Rabi'a Elizabeth Brown wrote:Now I just have to settle on a reliable quick-burning fuel supply for it: wood and pellets for stoves are plentiful and inexpensive here in Spain, but I don't use much paper around the house (except for paper towels, which might be my answer).
The paper is just for getting it lit, isn't it? I've seen people take a thin stick and use a pocket knife to make curly shavings of wood, but leaving them attached to the stick, so you get a lots of surface area and very thin wood. Dipping it in a little fat drippings from food or scraps of candle wax could make it work even better.
This is not the sort of stove I'd use pellets in, unless the instructions say it's OK. However, any sort of skinny sticks from pruning, allowed to dry, ought to make good
feed stock once it's going. If you don't have plants that benefit from pruning, look around your neighborhood. The stove won't care much if it's wood from a
fruit tree or a flowering shrub. For example, every year I have to prune my Forsythia shrub which gives me lots of skinny branches. If I can get a rocket oven/stove built, it would be perfect material to let dry and use as feed stock - no work splitting it!
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local restaurant used to throw all the wooden chopsticks into a box. We adopted them for
kindling. I wonder how they would work in a rocket stove?