Kelly Kettle: How I get fast boil times with a solo stove.

I have been able to get the boil time of the kelly kettle down to under 4 min.      here are a couple of links to how I did this with a stove pipe and a DIY solo stove.


https://odysee.com/@Marthale7:f/Kelly-solo-stove:b

https://www.bitchute.com/video/8AO8NcngBbYp/


Bitchute video

We be boilin' sho' nuff! Stack effect FTW!

That's a great demo, Mart.

Phil Stevens wrote:We be boilin' sho' nuff! Stack effect FTW!

That's a great demo, Mart.

Thank you,  I keep trying things and eventually I find something that is worth the time to do...

I adore combining both the rocket stove with TLUD solo stove, with the kelly kettle.     The sheer speed  of energy transfer blows my mind.     Surface area is king.

Per the math I have done, looks like this equals over 2000 watts of energy needed for this heat change for 5 cups of water...

https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/watts-to-heat

You could do a few runs to test the efficiency, weighing the wood that you burn each time, to see how close you get to the nominal thermal energy of dry wood (5 kWh/kg). I bet this rig is well over 80%.

Phil Stevens wrote:You could do a few runs to test the efficiency, weighing the wood that you burn each time, to see how close you get to the nominal thermal energy of dry wood (5 kWh/kg). I bet this rig is well over 80%.

Yeah, this is the second time I did this test and the time was the same....

I was thinking about using a killowatt meter and measure how long does my 1200 watt microwave take to boil the same 5 cups of water....   That would give me a good baseline of energy in over time  to see how it compares....

I have been thinking of making a  thermal mass battery  using this method...

The question I have is this... instead of water in the tube,  what if I had gravel.....  would the chimney effect pull the fire thru large gravel and yield  as fast of a heat exchange?        Or, what if I used bolts....     I have a section of rail road  that I was thinking of putting in and seeing how hot it would get, then perhaps use it to do thermal cooking with heat retention.


I have a stainless steel coil I would like to put inside this and then pump water thru it ....    Then I would run that out thru a loop in a barrel  with pipe and sand...   loops of pipe into the sand then packed tightly.       I am thinking I could store that heat in the sand,  then use air to pipe it into my home from outside.......      

I like the idea of the thermal mass being outside and using it as needed via forced air...

I have found a way to use a solo type stove with cooking pizza. I use a 20 inch cast iron pan, and underneath that I put 2 - 3 inches of sand in a pan. The sand diffuses the heat on the cast iron pan, I was able to cook this up in 40 min . The bread turned out awesome with that smoked flavor. I now have put in some peppers with cheese inside creating my own "hot pockets" for my next experiment. Took some bread over to a friend and they approved! Only took 1 load and 2 sticks for the first round I am sure that if I had more ready I could up production on this setup quickly... I hope to be able to make hot pockets that I can toss in the freezer for later.