Description
Tim Barker and Joel Meadows take you through a step-by-step guide to building an extremely cheap, rocket powered oven using easy to access materials such as bricks, clay and reclaimed steel barrels. These designs may not quite have the domed top elegance that has made the backyard cob pizza oven so trendy, but they do have a farm yard charm of their own. And rather than taking hours to heat up to cook a couple of pizzas (often only used once a year!), these are super efficient, and very practical ovens. Both Tim and Joel use theirs on a daily basis. Their potential as a genuinely sustainable backyard fixture of the future is very high.
In the first section you’ll learn about the fascinating principles of the rocket stove, and in subsequent sections they will get down to the detailed business adding on the oven.
To complete the projects yourself, you’ll need a handful of common tools, and a little confidence using them, but the process will demand nothing beyond the scope of the most casual backyard tinkerer. The focus of this volume is on cooking, and we’ll be presenting two options for DIY ovens, appropriate for both outdoor and – if correctly flued and sited – indoor use.
For more information about this technology, see this article about the Fundamentals of Rocket Stoves.
Table of Contents
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- About this volume
- Foreword: the future of fire
- Introduction
Fire
Conventional stoves - Rocket stoves
The anatomy of a rocket stove
How a rocket stove works
Dimensions
Materials - Ingredients
Rocket stove power unit
Black oven
White oven - Building your rocket stove ‘power unit’
The mock up
Starting the stove
Final placement
The final build
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- Building a black oven
The baffle plate - Building a white oven
Barrel safety
How the white oven works
Making the inner barrel
Making the outer barrel
The shelves
The door
Building the door latch
Insulating and covering the oven
The stand
Final touches
Controlling the beast, or how to cook with your oven.
Taking care of your beast
Tips and tricks - Learn more!
VEG appropriate technology workshops
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114 pages (on iPad) with 64 illustrations.
ISBN: 9780648344209
