money paid. I saw Snow Bunting and Grey Phalarope. I heard a Nightingale. We kids shared tents, the teacher had his own. We would camp in wintertime and on one occasion, I recall one sleeping bag inside of another and frost on the ground when waking up. Luckily the loo was indoors. I really loved those trips. Camping Gaz didn’t expand well in the cold and getting the stove going in the morning was very slow. As we waited for the pathetic little blue flame to get bigger, we would hear literal roaring from Sensei’s Primus stove and smell bacon before ours even got hot. Vango was the only ‘worthy’ brand of tent and a Primus with paraffin the only truly excellent stove. I bought a camping magazine because it had a review, ‘Cookers for Campers.’ It concluded that gas was best. But given all the evidence, I disagreed and bought an Optimus 96L backpacker stove in a tin. This has been supplanted by tiny multi-fuel gas stove heads that weigh 45g (!) but it is an heirloom appreciating in value, rather than long since dumped. I must have read that review fifty times. My ridiculous over-analysis and eventual personal conclusion informed my entire career as a reviewer, many years later and to this day. So all this time later, to be reviewing an actual stove, resonates with my entire career and before, going back when I was twelve, as a consumer. I utterly LOVE the Anevay Frontier Stove, I admit it. And have been wanting one for ever. It turned out to be the trendy one at the Bushcraft Show. There was a similar thing on sale, for a tiny bit less but it was square and primitive by comparison, feature wise. So the Frontier Stove itself is good VFM. The main body is curved sheet steel, so no corner seams to burn through - its life will be way longer. You can use it in a tent with a heat mat and a ‘flashing kit’ to take it through the fabric. One of twelve accessories for extending flues or shielding your tent’s walls from the heat. Anevay also sell stove care kits and ‘eco fuel’ compressed chip logs plus kindling and paraffin-free wood shaving lighters. I used their starter kit and it is idiot proof. Light just four logs and you get hours of cooking. Also, it can have heat zones. Cook over direct flame heat by removing the lid. Cook on the hot plate with a tureen, frypan or stockpot, just like an Aga. I altered the heat under the wild boar bacon and burgers by moving the skillets around. It was a doddle and good fun, too. There’s a flue-kettle, currently not available but we can revisit when it is and check that out, too. Meanwhile, the single criticism was possibly the size. I love it but if you need more space, there is simply the Frontier Plus, which is larger. Above that, Anevay also supply bigger, permanent install stoves for boats, sheds, vans and homes. Oh, one last cool thing. If you can lose it, you can get it as spares. From leg ★STAR ★ G R A D E AWARD ★STA TA T R ★ G R G R G A R A R D A D A E D E D AW AW A A WA W R AR A D RD R SSW001 Stove.indd 24 20/07/2018 16:55