I'm an avid camper, and wanted to get a little more primitive. I use this on backpacking trips. I use this in conjunction with a Trangia Spirit Burner with Screwcap and boil water in the TOAKS Titanium 750ml Pot with Bail Handle

The Breakdown:
- It's tiny. 4.5" x 4.5" in the nylon, velcro-closure pouch and 4.25" x 3.325" out of the pouch. If you're really pedantic about weight, the pouch is .6oz, the stove is 6.8oz (both, of course, coming to 7.4oz).
- Machine-stamped stainless steel. I've not come across any burrs or sharp edges.
- Wood AND alcohol burning, which was the biggest selling point for me. The only downside is echoed by other reviews and is my next bullet point...
- Bought this for my Trangia stove and I've had to file the circular plate as it was originally too tight a fit. I've seen videos of others using Alocs and Esbit alcohol stoves with no fitment issues, so perhaps it's only Trangia brand.
- After sanding, the Trangia nests 7/8" below the top of the stove which is just a hair under the 1" sweet spot. Good enough for me!
- The cute little braided aircraft cable wire keyring for the pin is plastic coated, so it's gonna stank really bad and get p. nasty if it's not replaced or removed before burning.

The Bottom Line:
It's damn cute. I totally considered a Ti propane stove for ease of use, but these little folding stoves are irresistible. I spent a lot of time with the Bushbox Outdoor Pocket Stove in my wishlist, but the siren call of being able to use the Lixada as a wood burning stove OR for an alcohol stove was too enticing (and I couldn't bring myself to spend so much on a teeny stove I'm gonna burn the piss out of). After watching a bunch of YouTube reviews, I'm glad I settled on the Lixada and REALLY hope it pulls it's weight during future camping trips.

love the design, but on first use one of the pins that isn't supposed to be removable fell out. Couldn't find it in the dark so now I have one panel that I am going to have to try and paper clip together or something. Seems well made, but I guess the hinge didn't stand up to the heat past one cooking attempt.

I couldn't be more pleased with the results I get for the price I paid. I have not had the opportunity to try the more expensive gasifier stoves to compare this against but I must say that I don't feel that I need to. It has performed very well on the several occasions I've used it. I had it with me at a recent Trail Life USA family camp and had several people looking at it, commenting. They couldn't figure out how you get jets of flame from a non-pressurized stove. One challenged me to boil a potato with it and provided me a full sized baking potato. I did cut it up into cubes but it cooked it completely in less than 14 minutes from the time I first lit the fire. They were impressed and one of the backpackers in the group will likely be purchasing one.

I have tried a couple of different fuels in it besides wood. I tried the Weber charcoal starter cubes (white, packaging looks like ice trays of cubes) but that produces a very black smoke and was never able to develop a large enough fire to start the gasifier effect. That stuff burns like that regardless of how it is used (I thought I had found a cheaper alternative to Esbit tablets). I foolishly also tried some fat wood or rich pine, again producing a very black smoke that coated my cooking pot. You would think by now I would know better. The hottest and fastest to start fires are with pine and I bring along some to get the stove started but then use whatever is around me. I've tried hardwoods too but they do not produce as strong a flame, naturally, and are slower to cook with but do provide longer cook times - especially useful if you're looking to just simmer something. Pine cones were less than satisfactory as they require something else to get them heated up and burning.
Pine and twigs seem to work best. I do carry along some home made fire starter to help get the fire started since it is so far down in the bottom of an enclosure. Other tinder can work just as well. I have found that stirring the burning fuel when adding new helps to keep the flames fully developed and move ash out of the burn chamber. Just don't let the fire die down too much as the heat is really needed to draw air into when cooking. It will take a little bit longer to get the flames back up to the level they need to be.

I am careful of the pot stand rests as other have noted. They seem to be sturdy enough if you are careful not abuse them, but I do worry about long-term durability. Since the stove breaks down and nests inside of itself, there is less chance of the feet being damaged in transit but I am careful of whatever else I pack inside it since space is precious when backpacking.

All in all, this is a great stove. I like that it is not overly tall. I do hate interrupting the heat to my pot when loading in additional fuel. The carry bag is nice but I will probably be replacing it before too long with something that does not have mesh in it. I don't want other items around the stove to get black on them even though I general wipe it down before stowing. Obviously, it is cheap stainless steel, but it is holding up well and I expect several years of good service out of it.

**UPDATE**
After 2.5 years of usage, it has held up well. Other than using an Trangia spirit stove occasionally, this is my To Go stove for cooking in the outdoors on a hike or rustic camping with our Trail Life USA troop. My thoughts on the arms being fragile has been unfounded, possibly due to the fact that I take especially good care to see they are folded properly when not in use. Being primarily stainless steel, no rush has developed and it operates well. I do have to knock down some of the soot build up from time to time so it fits together easily but that's just part of life cooking with wood. I would definitely buy this again for myself and have given a couple as gifts or reward prizes to others.

Great Stove. I am all in on this thing. I used on several ice fishing trips this Winter to boil water using wood debris and dry grasses.
PROs:
-Compact. Stores within itself
-Durable storage bag
-Lights quickly and burns hot (I was able to boil 2 cups of water in under five minutes)
-Can burn a variety of materials (I've tried twigs, grass, leaves, bark, frayed twine, charcoal
CONs:
-A bit heavy (13.4 oz), but for it's versatility, I think it's a fair trade-off
-Need a slightly larger pot to fit on the stand than I am accustomed to bringing. My 1qt GI Canteen cup was not stable, but my GSI 8" frying pan was just fine

I highly recommend this stove to anyone for camping, canoeing, or kayaking. For the weight of some butane canisters, this will never run out of fuel!

I really like this little stove. Been building my own which work well enough and I couldn't shell out sixty to a hundred bucks to check out a store bought. I've watched every video I can find on these things and I don't believe that you can get any more bang for your buck than you get with this stove.
Used it with pellets. One cup of pellets burned just short of twenty minutes. That equates to 40 hrs of burn time for a five dollar forty lb bag. Can't beat that.
The little bowl that it comes with will hold alcohol all right, but I used a trangia type stove by putting the bottom of the burn chamber in up side down and placing the alcohol stove top of that. The burner part barely sticks out the top and works wonderfully.
I just use the little wash basin shaped bowl that it has as the ash catcher.
Place this stove on the ground or non burnable surface, cause it do gets hot! Can't help using bad grammer sometimes.
It's a good build and I'm really glad I found it.