Cooker Portable Stove by Yansheng Xia is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Silver A' Design Award in Outdoor Gear and Camping Equipment Design Competition Category.

SilverCamping Gear· 2023

Cooker Portable Stove

by Yansheng Xia

Client: Zhengzhou University of Light Industry

Silver A' Design Award Winner in Camping Gear Category

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The Design

About Cooker Portable Stove

Cooker is a portable stove designed for outdoor picnics and camping. The gas can, ovenware, fire source and oil storage are combined within one compact body. The folding structure is inspired by the shape of a suitcase, so the stove stays light and easy to carry. Cooker is opened and closed like a case, which makes operation simple in the field. Liquefied petroleum gas is used as the fuel, giving a high combustion value without soot or odour. The design invites young people to leave the city and cook together in nature.

The Recognition

About the Silver A' Design Award

Cooker Portable Stove is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Cooker Portable Stove is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Cooker Portable Stove is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.

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Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Outdoor Picnics have become one of the modern styles advocated by the young people.One chooses to come out of the city searching for a release and return from the nature.The product excellently added the gas can,ovenware,fire source,oil storage into several places providing a kind of beauty in life.The foldable structure of portable kitchenware is the "passport" of outdoor kitchenware, which is lightweight and no burden to the maximum extent.
Dimensions & Packaging: Product closing dimension: length 280mm * width 36mm * height 315.89mm
Product opening size: 554.07mm long * 36mm wide * 88.95mm high
Air tank size: 200m high * 65mm wide
Tags: A，cooker B，barbecue C，portable D，camping E，picnic
Production Technology: The gas oven used in the product uses liquefied petroleum gas as the combustion material. The combustion value of liquefied petroleum gas is very high, it is reliable, and it is free of soot and odor, and it will not leak.
Design Challenge: This design process is difficult and tortuous, from the beginning of the idea, to the preliminary establishment of the scheme, with quite a long time, from carbon oven to gas oven; The project went through many iterations from the sketch to the model making. The basic framework of the whole project remained the same from the prototype to the final product. The concept of product portability ran through the whole design, and the final design concept was consistent with the original idea.
Research: The epidemic era will come to an end one day. The product is designed with high safety and complete functions. It is hoped that with the portable picnic product, people can experience more outdoor sports, put down their mobile phones, and go to the countryside for a picnic with relatives and friends, and feel nature. I hope that contemporary young people can make delicious food with friends and relatives by themselves
Inspiration: After fully understanding the use form of the oven, I decided to start from the structure and function. The shape inspiration came from the fashionable suitcase. Combined with the folding structure of the suitcase, the suitcase shape matched with the structure characteristics of the existing carabinery oven pan, so as to achieve the characteristics of portability and lightness.
Project Duration: The project started in March 2022 in Zhengzhou and finished in June 2022 in Zhengzhou, and was exhibited in Zhengzhou in June 2022.
Operation Flow: It is simple to operate the product like a case which can be opened and closed.You can deal with the object by yourself and cook with friends and relatives.
Image Credits: Yansheng Xia