Canning on brick rocket stove

Hi.
I’m thinking there will be people here who can on a rocket stove and could give me a few tips. This is first time making a brick rocket stove, I’m new to canning as well. First attempt was canning some beetroot. Had a lot of siphoning from the jars. I’ve read that could be due to the canner heating up too fast. The jiggler jiggled like mad the whole processing time, so I’m thinking the flame was too strong? Any tips on how to regulate heat? Or anything else I could change that would help?
Thanks.

Hi Julie,
One thing you could try is to raise the pot from the top of the riser with 4 partial bricks in all four corners.
From your photo it looks like there is only a gap the thickness of the grate which is barely enough to allow the exhaust through. May be why you have so much black on the bottom of your pot?
Good luck with perfecting your future rocket canner!

I agree with Gerry, you need to raise  your cooking area.
I might go a step further and suggest a steel plate on raised brick and your pot on top of that.
Ha Ha if nothing else your pot won't get black and the kettle will be the only one.

For your next attempt at a rocket build, try a self feeding " J" rather than an  "L" like you have.

Thanks for the tips. I’ll look at self feeding styles. I’d like to build an outdoor kitchen eventually.

Hey Julie, did you use any morter on that? I've not yet put mine together... and I was just gifted a case of green beans!

It appears that she did not.
With an L tube it would not be that detrimental, as your basically hand feeding a chimney.
You can dry stack a J  to start but it really will do better if it is sealed from air leaks.

One part clay and 3 parts sand makes a fine easy mortar.
I recommend 100# sacks of commercial builders sand from home D. (no rocks)  Apx $11 a sack
Dry clay is easiest to mix .  Bagged dry clay is premium but drying local clay then smashing   it into a powder works as well.
Getting the rocks out is the most important.

You can dry stack and then just smear any old  mud over the outside to seal it up.
Be kinda funky looking but it would work.

Thanks Thomas. I think I'll do the CLAY mud for now... just to prove the concept. Hunny  claims there is a bag of cement hanging around somewhere, I haven't tripped over it yet though.

Ha Ha Joylynn;
Big bags of cement sitting around quickly turn into a large solid rock!   Easy to trip over!
Besides, please do not use cement you will not be happy , it will not hold up in a core.

Oh, ok. Of course, my firewood is wet from 3 days rain.

Hey Joylynn. No morter, just stacked the bricks. Now that I'm convinced this works I'll start looking at better versions. I'd like an outdoor kitchen.

Hi Julie;
If you haven't seen it here is the thread with my new outdoor kitchen.
https://permies.com/t/164923/rocket-ovens/Build-Black-White-Rocket-Oven