None of the four stoves / ovens are rocket stoves. On the far left is an old time top loading
wood stove. We use it as a "cook top". The next is a Dry Stack Oven designed and built by our students. Later the dry stack was insulated and covered with a "skin" but its interior is still the "dry stack" method. The next oven is the "guts" of an old Franklin stove. We use it just for an
ash dump since it is pretty and we like it and so, we use it. The last oven is a Cob Oven and has a double door design.
Our favorite oven is the dry stack design. We love it. We first built the dry stack even though everyone told us it would not work at all. It did work and worked great. A dry stack can be moved, moved again, re-stacked to be smaller or larger. We moved our first dry stack oven 6 times before it was finally in the current location and finally, we put the insulation on the outside and made it permanent.
We also added a roof, and a chimney which makes it a year round full time no matter what the weather type of oven.
The ovens do use more
wood than a
rocket stove but, we have so much wood and brush to clear and clean up that the ovens are helpful with clean up. If we did not have a free source of wood, the rocket stove would be a better choice.
We love the outdoor kitchen and use it all the time. Thanks for looking and replying. Have a good week.