• Gather your fuel:
  • Tinder -
    easily ignitable fuel such as birch bark, dry leaves, pine needles, newspaper or commercial firestarters.
  • Kindling -
    small sticks about the size of your finger.
  • Firewood -
    pieces from finger to wrist size and up to 9 inches long.
• Remove dry grass, small twigs and anything else that could catch fire from around the stove.
• Loosely fill the stove with a mix of tinder and kindling.
• Light the tinder at the top of the stove.
• Slowly add kindling as the tinder burns down. Hold the sticks upright and drop them into the stove.
• As the fire grows slowly add larger sticks.
• Add firewood as needed.

The Littlbug Stove is designed to increase the flow of air through the fire. Over packing the stove with fuel can choke the flames and make a smoky fire. Smaller sticks make a hotter fire and larger firewood burns slower.

Under wet and windy conditions, turn the stove so the vents are protected from the wind or lay the stove on its side to keep your tinder dry as you start the fire. Once the kindling is burning, place the stove upright. A pot grabber works well for this. The stove gets hot quickly. Do not touch it with your bare hands. Remember that the most important fire is the next one. Carrying dry tinder with you can make that next fire easier to light.

When you are finished with the stove, make sure your fire is completely out. Scatter the ashes (which should be cold to the touch) to lessen your impact. Please practice "Leave No Trace" camping principles - for the earth and those who follow you.

-the folks at Littlbug

Note: The Littlbug Senior Stove is designed to burn denatured alcohol. Look for denatured alcohol where paint is sold. An alcohol flame can be hard to see. Make sure the fuel pot is cool before handling it and never pour alcohol near a flame.

• The Littlbug Senior Stove uses an open can for a fuel pot. The can you use should be the same size as a 7 ounce Sterno™ can.
• Important: For proper operation, you must cut away the entire top of the can.

• For soot-free operation, dilute the alcohol using 1 ounce of water for every 7 ounces of alcohol. Pour the alcohol mixture into the fuel pot and light the stove by touching the top of the alcohol mixture with a flame.
• Center the stove over the fuel pot. You can adjust the temperature by inserting the heat control slide through the slot on the front of the stove. Cover at least 2/3 of the fuel pot when using the heat slide.
• To extinguish the alcohol, it must be snuffed. Cover the top of the fuel pot with the heat control slide until the flame is out.
• For more heat output, a maximum of 3 fuel pots can be used simultaneously. In this configuration, do not insert the heat control slide into the stove. The slide can be used to extinguish the fuel pots when the stove is removed.

Operational Hints~

• If you need to pick up the stove or fuel pot when they are hot, you can use a pot grabber handle.
• In windy conditions, rotate the stove and use the backside as a windscreen.
• Check for proper heat slide operation before lighting the stove. You may have to level the ground to get adequate clearance for the slide.