Newbie BBR 8" 200mm

[nacho]

Dec 10, 2023 6:33:29 GMT -8 fiedia said:

No, the heat source of your oven is the firebox. The gas around the oven will be colder than the oven itself. If you want to get higher temperatures inside the oven, insulate the right and left sides as you did for the firebox.

Hello happy new year!!!!, i have spent these days finishing the rocket and i am more than happy.

It started very bad, because it was very wet and it is still wet, but at the second fire it works very good.

i have been making one fire per day from 15 days and no smoke at all, it gets hotter day by day.

The oven is surprisingly hot, hotter than i expected. Now i am reaching with one fire 170ºC   338ºF

I am using very dry oak firewood.

the only issue is that, as the smoke goes up to the chimney, it condensate, and i have water puddles inside the bench........ which i eliminate with an absorbent cloth everyday.

[peterberg]

At some point during this running-in period your heater will be truly dry. Provided the heat extraction portion isn't oversized, this condensation effect will stop. Keep in mind, burning wood produces heat (obviously), carbon dioxide and water vapour. The chemical process of burning itself is producing water, much like natural gas.