edited to add: i don't know how this
thread got added to "
rocket mass heaters" forum, sorry
hey all
wondering if anyone has come up with any innovations for a stove
project that might be useful for multiple purposes. we are hoping to fulfill these applications:
heating a sauna and/or hot tubsmoking meat and fish boil down maple sap without imparting too much smoke flavour
was hoping to DIY something that would serve at least two of these purposes, if anyone wants to brainstorm with me!
i've done sweat lodge ceremony before with some first nations friends and they heated up rocks in a fire and then brought them into a pit in the lodge and poured
water over them, and i feel like it would not be difficult to do a similar idea for a steam sauna. however, i do not know much about building a smoker or a
wood fired hot tub and in order to use it for the boiling of maple sap and not having smoke flavour, there
should be a chamber where the fire is, where the smoke goes, and another space for wide burner where the sap could evaporate off.
i do not necessarily need these things to all be possible simultaneously. for example, i am not necessarily looking to take a hot tub while i make maple syrup and smoke salmon. however, if that's where it takes us, then so be it.
i have almost no logistics and a bunch of stuff swirling around in my brain and welcome anybody's ideas!