100,000 Fans EcoZoom Stove Contest

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EcoZoom Versa

Contest is over!

The Tiny House Blog just reached a major milestone on our Facebook Fan Page located here: https://www.facebook.com/TinyHouseBlog of 100,000 fans! I want to share this exciting event with you by offering you a contest with the winner winning a Ecozoom Versa stove a $110 value that I have had the opportunity to test. Disclaimer: it is slightly used and is a wonderful stove.

The Zoom Versa offers the flexibility to cook with wood, charcoal, or solid biomass fuel in a rugged and durable design. The versatility of the stove makes it your perfect outdoor cooking stove for almost any need.

 The Versa is Ecozoom’s most popular model in the United States and makes for a great camping, patio, or emergency preparedness cooking solution. A fully insulated vertical combustion chamber forces gases to mix with flames when in use, decreasing harmful emissions while boasting tremendous fuel efficiency. The combustion chamber and top door insulation is lined with a refractory metal to provide ultimate durability. You can learn more about Ecozoom by clicking here.

To enter the contest simply write in the Comment Section below and tell me how you would use the stove. On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 I will announce the winner. The winner will be chosen using Randomizer where I will enter how many people entered and it will choose one randomly. I will then contact you and ship the stove pictured below to you. Good luck and thank you for your continued support here at the Tiny House Blog.

EcoZoom Versa

1,009 thoughts on “100,000 Fans EcoZoom Stove Contest”

  1. If I win the stove, it will live in my outdoor kitchen and be taken on road trips to music festivals.

  2. I would use it for family cooking on trips, no, not cooking the family, but cooking for the family using locally available and scavenged combustibles. In the Great Pacific Northwest, there are lots of places to pick up leftovers from logging operations and from the many landscapers that are having to pay to get rid of prunings.

  3. Goodbye, stovetop. NO twig will be safe. Any day that the weather let me, it would be used for anything that the stovetop did. As well, it would help me learn about rocket-fuel heat-flow and efficiency. This company also makes an interesting version with a chimney to allow for removal of smoke from the cooking area . . . I hope some day they develop one for indoor use, but this version is the one that I would want to try first regardless to learn, to use and to get to know the concepts. Still in the planning stages for my tiny house, I have had my eye on this little cooker for a long time as a possible part of my new lifestyle.

  4. i AM TRYING TO DOWNSIZE. i AM A 65 YEAR RETIRED STATE EMPLOYEE AND JUST BOUGHT A 12 BY 18 SHED THAT i AM CONVERTING INTO A “TINY hOUSE”. tHE STOVE WOULD BE SO HELPFUL IN SOLVING SOME OF MY COOKING ISSUES.
    THANKS,
    bARB

  5. I would use the stove outside my tiny house on wheels which I have yet to purchase/build. Thank you very much for the opportunity and for all you do.

  6. I am at the very beginning of having a Tiny Smart House built for me here in Corvallis, Oregon. This is a dream come true. I have lived on boats, in my van, closets… tiny spaces! Well, the closets were actually rather large as closets go. I have learned a lot from Tiny House Blog and love looking at the photos… Thank you for sharing. The stove looks like most tiny homes: Efficient, smartly designed, and well, small! Cheers.

  7. I am in the process of having a small home built in the woods and this stove would be a great addition to my plan of more outdoor living.

  8. This stove would be used at my daughter’s new home on a lovely 4 acre site that includes a pond, a meadow, 15 chickens and 4 fabulous kids. Thanks for this opportunity.

  10. I would use this stove to put into a planned small house. I would also consider this a valuable survival tool for the future as well. Does anyone really need much more then this? I don’t understand small home communities aren’t larger in number and why more and more people aren’t realizing simplicity in life may be the key to things changing in the world.

  11. A slightly used stove would fit perfectly in a slightly used tiny house. We built our “Great” camp on 10 acres in the Adirondacks as a kind of wooden tent that we could visit often without so much time setting up and taking down. 12′ x 20′ and very spacious for our family. (It also avoids second home taxes with its compactness and lack of plumbing). We use a solar panel for lights, but could use a nice stove for those days when the campfire is a drag.

  12. I would love to use the stove for both camping and for home use. The size makes it easy to travel to multiple locations with ease.

  13. I would use the woostove as emergency cookstove during power outages. I’d also use it start my outdoor summer kitchen, so I’m not running the air conditioner to compensate for cooking inside.

  14. We are a retired couple in the Florida panhandle and this stove looks like a better choice for us and it would be a life saver during hurricane season. I have been a fan for a few years now, keep up the good work.

  15. I enjoy reading your blog for inspiration. We are preparing to move to a 400 sq. ft. home, that will be very well insulated. This stove will allow us to do the majority of our summer cooking outside, therefore keeping the house cooler. Thank you for your inspirational articles!

  18. I live on an island in Maine, where campfires are discouraged. This would be a great stove to use in place of a riskier firepit or campfire–and still be able to cook outside.

  19. I live on the Brazos river and we have huge parties all year round practically and this would work O so well next to the smoker pit!
    I love my everyday newsletter I get! Thanks

  20. I’m moving back to the woods … tried suburbia and just not going to work for me. This would be my stove for the most part … might take it on canoe trips too. Love it … efficient and excellent design!

  21. This is awesome. I like the size, affordability and its practical! This would be ideal for me especially when we lose power in the winter!

  22. I work with children and teens through our local 4-H. This would be a great addition for our overnight camping and retreat campfires. It would let me take my wok! Kids love food, but don’t understand the basics and teaching them to cook over a fire really gets them thinking.

  23. This would fit in well with our outdoor activities. Keeping a usable heat source contained and secure.

  24. Hello! I’d use the stove at the cottage/camping when we go with our entire extended family. 🙂

  26. How would I use the stove? Cooking on my fall and winter fishing trips and of course during emergencies!

  27. This stove would be great for emergency situations at home. We live in a wooded area so there would be plenty of fuel. It would also be enjoyable to use out back by the pool. I can see the pile of branches and brush that come down every winter or after storms being put to good use. I also enjoy camping from my canoe. Although somewhat large and I do try to travel light, I am becoming interested in primitive camping and it would be great not to have to carry volatile and toxic fuel with me.

  28. at this point camping is what its main course of reason would be. once I gather all the appliances for the Tiny house I am planning I’d most likely use it as a main source of indoor cooking too.

  29. I would use the stove to cook outdoors in the summer to help keep my house cool. To save energy our house is not air conditioned and during hot weather cooking adds significantly to the heat inside. With the Ecozoom I could also use wood (I have a big wood lot.) to cook with, saving even more electricity.

  30. I would cook outside on the really hot days this summer so I don’t add heat to the inside of my house. I would also like to have the zoom on hand for emergency use if the power goes out.

  31. Hi Kent,
    Congratulations on reaching number 100,000. I also wanted to tell you that I purchased one of those stoves to use as a mini boiler for my steam water pump. It is a great stove. I also grow bamboo to use as fuel.
    All the best,
    Walt

  32. I do a lot of outdoor cooking with my boy scouts, and I love to show them how to cook using more efficient products. The other leaders love using propane and have gotten away from the traditional method of resourcefulness. I have seen your product and it would be great to show use this during some of the major camp outs. I also like to bring a stove along when I teach Raku pottery events so we can have a nice home cooked meal during at lunch and a great treat near the end of the day.

  33. I will use the stove as I begin my full time RV adventures in my tiny new camper trailer!

  34. I would use the Zoom Versa on my camping trips to southwestern Virginia. I have a small parcel of land near Smith Mountain Lake that I really enjoy camping, hunting, fishing and just plain ‘ol getting away from the city for an extended weekend. It would be great for preparing what we catch or hunt while there. Thanks.

  35. Our family has a pond house, (tiny house ~900 sq ft) that was a country store, built in early 1900’s moved and is a family, (Mom, Dad, kids, grand kids and great grand kids) gathering place. We often have fish fries and would use this stove as we have lots of pecan trees that loose limbs that could supply the fuel.

  36. Kent that is an awesome stove! I love rocket stoves,and would love the versatility of using a variety of fuels. I would use it every chance I got. I live in the south and without air conditioning. In the summer months cooking inside really heats up the living space,so this stove would accompany the outside grill nicely. Love the Tiny House movement and living simply. I always look forward to getting E mail from the Tiny House Blog.

    Thanks….RC

  37. I bought a small lot off grid to retire on. I will have to cook simply and have a compost toilet etc. This is a financial necessity as my town is too expensive to live in when I retire in two to six years. I am clearing land to pull a small used trailer on. Camp out and work during vacation time and 3 day weekends is the plan so I could use that stove part time now and full time soon. I live in anchorage and my lot is about 12 miles north of kenai. I follow your blog to learn what I can do to build cheap and live cheap. Social security check is all I will have. Thanks for the good information. George.

  38. I am just now starting to build my tiny house in a less conventional way. It won’t be mobile but I will convert a small grain silo into a livable cabin. This stove will be the perfect addition to provide a little extra heat along with the convenience and versatility of multiple fuel sources.

  39. I would use the Versa at my daughter’s off grid cabin instead of the whole-house heating wood cookstove.

  41. I would use the Ecozoom to learn to cook using an alternative stove. I’ve never used a camping-like stove so a great opportunity to learn. Awesome contest and congrats on the 100,000 fans!

  42. When we married 8 yrs ago, my husband and I received a barbeque from my brother and my sister. 8 years later and the barbeque is toast. We would use the EcoZoom stove for cooking outdoors in summer when it is too hot and too beautiful to be indoors. If this contest is not open to Canadians, you should ignore this entry though, as I am in New Brunswick, Canada.

  43. This would be so great to use when a camp site is not available. I do my best cooking over a wood fire. Perfect for on the go in our little house we are building. Thank you for the opportunity to enter this contest.

  44. I would use the stove for backyard cookouts with my family. Perfect for warm summer nights!

  45. Would use stove to cook aftera hurrican power outtage which seem to happen more frequently in summers.

  46. I would use this stove to cook my meals every day, outside, so I wouldn’t need to heat up our home in the hot summers. Love the look of this stove, too.

  47. I would use the stove in my retreat centre. I have been looking for a compact, easy to use stove.

  48. Good morning! I am an innkeeper in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, where I have been providing nurturing and hospitality for my guests for over 10 years. I also offer workshops for women on the coast of Maine. However, I occasionally need to be replenished myself, and I do this by going out into nature to find peace and solitude. I like to stay in a tipi and a little stove like this would be just the ticket to meet my needs on slightly extended stays, not to mention a wonderful teaching tool when I give workshops on self sufficiency to women. And then on a very practical note, I serve breakfast here at our lodge for our guests, and when the occasional power outage occurs, I am stranded! This would be the coolest thing for the Lodge Lady to come to the rescue and show a large group of people how to cope when everyone else is ‘stranded’. Thank you very much for the opportunity to be in your drawing. Best of luck to you, and have a great day!

  49. I would use it to cook outside instead of inside during the summer months to keep my utility bills lower.

  51. Since I live on the Gulf Coast… We have to remained prepared for Hurricane Season which is fast approaching. Having lived through several named storms… This piece of gear is essential to remaining self-sufficient in times of chaos. During these times neighbors, family, and friends join together and share whatever resources are available. This stove would assure that everyone could have a hot meal when all other means of power have been exhausted.
    Thanks,
    Chris

  52. I would use the stove at our off grid camp. It would be really helpful to have a wood burning camp stove. thanks

  54. I would use this little stove to make skillet fried chicken outside of my class C tiny home.
    It’s one of the few dishes that I just can’t safely prepare indoors, and as a Chef from the south, that has to change. This stove could help me bring some home fried chicken to the dinner table again.
    Thanks a bunch, I look forward to your posts.
    -austin

  55. I built a small shepards wagon for camping. Eco Zoom Stove would be a great
    addition. Nothing better then fresh cowboy coffee while watching the sun rise.

  56. I have a tiny house and I would love to win this stove. Congratulations on 100 000 fans! Well deserved.

  58. wow! what a stove – i have been looking for one for disaster preparedness and patio use for may son and his fiance – a fantastic engagement present. thank you

  59. With a stove like his, we could have more cookouts, invite the family here… instead of eating out!

  60. I am a full time rver and a camping and outdoor finatic. This is my lifestyle. I first saw this stove advertised on this blog and loved it I just haven’t had the extra cash to purchase one. Thanks!

  61. I envision this stove cooking wonderful happy meals for friends out under the leafy boughs of trees in nature. What a wonderful invention! Thank you for your wonderful site….for all you share with us out here! Much love, Cynthia

  62. What a great little stove! I would use it for camping trips up into the George Washington national forest!

  63. I would cook dinner for my family without heating up my whole house. I would learn how to cook in bulk.

  64. We have sixteen acres of Adirondack wilderness in upstate New York. My husband and I will continue to keep it forever wild. We like to spend time there especially overnights. Small tent, sleeping bags and the sounds of nature all around us is our idea of a get away. This wonderful Ecozoom Stove would be perfect not just for us to use but, a wonderful piece of wilderness living to pass on for generations. Our property has been handed down for generations and will continue to be for years to come.

  65. We have a 100+ year old little 10′ X 12’rock house located behind the main house. I’ve searched high and low for a solid design that’s also financially practical. Our goal has been to freshen our tiny house and thanks to the Tiny House Blog and now thanks this logically designed stove, it’s time we get started. Emergency preparedness is a real concern of ours hence we’ve already gotten into buying dehydrated food – but they require hot water. Meanwhile I still need to heat the little house. Why hasn’t someone else come up with something this logical and that’s priced within our before now?. Congratulations to a company that’s both designed a GREAT stove while at the same time making it affordable for the average older couple.

  66. We will use the stove as we camp about looking for a piece of land for our tiny house project.

  67. I would use the stove for camping trips! It would also be great to have as an emergency back-up, like for power outages. Congrats on 100,000 fans!

  68. Our granddaughter has reached the age of 4 and we feel she is ready to start camping with us this summer!The ECOZoom stove would be a great companion to our tent camping in terms of it’s ease of use and portability!

  69. The Eco Zoom stove will replace my rocket stove for outdoor cooking. As I live in hurricane territory the ability to cook and purify water in a grid down situation is mandatory. The Eco Zoom is much more efficient than my all steel rocket stove and I am very much looking forward to using it on a regular basis.

  71. Great little unit. This would be perfect for a heat source to run a water distilation system.

  72. Great design – be sure to watch the video on their site about the Rwanda project. I’d use my stove for camping, and as I hope to eventually live off the grid – for daily use.

  74. Would certainly come in handy in North Carolina when we have our winter ice storms and we loose power for days!

  76. I frequently lose power where I live due to gale force winds. I would use this stove to cook meals on the patio during those power outages. I lost power for 4 days during the last power outage so this stove could have been very helpful since the power lines were across my driveway and entire front yard for the four days preventing me from leaving to get to a restaurant for a hot meal. I also wonder if this stove could become useful during maple syrup time when I tap my maple trees and boil the sap to make maple syrup.
    Thank you for this opportunity!

  77. I would give the stove to my daughter who is living “small” right now but not in her own place. She is so thoughtful of everyone else that she seldom thinks of herself and would love this stove.

  78. As a teepee camper I see this stove as a perfect solution for a living situation with overhead ventilation and economy in action where fuel are concerned…clearly small wood, buffalo/cow chips (dried shit) would burn in it just fine and to good effect and being small it will pack easily with my other gear…at 75 this is all very important; the small size and light weight are an added bonus.

  80. ThIs stove would be a great addition to my camping and emergency preparedness gear. I would use it on trips to cape cod, family picnics (and probably side by side with the BBQ!). The house I live in is fairly isolated, and likely to have power outages in the winter. This little beauty would give me a lot of peace of mind during those months!

  81. We have frequent power outages here in Tornado Alley! We would use this baby to cook in our back yard, so we could have a good, hot chili instead of the usual ” eat cold out of the can” pork and beans!

  82. I would love to use the Zoom to host a burger bash to get to know my new neighbors when I move in July! Love your site!

  83. Looking forward to cooking breakfast by the creek with this excellent stove! How do you like you eggs?
    Enio

  85. Love your blog. I’d use the stove to start putting together my home away from home out on the farm. In planning stages, but I’m working on it.

  86. Working on acreage 70 miles from home to develop a place to retire to. The stove would be used for cooking at the site

  88. I would use this stove all the time in the summer! I’d probably use it at first when we go camping, but I’d use it at home also because it gets so hot here in Texas and I don’t like cooking in the house when it’s hot.

  89. I’ll be living in my camper this summer, while building my retirement cabin. This stove would be a lot more economical than backpacking stove!

  90. Love the versatility of this stove. We have a cabin that we are wanting to start spending more time at, and a stove that works like this one would be wonderful there. We could use it for most all of our meals.

  91. Hi folks
    I’d be thrilled to win the stove. I would install it on my live aboard trawler and I’d use drift wood to warm my home.

    Kelly

  93. I’ve been thinking about this stove for our remote cabin site. We intend to spend part of the summer clearing the site.

  95. Looks a great unit — I’d be using it for camping and on the patio for the next couple years until I retire.

  97. I have just become a fulltimer in my Airstream. I will use it to extend my time off the grid. Congratulations on reaching that milestone!

  98. Hi

    I love these stoves, I think they look amazing. If I won I would use it either in my garden and take it camping throughout the year with my kids, both of whom are obsessed with outdoors cooking at the moment.

    Also I am just about to start building a log cabin for my folks and my dad wants to have a porch / decking area so he and mum can sit out there on an evening. So I would suspect it might become a long term borrow! Either way it would be used a lot !

  100. We would use this stove for outdoor cooking, burning just the low-quality firewood that falls on our yard each year from willow, poplar, and manitoba maple trees.

  102. I love this little stove! I would use it to cook outdoors when my partner and I move into our tiny home we are in the process of building.

  104. My tiny home has a tiny garden, so no room for any kind of out door cooking. I would use the tiny stove to cook outside.

  105. Here’s my number so that you can call me when I win! 479-647-6111, 🙂
    My husband and I live in the Ozark mountains, in a motorhome that we gutted and re”modeled” to suit us. We are off the grid so most of our living is done outdoors. Bathing, cooking, laundry. I cook on a OLD woodburning stove that leaks smoke through every seam. So I am very excited to use one that does not leak. I look forward to hearing from you very soon! By the way here is the delivery location too! 🙂
    13193 Hwy. 219 Ozark, Arkansas. 😀

    Have a blessed day

  106. I have always wanted to try one of these. I cook outside during the summer months as I can’t take heating up the house. In CO, we have hot, dry temps in the day and at night it cools down. If I cook in the evening, it takes much longer to cool my house, even with a whole house fan.
    Eventually, my husband and I will move and we are seriously looking at building our own tiny home. I am starting to collect and research items that we will need. This stove would be a really nice addition!

  108. Wow! I have been looking into off-grid cooking options and the Versa has been on my list for awhile, talk about good timing! If I win, I would use the stove as my main cooking option for my camper (outside the unit on a table, for safety reasons of course) which I’ll be moving into full time very soon. I guarantee it would get a ton of use! Thanks Kent for the opportunity and keep up the great work on the website!

    Dan C.

  109. I would use this stove to enrich the lives of all the people i have been fortunate enough to love and spend time with… From food to wild crafting and all the unimagined uses that arrive for us to undertake… Thankyou for your part in the Tiny House Blog… it is such a resource and inspiration !!!

  110. this looks awesome. I’m in the planning/dreaming stages of converting a shed into a tiny house so I would use this there.

  111. I would use it in a portable kitchen…Living in Wyoming there is not restaurants everywhere you turn.

  112. I am currently constructing a tiny cabin solely from reclaimed/repurposed materials with the hope of being totally off grid by the end of the year. The Eco Versa would be the perfect tool in which to burn the biomass fuel blocks I made using recycled paper products.

    I hope to hear from you soon!

  113. We live in hurricane territory, so emergency preparedness is the most important use I’d have for it. Currently we rely on butane backpacking gear, which is fine for a cup of coffee, not so good for real cooking.

    Love Tiny House Blog, BTW.

  116. I would replace my antique gas stove that requires Coleman fluid which is stinky and dangerously combustible.

  118. I would use the stove near our treehouse and it would be very useful in cooking breakfast etc,
    for our two grandchildren who live with us. They are 6 and 4 and it would make our day to be
    able to be use and near our pond. Thanks for the opportunity to learn about a great stove and
    to be able to possible use one. Thanks

  119. I would use the stove when I take my grandchildren camping. Showing them how to use as little wood as possible to make a meal. I would also use it occasionally at home just because I like it. And it could come in handy if our power goes off.

  120. I would put into to my bungalow. To share on electric. I am widow so always trying to cut bills. Love this product great idea:

  121. I’ve read about these great stoves. I would love to use one on my planned upcoming adventures traveling the US researching micro housing and developing my ideas. I plan to live out of a vehicle for some time and need a stove like this

  122. Your website has been an inspiration to me for several years now and I hope to see my tiny home dream become a reality. A few years ago my husband and I bought tiny patch of land on an small gulf island. There is no power or water on the island but it is our tiny piece of heaven. We have been slowly…very slowly building our tiny home. This eco zoom stove would be the perfect addition! Please enter me into your contest – I have my finger and toes crossed!

    Thanks Tanya

  125. For right now (still in the concept phase for our tiny home) I would use this stove for our upcoming camping trips and backyard summer cooking.

  126. I adore this stove! I would use it camping and at our house “just because.” I also like the emergency preparedness factor!

  127. I would use the stove in the backyard having cookouts with my family and
    great niece and nephew. We like to make “camper pies” and this would be ideal for that with the side opener. It’s design is a lot better than an open fire pit. Thanks

  128. I’m hoping to begin building my small house soon in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana. During the build I hope to live in a tiny house on the property. This stove is perfect for use just outside my tiny abode. It will free more living space for me inside until I upgrade to 700 square feet!

  129. This stove would be perfect to use at my property on a creek, where
    I hope to soon have my Spartanette trailer located.

  131. I am hoping to finalize my very small house soon. This is where the construction of my tiny house will happen. I have always dreamed of an outdoor kitchen close to my garden. My gardens now are the CSAs I volunteer in. How cool would it be to pull this out after a long day of work with my farmers, wander through the garden, pick your supper, cook, have a glass of wine and watch the sun go down.

  133. My family and I like to have a fish fry a couple times a month and living in Florida the temps in the house get quite overwhelming. With something like this we would be able to enjoy fried fish (beer battered of course) and still be able to enjoy the cooler temps in the house. Not to mention having a back up in case of storms that knock out the power here from time to time…

  135. These stoves are great to have on hand for so many reasons. I would use the Versa to cook breakfast and make coffee on the weekends for my family. It saves electricity and gas and would be great practice for real time use should the electrical grid ever fail in my area. We love to practice the “art” of living in a world without convenience.

  136. I have plans to builds a tiny house and would use this for outdoor cooking rather than wasting electricity inside.

  140. I would use the Ecozoom stove teaching people how to cook meals. I make micro homes for the homeless. Teaching folks how to live in urban environments with little resources to work with.

  141. Wow- having that stove would be such a blessing. We are in our infant stage of moving to a small piece of land to start living free.

    We have a well on the land but we would love to have a good stove for our new more primitive life near Calhoun Falls, SC.

    It took some time to get my sweet husband on board. He retired a few years ago, but I had to continue to work to keep the roof over our heads. It did not bother me so much to begin with but as the years pass, I realized our lives together were not matching up. I wanted to be the one spending time with him – while we still have time.
    We have 15 grandchildren and life is zooming by….I do not want to be in this office chair all the days of my life. I had been running after the wrong prize. I am looking forward to some new beginnings even in my retirement.
    As for a slightly used cook stove- sounds like a perfect fit for 2 slightly used but still very useful people who enjoy the great outdoors.
    Any day on the outside is a good day.
    God bless.

  142. That stove would be a great camp stove for our (still in planning) tiny house in SE New Mexico. We plan to be off-grid and the EcoZoom would make life a lot easier.

  145. I have been drooling over the little ad for the EcoZoom for a while now. I know it’s impossible, but once I really thought the EcoZoom winked at me from that ad. I clicked on it and the next thing I knew, I was lost in the beauty of its baby blue torso. The EcoZoom was built like a home made rocket ship, a five gallon bucket from the future. Form and function coming together as one in the most elegant way.

    I began to daydream about EcoZoom and I, alone, sitting at the feet of the the Rockies’ foothills on an early morning. Bacon sizzling on EcoZoom followed by fluffy pancakes with melted butter drizzled over the perfect cakes laced on top by crisp bacon. Or in the darkness of late evening after a great meal that EcoZoom prepared for me and all my friends. All of us surrounding the glow and the warmth of EcoZoom. All of us staring into the intense reds and golds of the EcoZoom’s eye, all of us lost in the beauty of it. Perfect form and perfect function in one. A simply elegant solution to the oldest need.

  147. Hi. I am head of a small K-8 school in Albany, NY. Middle School student do intensive environmental education at a center in CT every fall. I would use this stove with 8th graders as part of their hands-on environmental education program, one where they take their two years of training and put it to use near home.

  149. I see from the picture that the Zoom Versa is sturdy enough to hold a cast iron skillet and would be great for frying fish OUTSIDE in the backyard (and not inside the house.) I love fish, but hold off cooking it because even with the exhaust fan running full tilt in the kitchen, the house still smells of fish for days!

  150. My family loves to camp! We could use to cook, roast marshmallows, heat, and just all around ambience. Come to think of it, we could us the stove to do all that in our back yard too!!!

  152. I have just completed rebuilding/restoring a very rare 1936 teardrop trailer to use touring x-country. The EcoZoom would be a perfect compliment to this endeaver from our green perspective on travel. thank you for the opportunity to win such a stove.

  153. I would use the ecozoom versa on my current back patio for cooking purposes, and potentially later on as a heat source for a tiny tea house I am working on, though I may have to do some modification. Might just take it as the inspiration for a custom tiny stove for the tea house and retain the ecozoom for patio and travel cooking. Hope I win!

  154. I would use the oven to grill vegetables from my garden while at home, and freshly caught fish wish camping with my boyfriend. Long-term this puppy would be part of my tiny home I’m currently designing.

  155. Currently I would use this amazing stove for family camping trips. We also live in an area that gets hit by hurricanes. The last one knocked out our power for 9 days. This would have come in very handy!

  157. Beautiful stove for our grazing school lifestyle identifying plants and noxious weeds. Thankyou for the contest.

  158. Would use it for our outside kitchen. We live off the grid with a wood stove for cooking and heating. So in the summertime we cook outside.

  159. I would use it at my cabin in the woods. We just tore out the old kitchen and are looking to cook with wood up there in the long run.

  162. I’d use it to take our 4 boys camping & sneak in cooking lessons disguised as Man-Grilling! 😉

  163. I live in the Ocala National Forest. When the hurricanes came through in 04 we had no power for 18 days. It is not unusual to lose power for a few days due to summer storms, or winter storms. I have tried to make due with an old charcoal grill, Now it’s worn out. This stove would be a godsend in so many ways, I would rather use it for heat and cooking even when I have power. I am scraping by on disability and this would help so much.

  164. I’ll take it on my backpack to any single hike I go!!! LOL
    Will be fantastic on the site where I’m currently building my tiny house.
    Thank you for your work.

  166. We would use this stove to cook using our dutch oven and other cast iron cookware. It looks awesome and my husband loves dutch oven cooking outdoors. One Thanksgiving he cooked an entire turkey with a campfire and his dutch oven!

  169. I live in a rural area that has many power outages. I would use this during power outages and for camping trips.

  170. currently living in illinois and winters can get chilly! it’d be nice to supplement our furnace. also, planning to move to a smaller house in a warmer climate, so it’d be our only “furnace” and a potential cooktop! plus, we love camping so this’d make a great addition to our gear… basically, i need this for everything always!!

  171. I would love the opportunity to have one of these stoves. To be able to cook, without adding to harmful gases into the environment. It would make, ‘going camping’ , or outdoor kitchens, even better. It would take away some of the guilt, I have, every time I need to cook off grid. Which with the way things are going, is soon going to be the only way to cook.

  173. In less than a month I will be moving into my tiny house, off grid (!) and would LOVE this charming little stove to cook with outside! Being considered eccentric by neighbors for moving to such a tiny place, cooking on this stove will only add to my reputation!! Thanks for considering me 🙂

  174. I love the look of this stove. I would use this in places where a portable stove would help me cook on the move. I would love to try it out for al fresco meals in our wild garden. Thanks for the chance of winning.

  175. I’d use this ecozoom stove for cooking purposes in a tiny off grid cabin!

  176. I would love to use this outdoors for cooking, whether camping or on a regular basis at home. It would be a great addition when I get my tiny home built!

  177. That would be perfect for when I head out this fall to become a snowbird and boondock around the Southwest!

  178. i can think of a number of ways to use this….the top one being to help keep my house cool during the summer by cooking on my patio.

  182. Currently, all we have to cook with is a small butane burner. We would love to add something like this to our cooking options. Thanks for the opportunity to win this. 🙂

  183. I would use it to try cooking w/each fuel and when I build my small/tiny house it would become the center piece of my outdoor kitchen. Sweet! This will be perfect to fit in my somewhat sheltered space!

  184. I would definately use this on our property while we build our family homestead. Such an awesome stove!!!

  186. How would I use this stove? Let me count the ways! Mostly I would use it down by the creek near our farm fields, hopefully cooking a few brookies alongside some tasty veggies!

  187. I would have used the stove this winter when we lost power for 3 days! but it would be an inspiration for me to turn one of my backyard storage sheds in to a mini retreat!

  188. I would give it to my brother who loves to camp and currently heats his garage and home with corn burning stoves.

  189. FIRST I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT IS THE MOST EFFICIENT, PRACTICAL, AND COMPACT STOVE I HAVE SEEN…

    I WOULD GIVE THIS STOVE TO MY PARENTS THAT LIVE IN THE MOUNTAINS IN NORTHERN ARIZIONA…THEY CURRENTLY COOK OVER AN “OLD” WOOD STOVE AND IN MY OPINION NOT THAT SAFE TO COOK ON…I THINK THIS WOULD BE MUCH SAFER FOR THEM…AND ON THOSE BEAUTIFUL DAYS THEY CAN TAKE IT OUTDOORS AND DO THEIR COOKING THERE AS WELL.

    GREAT LITTLE PRODUCT.

  190. I would use the stove for my tiny home in my outdoor kitchen! I have been looking at one of these stoves. I hope to win it. The budget for my new kitchen is very tight indeed. I hope to complete it in 2 years.

  191. Definitely take it with us during hiking/camping trips. I wonder if I could use it to heat the Bonobo Hut or if it would be too powerful and make it too hot. It would certainly be small enough. I put my album of our progress on the Bonobo Hut in the website section. Why is it dubbed the Bonobo Hut? I really admire their overall way of dealing with conflict.

  192. I would use this on our deck to cook some meals and the kids would love it for marshmallows!

  193. I would use it to cook with in my own tiny home, built from scrounged materials on an unused back corner of my parents’ farm. I decided to make my own place in order to live under my own roof.

  194. I think I would use it during power outtages…until the my kids see it…then it would be ongoing weekend cookfest… 🙂 Thanks!

  196. My husband and I are very close to beginning retirement and plan to travel “Tiny” style. Outdoor cooking would be ideal.

  197. I would use it for camping (hopefully with my grandkids) and for preparedness in case of a power outage. Not for heating, tho! But great for cooking and preparing that all-important beverage, Morning Coffee. I wonder, could it be used for the occasional weiner roast using yard debris like tree and shrub trimmings? Safer than an open fire? I like the little shelf to keep burning logs heading into, rather than falling out of, the fire.

  198. I would use it on my patio to feed the teenagers who are always at my house. I’d probably use wood as fuel since it is abundant in my yard. What a great little stove this is. 🙂

  199. Hey….I would use the Zoom Versa stove the way in which it was intended and any other creative way I see fit! 🙂

  202. The Eco stove is perfect for outdoor cooking on the patio, outdoors in a camping/clamping situation, or picnic.

  203. I would use it in my lower room. I like options, and this would not only give me heat in the winter, but would be wonderful for cooking and canning.

  204. I have so many wood scraps left over from furniture making, I’d love to put those to use and save on the propane bill.

  206. The Obregon family, friends who live on our sister island Ometepe in Nicaragua would make good use of it, especially during the rains. It might also serve as an inspiration for others in the community. Their oldest daughter is in her last year at UNAN in Managua, studying community social work. We pay her tuition and board.

  207. I love this stove— I would love to have this for all my cooking/heating . !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

  209. I would cook like a champ on that thing, impressing my family and neighbors with fried salmon, crispy bacon, scrambled eggs or pancakes. In the fall it would add ambiance to the picnic table, as well as a place to warm chilly fingers. I’ve admired this product for quite some time.

  210. Love this! I go car camping on the mountains at least 2 weekends per month every summer – this stove would be great! I would also like to incorporate it into my dream plan for my tiny house/yard that I hope to make come true within the next couple of years. 🙂

  211. I would use this stove while camping and for cooking outside in the summer so I don’t heat up the house.

  212. Not only would it be great for camping or as a patio fireplace, but with the chances of hurricanes hitting here north of Houston, I have been thru two now.
    both times we lost power and it took two weeks to regain it.
    Rolling power was restored but that meant we would have power for four hours at a time.
    gas to the gas stove was never affected, but the air conditioning was.
    Being so hot in the house, we could just cook outside and make it more like a camping trip!
    Thanks!

  213. I travel extensively in my bus conversion, tiny home. Would love to add this stove to my mobile life. I cook over camp fires often, and see this as an upgrade! LOVE your blog! Read it, study it, learn bunches, love to see everyone’s ideas, inspired and quick to act on what I learn!!! Stove winner or not, THANKS!!!!!

  214. I would use it for cooking as I downsize into a tiny home from the giant American Dream home. Then it seems to be a great option for outdoor cooking.

  217. For sure we would use it to go camping and outside our home as I don’t like cooking inside during the summer.

  218. I am a person who camps quit a bit during the summer and use a propane stove to cook on during fire watch time when it is extremely dry I would love to use the Zoom Versa stove as it will allow me to use wood to cook on . it will give my family and I a way to save money and still enjoy our outings together . We are also members of several renactment groups that require period style camps and this would give us a way to setup these camps . and do to my research I have been thinking of getting one for Us as is your contest is a god send . The stove will be put to good use and will make a Family on a budget ‘s summer a happier one gods bless.

  219. I would use the ecozoom versa on my very first camping trip with my daughter’s. I have been working months restoring a vintage Shasta Airflyte. We Hopefully Plan To Go Camping in June. The ecozoom versa would be great to use on our maiden voyage.

  220. I am recently visually imparted and slowly planning ways I can get by and enjoy life on less. I would like to build a place that is cost effective to build and also a lesser tax liability as less square feet. As a part of that I would like to also plan for an area outside for additional living space. A heat source such as this stove…could extend the livability of such a space, while also offering a space for preparing food.

  221. I recently quit my cube-centric, fluorescent-lit corporate job and will spend the summer in Maine in a lake-side off-grid home pondering the future. If you close your eyes and listen real carefully, I bet you can almost hear, smell, & see the sizzling of the bacon and the frying of the fish on top of the EcoZoom out on the lake’s edge as the last of the mist burns away and the water’s surface begins to sparkle from the rising sun….

  222. A person close to where I live used to make a smaller version of this primarily for heating purposes, worked great in small places. The added cooking feature is definitely a bonus. I live in an earthquake zone so this would be added to my survival kit and off course I would have to prove and test it during all seasons of the year.

  223. I am going to build a tiny home in my mom’s backyard in Austin, TX. We had a concrete slab poured years ago but never built the storage shed (its original intended use). I used to shoot hoops there when I was a kid. Its begging for a tiny home! Mom could rent it out for extra income during her retirement.

    I think a small stove like the Zoom Versa would be perfect to heat this tiny home during the mild Texas winter. It could be used for cooking, too. Imagine, heating water in the kettle for hot tea on a cold wet winter’s day, the fire crackling merrily. Charming!

  224. My favorite form of cooking is on a woodburning stove..but because Boulder Colo. does not allow new construction with any wood burning…I can’t have a wood stove in my kitchen. I would love to cook on this stove…any where…any time…and I know how to do it too…I hope I win..
    Thanks for a great product….if I don’t win…I will certainly look into a pruchase…

  225. I would love the little stove for camping and a cookout in the yard. And it would be great to have in case of an emergency to.

  226. I would use it for when we spend the day at the lake so I could cook all our meals there. Also, we have up to 100 college students over once a month (in our backyard) so in the winter I would have the stove in the yard for the kids to warm themselves at.

  227. I would use this stove outside my Tiny Home! We just moved it to the San Juan Islands last week, and we are in the process of setting up an outdoor fire space and outdoor kitchen. I’d also love to take it camping! Thanks for doing this!

  228. This stove would be a perfect addition to our recent property purchase that we are keeping completely off grid. We are putting up a tiny house to live in with a rain water system, solar panels, and composting toilets. This stove would be perfect for cooking.

  229. I was planning to build one for my “Happy Trailer”, but would love to use yours instead! Thanks for all the great info you post, TinyHouseBlog :))

  230. I would use it as my summer kitchen stove, i have been waiting go get a small stove for canning, cooking in the summer (outside ), as we do not have AC in our house, hence cooking in the summer inside is out of question.

  231. We would use the Ecozoom as our primary cooking apparatus for our tiny house we are currently building! We plan to do the vast majority of our cooking outdoors except in the most inclimate weather, and so far we hadn’t found “the one” for our needs. Our little boy LOVES helping Dada and his Poppy cook out on Poppy’s grill (he bastes or hold skewers for kebabs), so he’d be totally ecstatic that we would finally have our own grill. 🙂

  232. I would have many uses for this stove, when I am camping, in the backyard along side my country porch, then in the winter in my tiny house in my back yard . cant wait to cook on it with all my fresh organic vegetables from my garden.

  233. We love to camp and cooking out doors. This would be the perfect little stove to have around the campsite. Thank you!

  234. I really would not use this as I do not cook but my spouse would as he does all the outdoor cooking. I dont play with fire.

  235. I want to use this stove on my camping trips with my 3 dogs. It would be fun and wonderfully efficient to grill our food. Thank you for the chance to win! 🙂

  236. I am slowly gathering what I need to get off the grid completely and this stove would solve my cooking and heating outdoor station~! lovelove!!

  240. I work at the. Rennaisance Festival in the summer and this summer I am planning to build a vardo to sleep in while performing my wench responsibilities. I could use this to keep me warm on cold summer nights in upstate NY.

  241. I work at the Rennaisance Festival in the summer and this summer I am planning to build a vardo to sleep in while performing my wench responsibilities. I could use this to keep me warm on cold summer nights in upstate NY.

  242. I love it .. I would use this for cooking on fishing trips for a great shore lunch .. Also camping, of course .. For heat I can use it in my icehut for winter fishing and in my uninsulated cabin on Peace Island .. It’s looks like a good little stove.

  243. I LOVE THIS TINY STOVE! I would use this stove for a mini girls retreat in the woods with my five granddaughters ….. it is just prefect for toasty marshmallow treats and taking the chill off while enjoying the night life. Than It would have a home keeping me warm in my little work shop boiling water for fresh herbal tea. Perfect.

  244. I and my family are looking to off the grid living. This would be a great start in that direction!

  245. The stove would be ideal for cooking outside our RV on the beach. Ah to wake to the sound of the ocean and the smell of breakfast cooking. Can’t wait…

  247. EcoZoom, for no more gloom, or that nasty fuel go boom!
    Dry my socks, and bake my bread, a cast iron pan to use instead.
    Warm my home on 4 dog night, or camping with no wood in sight.
    With winter snow or summer heat, this awesome stove just can’t be beat!
    Burning scraps that folks throw out, or dingleberries left about.
    Heat some water, pick a spot, to set the stove. Next to a cot?
    Move it where you want you see, with major portability!
    It’s my dream there is no doubt, to own this stove, so hear me shout!
    I hope I win there is no doubt, but if I don’t, I’m ‘fraid I’ll pout!

  249. Can’t think of a better way to cook a good breakfast than in a cast iron skillet by a fire in the woods!

  251. I’d love to have this to take with us camping and as backup way to cook in case of emergencies. It looks like a great stove!!

    • Would use it while canoe camping with my 2 grandsons on the Mississippi river this summer. I just retired and very soon both the boys will be out of school. We plan to spend as much time on the river islands this summer that we can.

  252. I am developing a packing/transport/storage system for a complete camping equipment kit (useable on ATVs, auto roof racks, horseback, etc….).
    Storage tubes can accommodate sub-packs the size of 5gal buckets.
    The EcoZoom stove would fit right in, filled with dry tinderbundle materials & dry small size kindling during transport, it would be an excellent fast fire heat source.

  254. I live in the woods in BC but am on the grid. I would use this stove on the patio and as a back up for when the power goes out. I heated with wood for 28 years before moving here and had several occasions to use the wood stove as a cook stove.

  256. I would use it to cook outside on the hot days this summer so that my house stays cooler. Also I would borrow it to my son’s Boy Scout troop to try out on their next weekend outing. I have a three-year plan to move into a tiny house after my son graduates. This stove would then come in very handy indeed!

  257. We have a cabin that is 27 km from the nearest road. It is accessible only by float plane or overland. It would be a good outdoor stove to use there.

  258. I would place broken branches from some trees that I have, and keep a pot of tea or of soup on for all that work on an organic farm. For everyone who visits or works on the farm to partake in warming up for a little or for warming their bellies.

  259. Nice little stove! It would be great to use for cooking out on our patio. I’m certain it would be going out on camping trips as well, with my son & his family! And, of course, it would be terrific to have in an emergency. Congrats to whoever wins this!

  260. I would use it to cook outdoors. I also live in a hurricane zone and it would be great for emergencies. I live on the Florida Panhandle and have never left during hurricanes since there are only 3 major arteries for traffic leaving this area and they are always bumper to bumper. I would rather spend the hurricane in an area I know then trapped in car on a highway. I have dealt with no power and being able to have a hot meal is always a morale booster.

  261. This would be a perfect stove for camping in Paracas Peru, which is a protected nature reserve, where I go fishing.
    Excellent product.

  262. We live in the woods where the power is lost often, so this would make a great back up AND a good outside cooker for just enjoying the outdoors. Love the concept of wood heat and have always heated with wood. It’s just a way of life. Congratulations on the milestone and the success of Tiny House Blog. My mom lives in one on our property. She will be 90 this year. Might be my house some day.

  266. I’ve been wanting one of these for awhile now for camping. Also outdoor cookouts in the backyard!

  268. This stove looks so cool. I love that it limits smoke emissions. I would use it for camping and patio cooking. Keep on rockin’ Tiny House Blog. Congrats on 100k fans!

  269. I don’t own a tiny house yet, but this would be a great Start. I would use it on our present patio and camping.

  270. This would be great in my almost complete 1st tiny house (camper. 4×6 model A trailer frame)

  271. My wife and I shall use the EcoZoom Stove as we travel around the back roads of the US and elsewhere in a tiny rolling home as the Friends Along the Road Mobile Sanctuary for Those in Grief. Friends Along the Road – FAR – is a free open-source social movement we founded in order to provide sanctuary and caring support for those in grief: safe places in which people may grieve on their own terms, without pressure from others to “get over it.” As we travel, we will be staying in communes, alternative communities, with friend and family, or in free camping areas. The EcoZoom will be a practical solution to our cooking needs.

  272. My wife and I have built a tiny studio on our property. She uses it around the year for watercolor painting, but we also use it as a mini-getaway, cooking down by the stream. That’s how we would use this stove. Thanks!

  273. I would LOVE this little beauty for summer, safe use anywhere I am, camping, meal-making on the ocean shore while watching an inspiring sunset or putting on the cocoa while star-gazing! Thank you with my random fingers crossed.

  275. I would love to have the EcoZoom to use for regular everday backyard patio grilling as well as for camping and emergency use!

    • I live and travel full time in my travel trailer and I would use this rugged little stove all the time for cooking outside, especially when boondocking (dry camping). Goes without saying that this is a great tool for use in power outages, off grid living or remote camping trips!

  276. I would use it camping. I would also use it to cook with this summer when the temperature is over 100 and I do not have air conditioning.

  277. Camping…. but it would be great to have in case extended power outages. Thanks for the chance!!

  278. I live on a small island. I have a VW camper. I would use this stove in a few places for both heat and cooking. I love items that are well designed and multi-functional such as the Ecozoom stove.

  279. Since we now live in a 30 ft. travel trailer, we would use the stove year round. In the warm months, it would eliminate unwanted heat from cooking inside. In the cooler months, it will be a pleasure to have an outdoor stove to cook on and gather ’round for coffee! If we eventually more into a tiny frame or pod house, it’ll go right with that life, a well!

  281. I would use the stove to go with my home built sheep herders camper. This would be perfect for cooking outside.

  282. Our family would use it when we go camping and at our house too. We would love it!

  284. I am in the process of re-inventing my life as an energetic 55 year old and heading all my energies to ward obtaining my certificate (major final test- 6/6- on the 30th of May) as a judiciary interpreter and translator (I am an art conservator) so I can earn more $$ after my three year stay in Mexico, so I can finally build my micro home and continue to downsize. The stove would be the best addition ever, for I was taught all my life to cook traditional dishes from around Latin America ( I lived abroad most of my life as an American) and food preparation is of utmost importance to me. The best way to cook is with a live fire in the outdoors….on the simplest stoves possible, just like the one you are so graciously offering. The thought of the possibility of winning it would boost my plan and energize my gran objective! Congrats for YOUR accomplishments! Donna Jarvela

  285. would love to have this for my wraparound deck great outdoor and emergency appliance i would cook on it every chance i got since i am surrounded by trees,steak, potatoes and grilled veggies here i come yummy!

  287. I would like to get back to occasionally cooking outside over a fire, and introduce my family to back-to-basics cooking.

  288. Greetings Tiny House Blog~

    I am a designer working on a tiny house project of 600 sf for a client in Bend, Oregon. Part of my job as a designer is educating people about sustainable options for a healther world, for both people and nature. I would love to be able to give this stove to my client for her outdoor patio area. The budget for this project is very tight and this would be a wonderful addition to her new lifestyle. It is always a challenge for people to reconsider and change how they live, for the benifit of others. Especially when the benifits are often hard to see. It would be a great feeling to gift this stove to a client, as a reward for the efforts made in building an energy, waterwise, smaller space that uses less resources, so there are more resources for others in the future.

    Have a Beautiful Day ~
    Miriah O’Dair

  289. Me and my fiance would use it for camping, and for having friends over for awesome outdoor cookout adventures. Plus we live in Lyons, Colorado and received a crash course in emergency preparedness in the floods last September – this would have been clutch!

  293. We are planning on building a Tiny house in the next year and the stove would be a great item to have for our project. But for now I am sure we could put it to wonderful use on our patio. I really love the design.

  294. I dislike the electric stove in my rental house. I would use the EcoZoom. Thanks for the opportunity. Excited to be a future tiny house dweller!

  295. We currently live off-grid in a house that is totally self-sufficient. We heat with solar hot water etc. Cooking inside during the summer is HOT. It would be great to have an Eco Zoom to cook outside during the summer season.

  296. Being a recently divorced, single mother, I have a lot of weight on my shoulders. I’m currently rebuilding from the financial burdens that my ex-spouse left behind. I also am trying to fill both pairs of shoes. I’m trying to set a good example and raise a knowledgeable and conscious young woman. Part of this includes participating in a local CSA, visiting local farms, attending workshops on sustainable living, and supplementing her school-based education with hands-on experiences. Having a stove like this would open up more learning on self-sufficiency. I think it would be great for us as we explore the world together!

  298. I would use this stove for our long bouts of car camping, and for when the power inevitably goes out! We live in a small house in a rural area of WV.

  299. I’m building a tiny house in the Skagit Valley – gotta cook when the power goes off! and the indoor burners will be electric. thanks, Catherine

  300. When my mom passes from severe Alzheimer’s I intend to take an open ended road trip to decompress. This would be great to travel with

  302. We will use this stove on the deck of the tiny house we are going to build on some isolated property in Willits, California.

  303. I am renovating a backyard shed, 7 x 11 feet interior dimensions, into a painting studio and overnight “guest” space. Accumulating scraps of lumber and this would be a great way to use those scraps, as well as prunings from the neighbors’ hedges that encroach on the yard. Nice to have a little outdoor cooking space on the deck beside the studio, especially in the heat of summer or to save on the limited power I will have in winter as I am trying to power with solar separate from the solar grid-tie for the “big” (1100 sf) house.

  304. Congratulations on reaching your 100,000 milestone and may you soon reach double/triple that in the near future. This looks like a very affordable & practical “stove”! Our family would use this in our backyard as an alternative way to cook as we often get power outages here. We would also use this as an excellent means for cooking while my son and I canoe camp in the near future.

  305. I LOVE to simply get back to basics! I’d find myself cooking tasty dishes on this tried and true eco stove – the pioneer of a modest way of life. Congrat’s on your milestone!!!

  306. this will be great for outdoor cooking,camping and a backup for power outages where we live….in the country ,with winter

  312. I love to cook on the patio in the summer to keep heat out of the house. I have ample excess dead wood in the yard; however, I worry about the emissions from burning wood. This stove sounds like it would meet all my needs/concerns!

  313. This would be a great item to have in emergencies. I would also make use of it when I’m camping.

  314. would love to b able to use this stove at the camp by the creek on weekends an would b great to have for hurricane prepardness ,, thanks

  315. That would be great to have to cook on when the electric goes out. We have lot of trees and when hurricanes come through here in Florida the oak trees fall down. We cook out side a lot anyway.

  316. I would use this to further my knowledge of off the grid living and alternative fuels. More importantly, I would cook up a wicked delicious elephant ear!

  318. I’ve been drooling over Ecozoom stoves for a while now! I’d love to set one up on the back porch (right by the kitchen) and be able to cook out there during the summer. I love that it is so much more a meditative and methodical process of cooking with fire. I’d also love to have it as an addition to things here that I use regularly AND will serve me well if the s### ever hits the fan. 😉

  319. I live in an ordinary mobile home. My stove developed a gas leak and I had the gas line capped. I cannot afford to repair/replace the stove. I think that in order to replace the stove, I’d have to open the wall or remove and enlarge the door frame. Again, an expense I cannot afford. In the meantime, I’ve been forced to become creative and cook with a microwave and a toaster oven. Oh, and I have learned that my rice cooker can be used to make a pretty good homemade macaroni and cheese. I’ve fashioned a solar cooker out of cardboard and am looking forward to trying to cook with it this Memorial Day weekend.

    I’d love to give the EcoZoom stove a good home and have the flexibility to fry, boil and bake dishes. I have a lovely covered carport so the EcoZoom stove could be utilized year round. Thank you so much for your consideration.

    • Hi Dana!
      In ur situation try getting a used crockpot as well. They cook all kinds of great stuff for very little energy usage and cleanup. Be Well! K????

  320. I’d use it to whip up tasty vittles to keep me going while I camp out & build my tiny house.

  321. I’m building an off-grid home in the wine country and could use a versatile stove like this when we need to cook and/or warm our tiny home

  322. I would share this with my 34 yo son. He caves, rock climbs and dirt bikes. All of those are done in camp mode and this would be welcome addition to his setup.

  323. I would use it for when the power goes out at our mountain cabin, and for taking along when car-camping in the Rockies!

    Thanks.

  324. I am a teacher so I would use this stove sometimes to educate my students about sustainability and simple solutions. Frequently studies of economics focus on big corporations, government budgets, or large international economic issues. I want my students to think like entrepreneurs for third-world issues: simple, affordable, solutions to basic needs.
    I would also use it for own camping trips, especially when I’m above 8,000 ft in the summer.

  326. I don’t like using propane and got rid of my propane camp stove last year. I’ve been wanting one of these wood burning stoves not only for camping, but for use at home to cook in the summer and during power outages. With a ready supply of branches and kindling around my home, this would be the perfect stove for me.

  327. I have recently published a book on emergency survival called, “The Prepper’s Book of Ideas” and would love the opportunity to have such a wonderful stove. I am an avid camper and would make very good use of this stove.

  329. I have just completed a one-room tiny house with outdoor kitchen and this stove would be a welcome addition!

  330. I would share it with my sister and bro-in-law when we go camping! It’s a great item!!

  332. I’d use it in the back yard! We have plenty of wood from trees we’ve cut and this would be a great way to use it up.

  335. Oh, boy, would I love to have this!!! I plan to be in a tiny house in a year or so, but in the meantime I’d feel more secure knowing I have an alternative method of cooking in case the NE bad weather escalates. Boy, would I love to have this stove.

  337. I would use this stove as a everyday cooking utensil while living in my, in progress, Tiny house. Will be a while before we are able to move in. Then I would continue to use it to do as much cooking outside as weather would permit. Congrats on the 100,000 mark!

    Enjoying Life to the fullest
    Robert

  339. We’ve purchased our trailer for the future tiny house yarn shop. The Zoom Versa would be our patio heater/smore’s bakery for bored spouses and active youngsters.

  344. I would find a family who has experienced a natural or man-made disaster and give it to them to help them cook.

  345. In Hawaii we make laulaus which are pork and beef wrapped in taro leaves and ti leaves. It is party fare as it is time consuming as its requires steaming for about 4 hours typically outside in the garage using a propane stove. I would use the EcoStove to replace the propane by using guava and ohia wood that is abundant on our property and a renewable resource. Aloha!

  347. The stove looks like just what I need to complete my emergency cooking plan. It looks great!

  348. Congrats on your milestone & always thanks for the inspiration! I’ll pair this stove with my solar cooker to cover my summer outdoor cooking needs/dreams.

  349. Currently I am using our garage as my art studio. I would love to replace my electric heater with this. I would also take it with me camping.

  350. First, I would invite all of my friends over for an after dark cookout to try the stove for the first time. It might become a regular summer event. I would let my foodie friends decide on the menu. Maybe something with fiddleheads since they are out right now. Secondly, camping! I have been dying to camp all spring, and this stove just makes me want to even more.

  351. I would use this stove for camping and (hopefully) in future while living in my tiny house.

  355. Yay! I’m SO excited for you Kent! As you can guess, I would use it in the yurt, as our main hearth fire. I’d also love to build some stacked stonework around it, to make it even more of an art piece. Thanks! K????

  356. This is the coolest thing I have seen in a while. I would use this for cooking food while camping in state parks and while boondocking. And for a off the ground fire pit. So many uses for this. Thanks for the chance to win.

  357. Congrats! I’ll bet the recent tv coverage that my mom told me about helpped a lot in getting you to this milestone. Word is really getting out there.
    I love that stove! I read about it and several others (you were demonstrating the Plancha) while researching for my tiny house, being built this summer.
    I have multiple chemical sensitivity, so can’t have gas in the house, and will be trying an induction hot plate to cook on, but I’m afraid it will suck up too much power from the solar array, (I live in the rainy PNW) so I was looking at buying one of these so I could safely cook outdoors on the back porch. This would be awesome.
    Thanks for the chance to get one for free. Good luck to everyone!

  358. Emergency use during power outages. We live in an area where it is not unusual to lose power for several days.

  360. We are moving into an RV for full time living for at least the next 2-3 years. We would use the stove for cooking on a regular basis. This looks like a really great stove to have! Thanks for the chance to win one!

  361. My neighbor has never owned a stove. She cooks on an open fire in her home. It is dangerous and her family (husband and 2 children) breathe in the black smoke from the open fire. There is no chimney and this is a health hazard. Karol and family are very poor rural people. She can not afford a stove, gas or electric. If I won this stove, I would gift it to Karol and her family. Her husband works hard chopping cane, but the pay is very low. Karol works 3 hours 3 days a week (there is no other work) and that earns her about $18.00 a week as unskilled labor. This small amount of money that she brings in has been life changing for her family in terms of shoes for her children and more food on the table. Karol asks for nothing, we do gift her some of our excess food from our garden, but my heart says that she deserves a helping hand, the gift of a clean burning stove is more than she could ever dream of or financially afford for her family. I too would love to own the stove, but Karol needs the EcoStove, it will change the life and health of her family. Thank you for considering her for this gift.

  365. Camping on the Mendocino coast for sure. Also at the “outdoor kitchen” at my families property on the river. The Camp kitchen/dinning area overlook a shady little creek that feeds the river. It’s a wonderful summer oasis from the heat. We have made many memories there over the last 25 years. We have found that if we leave anything set up in the camp unattended for more than a couple of days the wildlife tend to have their way with it. So what ever we pack in we pack out. This stove is a perfect fit.

  367. Cool stove! I’ll be retiring soon and a stove like this would be perfect for me while I travel around our beautiful country living out of a tent.

  368. I would use it through the warm weather to cook some of our meals outside. My wife and I try to live lightly on the earth- we have a photo-voltaic system and are looking to add a solar hot water system this summer. We have an 18 month old grandson who spends much time with us. We want him to learn to live this way as well. Thanks.

  369. I live in the Texas Panhandle where winds between 30-50 mph during all times of the year take the power out. I have an electric range, so I would use the Eco Zoom as a back up for those down times to have a way to prepare meals. I would also take it camping, and on my patio since I don’t have a fire ring or outdoor fire feature.

  371. I would ask the company to send it to a third-world country where someone really needs it, to a family that would truly benefit from this simple and brilliant technology.

  372. Wonderful milestone! This stove would be such a great help to me. My area has many large trees and frequent power loss from storms. I’ve plenty of wood from my trees, but no way to utilize it as the city where I live now prohibits open fires and can no longer cook over the campfire where we’ve cooked for over 50 years. It currently goes to community compost unless I can find someone to pick it up. I also do a lot of canning from my garden and trees in the house but with no exaust fan, the humidity pours down the walls in our hot, humid summers. Preserving produce is vital as because after a head injury at work, it’s a way that I can support myself, give to others and maintain a sense of independence.

  374. I would love to have this stove for a tiny house, our current patio, or camping! My husband would love fixing a pancake breakfast on this stove with Glacier National Park in the background! 🙂

  375. Just what I need for my outdoor kitchen in the summertime. It is too hot and humid to be cooking indoors in a tiny house during the summer. But a cooker like this would be excellent on a shaded porch. Plus it has the benefit of using much cheaper fuel … and less of it than a barbecue pit does. I could afford to cook with this on a regular basis! 🙂

  376. I would use it to keep my little handicapped friends happy and warm while camping off the grid. And the bonus is we can cook at the same time

  377. 100,000 fans! That’s a lot of us! Congrats!

    I’d love that little stove, and would use it as a daily cooker. I’ve been saving for one but this would be a lot faster!

  378. I’d replace the aging stove in my little cabin in the Sierras and would get a nice new cooking surface to go with it! I always like it when one object can perform at least two different functions. 🙂

  379. I’d have several uses for this. One on the patio I will be laying shortly. Two, for camping. Three for general preparedness this would make a great backup stove for any emergency.

  380. I would be looking for any excuse to use it. from camping to using it in the yard to save heating the house up further during the summer.

  382. I would use the stove in our small shed on our land for tea while I work. And take it camping with us. And just use it in the garden in the city for tea.

  383. Our family would use this on our week long camping trips and in the back yard during the summer. This looks great!

  384. BIGTIME Congrats on hitting such a milestone;) it TRUELY is a HUGE movement, nothing Tiny about that! Lol. I am getting ready to move into an RV to live Fulltime, as I’ve recently become homeless, after caregiving my Mom for the past 6 years. I know things will work out, and one day, I will build my Tiny Home, but in the meantime my 4 fur kids and I will be living on the Road, and this incredible little stove, would do the job. Thanks for letting us ALL have a shot. Again…way to go on 100,000!

  385. My wife Wendy and I just built a 12×12 beach house on Canandaigua Lake that has no electricity or other utilities, so this stove would be our cooking device for meals and an occasional shore dinner!

  387. I would use it for camping and also at home – especially with my 83 year old father, who loves to grill. Thanks for the chance to win it and congratulations on the 100,000 fans!

  389. We don’t live in a tiny / small house yet, so we will use this on the back porch of our current home to BBQ on. The smell will make us instantly popular with all our neighbors. =)

    Sometimes during the snowy Colorado winters, we sit on the back porch and enjoy the quiet evenings and watch the snow come down. This will also make a romantic mini-fireplace for those times.

  393. I’d use it to cook with since I live in a college dorm that has no stoves just a microwave and toaster oven!

  394. I would gift this to my father who had built a small off the grid hut on his farm in New Zealand. It would be a great addition!

  396. I would give it to my best friend. He is really interested in this kind of stove, He is making himself a bug out cart that would be for camping, power outages (lives on an island) and for emergency preparedness.

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  398. Perfect for anywhere and everywhere. On days it is just too hot to cook inside we could cook outside! Small enough we can take it where ever we go. Thanks for the opportunity!

  399. I could see two uses for the Ecozoom stove by Versa at our high school. One way would be to demonstrate it in our science classes on how to reduce carbon output and increase fuel efficiency when using biomass fuels. The second would be to use it in our Advance Building Trades program, where we are building three Tumbleweed Tiny Houses. As we prepare to sell our completed tiny house units, it would be a great item to demonstate at our open house. You can see the progress on building our tiny houses by visiting our website: http://www.acehighschool.org

  400. Right now, it will replace my outdoor grill. But I could definitely see how I could use it in the design of my tiny home.

  401. I would use it for camping and emergencies-also maybe for summer dinners. I like being able to use scrap wood that you can find about anywhere

  403. I would install this in the house I am prepping to build this fall. I am just finishing planning stages on a one off hybrid earthbag/earthship/monolithic dome combo. I also go camping at least 5 times a year and would love to add this to my camping equipment.

  404. My girlfriend and I are going to build a tiny house and do all the work ourselves. This would be used everyday…and it’s adorable.

  405. i am currently off the grid and would love a stove like this. i am contemplating building an earthen oven but this would be awesome and easier to use in the rain. Thanks

  406. We would cook fantastic food for the family. And make our home really toasty and warm with this.

  407. I would use it for our family camping trips, and to show my girls you can cook with sticks and limbs!

  409. I would use it when travelling in our “tiny home” of the future…..as it is something we haven’t attained yet! I am starting to collect items needed, though. It would be good for cooking outdoors whenever weather permits and don’t want to have the cooking “smells” etc. in the interior of such a small area. It’s small and portable and so flexible in its usage! Would love to have one!!

  410. We will be camping for the summer, so this would be awesome in place of the gas grill. Thank you!

  413. In winter I would use it to slow cook tasty dishes. In summer I would use it to gather like minded souls for conversation and community.

  415. i would use this with my trailer instead of cooking inside during the summer when it is hot as blazes outside! Fire pit contained, and loads of dutch oven cooking! yipee!

  417. I will use this stove for outdoor cooking anywhere I can especially when I build my Tiny House…

  419. I would make it a permanent fixture in my outdoor kitchen, unless I go camping, I’ll take my stove with me.

  421. We live in the country, have at least one power outage each winter, this would be a wonderful item to have in emergency situations!

  423. Keep the kitchen cooler this summer and cook outside but not just on the BBQ, will this work with a round bottom wok?

  424. I live off grid so it would come in handy! Also I’ve been looking for one for my bug out kit. There’s the fun of learning how to use it. Saw a video using one with a chimney, with a copper coil in it to make hot water.

  425. Would love to use this to cook outside and keep the heat out of the house in the summer.

  426. I would use it to make yummy meals for the two grandsons im raising and in the winter we could use it, sit around it as we do the campfire to report our high and low that day. We’ve been living tiny for 8 years now, these two boys are proof that this lifestyle is a fabulous way to grow up!

  427. Very economical looking…..I can see where we would use it in emergencies….but also as an everyday way of cooking.

  428. I’d use it during all of the power outages we have and out on camping trips. These stoves look awesome.

  429. My partner and I are currently moving out of the city onto 6 acres in the country. The stove would be an ideal alternative to using the old electric stove in our new place.
    Thanks for offering us the chance to win it.
    Marion & Jim 🙂

  433. I would use this as my primary source of cooking when I move into my tiny house in October.

  434. MY plan would be to put it with our bug-out kit. But I think my husband would want to put in on the patio and fire that bad-boy up!!!

  435. My partner and I are retiring to a camper trailer and will hit the road for our twilight years shortly. We would enjoy the stove everyday for cooking and enjoying in general every evening.

  436. We would use the stove in so many ways! We can use it while camping, on the back porch as a grill, maybe use it for a pizza oven. My husband will use it as part of our bug out kit, and we will probably need more than one for all the uses he can come up with!

  438. My wife and i retire shortly.since electric power cost is very expensive we will use stove as a regular daily kitchen necessity

  439. Given power outages are a common event in winter here in rural parts of Newfoundland, this would be incredible for the cold weather outages… This past winter we had to use a small propane camp stove – After the 2nd day we were out of cylinders, and it didn’t give any radiant heat beside the cooking top while we were burning the costly propane. Please choose me???

  440. I would use this on camping trips. I have checked this out before on the tiny house blog. I think its a great design and would love to own it. Thanks Michael Smith

  443. This would be just right for my son who lives in a camper on my land. He could use it to cook on and heat with when he is working outside.

  445. I would use it as a primary cooking source when I travel or complete a work camper job, I usually am gone for up to 6 months at a time, work camping.

  446. This is a fantastic stove, i would set this up in the bush at my “secret” location and do all my cooking and water heating on it.

  448. I am currently getting my 20 year project moving forward. I will be camping until my house is ready and a Zoom Stove is on my list for the cooking and heating appliance. I am jazzed to know there is a chance I can be awarded one of my dreams!

  450. I plan on moving into a van in the near future and I’m a vegetarian so this would be great for cooking my daily meals! =)

  451. I’d love to have one as a backup at home and for when I go camping with my vintage trailer groups.

  454. I’d use it for an outdoor kitchen until our upcoming civil war/financial collapse/government oppression etc. when it will be the group stove for whoever happens to stick around.

  455. I would use for power outages and for summer cooking so I don’t need to hear up my kitchen.

  456. My husband and I live in a small cottage. We have no air conditioning in the summer so we aren’t able to cook indoors without it reaching 100+ inside, leaving us to eat out and spend our hard earned money. I’d use this stove to cook hot meals in the summer without having to roast ourselves in our cottage or spend our money frivolously.

  457. In my dreamworld maybe within five years time. I will travel cross-country maybe even up to Alaska in a van and use the stove for roadworthy meals along the route. Visiting beautiful sights all across America along the way. National parks /campsites. 🙂 Happy Memorial Day weekend all.:)

  459. I would use this for outside use mostly, but possibly interior, once my tiny house is built! Love it!

  461. As a pivotal element in turning the small outbuilding on my son’s property into a home for ME!!

  462. I am getting back into camping. This stove would be awesome to use this while in the backwoods

  463. I dream of a gypsy wagon and living outdoors. This would make cooking with castiron a dream come true

  464. This stove would be perfect for my mountain cabin, camp cooking on the road and for power outages and cook outs in the city.

  465. This would be great for the tiny house on 20ft trailer I’m currently building. It would be combo campfire, stove, shower water heater and light source. I could also use it with a stove light or power pot to generate energy 🙂

  466. Don’t heat up your kitchen during the dog days! This stove is a perfect companion to the charcoal grill for summer cooking. Scrap lumber is good fuel when you have it. Charcoal is available everywhere. The Versa is all you need for camping, or tailgating at a ball game. For summer the question is not when I’ll use it. The question is when won’t I use it?

  467. I just bought several acres bordering on National Forest and am planning to build a tiny house on it for my retirement (which hopefully will come in 2-5 years). That little stove would be PERFECT for my new life there. I can just taste the chili I would cook on it……

  468. Greetings Sir,
    I have been following your site for quite a while and learning a huge amount information about construction. I am homeless, have survived the -7 degree winter in NJ since October 2013 in my car. I am saving for a small 4×8 trailer to build my own tiny home. I would use the stove to heat my home and cook on it. If anyone wants any tips on surviving sub-zero temperatures in a car/tiny home, I can help with some suggestions.
    Big Al
    (Im only 4ft 9in and shrinking Lol thus why I only need a really tiny tiny place.

  470. I think I would probably donate it to one of our local flood victims whose house was totaled in a recent 100-year flood, and for whom we are trying to find housing.

  471. This would be handy for camping and our rather frequent power outages! Thank you for your fabulous blog:)

  472. I would use this stove for camping and during power outages… Like in the country get those a lot.. Also just for fun sometimes so I can cook the whole meal outside and not heat up the house..

  475. I can’t think of anytime I WOULDN’T use this stove. From entertaining the 23yr old who just won’t leave home, to fedding ourselves, friends and raly having fun with. 🙂

  477. Cooking with wood sticks and charcoal is a great pleasure of mine. I have been following this stove for some time and will someday own one. . . . maybe sooner than later. I have traveled Latin America extensively in rural settings with the local people and have often seen setups like this but they lack the efficiency of this stove. Every year we prepare for hurricane season in South Texas and this would be a great addition.

  481. a must i tell ya, for me teaching my grand-kids about the smaller,simpler treasures in life….not just telling but sharing the adventure with them…its all about preserving the simplicity of life!

  483. I would use the stove to fix climate change, end child slavery, solve world poverty, save the panda, find a peaceful resolution for the Israel/Palestinian conflict and last of all promote Tiny House Blog to the whole world to ensure the revolution of small house living is complete.

    I’m not sure how I would do all that just yet. It’d take about a week though. After that, I’d probably just use it to aid chilling out with my wife and three kids in the backyard during winter.

  488. I would love to have this stove. My husband lost his job and we are trying to learn to be more self sustaining. Hopefully planning on building a green cabin in the future and getting lots of great ideas.

  489. I would use this in my little guest house that when the kids get older and out of my house my husband and I are going to relocate it along the beach somewhere and live in it full time.. Since we have no wood stove in our regular house it would be awesome for those few times every year we somehow loose power in the Pacific Northwest!

  491. This would be a wonderful little stove to take camping or just to cook breakfast on for the grand kids when they were over. They would just love it.

  492. What a great camping stove! I thought of hurricane situations too. Hope none of us has that occasion to use it, though.

  493. Happy Memorial day. If I were to win this stove. I would send it back home, to my sister. I originally come from a rural village, in Alaska. Earlier this week, a forest fire broke out & it’s now contained & has spread to another part, away from the village. They were evacuated away from the village & w/the hot weather, we are having. This would have come in hand. We pray for rain it’s pretty dry up here & the temp., is high. Thank you very much. I pray I win this 🙂

  494. My husband would use it for our outdoor kitchen since we live in a tiny motor home. So fun being empty-nesters!!

  496. I’ll lug it in to work and cook my lunch on it and make coffee and tea. Or I may just haul it off into the woods and live in a cave and forget about work for a while. 🙂

  497. I am so in love with the tiny homes and I am slow gathering items for mine. This would be the perfect choice.

  498. What a fabulous stove!! I would love to have that stove especially living in Oklahoma. Severe storms like tornadoes and ice storms frequently leave us with no power. This stove would be such a blessing during those times we well as for camping.

  499. Have wanted a stove like this for the simplicity of using less wood for great cooking. We enjoy camping, cooking outside in the summer, and it would be perfect for when power goes out.

  500. hey good lookn what ya got cookn…I’d cook a nice juicy burger with that there stove. Or possibly an omelet. Or maybe some oatbran.

  501. Wiped out from the 2008 financial debacle, lost my house, my Job’s and had to start over. Working presently but seriously under employed. Mind you I am not complaining because such is life. The greatest pleasure I have to look forward is my camping trips in the Mountains. Man would I love to have this stove. It would be put to good use…

    Thanks RLee

  503. My family would use this while camping and also on our patio during summer nights. My park ranger husband would love to cook up a yummy dinner on this stove!

  504. What a cool stove! My husband daughter and I recently moved into a tiny dwelling and the stove would be a great additional to our outdoor area.

  505. I would use this stove when I go on family camping trips. Unfortunately, it is something I am gathering equipment for in the near future since I have never been on one. Afterwards it will be utilized in the outdoors when I build my tiny house slated for the next three years.

  506. Would love & use this at our family retreat. We’re carrying on my late father’s low tech simplistic living with the 3rd generation now at the start of raising the 4th generation of our family. The retreat is the homestead where one of my children is living & others come for family gatherings.

  510. I am learning about living tiny. I can see a lot of service from this stove. I love that it’s ‘green’. Would be great for cooking outside with nature.

  512. I would use it for cooking on those many MANY days our power goes out here. My parents have a wood stove, but we don’t, and we resort to cold food or cooking on the grill. Even in January. In Wisconsin. So, it’s a frustration. (Heating the house is another story altogether. )

    Thank you for hosting this contest! This was a kind thought.

  513. We have a shipping container cabin with an outdoor kitchen. This would be a great addition!

  514. I would use it when I visit my favorite outdoor place in the world: a hot springs 1 1/2 hour drive west out of Las Vegas: it is the Yin/Yang collide thingie… Desert/water/life/nada………. very zen… needs a low profile cooker to keep with the vibe… – I don’t own the place – I just resonate – severely – Enjoy, Joan

    • I’m packing this moment and heading there… yet could use directions.. would you please share this with me… & I’d like to meet you there !
      Out here we have only began to find solitude.. I want to branch out !
      Moon dance, all day massage, hammock under the stars and moon.. did you follow last night meteor shower ?? .. Canyon

  515. I saw this stove on YouTube and thought it was awesome! I would love to pack my tent and head for Truman Lake! Good fishing! Good eating!

  517. Serious congrats on the 100,000!!!! That is amazing news. I have to admit have been interested in EcoZoom’s Plancha stove as an option if I do get to move into a yurt in the next couple years. So I would love to have the little stove to get a feel for what an EcoZoom is like and to use for summer cooking. The current house I share with 5 other people is a remuddle with a windowless kitchen and very poor circulation. With my little hibatchi grill and an outdoor sink I’m working on, the Versa would be a great addition to a summer kitchen. Thanks for offering the contest Kent and congrats again! Good luck everyone!

  518. I would like to use the stove outside for summer cooking & as a camping stove when I take my adult kids to the woods.

  520. I would use it for cooking. I currently use a hot plate and a toaster oven and a variety of small appliances. This would come in very handy and would not have to be replaced every year or so.

  523. We just purchased 10 acres in Florida and the EcoZoom Stove would be the perfect reason to take a break from cleaning up the property and enjoy a wonderful meal.

  524. This beautiful little stove would cook many outdoor meals for family, dear friends and neighbors ALL year long in the Missouri Ozarks.

  525. Seems this cooker could be used to clean up the yard. I always have sticks and twigs in the yard from windy days and storms moving through the area. I have accumulated a rather nice pile of fuel in just a few years even. However I do believe that our area has a burn ban , which means no burning of any kind unless contained. If anyone knows for certain,would this cooker be classified as contained ?

  528. I’m going to buy some land in the next year or so, and I’ll build a tiny House there. A Stove to cook some meals and have a warm place to stay would be nice 🙂

  529. Congrats on FB Fan Page! My family would use this stove often in lieu of regular stove. Actually our neighbors would get use out of it too as we often try to “share” grilling cooking time (cuts down gas use). Also would be great to have to camp and during hurricane season, especially with all power outages. Would definitely put downed branches to use:)

  530. To whip up the freshest stir fry on the planet – harvested straight from the garden and into the pan, right there in the open air! It doesn’t get any better than that!

  531. When I am out in the field all day where I grow our food, gardening it would provide hot water for washing up, cleaning tools, warm tea,
    meals among many other uses. I cannot afford to put a house on the land, zoning does not allow tiny houses and campers etc. so this stove would be a big help.

  532. Love this little stove, and would have a great time using it camping with my little family. But far and away the coolest thing I saw on their website was the program for getting stoves to Rwanda. I love a company that creates good product, and shares too.

  533. I would gift it to my daughter Chris who is an avid camper and who could enjoy the convenience of the stove especially when my husband and I join her on one of our many camping trips!

  534. This would be perfect for camping in New Mexico this summer, and for the power outages at least once a year…
    Karen

  536. I am not entering as i will build my own rocket stove this summer if i have time, maybe with a pizza oven attachment. but wanted to wish everyone else good luck!

  537. We would use it a lot. My husband has 3 cast iron skillets that would be great to use on this. Plus I would love to make cornbread with it. Plus it saves a lot of money instead using electricity. Did anyone mention about using it in the winter? I sure would!

  539. I use it for s’mores and veggies and toasty toes on a chilly night, drying sockies and heating kitties and as a cheery camp light. I’d give it a name and treat it like family, and count on it for life in the case of calamity!

  540. I would take this to parks that allowed fires and use it to cook hot food for homeless or disadvantaged….winter is coming!

  541. I certainly see a great use for this in camping as a heat source and for cooking and water purification

  542. The Verso looks perfect for the family camping trips that my daughters and I enjoy every year. No more complaining about sluggish fires and raw pancakes, or pancakes made crunchy by ash the flies in as I try to stoke the flames!

  544. I would use this when we go camping in our tiny trailer…I would love it so much that I would cook on it on our back patio.

  545. We hope to be the proud new owners of a tiny cabin this summer. The EcoZoom would be perfect for our patio-cooked meals, and would give us some added heat to keep us toasty!

  547. This stove will be fantastic for all the camping we do and for going off grid in the wilderness!

  548. I would use it for camping, on my back porch to cook while entertaining friends and when the power goes out!

  549. I see this going to Maine with me and doing all the cooking outside, and down on the beach!!!

  550. I would be using this stove when we go dip netting. It gets cold and windy and fire pits on th e beach dont always work. This would help warm up after standing chest deep in the water for hours.

  552. I would love to use this stove for preparing great food to share at potluck dinners when I’m camping with Sisters on the Fly!!

  553. I would use this stove during the hot summer for cooking on my back deck, to keep our house from getting so hot inside. I also use a BBQ when I can (our house gets very hot in summer). I would also use this on the beach of the Bay of Fundy when we get together with family and friends for a summer cook out, and it would really come in handy during the power outages we get from blizzards, ice storms, etc – sit this on our open deck and we’d have a way to heat water, cook, etc. This looks like a great product and we’d get a lot of use out of it!

  555. In NH it’s all about the outdoors, summ’ah camps and this would be put to use in every single weekend of our outdoor shenanigans! I love it!!!

  556. How cool! I could use all that wood we cut up from the felled tree in our yard from Super Storm Sandy! I’d be rattling those pots and pans on this stove instead of a BBQ grill.

  558. I would use it to supplement the stove in my yurt in Cascade, Idaho. Maybe moving it to my woodshop (yet to be built).

  559. This would be the beginning of things to come in the next 5 years to help get us prepared to find or build a Tiny House up in Northern Wisconsin or Minnesota. We are getting our home here in Illinois ready to put on the market in 5 years. We have had a dream for over 25 years of retiring on a lake and just fish, enjoy the scenery and listen to the wonderful sounds of nature.

    I have visions of things we will need and I think this would be a nice start to our dream retirement.

  560. I would love to use this for outdoor cooking. Hopefully I will be able to use it for my future tiny home.

  561. My 12 year old daughter and I will use the stove to make smores in our backyard. Isn’t that what small portable outdoor stoves should be used for? 😉

  566. This would be an awesome addition to our tiny retirement home. There is nothing better than the taste of fire cooked food, But since that is a couple years off it would be used for summer camping trips and winter loss of power for the family. Very useful

  568. I’d want to use this little stove on my back patio, in lieu of the rather large built-in barbecue that doesn’t get much use – precisely because it is so large. (But built 60 years ago by my grandpa, so it does have that going for it!)
    🙂

  570. This would come in very handy at the lake on fishing trips, and cookouts on the ptio in good weather!

  571. Holy cow this stove would be amazing for camping, nights in the back yard by the fire pit and for dinner at the beach! My family would get 1000’s of uses out of it!

  573. My family would use that great stove in camping and emergency situations. It is great that it can be used with multiple fuels!!

  574. Congrats on the number of FB members!!! We would use the stove to help get us closer to being of the grid. Thank you for the chance to win this great product.

  576. This would be great for the summer days here in Florida. And great when winter comes so we can sit outside. I am planning on having my own Tiny House this year . My nephew will be bulding it for me. So this would come in handing.

  577. I would use it at the campground where I plan to park the tiny house I’m building right now!

  578. On days that allow outside cooking, I’d use this little gem in place of the electric hot plate and alcohol burner I currently use for cooking every day. It would certainly save power and denatured alcohol and give me a use for all of the limbs these maples around here shed.

  580. I would use this for camping, patio & a gradual move to my tiny house!! This is such a fun & thoughtful give away!!

  586. I’m in the planning stages of downsizing my life, and this stove would be perfect for outdoor cooking

  587. We are going to spend the summer in our camper. Would loveeee to be able to cook outside and keep the heat and mess out of our little home!

  591. My family would not only use it for cooking, but for a heat source on cool spring mornings and crisp fall nights for many years to come!

  592. This is some great technology and will be used a lot when camping with my grandson and preparing picnics, etc

  596. We would use this stove for camping and as our only cooking source once we move off of the grid!

  598. I would use the stove to cook outside my small apartment, as well as, when I go camping. Plus would be great to have when I actually have a tiny home!!

  600. After years of living in South Florida, we are planning to move to a less congested area, buy a tiny home, some land, hopefully in the Tennessee, Kentucky area. This stove would be the perfect addition to our supplies and a wonderful alternative/addition to our Coleman…….

  601. I would joyfully use the stove while “camping out” during the time I will be building my very own tiny house!! Then afterwards, for outdoor cooking occasions.
    What a wonderful stove & design!

  602. Awesome stove 🙂 we would use it for family camping trips and for our tiny home in the future.

  603. I would use this stove every chance I could. I would take it camping. It looks safer and more secure than a standard fire pit. I would use it in my backyard on those soon to be autumn nights where a little warmth is needed and a little comfort of still being outside as the weather begins to turn. I would use it when the power goes off such as after a significant earthquake that we get often here. Safer than attempting to use my gas stove. I would use it to show off to friends that I have an Ecozoom Stove and they don’t!!

  604. Let’s seee. fish fry, stew, cornbread,gumbo,pie, bisquits, smores, hot dogs , burgers, back yard, porch, camping,and did I say FISH? oh and fish.

  605. My boyfriend lives in as tiny cabin and this would be a great addition to his outdoor cooking!

  606. This stove fits with our mission to improve health, income, and the environment. It will be useful during our adventure across country with our two dogs. #tinyhousemovement

  610. I would use this for camping and for disaster preparedness, and for my tiny home when I get one…..thanks….

  612. I have a new backyard, and would love to use this as a cook space, especially an alternative during power outages.
    My new foreclosure home is also close to camping sites, so this awesome stove could pack up and go camping!

  613. I love this stove and would love to be able to teach my beginning Boy Scout how to cook on it whether at home or on camping trips. Thanks for this great offer and congrats on 100,000 fans milestone!!!

  614. Since my husband passed, I work to incorporate outdoor experiences into our children’s lives as often as possible. That can be a challenge when they’re 4yrs and 2yrs old, but we go camping, visit a family farm regularly, & try to get out as often as possible! I would use this stove in numerous ways, including camping in our vintage camper. 🙂

  615. This stove would be wonderful for cooking weekend meals while camping or just to reduce electricity consumption at home.

  616. I have recently decided to leave corporate life behind for good. This green stove would greatly benefit my tiny house way of life. Thanks for all the helpful posts on fulfilling this life choice!

  626. This is the best stove I have ever seen. I think if I was to win I would not only use it for camping but it would make a great addition to my tiny house as a permanent cooking feature by making a built in and venting system to use it in a closed space safely

  627. I would use the stove next month when my daughter and I go camping at antelope lake California

  629. Oh how awesome!! This would be a godsend for my husband & I. We are living in one of those “free homes” that had to be moved by a certain date. The people moved it out to our land & we’ve been living there…..well, CAMPING there would be more apt a description as there is no electricity, no water, no heat or stove, no NOTHING. We built a makeshift firepit with some large rocks found on the property & that is where we cook our meals & boil water for coffee, tea, & baths, but it’s outside so when we go to sleep at night in the little house, we have no heat source, & if it’s raining or storming & it’s a meal time, we go without because you can’t make a fire & cook outside in the rain without a shelter over the stove or fire source. This stove would enable us to take the chill off of the night air, at least until it the real heat of the summer kicks in, & it would enable us to cook inside out of any inclement weather. It is perfect for our needs right now….especially since we are unable to do any more work on the place for the foreseeable future. This would be an answer to our prayers! Thanks for giving everyone the chance to win this! Good luck & God Bless all!!

  631. I would use it to make Tea, Grill Steaks & saute veggies & shrooms…I accidentally backed over my Last one… ;(

  632. I would use this stove to prepare myself for a more simple life. I need to practice minimal living skills, while paying off debt/saving for my tiny home. This would be a magnificent addition to the home/outdoor living area once complete.

  633. I would use this stove to completely shut off my dependency on gas cooking. It would be wonderful to cancel my contract with the gas company and use only what I need. I love that I could also take it into the field with me when doing my field work!

  634. That looks like awesome!
    It would get a lot of use for camp cooking when we live out of our tent this summer.

  635. We are building our emergency preparedness kit and planning for living off the grid.

  637. I live an urban off grid lifestyle which is a bit trickier, in my opinion, than just secluding yourself somewhere away from people. Receiving this wood burner would be one of my many steps to being able to move and sustain a lifestyle outside of the big, crowded, dirty, and dangerous city.

  639. We are a family of 7 and as kids get older they seem to spend more and more time on electronics and less time with family. I feel that family time, which is what brings us closer, are getting lost with electronics and technology. Having something like this would give us additional opportunities to get outdoors and spend real face time with each other. What a great product and idea.

  640. I would use this stove for outdoor cooking 9 months of the year and as a backup for cooking during power outages in the winter months.

  641. I would love to use this stove in my transition from suburban living to off grid tiny house living. Im trying to slowly transition by spending more and more time living in a camper part time while I makeover a school bus to eventually live and travel in that. This stove would be a lovely addition and a much needed one as most of my money is being put into the bus. Good luck everyone!

  645. These are great stoves, I’ve wanted one for quite some time to use outside during the hotter times of year. In the interior battles of stove vs air conditioning I am always the looser in that battle. And… my wok would sit on top of that stove perfectly I am thinking.

  646. I would use it to start up my dream business of making traditional Portuguese Malasadas at local events on Maui.

  648. I would use this during our 3 week camping trip in Colorado, and on our little piece of land in Oregon!

  649. My grand kids have never seen the mountains in Alberta Canada and this would be perfect for when I take them camping this summer.

  650. I would use the stove as shown, with a nice iron fry pan to cook up a delicious batch of stew!

  652. We fresh process a lot of food. This would be great for that… since the conventional way, propane is very expensive.

  654. This is awesome! We would put this outside of our (in-progress) Tiny House and wake up early to watch the sunrise and cook eggs and veggies.

  655. This would be my new car camping stove/cook out stove. I live walking distance to the beach so I would get a wagon to transport it for sunset hot-dog roasts.

  656. I would use this stove in my horse, HORSE trailer. I have converted the front into a camper and it needs a small type of heat source. This would be perfect.

  657. I would use the stove for camping, unless the Zombie apocalypse comes, then I will use it for suvival…..

  658. I would give it to my (“don’t-worry-I’m-not-a-prepper-it’s-just-a-supply-closet”) boyfriend before he buys one of the overpriced & breakable clay chimineas 🙂

  661. I would use this stove in my skoolie adventure I am starting! Now that I am retired from the Army and disabled, I am planning on visiting the country I served for in a skoolie 🙂

  663. Would love to win this stove!! It would be perfect for camping I have planned this summer and in emergencies. Keep up the good work, Tiny House Listings! I read your site and page almost every day!!

  664. I’d love to have one. Wed take it camping or use it when we start building our house one day.

  666. This stove would be perfect for our camping trips and for cooking whenever our power goes out (quite often).

  667. I would use the stove on my new piece of land that we are building an Earthship on! Fun fires and outdoor cooking is something my friends are I are passionate about. Bring on the summer!

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    I would use this while camping and enjoying the wilderness. It would be easy to find small pieces of wood and enable me to cook a great meal.

  671. This is a pretty awesome stove. I want to be able to someday live off the grid and this stove would be a great addition to my tools to do so.

  672. We would use it during the frequent power outages we have here due to storms with high winds downing trees. This can happen during any time of the year it seems and we have often gone as long as a week without power over the last few years. We would likely also use it when we host large groups of people for extra cooking space even if the power was on!

  673. I could REALLY use this. I have been putting off replacing my old, beat up propane camp stove.

  675. Congratulations on your milestone! Thanks for your generosity! If you like, you can save on postage/bring the stove personally and and enjoy some s’mores on the beach with us ! We are outdoor water folk year round (hubby is a wildlife officer and I do eco-tours) We have 3-4 (depending on how you count) tiny dwellings & a sailboat all in different stages of habitation corralled on our year round tropical property (we’ve been collecting & refurbishing them with & for our now college kids, visiting family friends and couch surfers.) We are trying to keep it simple and small so we can enjoy each other and the blessing of the great outdoors (on a budget) so this would be a great outdoor cooking station for our family and friends to gather around here

  676. Would love to give one to my husband for Father’s Day. He would love to use it at home an camping. He does 99% of the cooking due to my handicap he would love to cook on something like that.

  677. For now till I’m able to get the property for my tiny home, it would become my portable kitchen when I camp every weekend this summer. I love cooking outdoors, for some reason food just tastes better when cooked in the wild and with wood.

  678. We are starting our tiny camper living in July and this would be perfect for locations without fire pits!

  679. I would give this to my father, who is living in a tiny home (that he’s still building too) but struggling to furnish it. He’s a retired teacher and doesn’t have much income. He would be thrilled to have this to replace the crummy one he has now. I would love to be able to give him that gift, he is a wonderful person and really deserves something nice!

  680. Hi, I will use this stove on our new land in Ojai, California. We are building a new rammed earth home, and camping during the building process.

  681. My plans are to retire soon and build my tiny house to fit my needs, the stove would be perfect to go along with what I have planned. Looking forward to my tiny house right by myself! Can hardly wait!

  682. We would start using it immediately to grill at home and take on wilderness camping trips. Hopefully soon, we’ll have a tiny home in the middle of nowhere and it would be a vital part of our micro “kitchen”!

  685. I would use the stove to cook meals for kids when they come for playdates with mine, and let them have a go at cooking themselves. (I might just cook for me from time to time)

    I live in the UK so probably not eligble for your competition…

  686. We are in the process of planning to building off grid and off our own land. A very functional cooking device is something we have to put together. This would be wonderful to have during this very long process and something we would continue to enjoy after our endeavors are brought to life. This would be a huge help financially and otherwise. We are gathering materials for our build from free items we have been collecting from some time. Money is not something we have much of right now. I have never seen this type of cooking device before, It would just be so so nice to have the kids get familiar with alternative ways of cooking other then a open fire, grill and conventional stove. One child is not so much a child but a teenager and trying to get her on board has been a struggle. It would be great to show her as many ways as possible that alternative living styles does not have to equal struggle and/or lack of comfort. Although this is something we try to convey all the time there are certainly things that can help with making words a reality. This stove would be ever so appreciated in so many ways.

  687. I would use it outside in the summer at the location of the Tiny House I plan to build in the next 18 months.

  689. Last time we had a hurricane, we lost electricity for about 4 weeks. This would be the perfect stove to cook on.

  691. I would love to use this stove to help my son better understand the benefits of being prepared when the electricity goes out 🙂

  692. Hello, my new goal is to spend as much time as possible with my children outside and they would love to use this stove to cook some meals.

  693. We would use this stove to cook outside of our new yurt. By simplifying our life we are hoping to give our daughter a better childhood!

  694. I would use it as a replacement for my home stove and as a preparation stove for when I am building my tiny house.

  696. I would add it to my collection of things for my future tiny house I hope to complete in a few years.

  697. Since being inspired by the tiny house blogs etc. we are about halfway finished with our little cabin on 12 wooded acres of heaven. We are camping during construction and will more than likely stay off grid when finished. These are wonderful stoves. I’ve been wanting one for quite some time.

    Thank you for all you have contributed to bringing information to those of us who had no idea so much was possible.

  698. To give my US-bases sister just that tiny dpark she needs to make her tiny-house-living-dream come real!

  700. Our project is to build a tiny house on a land here in France. This is something we really want to do, and every little thing would help! So the stove would be like a great encouragement for us to pursue our dream. Living differently can be quite a difficult thing to achieve, yet we are young and full of hope! Keep up the good work with this blog, it’s a wonderful source of inspiration!

  701. I would use it year round for cooking,I love cooking outdoors 🙂 Looks like the perfect little stove for doing such!!

  704. This stove will warm the milk for my new grandchild (coming in June) living in a tiny+ house with my son and daughter-in-law. We designed and built it together. It’s off the grid so Eco Zoom is a must!

  705. Our city suffered an icestorm last December. If stoves like these were readily accessible, and people had the skills to use them, similar weather situations could be far less dangerous and far more bearable.

  709. I would add this to my hope chest of items I’m collecting for the time when I can go off grid. Would use stove for grilling and camping until then,

  710. Oh man, is this cool. I would use it for kayaking and boating expeditions. It’d be perfect for cooking on the beach!

  711. As a musher I would use it on the trails to make food for my team of sled dogs and me!
    And of course camping!!

  712. Awesome design…. My family cooks outdoors ALOT on firepits and such but this would be absolutely amazing to have… can’t wait to try it 🙂

  713. im moving into a trailer on a large plot of land and my electricity is limited. id love a little stove when i didnt have power 😀 id eat out less haha save money

  714. I go camping up in the Sierra Mountains and it would be very useful there! I would also use it at home. I live in the Foothills of the Sierra Moumtains.

  716. I would give this to my daughter who lives in a caravan all year round. shes a New age Traveler..she would love this for cooking etc outside for herself and family and friends…x

  719. I would use the stove in a small house (maybe not tiny, but very small) on my family’s land. Then I would be able to visit whenever I wanted without having to rely on the hospitality of a relative.

  720. I would give this to my twin sons who have just graduated high school and have also completed their Eagle Scout award rank. They enjoy camping and still enjoy using their Tiny House which is a converted two story shed/playhouse with balcony and hammocks for quiet nights under the stars. Both will study engineering and know the importance of conservation and how the “Tiny House Principles” can truly lead to a better Earth for all of us.

  721. We hope to retire in a tiny home in the Black Hills of SD, and this would be wonderful to use in our backyard until that is a reality!!

  722. I’m planning on purchasing land in rural Kentucky where I will build my own tiny home. I am recently retired (on disability) and this would be a welcomed addition for supplemental heat, plus cooking for one. (or possibly two if I could meet that nearly perfect lady) 🙂

  723. Would love this stove. We are camping out while we build our house and we do a ton of camping every year!

  724. Congrats on 10,000 fans! I run an environmentally-friendly general store in Nashville, Tn & would use this stove at my little house on a plot of old growth forest that I am preserving.

  727. I am a recent OSU college graduate. In order to free myself from crippling loans I am joining the Tiny House movement. Next month I will be living in a yurt in the forest while i construct my house. A stove like this could help my existence! There is wood for fuel everywhere here. Living a sustainable live is very important to me. I would use this stove for meals and tea daily 🙂 Please choose me! Thank you

  728. Finding one use would be hard. I think we would use this in our backyard cooking, camping, parties, homesteading, at our future tiny home….and….tailgating!!!

    • I would use this stove where wood was available and I didn’t want to cook (heat and/or odors) in my small travel trailer.

  729. Hi, my husdand and I are designing our forever/retirement home. We are planning a tiny house on wheels. Allowing us to move it when nessicary. And I can go with my special needs daughter whever she needs to go. The wood burning stove will provide heat and a cooking surface durring the winter time. I already have some of the appliances I will need. But I do not have a stove yet. Please help me build my tiny home. My own home that no one can take away from me, so I can be there with my daughter when she needs me to be, no more outrageous electric bills followed by extended periods without electricity. I will build my tiny house, I would so love your slightly used (test driven) wood stove to add to it. Actually the stove being tested by you first makes me feel safer about having it in my home. Again please and thank you.

  730. I would use it for all my outdoor cooking with family, friends, neighbors. When I go camping, overnight geo-caching. Anytime, All the time! And then when I get my own Tiny home!!!!!

  731. I live on a very limited income in a small cabin and propane is very expensive so I have to limit how much I use. This stove would be a tremendous help to me in cooking hot meals.

  734. This stove would be very useful for me. I rent a tiny place that doesn’t even have a kitchen, so I put this to good use.

  736. I would use this stove on my property in Waynesburg PA in place of cooking on a grill over an open fire.

  737. I could use this soo badly..I want to enjoy tiny house living really soon, and am slowly trying to get rid of the old worn out appliances with newer, or smaller ones, and REALLLY have wanted a stove just like it.

  738. Camping, backyard cooking, times of power loss, and my future tiny home – whenever I see twigs and branches on the ground, I’m reminded of the potential of equipment such as the Eco Zoom!

  739. I would probably start by burning up all the dead-fall branches around the yard while cooking up some bacon on the old cast iron pan. looks great for car camping! Maybe set up a free hot cocoa stand along the local river skate trail come winter.
    Love rocket stove technology!

  742. I would cook on it as exclusively as I could. I live on small acreage in a small trailer. My BF grills everything basically.

  744. I would use this stove every day of my life. I am single and have recently become homeless. So for me this little stove would be not only for cooking, but possibly my heat source.

  747. I would use this for our LARP (live-action roleplaying game) and let players use it to cook their meals throughout the game weekends or have a designatedcook who could prepare food for everyone.

  749. I would use this stove to cook outside avoiding heating the house up. Living on Social Security is a daily challenge so running the air conditioner is a last resort for me. Wish so badly I had a tiny house.

  751. I would use this in the mountains of Colorado, and hopefully at a cabin that I plan to have by next year sometime!

  753. My daughters & I live in a park model r.v. & are planning to move to our own property within the year. Summers in Wyoming are short but very hot. The stove would be a big help for an outdoor camp kitchen so we can keep our tiny home cool in the worst of the heat. Thanks for having the contest & congrats on reaching 100K!

  754. Cooking down the huge tomato harvest to make sauce is better handled outdoors! This would be perfect!

  756. I would use this and put it in the tiny house I plan on making. I am 15 years old and am looking for a summer project this is exactly the thing that would encourage me to follow through with my plans. Thanks !

  760. We use use this at my son’s property. He just signed the papers this week and we hope to build a tiny/small house within a year or so on his property. Sure can see some get meals coming off this stove.

  761. I’ve been thinking about getting one of these for a while as an outdoor cooking source when it’s hot outside and I don’t want to roast inside the tiny house. Plus we can take it camping! 🙂

  766. This is a multi-purpose stove for sure. I would use it in the backyard to cook during the hot summer months. This stove would be handy to take on holidays to visit family and friends. I would have peace of mind knowing I have a way of keeping warm and to cook during the winter months if/when the power goes out.

  767. I would use it as my everyday cooker and use it at night for light and occasionally smores with the family at our new off the grid property

  768. I am getting ready to start my own tiny home living. Having gone through health issues and having to depend on just myself has been difficult, near homeless more than once. However, you sure get a reality check as to what is important. Tiny home living is my plan and this would help to achieve this goal.

  769. I would use this to cook outside at my house where fire danger is high and this little stove would be very safe because I could surrounding it with safe materials that I already have in an area of my yard. Then it would go camping with me in my tiny trailer and someday be used with the tiny house I hope to build!

  770. I could use it when the power is out. We could use it for any cooking outside like family get togethers. It looks like a neat stove and I’d like to have it.

  771. Hello, I would use the stove for outdoor cooking. I would love to experiment with different types of wood, mesquite, hickory, etc. I would love to cook whole fish and then maybe a strawberry rhubarb cake. Thanks for a great giveaway!

  772. I would use it in my Summer Kitchen. Living in the south, outdoor cooking in the summer is the best way to keep the house cool with energy savings

  774. My boyfriend and I have slowly been saving money to buy camping gear. Little by little we have begun to aquire some great tools. This would be a great addition to our equipment and would be used as along as it lives. Haha

  775. This would be a huge help with our tiny cabin located in the hills of Kentucky. We have a 12 x 14 cabin we are getting ready to live in permanently. No inside cooking unit so this would be awesome. Can’t wait to enjoy our homsteading experience.

  776. My daughter and I would use it for spring, summer, fall cooking! What a really neat design and it can move with us, easily! What a great give away! Thanks and congratulations!

  777. I don’t have air conditioning on my lower level. I would use this stove outside in summer instead of cooking inside.

  783. What a convent little stove! I would use it in a number of situations from RVing to cooking during a power outage. The possibilities and uses are endless.

  784. I would use while sitting outside in my backyard watching the winter meteor showers! and countless other uses.

  785. I’d love to use it for summer cooking—keeping the house cooler—as well as van camping. I’ve also seen it used to heat water via a stove pipe!

  786. I’d use it for outdoor cooking, and for my future tiny home (or castle), in case plans change!

  790. Would be wonderfully helpful now that storm season is here and we lose power on a regular basis, would also help when the weather is hot…cooking outside under the shelter would still give us delicious meals but without heating the house (and paying $$$ to the electric co. to run the stove)

  791. I would use the stove to both heat my tiny house, cook on top of, and possibly even camp with depending on the weight of it and duration of the outing.
    Awesome looking stove. I would love to win it!

  802. We camp out more weekends than not during summer months, I would use this to cook our evening meals. Also we have 260 acres with a campsite where we have a yearly reunion with friends & family. It would be great to show our stove to them!

  803. Living in the sunshine state, I would use this as an emergency stove in the event of a hurricane. Also would be GRRRRReat for camping. 😉

  804. I could see myself using this stove while camping in my favorite spot on the Santiam River placed nicely on a slab of rock right next to my tent. With this life could be very nice.

  805. We would take it on all of our camping trips
    When ever weren’t camping, we would use it out Back. I really really hope I win. What an awesome present for my husband on fathers day.

  806. I would definitely use it to cook on outside (in the back yard for now and camping later) or next to my tiny home that I will one day have!

  808. I would use the stove camping with my two boys then pass it on to them when they get older!

  809. I would do my summer cooking on the Versa. It would get the cooking done without heating up the house!!

  810. We would use this stove to cook, light, heat and create a lovely warm center for our campsite.

  812. We would use the Economy Versa at the neighborhood parties. In Mississippi, food is a part of everything!! And because of our climate, we do a lot of partying outside in the winter.

  818. I would love to have this great little stove for camping trips with our kids, grandkids, when my husband goes hunting, when we stay at the family cabin, and maybe even foor cool autumn evenings in our back yard when we dont want to go in yet.

  820. We have down-sized by building a tiny suite into a barn loft. To keep things reasonable and keep cooking odours on the outside, we want a stove we can use outside the loft. Occasionally it would be wonderful to use the stove in the meadow overlooking our crops and tiny pond, as we plan to construct a summer living shelter there, which will be even smaller than the loft.

    I love this stove.

  821. I would used this stove when we camp every week and while we try to down size in to a small tiny house. Hope to be in one within the next 6 months.

  822. We are downsizing to full time life in an RV and this would really come in handy for outdoor cooking in the summer.

  823. We would use this daily. Our burners on our kitchen stove are going out, only 1 of the 4 eyes work and we can’t afford a replacement at the moment. Thank you

  825. My Biker buddys and i would use it at our church meetings….prospect cooking……..

  829. I would use that for our beach camping trip! Stay warm, eat well, and relaxation. Perfect.

  832. Definitely for camping, in the back yard, on road trips. Everywhere cause it’s so awesome!

  835. I would utilize this equipment to prepare meals in my Lewis and Clark cast iron cookware which I purchased about 15 years ago. I have been waiting for many years for this season of being able to have a home and this small-house movement is a major boost of needed inspiration. I only have a 10 x 10 storage locker to house my possessions, living from place to place out of my car (which includes housing my equipment for my business) in anticipation of a place of my own, On wheels, all the better! I recently located a great toilet and now a cooker; God is Good!

  837. We definitely would like this stove to cook outside and keep the heat outside in the summer from cooking in the kitchen of our small house. I ve been living in a 23×23 log cabin for the last 31 years in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains of New York. The only time I wish it was bigger is when we have a lot of company. I love to look at the Tiny Houses and how clever the builders use every bit of space.

  838. Coool! I would use it when I go camping, as an emergency stove if there was a power outage UNTIL I build my tiny house & use it in that
    : ))

  843. I live in the city with a balcony. If the power goes out I can still cook or stay warm. If i have to leave i can easily throw it in the trunk. Great prepper item!

  845. This stove oven is awesome if I had one I would use it when camping to enjoy naturally cooked meals 😉

  847. That is an awesome stove. We try to grill and cook outside at least 5 days a week and smoke or own cheese and meat. That stove would get a lot of use at my house

  848. I would use this all the time near my cabin portable yurt camping this thing is amazing it want this so bad I can taste the love of cooking I hope I win thanx a best luck to everybody!

  851. This stove would make outdoor cooking so much easier. It would also be great on camping trips.

  853. I would happily use this for “off the grid cooking and heating” year round. I really like its’ simplicity and compactness. I think it is extremely versatile.

  856. This would be great for cooking outside and for cooking and heating during a power outage

  857. I would use it all summer to cook outdoors (saving electricity on air conditioning and the electric stove/oven). It would be a great emergency preparedness item, as well. I seem to lose power fairly regularly from tropical storms, hurricanes, ice storms, etc.

  858. I would use this stove for camping and of course in any emergency situation in which power was not available! Congrats on the huge number of Likes! Love your page and all of the Tiny House pics and news!

  859. I love it. I would have at lest three ways to use it. 1) As a take along travel stove to use in campgrounds 2) a patio stove for quiet family cookouts and 3) as a cook stove for my (future) outdoor kitchen attached to my tiny (future) house. I’ve always wanted an old fashioned outdoor kitchen. As someone who usually doesn’t use air conditioning, it just makes sense to cook outside the house in the summer to avoid overheating the house. It also allows you to keep the mess from processing large quantities of garden produce (soil clinging to the roots, juice, snippet of leaves and peels) outside the house where it’s easier to clean without trashing the indoor kitchen. Also great for cleaning fish and just general cooking. Not to mention the beauty of cooking outside on a lazy summer day. This stove would fit right in.

  860. This would definitely be the best camping stove around for summer camping as well as at our hunting camp and for emergency when the electricity goes out which is frequently. Love it!!!

  866. I would use this stove to make morning coffee, then bacon and pancakes, The great thing is – I could use it camping, at my cabin, and everywhere I roam!! I love this stove!

  867. This would be perfect when taking my daughter camping and even in the backyard on weekend for hanging out. Great design and super functional!

  870. What a wonderful little stove. I would take my “I kiss better than i cook” sign down for the day and prepare something (hopefully) wonderful to enjoy with friends. I hope I win it and then

  871. Ahh, ….. and then I will let you know how the food turned out. And if you have a contest to win a computer let me know and I will practice my comments to be able to finish my comment all in one section. LOL.

  872. I would use it in front porch/greenhouse/sunroom area of scaled-down lifestyle off-grid cabin in the woods.

  874. I am fixing up a tiny school bus in which to live and am using a butane stove for cooking, but have no heat as yet because propane is not practical in a bus. I would love to have a tiny heater in which I could put wood and paper and use to heat the bus at night before I turn in. The bus’s name is Tarkington, and when I get through fixing him up, I will send you some pictures. Pick me! Pick me!

  876. would use it for camping and on the local beaches both with my weekly men’s team meetings, and romantic evenings with my wife on our deck as well as community get togethers.

  877. I would use it at the beach and it would come in as my hurricane stove! Just in case we’re without power for a while!

  878. I would use that stove to make the best 24hour chili possible on all my camping trips.

  879. Love this tiny stove. I will use it in the garden to put together an impromptu meal and also for fall treats.

  880. I would love to test out this product as well. I have heard a lot about them. I’m starting my own company as a Sustainability consultant, and having product experiences under my belt will be invaluable. Thanks for the consideration!

  881. I would use it all year round at home. I prefer to cook outside and have a nice covered area that allows me to do so. I would also take it camping and other outdoor adventures than required cooking or a contained fire.

  883. I would use this stove as the hearth of my tiny house’s “outdoor livingroom” in the warm weather, basking in the glow; in the cold weather, it would make a wonderful barbecue! Nothing wrong with outdoor cooking year-’round!

  884. i would use it every chance i get since i don’t get out of the city all that much .. it would make me feel as if i am camping at home 🙂

  886. We have rabbits that come into the yard. I’ve always fantasized about trapping them and barbecuing fresh rabbit meat. Your device sounds perfect. I can emulate my mother during the war years in Britain…..well, ok, I don’t have any weasels to flush the rabbits out of their holes….but I’ll make do with what I have here in Canada. Bbq-ed rabbit…yum. Or rabbit stew…either one will work on this beautiful cooker!

  889. I would use it when I go camping and I do a lot of camping and this stove would be so nice to do a lot of cooking on and I’m sure all my camping buddies would love to have one of these nice stoves

  890. I would use this for my Emergency kit for an eventual earthquake, as well as a fun alternative to cook on outside.

  891. We are converting a small outbuilding to living space and have been looking for cooking options. This would be a great addition and money saver for us.

  893. I have a 1914 garage/shed that is begging to become a tinyhome. I think this would serve it nicely.

  896. we’re about to move into an old school portable 10mx7m, with our 5 kids that we’ve had moved onto our block so that we can live there while we build our strawbale house. this cooker would be very fast and handy for cooking meals on. cheers brendan

  897. Food is the most mind-blowing cooked oudoors. I would co-mingle nature’s bevy onto this magnificent cooker. Just building my Tiny House with permaculture principles means that with this unit, we’d be well nourished during our build.

  898. I’d use it for shore lunch cooking up some tasty eelpout in the ice house winter fishing in the BWCA.

  899. I would use this for camping. As well as a back up for emergency situations. It’ll go great with my Berkey water filter.

  900. I would demonstrate it’s use to the grandchildren as a “green” alternative to regular propane grills and use it for our cookouts.

  903. great item to have for my soon to be tiny house in the mountains of north Georgia for heat but this summer it will be used for cooking outdoors

  906. it would be the first item for my tiny home, due to be completed when my children finish school in 6 years!

  910. I would use this bad boy on my patio as well as taking it on the road for camping. Great functionality and design and looks durable too.

  913. i would use it on festivals and my trip around the world which i am planning at the moment 🙂

  914. I would use it for camping, patio and power outages. GREAT STOVE. Let the cooking begin.

  917. There are many uses for a stove this awesome. I would use it as a cooking and hearing source for a small cabin on our property .

  918. I’d take ride to Arkansas to visit my grandmother who is soon to be 94 and my aunts and uncles and mom. We’d light that bad boy up and have a fish fry from wayyyyy back and reminisce all evening.

  920. My daughter would take this back to an orphanage she volunteers at in Senya Ghana West Africa so she can prepare her own food. She has Celiac which makes it difficult for the cook at the orphanage to prepare food she can eat. They cook over an open fire in a single pot. This would make that challenge a lot easier.

  921. Id love it. Nothing like cooking outside and not needing to but propane or charcoal.

  923. Excellent! Secondary heat source for when we loose power and we would be able to cook as well. Looks very versita. I would use this stove everyday. Looks like you could Cooke anything from hotdogs to a full course meal. Beautiful

  925. I would use the stove during the Zombie Apocalypse. Until then just for the joy of cooking!

  928. I would use it year round for off the grid cooking in my shed, which I am slowly turning into a tiny house.

  929. I am currently building a small house out of natural and recycled materials and will need a stove eventually. This would be great for outdoor cooking in the summer and for light cooking (boiling water for coffee, fried eggs, etc.) year round. I have a rocket mass heater in my house now and love the efficiency and comfort it provides and would like to try out some convenient, efficient wood burning cooking stoves. Looks like this would fit the bill!

  932. We would invite everyone who already supports our business, Connecticut Post & Beam, plus all the contractors, builders, carpenters and architects in the area who haven’t utilized our unique connectors to our Shop for a demo. There we’d offer the best appetizers, highlighting our new EcoZoom of course, along with the best craft beer available! Party on!

  933. My partner and I will soon be heading out in our pick-up truck and a borrowed pop-up camper to share the first significant over-lap of time off from work in 20+ years. We will need to be very financially conservative in order to see as much of America as we can during June & July. I have admired these stoves because of the different fuel options that would allow skipping rv parks and filling propane tanks. Not only will meals be cooked in outdoor beautiful places, but the effort to gather wood and tend the fire will bring the soul-reset needed from our rat-race year. If selected, we will use this stove daily and upon our return will offer its use to our grown children for the same purpose when they go camping. We do live in hurricane country and during city evacuations we host a dozen people sleeping on pallets all over our home. It would be most excellent to be able to provide hot meals after the generator gasoline runs out, but before the volunteer chain-saw brigade clears the road to town.

  934. I would use it to teach others about these kinds of stoves, for camping, and for power outages. A great teaching tool!!!

  936. I would use it camping, for backyard cookouts and for emergency use. Are Canadians able to join the contest?

  941. I would use it for vegan cooking outdoors in the summer and winter. And I would use it at camping trips with my boyfriend, friends and family. I would love it!

  946. I’d use it to have friends over and not have to squeeze into the tiny house I am about to build 🙂

  947. I have certain futur Plans, like going to Ireland and opening a Tiny House Cottage Bed and Breakfast. A little Village with a lot of different Tiny Houses which can be rented for Bed and Breakfast for a cupple of days. This would be a nice Headstart in this direktory.

  949. I would promptly put in on my front sidewalk and light ‘er up and see how my lovely neighbors react. Then, I’d love to cook a lovely pot of soup and tease them with the smell all day…That would be fun! This would definitely be perfect add to the list of good ideas and reasons to go tiny and offer to my darling hubby! It’s so cute and tiny and ecological my Love! <3

  951. This is so awesome! We are gearing down and going simple. We want to start cooking outside most of the time. This is perfect.

  952. I and my wife are involved with Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. This would be an ideal stove to have to serve others.

    I am seeking a stove such as this to keep my family warm in case of a disaster and able to take it anywhere.

    Thank you.

  953. Nice stove. I can see many uses for this stove. Dinner every night. This would be great to build a pit around if you can’t build a fire. You can roast marshmallows and make smores. It would be awesome light for when it gets dark just to hang outside at night,

    There are endless uses for this stove and it would be a great thing to have. I would love this stove.

  955. Scooter camping–or as I like to call it–Scamping! My friend and I want to load up our Vespas and head out for some not-too-roughing-it camping in the lovely state of Oregon. I’d use this amazing little Versa for that, and for my deck on my future tiny house. Yep, the Versa would get lots of use 🙂

  956. I would love a stove like this, my family and I camp a lot. I like the idea of not having
    to cart around dangerous fuels and canisters. Its super eco friendly and cool.
    I already cook on my back yard campfire a few nights a week and this would make
    it a simpler venture.

  957. This would be great for the patio of the small house we are building. It looks to be so much more efficient than the big gas grill a relative gave us.

  958. trying to save enough money to buy my own Tiny Home to travel and meet others who needs help

  959. I love the idea of the Ecozoom stove!
    I would love it have one for my ‘Tiny Home’
    This would help me ‘wood’ friendly and I would use it daily.
    Thank you for the chance of entering your contest.
    Keep up the great work!
    Jim White

  960. I have been looking at this stove for several months and would love to have it! I would use it for camping, power outages and patio cooking. Thanks for the opportunity to enter the contest.

  961. Love this stove! Will use it in my tiny cabin – on the deck, camping, and summer nights on Whidbey Island! I have all Griswold cast iron pans including Griswold Waffel Iron!

  962. This would make the perfect cooker for my life style. Camping and as an everyday grill for the house.

  963. Winning this stove would be great. Nice stove to cook breakfast on with a cast iron skillet and boil down preserves. The uses are endless. Plus nice and compact. Can see being used daily.

  966. As a natural builder, I spend a great deal of time living onsite, in sometimes very remote areas. This fantastic stove would be a huge upgrade to my current camp setup- and it would get quite a workout!!!

  968. I’d use that wonderful stove to cook meals while on fishing trips up the Yukon River.

  969. Hubby and I are planning our tiny cabin to build *hopefully* this summer. This would be ideal for outdoor cooking on the future patio. I love everything tiny.

  970. What a wonderful stove for camping, emergency or even cooking outside in summer. This would definitely be a wonderful addition to the outdoor kitchen for the Sweetgrass harvesters. Thanks for sharing
    Rest assured that if my name is drawn I will share my experience using it with all that have ears to hear.

  972. I would love to win this. I would use it in my tiny, 160sq ft home, to heat and even cook on. Current living in Washington state near Army son and family and it rains and rains. I follow them from base to base to help out with their 6 kids as he is in an ” instant mobilization” career field. As a disabled. Dr myself my tiny home is the. Best living arrangement for me. This would complete it. I currently use space heater for heat and a propane camp stove to cook on. I GUARANTEE it would be used daily.

  973. A chiminea with benefits! I have a super small apartment (I’m no newbie to small living!) and an antique gas stove from the 1940’s in the kitchen that works great and hits temperature marks, but isn’t very good at keeping the heat contained within its walls. As a result, cooking in the oven in the summer is pretty much impossible. This little guy would be a great solution for the fire escape!

  974. I have purcbased land in southern nm to retire on and this would be the perfect off the grid cooking appliance. also,my brother has a gold claim in nm and with fire prohibition this would be the perfect cooking device.
    Intact,as we were camping this weekend with family at the claim and it was raining we were discussing this type of stove. i had mentioned that several of my charity giving sights provide these stoves to women in impoverished conditions to improve health conditions for their living quarters, less combustion in the breathing air and a cooking source using what is available. to have a stove like this for every day a.d emergency use would cut down on my natural gas bill helping me saber money on my limited retirement income!

  976. This would be a wonderful addition to emergency and camping outings wife and i currently do. Lots of less carbon footprint than most. Renewable energy at its finest. I have been looking at these stoves for over a year now. Would love to win this one.

  977. What a lovely, efficient little stove! I would use it at my off the grid tiny house on the coast!

  978. I love the Eco Zoom! I am a semi-retired gal building a tiny house on about an acre of land. I am going to homestead and live off my land in my tiny house . It would be great to have the Eco-Zoom on my outdoor patio to cook on as I will have a tiny kitchen inside. I am building a slate patio and the stove would receive a place of honor on a built up slate platform on one corner of the outdoor space closes to the kitchen area out the french doors…perfection!

  979. I just graduated from college and received lots of nice camping gear as a present. This little stove would be a nice complement to my base camp adventures!

  980. Living in Southwest Florida hurricanes are always something looming on the horizon June thru Nov.
    After hurricane Charley in 2004 residents of my neighborhood were without power for three weeks if their homes were even livable. Boiling water (for safety) was necessary. Cooking was not possible.
    Having such a stove would certainly make life a bit sweeter and a whole lot safer should this happen again.

  982. Living in the path of hurricanes means that we face “power down” situations from time to time. This would be a part of our emergency preparedness system, allowing us to boil water and prepare meals.

    I would also use the stove to teach my grandsons how to do “camp cooking.”

  983. Hurricane season is just starting up, and, living in coastal Virginia as I do, we lose power a lot, and sometimes for a long time! During Hurricane Isabelle some years back there was no power for 13 days – one of the reasons I am dying to fit my little house (320 sf) up with solar and wind power. In the meantime having this stove would be wonderful, and Dog only knows we have a ton of wood available. I do have a little propane camping stove, but it isn’t very sturdy, and uses fossil fuel to boot!

  984. Great to use camping on the weekends with the family and in the yard during the week!
    Thanks for the great website.

  985. Well I would use it to make my friends jealous…but I would share it with them or the stuff cooked on it any hoo

  986. I would use it on the patio, for camping and definitely for emergencies! Having been without power for almost two weeks after hurricane Sandy, I would love something like this. Plus, I’m looking to buy some land and won’t be able to build for a while, so would be nice for a multitude of purposes there too!

  989. I would use this at a campsite or even my patio. Much easier than lighting up my charcoal grill!

  990. Hi, I would use this amazing little stove to take my daughter camping. We like to go trout fishing and then grill the fish right up at the campsite. The Versa seems like the perfect way to cook them and so much fun too! Thank you for the chance to win one.

  991. I would use the stove for cooking at the outdoor classroom of my wilderness skills business, http://www.mountainsongexpeditions.com. I specialize in deer hunting classes so maybe we’d cook up some venison on it! I run Mountainsong Expeditions out of a 72-square-foot Tiny House that I built my self, by the way! Thanks for all the inspiration over the years.

  992. HI Kent! My needs for a stove are few: one 12 ounce cup of dripped, freshly ground coffee in the morning, and the occasional hot meal. I tend to eat a lot of cold food: raw vegetables; cook meat once a week, freeze and/or eat cold for several days. This seems like a great solution to my cooking needs! So glad you featured it on the site! thanks. What a pleasure to meet you in Memphis! Have been reading the “blog” since you started it!

  994. Because I am now on a fixed and quite limited income, and this stove is so efficient, I would use it for cooking whenever possible, to alleviate bill burden. It would be a wonderful boon to my personal economy, not to mention less of a burden on the environment than traditional cooking methods.

  995. I my husband and I want to start camping, now that we are retired. I think this stove would be perfect for cooking and also for warmth on cool evenings.

  996. for use in the tiny cabin I will be constructing at the meadows edge facing east for moon & sunrises

  997. I would love to win the Zoom Versa stove because it is such a great way to save energy and prepare wholesome food outdoors. What a nice thing to share with us fans of Tiny House Blog!

  998. For camping, a addition to my backyard grilling, and a fire pit while enjoying the evening hours.

  999. My son lives in San Francisco, and I have been encouraging him to assemble an emergency preparedness kit. This stove is so fine! I think it would be a motivator to be prepared for his own sake and others who might need assistance in the event of an earthquake!

  1000. I would use it to pay it forward. I once spent 16 months in a homeless shelter for veterans and we had a chance to BBQ if we received funds for the gas grill outside but that was very rare. Being that veterans are very resourceful I know those at the shelter could always find fuel for the stove and be grilling all of the time. You have know idea how much of a moral booster cooking your own meals is when you have no home. If I won this stove I would just have it delivered anonymously from a vet who knows what they are going through so they could be in a better mood and to have hope again.

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