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RE: Today's Sustainable Feast in the Garden of Eden
That feast looks fantastic! Id love to know how the rocket stove works, I've never heard of one before.
That feast looks fantastic! Id love to know how the rocket stove works, I've never heard of one before.
Check out the link in the article for how to build a rocket stove: it's got a frame of bricks & is covered in cob which is a mix of straw, sand, and clay.
You build the fire in the lower portion of the L shape chamber, and the flame/heat is sucked up into the taller tower. You set the pan/pot/skillet on top of the open tower (and ideally you will have built it with a little forethought for how the pan will set on there so that it is level and the hole isn't too big, etc). The bottom of the pot is exposed to the fire, so that's your heat source! The pots and pans in our outdoor kitchen get sooty, so we keep them exclusively outside and have a separate set for doing any wintertime cooking on the indoor wood burning stove.
You can adjust the temperature of the flame by the way you build the fire and how much wood is in it. If the fire is built correctly, it won't be very smoky at all! Of course, building a fire is a whole skill and art in and of itself - you wouldn't use the same wood in a rocket stove that you would use for a grill or a cob oven, for example.
With a rocket stove, you want an even but intense heat, just like with the burner on a gas or electric stove! An oven is a more even, convection heat that you generally usually use for a longer period of time. They each call for their own appropriate fire for maximum efficiency.
Check out this video:
Thanks very much! I found the link to the three posts. Will be trying it for sure. Too late to upvote posts but I've upvoted your advice above