Chip Stove (Chippy)

I picked up the idea for this invention from a retired caravaner.

He did a lot of free camping and he enjoyed cooking, and boiling the billy over a fire and he didn’t particularly have much interest in roaring campfires, and came up with this simple, cheap and effective compromise.   Chip Stoves (or Chippys) require minimal fuel, comprising of just twigs, whilst it produces ample heat to cook with.   Add a metal baking tray to sit the chippy on top to both avoided scorching the ground and clean up any charcoal mess.

The simplicity of this Chippy is brilliant, its just a commercially available $19.95 charcoal starter (or charcoal chimney) from Bunnings which is usually for  heating the charcoal or heat beads for kettle bbqs, or spit roast troughs.   With a trivet of some description it readily becomes a ready made Chippy, which  will provide all the cooking requirements for those of us longing for a hands on wood fire cooking experience without the roaring fire, chainsaws and other equipment generally needed.

Virtually straight from the hardware store, drop a few twigs in with a firelighter or scrunched up newspaper underneath and your ready for a cuppa, or a hot lunch.