Seeing is believing

Had a friend stop by the other day. “Hey could I see your rocket stove?” he asked. I was a little surprised, but I was happy to show him. After setting it up and getting a small fire going. He began to look over the rocket stove and putting his hand on the stove.

This is what he said about the stove:
“I saw than on the discovery channel” he said. I have not watched any discovery TV for a long time. If you know what program talked about rocket stoves or other rocket things please post below. Thanks
“Unreal”
“Wow”
“A few sticks of wood to cook lunch”
After talking about the book "The Rocket Mass Heater builders Guide by Ernie and Erica Wisner"  https://permies.com/wiki/57365/Rocket-Mass-Heater-Builder-Guide. And after showing him the great pictures in the book he wanted to build one.

In the end it was a fun and surprising day for me. Just wanted to share this story with everyone at permies.

You go around planting seeds. Some will take, where you least expect it. You just never know!

That's a great story. Getting others hooked by directly showing them is worth more than a thousand words could ever describe the same thing.

Do you have a link or episode number to that Discovery channel program?

Are the plans to build this in the Wisners' book? It looks very "metallic".  Would like more pics if possible to post.  Thanks.

Denise Cares wrote:Are the plans to build this in the Wisners' book? It looks very "metallic".  Would like more pics if possible to post.  Thanks.

The short answer is no. I bought the rocket stove from https://rocketstovecores.com/. I add the metal to protect and strengthen the stove because I was moving it a lot.  I had the book around to show my friend the inner working of the stove and rocket mass heater.

If you want to see more of Ernie and Erica Wisner doing cool rocket mass heaters things check out: https://permies.com/wiki/63837f426/Wood-Heat-DIY-Rocket-Mass

Here is my stove in action: