Hey guys Ernie here and welcome to the Paleo hiker MD channel

one of the coolest Parts about being a YouTuber especially in the outdoor environment is that I get to try out some stuff before maybe you do I got contacted by a company to check out this Ganesha Project folding ultralight stove it's really unlike anything I've ever seen probably you've ever seen it has pieces it's like a firebox meets a solo stove it's it's pretty cool they reached out to me they said look we know you have a lot of experience with stoves we'd love for you to do a review introduce this to your to your subscribers and see what they think it's not available yet by the time this video comes out it's going to be very close to being available but it's not available yet but it will be available soon stay tuned

let's check out the Ganesha Project ultralight fold flat stove it's a gasifier it's cool thanks for watching now like I mentioned this stove is not officially on the market at least as of when I'm filming this it's going to be available very soon so when you watch this video it may be available what it does is it takes a full flat design and it kind of combines it with a gasifier stove so like I said earlier think of like a fold flat Firebox and a solo stove that's that's you know round and has that gasifier and put them together and you can get like a fold flat gasifier now what makes a gasifier unique is it allows that super heated air to kind of burn a second time it keeps the smoke away makes things makes the fire get going much faster makes it more efficient less fuel hungry you might say it's a really really cool way to design a stove and has a lot of benefits so let me show you guys what this stove looks like we'll do some some specs and then we'll light it up maybe make a little bit of coffee

all right it is time to talk about this Ganesha ultralight stove specs packed like this 9.9 by 6.9x 0.5” super thin assembled we'll see in a second 5.25 x 5.25 X 6.8 the weight on this thing ready 7.8 oz there it is this by the way is a ground cloth that is a a fiberglass silicone coat it's a fiberglass cloth with silicone coating it's very heat resistant they said you can burn right on top of this it'll char up but it will not burn up things still get hot underneath so you want to be careful with it but the flame will stop at this it is made out of titanium okay again 7.8 oz the pot size uh which I'll show you in a second needs to be between 4.2 and 4.6 inchs this little piece is on a tether okay and there's there's two parts okay there's the smaller kind of inner chamber okay and then there's the outer chamber and you want to just make sure that you you pop this down okay whenever you install it cuz you're going to want to get this little tray out like that there you go so you see how it pops out and there's the inside and then you take this says top I don't know if you can see that it says top and you're just going to use this and pop it in around these pot stands and there's your stove as simple as it gets okay I had that the wrong way here we go there we go I had this little little chain over here in the wrong spot there it is handmade in India okay

they're saying that the cost is going to be over $100 for the titanium and under $100 for the stainless steel that's all they've said so far but there is the stove itself again you can see how it has two different chambers okay if you take this little top part off you'll see the two chambers if we look at it from the bottom okay you'll see exactly what I'm talking about about it's got two chambers right there 7.8 oz for this whole thing pretty freaking cool isn't it we're going to get a fire going in this thing we are going to boil up some water we're going to try to capture the gasifier effect if you look on the inside here maybe you can see hopefully just in there you'll see the little ports for the gasifier the gas to come through

just to show you guys how easy it is to take apart pull this all right you're going to have to pop this thing right here up once you pop that up and you can fold it very easily there is one way that folds okay there you go that folds better just like that it's a little fiddly but you get used to it and again what you've got is a pretty awesome stove man look at that that's it 7.8 oz

Let's Take It Outside let's light a fire let's see how well it works so let's talk about this stove we talk about stoves all the time and when we do we talk about pros we talk about cons we're going to talk about the pro first and this stove has a really decent list of both it is super lightweight I mean just over 7 oz that's that's pretty crazy lightweight it folds flat yet it has that gasifier effect we talked about the benefits of gasification really you know you use less fuel starts to fire faster all those things it really does make a little bit of a difference it's a novel design which is something that I really like I like unique stoves things you've never seen before I think you have to put that as a pro it's also very easy to keep going I found because of that gasifier it doesn't chew through the wood as fast as others might so it's easy to keep going a lot of other gasifiers you feed from the top this one you can feed from the side which is really really nice as far as the cons go we do not have an exact as of right now I don't have an exact cost I think that the cost is going to be pretty hefty it doesn't fit a smaller diameter pot very well there's very specific pots that they recommend I'll tell you guys what those are you can use a fry pan or something on top but as far as going right on those grates you need a certain diameter pot needs to be 4.2 to 4.5 in I think let me tell you guys the ones they recommend MSR Titan Kettle 850 the snow peak titanium TR 900 or the EverNew titanium 900 ml mug pot I have that they actually sent me the MSR Titan Kettle with it but I also have the 900ml mug pot that works well also the other question is will it hold up to repetitive use they say on their website and you would expect them to say that they've done tons of heat Cycles they've run tons of fires through these things they have no problems folding flat we'll see I mean obviously that's something that's an important thing when you're using super thin gauge metal super lightweight you're putting really hot fires in it it's getting hot fast cooling down fast you can get a lot of warping and stuff so far I have no issues I've probably put 15 or so fires through this stove and had no issues but it's always something to think about with a new stove of course you can use an alcohol burner with this stove you need something to get it to the right level so that the flame is at the right level below the pot but you can of course use it basically as a as a big pot stand if you want to so what do you guys think it's an interesting concept stove I know for a lot of you it's going to come down the cost I mean that's ultimately what the deal is when you look at other stoves out there you look at Firebox stoves even solo stoves you say okay how much is this thing going to cost I don't know we're going to find out I think it's probably going to be the the stainless steel version I bet probably somewhere around $80 $89 something like that titanium version probably in the you know 120 to 140 range that's totally me guessing I have no idea but that would be my guess if you look at the uh the information they have on the website like I said it will be available soon I will leave a link down below if you're interested in checking out the website they will probably have updates there and everything on how you can get it these are handmade in India like I said so they got their first batch coming and and if you're interested in one I would pick one up because I have a feeling they'll sell out pretty quickly a lot of people love stoves like me and like you because you're watching this video and we love to pick up these things and check them out so if they let them out you might want to go ahead and pick one up several stoves we've reviewed here on the channel unfortunately have gone by the wayside the companies have gone out of business which is a bummer so if you didn't pick up a stove a lot of the stoves are great but if you didn't get one you're not going to get one so if you want one of these pick it up cuz you never know what's going to happen not sure if you guys are aware but I have an entire playlist on stoves getting close to 190 videos on that stove playlist right now which is absolutely amazing can't wait for 200 maybe I'll try to figure out what to do for my 200 stove video make it special if you guys have any ideas let me know down in the comments below like I said if you like the video hit the subscription button hit the thumbs up comment that helps tremendously it helps spread things across YouTube but if you want to make sure you don't miss any videos and we want to build this Channel I want to try to build those subscribers up one of these days might get to that 100,000 subscriber Mark which would be pretty cool this is a small company they're trying to make something interesting something that's never been made before and I love supporting you know uh companies like that so I was very excited to check it out for them hope you guys like the video as always guys I appreciate you checking out the Paleo hiker MD Channel stay tuned for more videos