posted 1 year ago
Good afternoon.
I have the opportunity to help a group of people enhance a community space by helping to design and install an outdoor kitchen space. Since I am already helping them establish a re-sprout silviculture system as part of their land’s timber management plan, I am strongly suggesting to them to go full-on rocket stove power. There is space for a rocket oven, water heating, cook tops and so on. The whole shebang. I have already purchased the the plans for the the rocket oven as well as the rocket kitchen plans. One issue I see with the outdoor kitchen plans is that they call for the feed tube to be below ground level. The space available for the outdoor kitchen is on the cement foundation / floor of a former living room. Thus, in order for the feed tube to be below grade, we would need to bust through the cement. This is not out of the question, however, it is an important consideration and something we need to talk about.
Aside from that specific design. I am seeking input, advice and insight from people that have installed multifunctional outdoor / rocket-stove kitchen spaces. I want to maximize utility and keep everything and maintainable as possible. This group has some experienced craft people in it, and they have already ventured into the cob-oven world, so once we have a good plan, we can for sure get it done. In the design process thought, I would like to learn from your collective successes, challenges and failures.
One question in my mind, is that how modular should we plan on it being. For example is there enough heat in a system to run several burners, a flat cook service and an oven off one feed tube? Is it better to have individual feed tubes for some things? What about system maintenance? How does one get into these systems once build to fix or patch something up?
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