I use my concrete block rocket stove all the time. It's so much better than a grill. 1st because, the fuel is sticks and twigs. 2nd, it's ready to cook on in 5 minutes. 3rd, everything tastes better cooked over a wood fire. Everyone should have a rocket stove. Mine is a single burner with a 12" block at the top (more room for a larger grill) but, I'm going to change this configuration to what's described in this video. Thanks for the tutorial, this is really a great idea
I grew up with a wood cook stove inside, so you will get no argument from me when it comes to wood fires making the best tasing food! We would go from southern Ohio on a getaway weekend way up in the mountains of West Virginia to see my dad's late brother and his wife, we planned the 3.5 hour trip so that we'd arrive around 6 am, by the time we got to this place straight outta the hills have eyes kind of seclusion, she would have every possible Appalachian breakfast food you can think of covering her entire table, you fill your plate with bacon sausage eggs whatever, cover it with squirrel gravy(I could do without that part, lol) and have to go find a place to sit whether it be on the floor or out the door, and eat your breakfast! Last time we went up before they both passed, I was about 11 or 12, got up in the middle of the night after being there for the first day of the weekend to use the bathroom, looked out the kitchen door to see a bobcat and her cubs not 10' from the house playing on the bank of the hill they lived against.
Thanks...we just got slammed here in SC eye went right over us grid is down been using your stove all day. It does.it all including hot bath water. Really appreciate the info
A few things to consider. If you turn both blocks on the top flat side up, you will need to separate those blocks enough to allow airflow, otherwise you will suffocate your oven's fire. Secondly, one level of "burners" will not make it a rocket stove. It will be a grill, and fine for low temperature and slow cooking. You would need to stack at least two more blocks to create the draw needed to begin the vortex that improves combustion making it a rocket stove. Adding or removing levels of blocks will effect the draft which will allow you to control the temperature and the duration the fire will burn. Rocket stoves become more efficient when they are "tuned" or "calibrated" to improve performance. Keep in mind if you make a rocket stove for heating, it may be too hot for cooking. The faster the fire lights and hotter it gets, the quicker you need to add more fuel to keep it going. Higher temperatures could also deteriorate the blocks faster.
I made a rocket stove similar to this one out of cinder blocks. I never have needed it but I did a proof of concept test by hard boiling eggs. Easy as pie.
Hi There From Indiana we to keep blocks around for that use and other things , I also keep a flat thick piece of steel so I can use my pressure cooker on it to keep it from turning black ! AND Keep Up The Great Videos I enjoy them all !!!!!!
Thank you! We live in a condo (ground level) in the Las Vegas area with a lot of pink sheet rock as landscaping. In emergency preparation, I've wondered how we could possibly cook without electricity. We don't have a lot of in home storage space for extra stoves (and our intense summers would make a garage stored propane container explode), but we can stack cinder blocks in the garage. I love that this is portable, easy to assemble/disassemble. (And we might not have a lot of wood fuel options, but our neighborhood has pine trees with lots of pinecones.) Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Don't forget solar, you live in a good area for solar cooking. I live in CA , I do solar cooking all the time, love it. A good "solar box" type oven can cook in winter with low sun, colder temps. For winter I use my box oven. Most of the time though I use a panel oven, my favorite is Haines 2 solar cooker, easy to store away. If interested buy directly from his site, not Amazon, look for sales and his YT videos.. There are may types of solar cookers to choose or you can make one. Parabolic cookers for example if you want to cook fast and very hot. For emergency preps I bought inexpensive ( Energy Wise) portable panel cookers off Amazon, gave as gifts to family.. It's large enough for a 5 qt Dutch oven like the Haines. I've cooked on it many times side by side with my Haines. Both work great, but there are some tricks to cooking solar. Almost anything will cook in the sun if you know the principle's of solar cooking. hth
Thank you! From Florida! Glad you guys are hanging in there!❤ surrounded by water like we are,losing power,we’ve had many people pull out any outdoor cooking equipment that they can,start cooking their frozen stores,bringing many a plate of food! working with an electric company,one time our crews were responding to electric situations securing storm damage in homes during the storms,not having stores and supply chains access , we had been working from morning until night with all other kinds of crews,not even realizing you hadn’t eaten, soaking wet ,Ive never forgotten some of the kind people who notice those things,one couple ,even with water standing in their homes made us eat and sent us with a bag of sandwiches,at the very next emergency as we were putting up our gear ,one of the tree crews were cut off from their people too-and hadn’t eaten and you have a bag of sandwiches ! Thanks to all of you who look out for all of us! At home this kind of stove is incredible,allowing for more wholesome cooking, keeping everybody’s strength up! Have made so many makeshift ones, have a big family ,this sure comes in handy,Glad you shared this!❤ everyone hold steady!
Very nice so many of these are just 1 or 2 burners. Yesterday and part of today we had 10k accounts/45k people without power (no "known" cause). At least the weather was good but I'm sure many of those folks could have benefitted from building your Rocket stove.....Practice makes perfect 😊
A certain b gates said that they were going to put the internet down and the power grid as well..... So this is the same one who..... Predicted covid and monkey pox. So prepare yourself
Hello HT! I hope u read this and not get angry of my correcting the oven. I’m 63 years old, I’ve watched ur videos a long time now, enjoyed them, learned from them, u r an inspiration to me and many. I wish I had ur skills/knowledge when I was younger. So please don’t be angry with me. Everything about this made sense, rocket stove and grill, but not the oven, I got to visualizing using the oven, which occurred to me that I would only be able to put small pans into, I feel that the only pan that might fit would be the little aluminum pans sold at Walmart to make meatloaf, so I thought why not cut the flat bricks u call panels (I don’t what they’re called) n half, remove the cinder block where wood is fed through, putting a 1/2 on each side, then a whole one on top of them, creating a bigger gap, being able to put a bigger pan n. I hope u’ll redo this video, cause I don’t want anyone who builds this to get upset with u when they go too use the oven, finding their pans don’t fit. So please redo the video, not one single viewer of urs will be upset with u by correcting this issue. As always, I enjoyed the video! Thank u
When we bought a new BBQ I kept the old metal rack. It makes a great cooking rack for a homemade block stove. This rack is not the flimsy metal type from cheap BBQs but a much thicker one from a large stainless steel BBQ. It’s very strong and holds cast iron cooking pots with ease. So if you’re getting rid of an old BBQ, look over it’s parts for a useful DIY stove.
You go, gurrl!! Many years ago, I accumulated hundreds of blocks and found them handy for quick construction of all sorts of things. Thanks for posting.
That's why experienced campers never use river rocks to line their campfire - fire heats the moisture in the rocks, the steam needs to escape, and BOOM! Fragmentation bomb!!
I will never use concrete block for a fire. I personally have had cinder blocks explode in a fire and sent people running. Because the cinder blocks have sealed bubbles of air/moisture in them....any have the potential to explode. Maybe this is a rare thing, but I have had concrete violently come apart more than once qhen exposed to fire. As far as river rock? Well, it depends on the rock. The heavier bedrock wont absorb moisture....sandstone on the other hand will always crack....its porous. And that seems to be the issue, the porosity holds moisture, which turns to steam under heat and creates a dangerous situation.
Very nice video. Only recommendation is have the camera person show the whole cinderblock set up from the ground up. Always good to be able to see the whole picture when you are describing it to us. Smile. Thanks again please keep them coming.
Thank you. Great information. We actually lost power this morning and all I could think about was my first cup of coffee. Everything is better over fire. Thank you.
Great job. I’ll use this in hurricane prone south Florida. Came up with a couple of ideas. I don’t have half blocks for the sides of the fire chamber, so I’ll start with three blocks flat side up as a wider base for the fire chamber and place two blocks hole side up to enclose it and support the chimneys. I’ll also add a flat side up block on either side of the chimney blocks for convenient work surfaces. I might even borrow an oven rack from the kitchen to top those burners.
Used this method during hurricane Laura to cook for family and mother-in-law. Worked well. The grating was from an old stove that we got rid of. I also used a more permanent fixture before utilizing a 50 gallon drum for a reburn chamber and putting an insulating layer of vermiculite around the stack pipe. Sufficiently heated the whole first floor of a two story house. Would have had to reconfigure the A/C ducting but could have heated the whole house that way.
Excellent. I love rocket stove, but the versatility here is great. I’d have thought the cinder blocks would have cracked under the heat, but I always make things too complicated and get sidetracked solving problems that don’t exist yet.
They can crack when left uncovered to soak up rain then cooked on without drying them out. The heat is intense and quick. The thermal process difference is too different (making the blocks vulnerable)in this case. Just cover it up when done using to keep the moisture from soaking them.
Very nice, a triple burner cooktop. Once I made a mini BBQ out of River Rocks from a small stream ; started a little fire with matches in the middle of the rocks with some sticks & dry grass I found nearby & put my Salmon on top of a piece of foil on the rock. Turned out tasty good.
Great video! I had built the single burner rocket stove out of cmu but it required a 8” u-block that I could never find and had to use bricks. This design creates a larger stove and has blocks you can get from HD.
Thanks. Nice video. Just a few comments: 1) I could definitely see homesteading with a partner like you. You're like one of these women from the late 1800s who raised a family on the wild frontier. I can picture you looking out the cabin window with a loaded Winchester to see why the dog was barking. Do you have a single sister who's as handy and easy on the eyes as you? 2) I've experimented with a lot of designs, and I'm sold on the idea of putting down a screen after the first level and allowing the wood to burn on that. That allows air to feed the fire from underneath. I open the front and back for air to access. Too much air makes the fire burn super hot, so to save wood, I close the openings as needed. Obviously, some people agree with that idea and some don't. I'd suggest trying both ways to see what works best for you. 3) I know you understand this but maybe for some of the others . . . you are not limited to one design or one stove. There's a design out there that uses small red bricks. That's perfect for say, just enough water for coffee. Then when cooking a meal, you can have a bigger design that creates more heat and allows a bigger pot. Build several of these and play with them until you find the 1-3 designs that fit your needs. 4) Smoke gets in your eyes. If you create a taller unit you (supposedly) get less smoke. I'm not convinced. I've tried various designs and i don't think you need to create a chimney effect. You also have to balance HEAT with SMOKE. A taller design puts the pan farther away from the embers. Your design, for example, puts your pans 16" from the embers. There's nothing wrong with that but there's no rule that says you HAVE to build this thing tall. Personally, I keep my design low. From what I've always understood . . . smoke is the vaporization of hydrocarbons in the paper or wood. If I remember high school chemistry, that starts at around 300 degrees. Wood bursts into flame at around 500 degrees. Paper actually does ignite at around 450 degrees (but unlike what Ray Bradbury wrote, it's not precisely 451 degrees for all types). Anyway . . . between that 300 degree vaporization point and that 450-500 burning point, stuff will smoke. In my opinion, you deal with it and use whatever design lets you cook the fastest AND uses less wood.
Survival tip - pull your hair back out of the way of flames, when cooking on the rocket stove! 😃 Thank for the demo. I wonder about building a simple solar oven, too.
This is a wonderful tid bit of knowledge, thank you! I'm thinking there would be a way to construct an oven as well with a few more blocks and close regulation of the heat. I know those blocks can hold the heat quit nicely.
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We experimented with diy solar this summer & just couldn’t get it quite right. I want to work on understanding the principles behind it before investing. With 360+ day of sun, I am very determined to figure it out! 😊. Thank you for the recommendations, we will check them out! ❤
Your birds seem really animated! Well done on the stove. Always great to have a backup for anything affected by electrical or other utility blackout. Plus no doubt a delicious flavor imparted to food!
Hum...it would have been approaite to seen it in action. Either Way with that Hurricane that just Hit NC & Tennessee some people may have wished they seen your Video. Good Job.
Good that you have lots of cinder blocks because when you put fire in them they will bust. I know from experience cinder blocks can't take the heat. Make a rocket stove with fire bricks if you want it to last.
Can I built it and leave it there for whenever I need it ? I always wanted a cooking stove outdoors but didn’t know how to make one . This is so easy to built. Thank you for sharing 👍🏻
It would be nice if you could demonstrate the stove with a fire in it. Pretty cool design. I like it.
Yes yes with a fire please ...
Agree! Yes please do a demonstration with the fire.
I get the impression that if it actually worked, she would have shown it working lol
My thoughts exactly
She doesn’t cook.
I use my concrete block rocket stove all the time. It's so much better than a grill. 1st because, the fuel is sticks and twigs. 2nd, it's ready to cook on in 5 minutes. 3rd, everything tastes better cooked over a wood fire.
Everyone should have a rocket stove. Mine is a single burner with a 12" block at the top (more room for a larger grill) but, I'm going to change this configuration to what's described in this video.
Thanks for the tutorial, this is really
a great idea
You said what I was thinking!
Want one,wen can get help..cant lift blks,,😊
I grew up with a wood cook stove inside, so you will get no argument from me when it comes to wood fires making the best tasing food! We would go from southern Ohio on a getaway weekend way up in the mountains of West Virginia to see my dad's late brother and his wife, we planned the 3.5 hour trip so that we'd arrive around 6 am, by the time we got to this place straight outta the hills have eyes kind of seclusion, she would have every possible Appalachian breakfast food you can think of covering her entire table, you fill your plate with bacon sausage eggs whatever, cover it with squirrel gravy(I could do without that part, lol) and have to go find a place to sit whether it be on the floor or out the door, and eat your breakfast! Last time we went up before they both passed, I was about 11 or 12, got up in the middle of the night after being there for the first day of the weekend to use the bathroom, looked out the kitchen door to see a bobcat and her cubs not 10' from the house playing on the bank of the hill they lived against.
Thanks...we just got slammed here in SC eye went right over us grid is down been using your stove all day. It does.it all including hot bath water. Really appreciate the info
Our prayers have been with y’all. 🙏 ❤️from Cali
Always charmed by my Louisiana friends. Good concept for survival and revival!
A few things to consider. If you turn both blocks on the top flat side up, you will need to separate those blocks enough to allow airflow, otherwise you will suffocate your oven's fire. Secondly, one level of "burners" will not make it a rocket stove. It will be a grill, and fine for low temperature and slow cooking. You would need to stack at least two more blocks to create the draw needed to begin the vortex that improves combustion making it a rocket stove. Adding or removing levels of blocks will effect the draft which will allow you to control the temperature and the duration the fire will burn. Rocket stoves become more efficient when they are "tuned" or "calibrated" to improve performance. Keep in mind if you make a rocket stove for heating, it may be too hot for cooking. The faster the fire lights and hotter it gets, the quicker you need to add more fuel to keep it going. Higher temperatures could also deteriorate the blocks faster.
I made a rocket stove similar to this one out of cinder blocks. I never have needed it but I did a proof of concept test by hard boiling eggs. Easy as pie.
Hi There From Indiana we to keep blocks around for that use and other things , I also keep a flat thick piece of steel so I can use my pressure cooker on it to keep it from turning black ! AND Keep Up The Great Videos I enjoy them all !!!!!!
Great idea about the pressure cooker staying clean. One less thing to scrub clean!!!❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thank you! We live in a condo (ground level) in the Las Vegas area with a lot of pink sheet rock as landscaping. In emergency preparation, I've wondered how we could possibly cook without electricity. We don't have a lot of in home storage space for extra stoves (and our intense summers would make a garage stored propane container explode), but we can stack cinder blocks in the garage. I love that this is portable, easy to assemble/disassemble. (And we might not have a lot of wood fuel options, but our neighborhood has pine trees with lots of pinecones.) Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Don't forget solar, you live in a good area for solar cooking. I live in CA , I do solar cooking all the time, love it. A good "solar box" type oven can cook in winter with low sun, colder temps. For winter I use my box oven. Most of the time though I use a panel oven, my favorite is Haines 2 solar cooker, easy to store away. If interested buy directly from his site, not Amazon, look for sales and his YT videos.. There are may types of solar cookers to choose or you can make one. Parabolic cookers for example if you want to cook fast and very hot.
For emergency preps I bought inexpensive ( Energy Wise) portable panel cookers off Amazon, gave as gifts to family.. It's large enough for a 5 qt Dutch oven like the Haines. I've cooked on it many times side by side with my Haines. Both work great, but there are some tricks to cooking solar. Almost anything will cook in the sun if you know the principle's of solar cooking. hth
Thank you! From Florida! Glad you guys are hanging in there!❤ surrounded by water like we are,losing power,we’ve had many people pull out any outdoor cooking equipment that they can,start cooking their frozen stores,bringing many a plate of food! working with an electric company,one time our crews were responding to electric situations securing storm damage in homes during the storms,not having stores and supply chains access , we had been working from morning until night with all other kinds of crews,not even realizing you hadn’t eaten, soaking wet ,Ive never forgotten some of the kind people who notice those things,one couple ,even with water standing in their homes made us eat and sent us with a bag of sandwiches,at the very next emergency as we were putting up our gear ,one of the tree crews were cut off from their people too-and hadn’t eaten and you have a bag of sandwiches ! Thanks to all of you who look out for all of us! At home this kind of stove is incredible,allowing for more wholesome cooking, keeping everybody’s strength up! Have made so many makeshift ones, have a big family ,this sure comes in handy,Glad you shared this!❤ everyone hold steady!
Fantastic! Four ways to cook with cement blocks. I have made a rocket stove similar to this, and cooked on it. This is a better design. Thank you!
Very nice so many of these are just 1 or 2 burners. Yesterday and part of today we had 10k accounts/45k people without power (no "known" cause). At least the weather was good but I'm sure many of those folks could have benefitted from building your Rocket stove.....Practice makes perfect 😊
A certain b gates said that they were going to put the internet down and the power grid as well..... So this is the same one who..... Predicted covid and monkey pox. So prepare yourself
Probably people charging their vehicles near the same time.
Hello HT! I hope u read this and not get angry of my correcting the oven. I’m 63 years old, I’ve watched ur videos a long time now, enjoyed them, learned from them, u r an inspiration to me and many. I wish I had ur skills/knowledge when I was younger. So please don’t be angry with me. Everything about this made sense, rocket stove and grill, but not the oven, I got to visualizing using the oven, which occurred to me that I would only be able to put small pans into, I feel that the only pan that might fit would be the little aluminum pans sold at Walmart to make meatloaf, so I thought why not cut the flat bricks u call panels (I don’t what they’re called) n half, remove the cinder block where wood is fed through, putting a 1/2 on each side, then a whole one on top of them, creating a bigger gap, being able to put a bigger pan n. I hope u’ll redo this video, cause I don’t want anyone who builds this to get upset with u when they go too use the oven, finding their pans don’t fit. So please redo the video, not one single viewer of urs will be upset with u by correcting this issue. As always, I enjoyed the video! Thank u
When we bought a new BBQ I kept the old metal rack. It makes a great cooking rack for a homemade block stove. This rack is not the flimsy metal type from cheap BBQs but a much thicker one from a large stainless steel BBQ. It’s very strong and holds cast iron cooking pots with ease. So if you’re getting rid of an old BBQ, look over it’s parts for a useful DIY stove.
You go, gurrl!! Many years ago, I accumulated hundreds of blocks and found them handy for quick construction of all sorts of things. Thanks for posting.
Might want to add- you may want to keep this covered to keep WET blocks from cracking from heat. m
I was wondering about that. TY
Great tip that most people, myself included, don't think about things like this, until the stove starts to break up. Thank you for the tip!!!❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
That's why experienced campers never use river rocks to line their campfire - fire heats the moisture in the rocks, the steam needs to escape, and BOOM! Fragmentation bomb!!
I will never use concrete block for a fire. I personally have had cinder blocks explode in a fire and sent people running. Because the cinder blocks have sealed bubbles of air/moisture in them....any have the potential to explode.
Maybe this is a rare thing, but I have had concrete violently come apart more than once qhen exposed to fire.
As far as river rock? Well, it depends on the rock. The heavier bedrock wont absorb moisture....sandstone on the other hand will always crack....its porous. And that seems to be the issue, the porosity holds moisture, which turns to steam under heat and creates a dangerous situation.
Very nice video. Only recommendation is have the camera person show the whole cinderblock set up from the ground up. Always good to be able to see the whole picture when you are describing it to us. Smile. Thanks again please keep them coming.
I built a rocket stove once. Who doesn't love a rocket stove. Thanks
I just picked up some 6” sq. sch. 20 I’m planning on building 8 or 10 of them.
@@Tomc8030 awesome
Thank you. Great information. We actually lost power this morning and all I could think about was my first cup of coffee. Everything is better over fire. Thank you.
...especially ex-wives...
Cool! Amazingly simple. GREAT!!!! Thanks for sharing. You have hurricanes, and here in Calif we have earthquakes which leave us without power.
From Australia and I love a steak cooked over wood flame, going to try that.🤠👍🇭🇲
Great job. I’ll use this in hurricane prone south Florida. Came up with a couple of ideas.
I don’t have half blocks for the sides of the fire chamber, so I’ll start with three blocks flat side up as a wider base for the fire chamber and place two blocks hole side up to enclose it and support the chimneys.
I’ll also add a flat side up block on either side of the chimney blocks for convenient work surfaces.
I might even borrow an oven rack from the kitchen to top those burners.
Never seen this design before. I like it.
Just found your channel and this is the second video I have watched, AND I am impressed!
Thank you so much for this information please don't stop what you're doing
Great job! My favorite rocket stove plan. I can do that one! Good to hear good ole La accent. I’ve been gone from La for 43 years. I miss it.
Used this method during hurricane Laura to cook for family and mother-in-law. Worked well. The grating was from an old stove that we got rid of. I also used a more permanent fixture before utilizing a 50 gallon drum for a reburn chamber and putting an insulating layer of vermiculite around the stack pipe. Sufficiently heated the whole first floor of a two story house. Would have had to reconfigure the A/C ducting but could have heated the whole house that way.
This hack is going to save lives girl. God bless you and your family in these trying times and thank you!!
Very nice explanation and instructions...thank you :)
You're videos have been top notch lately! Much appreciated.
Easy build and can save some lives. Thank you and be blessed
Ahh man, I was hoping you would demonstrate the whole thing. Wonderful ideas, thanks for sharing.
Timely, budget friendly & top notch info that is exactly what is needed in times such as these. GOD bless you and your family and friends!❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
Excellent. I love rocket stove, but the versatility here is great. I’d have thought the cinder blocks would have cracked under the heat, but I always make things too complicated and get sidetracked solving problems that don’t exist yet.
They can crack when left uncovered to soak up rain then cooked on without drying them out. The heat is intense and quick. The thermal process difference is too different (making the blocks vulnerable)in this case. Just cover it up when done using to keep the moisture from soaking them.
@@flipperc6042 yes, good point. All wet clay really needs a low heat dry before a real fire also. I’m sure that’s probably how they make the bricks.
So are you saying that cinder blocks that have been sitting outside in the weather will be weakened and therefore unusable ?
@@terriannzanco2115You can use them. The blocks may not last as long. My sits out all winter long. No problems.
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Nicely explained Miss
So innovative… well done!!!
Very nice, a triple burner cooktop. Once I made a mini BBQ out of River Rocks from a small stream ; started a little fire with matches in the middle of the rocks with some sticks & dry grass I found nearby & put my Salmon on top of a piece of foil on the rock. Turned out tasty good.
You also forgot to mention to face the wood feed side towards the prevailing wind
Thank you very much for sharing! This is something that will help alot of people.
Another very useful video ..and timely as I just received a bunch of cinder blocks. Thanks!
Best part is it's not permanent unless you want it to be.
Great video! I had built the single burner rocket stove out of cmu but it required a 8” u-block that I could never find and had to use bricks. This design creates a larger stove and has blocks you can get from HD.
Excellent video thanks much for the knowledge bump ! Great idea. God bless you and yours
Brilliant as always :) thanks so much for posting!
Just found your channel and so glad I did! You have some of the best information, thanks for sharing!!
I have just come across you're videos 👍and like them very much👍 keep up all the good work love from Wales in the UK🇬🇧
Simply best information channel for bad times without nonsense
As a Christian I appreciate this !
Thank you much
So versatile! Thanks for sharing!
Bravo. Keep it simple, keep it real.
Thanks. Nice video. Just a few comments:
1) I could definitely see homesteading with a partner like you. You're like one of these women from the late 1800s who raised a family on the wild frontier. I can picture you looking out the cabin window with a loaded Winchester to see why the dog was barking. Do you have a single sister who's as handy and easy on the eyes as you?
2) I've experimented with a lot of designs, and I'm sold on the idea of putting down a screen after the first level and allowing the wood to burn on that. That allows air to feed the fire from underneath. I open the front and back for air to access. Too much air makes the fire burn super hot, so to save wood, I close the openings as needed. Obviously, some people agree with that idea and some don't. I'd suggest trying both ways to see what works best for you.
3) I know you understand this but maybe for some of the others . . . you are not limited to one design or one stove. There's a design out there that uses small red bricks. That's perfect for say, just enough water for coffee. Then when cooking a meal, you can have a bigger design that creates more heat and allows a bigger pot. Build several of these and play with them until you find the 1-3 designs that fit your needs.
4) Smoke gets in your eyes. If you create a taller unit you (supposedly) get less smoke. I'm not convinced. I've tried various designs and i don't think you need to create a chimney effect. You also have to balance HEAT with SMOKE. A taller design puts the pan farther away from the embers. Your design, for example, puts your pans 16" from the embers. There's nothing wrong with that but there's no rule that says you HAVE to build this thing tall. Personally, I keep my design low.
From what I've always understood . . . smoke is the vaporization of hydrocarbons in the paper or wood. If I remember high school chemistry, that starts at around 300 degrees. Wood bursts into flame at around 500 degrees. Paper actually does ignite at around 450 degrees (but unlike what Ray Bradbury wrote, it's not precisely 451 degrees for all types). Anyway . . . between that 300 degree vaporization point and that 450-500 burning point, stuff will smoke. In my opinion, you deal with it and use whatever design lets you cook the fastest AND uses less wood.
Awesome! Thank you for doing this video ❤
Such a clever lady ❤
And cuter than a baked possum with a sweet potato in its mouth too
Super fun project to teach the kids survival skills! Thank you ❤
Survival tip - pull your hair back out of the way of flames, when cooking on the rocket stove! 😃
Thank for the demo. I wonder about building a simple solar oven, too.
Excellent demo.. 👍🏻
Amazing!! Just what I needed thank you
Great idea! Be careful if the concrete cinder blocks are wet they can explode when heated.
I live in swla...weeks with out power. I had a camp stove, but going to get some more cinder blocks! Ty.
It is brilliant.
And that is one tough mama slingin' around full size cement block.
Thank you from SW Oregon! Clever.
Thanks, I saved it and passed it on to our two sons!
Thanks, now I have to remember how to lay the bricks
figuring out how to lay the bricks will provide much good exercise.
I took pictures on my phone of each step.
I took a screenshot. Could write the directions and a quick sketch to keep in a prep file
Great Design! Thankyou.
This is a wonderful tid bit of knowledge, thank you! I'm thinking there would be a way to construct an oven as well with a few more blocks and close regulation of the heat. I know those blocks can hold the heat quit nicely.
I can tell you are a little worker bee. Thanks for the tips!
Wow.......this was very useful, thanks.
8 x cinder blocks
2 x Flat blocks
Great idea as the blocks can serve many other functions as well.
Hello from England 😊. Cool idea .going to get some. Just in case
Very nice! Clever! I will do this! ✔️🇺🇸
Congratulations on your fitness, you're in great shape.
Love it !! Thank you 🤩
Thank you for the information.
Thanks for that,I learned something. 😊
Made sence to me but not all others. You know. The ones that need to be led to the trough.
Great info thanks for sharing.
I made a brick one before. This is quicker and very versatile : ) Thank you so much for clear directions and demo. Subscribing.
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Also vanilla extract immediately stops the pain and no blistering or scars. My mother always used this. It was readily available in the kitchen where burns can occur.
Castor oil works great for burns to, stops pain and heals quickly
Great tip!! Thank you!
@@Karen-up8xoanother great to! Thanks!
Wow
Simply amazing
Thank you
We experimented with diy solar this summer & just couldn’t get it quite right. I want to work on understanding the principles behind it before investing. With 360+ day of sun, I am very determined to figure it out! 😊. Thank you for the recommendations, we will check them out! ❤
Your birds seem really animated!
Well done on the stove.
Always great to have a backup for anything affected by electrical or other utility blackout. Plus no doubt a delicious flavor imparted to food!
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Could you please do a demonstration using the oven if that is at all possible thank you for the informative video.
I built a firepit with cinderblocks and one of them blew up. fired debris chunks right past our ears. very lucky no one was hurt.
Perhaps your blocks were wet, which with a fire can cause sudden expansion. Important to make sure the rocket stove is dry before starting the fire.
Cool oven well impressed
Hum...it would have been approaite to seen it in action. Either Way with that Hurricane that just Hit NC & Tennessee some people may have wished they seen your Video.
Good Job.
Love this...quick and easy!!
Very smart and you are very cute! Love the show God bless. Thanks!
Awesome video! Thanks!!
Love it hun nice job !
Love 💕 it .. thanks for the information… 👍
Cool video!
Proper👍🏼 Thanks for this.
Fantastic simple building in emergency
Great idea. Thanks for the information 😊
I wish we had more good women like her in this world.
Good that you have lots of cinder blocks because when you put fire in them they will bust. I know from experience cinder blocks can't take the heat. Make a rocket stove with fire bricks if you want it to last.
Love the sound of concert on concert👍
Awesome 👍
Can I built it and leave it there for whenever I need it ? I always wanted a cooking stove outdoors but didn’t know how to make one . This is so easy to built. Thank you for sharing 👍🏻
If you’re going to leave it for more long-term use, I would suggest either painting it with a heat resistant paint or coating it in clay
❤😊thank you
How long will this last before you have to build another one. Love your ideas