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Resources for fairly basic rocket stove build

 
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Hi all. I have bad eye strain and can't spend much time on the screen outside of work. I've been searching the forum and youtube, but since I can't do too much of that at a time, I haven't been making great progress. I'm hoping some forum members might have resources.

I am going to build an outdoor wood powered kitchen. I want to essentially simulate two stove burners and an oven. For the stove, I'm planning on building rocket stoves. Straghtforward enough. But I'd like to build them in a way that I am set up to control temperature to a good degree. Even if it's as simple as having grates with legs of different heights that gets further away from the stove. Is this a thing? Would this work? Is there something that's typically done to control temp?

I have a portable rocket stove that I've been having fun with and the wood feeds in horizontally. I'd like to find designs where the wood feeds in at an angle so that I don't have to constantly feed in new sticks (i.e., so that gravity does some of this for me).

Any resources to help me get started with a build?

I haven't begun to think about the oven yet, but I see a lot of resources on the forum about rocket ovens, so I'll start there.

Thanks in advance.
Mike
 
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There maybe some plans on the forum for eocket stoves.

I thought you or others might enjoy these threads as I did:

https://permies.com/t/158695/Rocket-mass-heater-cook-stove

https://permies.com/t/158695/Rocket-mass-heater-cook-stove

https://permies.com/t/170797/rocket-ovens/Lighting-outdoor-kitchen
 
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Anne Miller wrote:There maybe some plans on the forum for eocket stoves.

I thought you or others might enjoy these threads as I did:

https://permies.com/t/158695/Rocket-mass-heater-cook-stove

https://permies.com/t/158695/Rocket-mass-heater-cook-stove

https://permies.com/t/170797/rocket-ovens/Lighting-outdoor-kitchen



Thanks so much, Anne. And a good point to clarify for anyone reading this thread that I'm in a hot climate so won't be incorporating any "mass" for heating my home, and this will be outdoors.

Thanks again.
 
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I believe the difference between a Rocket Stove and a Rocket Mass Stove is the "mass".

For indoors, I can understand not wanting "mass" though for an outdoor kitchen that "mass" might help lower fuel costs and cooking times.  Just something to consider.

Also the "mass" might help with feeling that a person is not slaving over a hot stove ...
 
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Take a look at Matt Walker's stove. I still want this outside. His plans include an optional mass, that can be heated, or not, by closing a flue. You can have a nice brick bench to sit on, whether summer or in the cold.
 
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Understanding the basic science of heat is fundamental to the design of rocket mass heaters. In this youtube video, Paul differentiates the 3 types of heat.

 
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