Tegstove: The Newest Camping Stove on the Market

We chat to Tegstove inventor Spencer Turner about his new, butane-powered camping stove and his time on Dragon’s Den.

Cool Camping find out more about the cooking and charging camping gadget

It was on a family camping trip over three years ago that
Spencer Turner had his first real light-bulb moment. Rumbling his way through
Belgium, France and Spain in a 1972 VW campervan, he found himself stranded
without a camping stove and unable to find a new one.

“The butane stoves available were either too small and
flimsy or big metal boxes with cumbersome gas cylinders”, he tells us.
“I thought ‘there has to be a better way’”.

Skip forward to 2016 and Spencer – a serial workshop
tinkerer and DIY inventor – was appearing on TV screens across the UK,
showcasing his solution on the BBC’s Dragon’s
Den. His homemade creation: The Tegstove.

Butane-powered and sleekly finished with the look of an
over-sized, Transformers-like AA battery, the Tegstove is a genuinely
innovative new camping stove. While its flames are
fuelled by regular butane gas cylinders, it’s the use of an in-built
thermoelectric generator that really sets the stove apart.

The stove-top – broad and stable with a wide cooking surface – provides a consistent, controlled flame for cooking, while the pressure and
temperature change within the gas canister – ordinarily a drawback – is instead
harnessed by the thermoelectric generator. Sound complicated? Well the main
thing you need to know is the result: a bountiful supply of electricity
allowing you to charge phones, tablets and USB devices directly from your camping
stove.

The idea is to cut down on the camping clobber. No longer do you need to bring all the gadgetry of solar panels
and pre-charged power packs, just plug in your phone while you boil your
camping cuisine and off you go. A large internal battery within the stoves stores any excess electricity, so even when you’ve finished cooking and
switched off the flames your devices continue to charge, while a small platform
on one of the extending legs lets you place your phone safely out of the way
when cooking.

For more information about the Tegstove visit tegology.com. Available to pre-order now; price £149.99.