hobo stove

The hobo stove is lightweight, inexpensive, quick and easy to make, is efficient and fun to use. A hobo stove can be made from many different materials, food cans, paint buckets, pots, pans, scrap metal, large drums,etc. and can be constructed with a simple idea in mind, to more complex multi chamber designs.

Versatile, anything combustible can be used as a fuel source, and you can stow your cookware items inside for compact storage.

This is a common type of hobo stove, very simple, using a No.10 coffee can. With your tin snips, make an opening in one side from which to insert fuel, drilling a pilot hole in one of the corners makes it easy to get started. Drill holes near the top to hold the grill bars.


Lots of options for a grill. I cut a clotheshanger into several pieces, making sure they be long enough to reach across and bend on both sides to keep in place. Drill holes in the bottom to increase ventilation.Set it up over rocks to further increase ventilation.