Start a Rocket Oven and Bake Something - PEP BB rocket.sand.oven

Starting and baking with rocket oven bb submission

      o pic of starting materials before fire
      o pic of fire started
      o pic of additional wood added
      o pic of uncooked food going in
      o pic of cooked food coming out

Starting materials


Staring the fire:


Adding wood:


Cookies going in (my face tells you the oven is HOT):



Batch #1:


Batch #2 (vegan ones!)

Huckleberry scones

Huckleberry scones in the rocket oven, slightly burnt...
So Paul asked us to burn ugly wood and bark, for future chefs bark Burns fast and hot. There scones were supposed to bake 15-20m at 400F. They were only in for 15m but the oven reached 600F. The flavor was like when you cook on a stick and drop your food in the ashes, but the paper thin layer of not burnt tasted amazing!
Recipe - 1c oat flour, 6T butter, 1 egg, 3T maple syrup, 2t bake powder and I forgot to add 1/2t salt.

Pizza night during BB20 2023.  We ate good.

Got a couple BB’s in the process

In the Rocket Mass Heater Oven at Wheaton Labs, I was able to cook my onions and peppers for dinner. Yum Yum for my tum tum. RMHs are so groovy.

I cooked onions and cauliflower in the oven to compliment my quinoa, beans, parsley, capers, and curry for dinner.

Minimum requirement:
 - must use a rocket oven that operates somewhat similarly to the ones above
 - food must be cooked in a chamber (oven)
 - exhaust gasses don't contact the food
 - food is clearly cooked
 - food is not burnt
 - as in the Food Prep and Preservation aspect, no aluminum or teflon/coated cookware or plastic touching the food (including bowls and utensils) is allowed

To get certified for this Badge Bit you must:
  - post 5 pictures:
       o pic of starting materials before fire
       o pic of fire started
       o pic of additional wood added
       o pic of uncooked food going in
       o pic of cooked food coming out

I baked bread in the rocket oven at base camp, Wheaton labs

I was hoping to knock this one out while at the PTJ '24, but chaos prevented me from being back to basecamp when the fire needed to get started.
Instead, I ended up buying a prebuilt rocket oven off Craigslist, driving it a few hundred miles home, and eventually setting it up in my yard.
I've received a lot of advice and encouragement in my thread: https://permies.com/t/267071/rocket-ovens/Rocket-Oven - special thanks to Thomas Rubino and Benjamin Dinkel!

While I'm not quite satisfied with my oven yet, it was time to give cooking a go:


Starting materials:


Fire Started:


Wood Added:


Additional Wood Added:


Uncooked food going in:


Cooked food coming out:


Three pizzas!