All adobe/mud cookstoves and ovens..
Jul 31, 2014 1:12:36 GMT -8
DCish, pyroman, and 2 more like this
Post by Donkey on Jul 31, 2014 1:12:36 GMT -8
It's been a full summer. Lots of projects going on around here!
Among them, my natural building apprentices spent a LOT of time experimenting with rocket stoves for cooking. Over the course of the last couple of months, we've built an outdoor cooking complex.
First, we fixed up a small but traditional wood fired, beehive oven.
Then, after using that for a time, we built a double ended stove (2 rocket stoves) for boiling/frying.
This is early on in it's development. 2 rocket stoves, the one on the left began as an Aprovecho-style, horizontal feed; the one on the right, a J-tube rocket. Later, the horizontal feed was modified into a J-tube as well.
Here is roughly how the internal channels go.. Notice that there's no chimney here, you can cook/heat food on ANY port up on top. For exhaust to flow out, one of the ports has to remain open; we often placed a chimney over one of the cook-top plates and cooked on everything else (simultaneously).
This middle(ish) cook-port got remade into a deep pot heater with a combination chimney, chopped into the side (and a tea-cup warmer added).
Yep.. We ARE using coffee cans as a chimney. Works just fine, so far!
Oh, and yes.. Both stoves vent through the one chimney.
notice how the pots sit deep into each "pot well", this maximises heat getting into the pots. Other cook surfaces can be used as well.
After much experimentation, a few changes and some decorations later, this stove is functional and beautiful.
Among them, my natural building apprentices spent a LOT of time experimenting with rocket stoves for cooking. Over the course of the last couple of months, we've built an outdoor cooking complex.
First, we fixed up a small but traditional wood fired, beehive oven.
Then, after using that for a time, we built a double ended stove (2 rocket stoves) for boiling/frying.
This is early on in it's development. 2 rocket stoves, the one on the left began as an Aprovecho-style, horizontal feed; the one on the right, a J-tube rocket. Later, the horizontal feed was modified into a J-tube as well.
Here is roughly how the internal channels go.. Notice that there's no chimney here, you can cook/heat food on ANY port up on top. For exhaust to flow out, one of the ports has to remain open; we often placed a chimney over one of the cook-top plates and cooked on everything else (simultaneously).
This middle(ish) cook-port got remade into a deep pot heater with a combination chimney, chopped into the side (and a tea-cup warmer added).
Yep.. We ARE using coffee cans as a chimney. Works just fine, so far!
Oh, and yes.. Both stoves vent through the one chimney.
notice how the pots sit deep into each "pot well", this maximises heat getting into the pots. Other cook surfaces can be used as well.
After much experimentation, a few changes and some decorations later, this stove is functional and beautiful.
