Cooking in a tent is risky, but it’s sometimes essential. In terrible weather, it’s often the only option.

The first thing to be aware of is that most stove throw off significant carbon monoxide, and you can very quietly kill yourself. You want to make sure the stove is somewhere well ventilated.

Your vestibule is the best place for this. For any stove that needs to sit on the ground this is the only option.

But be very careful. If a stove is knocked over things can get ugly fast…

This is why if it’s raining it’s often better to have a tarp shelter to cook in.

This allows you comfort and more space to move around then a tent, plus you don’t have to worry about knocking over stoves and destroying your shelter quite as much. Even on glacier trips having a seperate cook shelter is a common set up (in the blue)

And here is where they do the cooking

Now sometimes this might be not always be possible. Especially in windy conditions, on big mountaineering traverses or alpinism trips it’s common that taking shelter and cooking in a tent is a must for safety. This is where integrated stove systems like Jetboils and MSR Reactors are great. You can purchase hanging kits that allow the stove to be attached to something on the roof and hang down, away from flammable items. Care must be taken to ensure ventilation is good as all stoves release carbon monoxide. But when you can’t be outside and the weather is heinous, or in the case of the photo directly bellow, there is not enough room to cook outside, this is the only option.

Walmart, Sams Club, Target. Academy. Dicks. All carry lower priced tents which work fine. Discount stores will be cheaper. I had to buy a replacement twin air mattress, at Dicks it was 14.99 but at Target the exact same one was only $7.99.

When buying a tent, get the biggest one you will need. Ignore the # of people it says will fit in it. I have a 3–4 man dome tent that will hold two twin size mattresses with a tiny space between them. so really only a 2 man tent. For longer camping I use my 10 x 14 tent I got from Sams Club. Quick up and down, no messing with shock cords and poles. Can raise it up in 2 minutes. Awesome. Has 6 ft ceiling height and huge inside. We had room for our beds on one side, loads of room, and on the other side we had a table and chairs and other stuff. Not crowded. For rainy afternoons and nights it was great.

I learned the hard way that for cold weather camping, a “2 person” tent may be too small for even a single person, because your breathe is unavoidably going to condense on the inside of the tent, so you need to be able to put your sleeping bag on top of an air mattress in the middle of the tent away from the walls, and keep your gear away from the walls, too, and preferably inside trash bags so that the condensate that puddles on the floor of your tent can’t soak into your gear. You also need enough head room that you can sit up and crawl around inside your tent without your head or back touching the ceiling, which will be covered with condensate and will soak you in an instant when you touch it.

Also, it doesn’t pay to have a extra large or rectangular sleeping bag for winter camping, because the extra fabric is just that much more likely to hang over the edge of your air mattress into the condensate puddles on the floor and get wet. A snug mummy style down bag rated for the expected temperatures is the way to go, but keep your face outside the bag or your breath will also condense in the bag and make it wet. I also learned to put the clothes I wanted to wear the next morning into the bottom of my sleeping bag, so that they would be sure to stay dry and warm, and I could dress inside the bag and never have to go out in the cold poorly clad, except if my bladder was full. For the latter you need a wide mouthed container with watertight lid to use as a chamber pot so that you do not have to leave the tent during the night to go.

There are special tents that allow wood stoves inside.

They have inserts from fiberglass or another non-inflammable fabric around the exhaust and where the stove is placed. Even with that, extra care is necessary when you add a wood to avoid sparks to fly across the tent.

Do not use a wood stove in any tent except those that are designed for that. A nylon tent is completely burned in only 20–30 seconds.

It depends on your needs and your tent. If you have a large canvas tent with an opening for a chimney, then you can get a wood-fired stove with attachable chimney segments for $200–$1000. Such stoves can be used for cooking or warmth. There are smaller versions of these for backpacking sized tents, but they should be used with caution for cooking and not at all for warmth overnight unless your tent’s flaps and/or windows are left open. An exception might be a little rocket stove for coffee, but I’d still want some ventillation.

The reason is that inside a small tent, carbon monoxide can build up fast. This is unlikely in a large canvas tent with it’s lack of floor, numerous gaps and (often unwelcome) draftiness, but it is a serious concern in a small tent. Under no circumstance, ever, should you use a stove without a chimney venting to the ouside of the tent. People die this way in winter, whole families, by bringing charcoal barbeque pits into the house for warmth.

Below is a small wood stove inside of a tent.

Even some of the smaller “backpacking style” tents can be found with openings for chimneys. Below is the opening in a one-person “FireHiking Hot Tent”.

Cooking can also be done in a half-open vestibule, so there is rain protection but good ventillation.

Below is a little folding stove, MC TOMOUNT, I just searched on Amazon for $319. As small as it is, you’re still not going to be backbacking with it, but at a fixed site like a campground, or your hunting base-camp, it could serve it’s purpose well.

If I was even considering such a thing for warmth, I’d always leave ventillation openings and carry a battery-powered carbon monoxide alarm. Carbon monoxide is deadly, odorless, and colorless. You don’t want to go to sleep and not wake up.

There are two main types. The first is a wood stove such as depicted well in another answer. These require a tent with a specific feature to allow passage of a stovepipe or chimney. Such stoves are common in colder weather activities such as high country hunting etc. These stoves are very effective but (just IMO) are not for beginners or casual campers.

The second type is the petrol based stove. The most common of these would something similar to this one. This one is a two burner propane model and is the ubiquitous Coleman brand although there are many brand choices. There are also one burner and three burner models of this and they use the 1lb. propane cylinders. They can also be operated off of a larger refillable tank as well. Some of these use butane cylinders and some can use either propane or butane. These are easiest to operate and more convenient. One downside is that the fuel costs can add up over time. When using ANY stove inside a tent care must be taken to establish a stable platform for it during use and of course proper ventilation is VERY important.

The stove in this next pic is also a Coleman. This one uses liquid white gas and is cheaper to operate than propane. It is however largely obsolete and almost never seen anymore.

Personally, I use a one burner stove that uses propane or butane. Like this one below. Care should be exercised in the use of ANY stove inside of a tent and I personally don’t suggest using a stove for heat. If you want heat as well as cooking, get a separate heater such as the one shown in the last pic.

Mr Buddy propane heater.

Fist of all that is dangerous and i would not recommend that.

If you really want to try make sure it is a small stove that is closed enough and not to throw sparks around. The biggest problem for putting a wood stove in a nylon tent is the securing the chimney opening ‘stove jack ’ with hard aluminium foil or canvas fire resistant material .. and make it high enough not to throw sparks on to your tent.

Tip: get a canvas tent lol

Well first, they are going to extremely expensive. But it will be lighter so you can get a bigger one that you can still carry around.

The best and more compact stove pipe will be the rollup type. But get the longest one possible and a good spark arrestor (with three attachments to add lines to support the stove pipe in high wind) to prevent sparks from burning holes in your tent while it is being used.

You should take steps when using it to extend it's lifespan as much as possible. A thin layer of sand or soil under the bottom of the burning area will make it last longer.

Warning, the glass window of all tent stoves is very fragile, so always pack them up in a way they are protected.

1st of all, I own 3 of the Coleman dual fuel dual burner Briefcase Guide series stoves. The bottom of the stoves will get hot enough to melt the interior of a tent. Thus, you would have to have the stove on top of a wood plank.

You are going to want to have the tent door completely open at all times and the windows too while cooking, and for at the very least I would guess 30 minutes after you turn off the stove.

After priming the tank, one at a time, use a long Bic Lighter or a long wooden match, turn on 1st range, light, then repeat these steps for burner #2, then set flames to desired flame setting.

Again, you have to have the doors and windows open at all times while cooking. If you do this, there will be enough ventilation to prevent CO poisoning.

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In fact, you will be able to find many tent sellers online that have 10x30 party tents. But it depends on what your budget is? They range in price from $150 to $3000, some will include sidewalls some will not. Materials also range from steel to aluminum poles, so you need to choose according to your personal needs.

Key points for choosing a tent wood stove:

First, you need to confirm that your tent is suitable for use with a wood stove.

Your tent needs to have a flue opening.

Secondly, it is also necessary to consider whether the material of the tent is resistant to high temperature.

Many people overlooked this, resulting in tents being burned.

Generally speaking, larger wood stoves can emit more heat, but they will increase in size and weight, and consume more wood. Be sure to adapt the volume of the wood stove to the size of your tent.

In addition, most camping wood stoves cannot be used in small tents. Because of safety concerns, many wood stoves need to be well ventilated, and some wood stoves are specially designed for use in tents.

1. Durability and weight:

The durability of a stove is closely related to its weight.

Wood stoves made of stainless steel are more expensive than cast iron, but weigh less than cast iron, with wood stoves made of thinner metals being the lightest.

2. Portability:

Some stoves are detachable and designed for portability, this type of wood stove is more suitable for backpackers.

Usually the tradeoff you have is portability and durability.

3. Versatility:

The function of the tent wood stove is not only for heating the tent, but also for cooking, drying wet clothes and so on.

Most tent wood stoves also double as cooking functions.

Versatility is also something to consider when choosing a tent wood stove, which is closely related to the activities you want to do camping.

First you have to decide what you want the tent for. Is it for backpacking, where weight is an important criterion, or for car or canoe camping where weight isn’t much of a consideration? Your planned purpose will be key. You don’t want to take a 30 lb., 6 person cabin tent bapacking. Nor is it a good idea to bring a 1 person, 2 lb. solo tent for a week long stay in a public campground.

Next determine how many people the tent is likely to hold. If you have a family of four, get a 5 or 6 person tent so it isn’t cramped inside. If you are going solo, then solo or 2 person tent is the better option.

Once you determine the desired size, then consider free standing vs. a tent that needs to be staked out. A free standing tent will be supported by poles only, while a non free standing tent has to be staked out. The latter can cause issues if the ground is rocky because there might not be a good place to drive a stake.

Though free standing tent does need to be staked down so it doesn’t blow away, it can be pitched then moved around until a good place is found to stake it down.

Do you want a vestibule? A vestibule gives you a dry place to store gear outside the tent or a place to cook in rainy weather. A vestibule also adds weight to the tent.

For smaller tents (1–4 person) there are front entry and side entry tents. Front entry tents are generally lighter, but side entry tents are easier to enter and exit. Smaller side entry tents with doors on both sides allow occupants to exit without crawling over their tent mates. There is a cost in additional weight for the convenience of the extra door/

Once you’ve decided on the style of tent, here are some other things to look for.

YKK zippers
Taped seams
Bathtub floor
Plenty of ventilation
Aluminum poles

Often times, you just need to know how to search a little out of the box.

I started by searching “changing booth”

Then I went into the most popular product which I was pretty sure not what you needed.

Then I went to “customers also looked at”

And found this.

Amazon.com : TMS Portable Cabana Stripe Tent Privacy Changing Room Pool Camping Outdoor Canopy : Patio, Lawn & Garden

Just take off the sides.

In a regular tent. YOU DON’T, unless you have finished writing your suicide note explaining why you orchestrated a horribly painful physical demise.

Regular tents are not designed for this type of activity and even though some of them may say fireproof, you will discover pretty quickly how wrong that is when trying to attach a chimney and stove system. Fire stove tents have specialised materials usually a couple of feet across the chimney spot at the very least but more commonly a meter wide surround in canvas as well. The rest of the wall or ceiling is specifically designed to take the weight of this material so that nothing sags and gets too close even in stormy conditions.

The best way to heat a regular tent is to dig a ditch a couple of feet deep at least a couple of feet away from the tent between a small wall of soil or clay, one foot further away from the tent you dig a two and half foot hole and connect it to the two foot hole but keeping the lip between each hole. The deep hole doesn’t need to be wide it just needs to expose a small section to oxygen.

In the two foot hole you place your fire, a stack of lattice logs with a bit of soil between them if you want to slow the burn time all the way down to last all night. Through this lattice you shove your five foot hollow steel walking stick, or the several poles you carried for the purpose which lock together.

This pole going straight through the fire itself but with the lower end sitting in the middle of the lower hole you dug, you can rest it on a tent peg so it doesn’t fall down to touch the ground during the burn so that it always has this end exposed to cold air. As the middle of the pole is in the fire, this sucks up the cold air and propels it towards your tent.

The tent itself you can patch a canvas seal in place if you want but positioned correctly it can pump hot air towards a vent slot as long as you have another vent space cleared for air flow.

This is safe as long as the fire is completely contained and the roots around it are wet enough that you don’t risk an underground fire spreading. There is no risk of carbon monoxide because all you are doing is moving hot air through the pipe. The fire can dwindle in coals for half the night before needing to be given a little boost but this will adequately heat any normal sized tent no matter how cold it is. As long as you can get a fire going it keeps hot air moving. If it gets too hot because you didn’t use enough coals to slow the burn you can wrap the pole in a thin layer of clay. It will bake itself dry overnight but it will slow the heat conduction down.

I wouldn’t recommend something like oak though, it’s a waste of good hot burning wood that will be better suited to boiling your water in the morning and will heat the tent so much it will feel like a desert inside.

The higher wall of soil between the tent and the fire keeps any spark damage reduced and as your aim is to keeps coals going and not a fire there shouldn’t be any sparks anyway.

If you want to move in the direction of stove heated tents then buy a tent with stove jacks built into it, Unless it’s designed for this type of usage it’s just not going to be safe.

I’m not sure. But this is my roommates’ new teepee tent with stove jack in Sept. I think it looks not bad and we will go camping together at the end of this month. Hope it all goes well.