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Ready to add a tent stove to your canvas tent? Whether outfitting a hot tent for winter camping or simply adding ambiance to your glamping setup, choosing a tent stove is tough. The season, tent size, and type of firewood (and how seasoned it is) all play major roles in how a tent stove performs. So with all these variables, how does one decide?
Come along as we explain how to choose the right tent stove for your camp.
You’ll stumble across a few styles of tent stoves in your search. Glamping tent stoves, portable tent stoves, and even small or ultralight backpacker tent stoves boil down to two styles:
Choosing the right tent stove size comes down to several factors, two major ones being how warm you need your tent (what season are you mostly using it) and the size of your tent (how many cubic feet you need to fill).
The seasons you plan to use a tent stove will matter a great deal. Breaking out a tent stove in spring or fall where it might dip cold during the evenings is an entirely different scenario than requiring and maintaining a consistent fire when camping in the dead of winter. Winter camping requires the right tent stove for more than comfort and ambiance. So you need an adequately sized tent stove (read: firebox).
As a good rule of thumb, the larger your canvas tent, the larger your tent stove should be. A small tent stove can warm a large tent, but it may not warm it efficiently or for hours on end. Instead, you’ll have to stoke and maintain it more often. However, you also don’t want a tent stove too large that could produce too much heat or smoke you out.
That’s not to say you can’t place a larger stove inside a small canvas tent. It may seem like overkill and a bit excessive, but it simply means you will have a warm tent for longer. Larger stoves with spacious boxes to hold more firewood can burn longer, which means a more efficient fire.
See the pattern? To heat your canvas tent sufficiently, your tent stove’s firebox should have roughly a cubic inch of space for each cubic foot of your tent.
For example, the Winnerwell Woodlander Double-View tent stove, which features a firebox capacity of roughly 1,500 cubic inches, is the right tent stove for 16’ and 20’ bell tents (taking into consideration the conical shape):
While it might seem a bit much for the 16’ bell tent, just remember that if you’re stuck between two sizes, always go bigger and keep the fire small.
Another tip to mention: Take into consideration how much space the tent stove will take up inside your tent. While the tent stove will hug a canvas wall (not the center), you still need to leave a safe perimeter to prevent fire hazards, along with a fireproof floor mat. So this might mean less space for a sleeping bag or camp gear.
The weight and portability of your tent stove are important choices to make. Unless you have a hunting tent situated at a deer camp, or your tent pitched permanently on a platform, it’s safe to assume you’ll be toting that heavy stove back and forth and maybe miles into the wilderness every time you set up camp.
Weight and portability go hand-in-hand, often coming down to the metal in which the tent stove is built, which we will discuss in the next section. However, portability is also an important factor to consider.
The ideal scenario for a portable tent stove is one that offers collapsible legs and shelves, and stove flue pipe sections that can fit inside the stove firebox. Carrying bags help with transport and keep your tent stove protected between camping trips.
Consider the materials used as you choose the right tent stove for your canvas tent setup. More specifically, the metal used in the main frame and box. Because if you didn’t know by now: Not all metals are made the same and each has advantages and drawbacks in terms of performance, durability, and maintenance.
Here are the pros and cons of common metals used in tent stoves:
As you peruse or begin your hunt for the right tent stove, you’ll find a wide range of prices. You can find budget-friendly stoves on Amazon for less than $100, as well as quality tent stoves for over $1000.
But a word to the wise: like all well-made products you get what you pay for. Pay once, cry once, and then rest easy knowing your tent stove will keep your tent warm and last generations.
While you can find a range of costs for tent stoves, consider how much you are willing to spend. If you aim to settle somewhere in the mid-range price point, there are many excellent, affordable, and reliable models out there. With this guide at your fingertips and a little research to compare models, you can confidently choose the right tent stove.
For a great medium price point, we always recommend the Winnerwell Woodlander.
As the main component of a tent stove, we’ve discussed the firebox a lot already. But here are some additional firebox features you could consider that are convenient touches to have.
Next to your firebox, your tent stove chimney is extremely important. The stove pipes ensure smoke safely rises up and out as it should, keeping both smoke and carbon monoxide outside the canvas tent. A portable-friendly tent stove will feature flue pipe sections that disassemble and conveniently pack away into the tent stove’s firebox.
If your canvas tent lacks a stove jack, you can always add one. Here are step-by-step instructions for adding a stove jack to a canvas tent. (Even if you have another type of canvas tent, the steps are similar.)
Many tent stove styles offer folding legs that tuck neatly under the firebox for better portability. However, you can also find tent stoves with an open box nook for storing firewood beneath. Either way, make sure your main heat source - the firebox – rests above the tent floor for optimal heat circulation and safety.
A water heater tank is a wonderful addition for winter camping. Water heaters offer roughly 2 - 5 gallons of water, which you can heat for cooking or washing. However, these tanks are often accessories found on tent stoves with higher price points. So if you want to cut costs and just want to make coffee, you can simply place a kettle on a warming tray, sans water heater.
A warming tray can keep meals and coffee warm for a little while. Drying racks are practical for hanging winter clothes and gear out to dry.
After taking all that time and effort to research and choose the right tent stove, there’s one last step: learn tent stove safety practices.
Placing a tent stove in a canvas tent does come with hazards and dangers. Understanding how to prevent and handle those dangers will make a more worry-free, safe experience and camping excursion.
We won’t go into too much detail here, but some basics include:
If you choose to outfit your canvas tent with a wood stove, you won’t regret it! But if you feel a tent stove simply isn’t right for your canvas tent setup – no sweat! There are other ways to heat a canvas tent.
There are many benefits of camping with tent stoves, so if you love the idea, but are not sure what style canvas tent to buy, reach out to Life inTents, the glamping experts, to help you in your decision. We offer a wide range of bell tent sizes as well as wall tents to complete the perfect hot tent setup!
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