Rocket stoves: Tips for designing your own
Ideal not just for their social and environmental benefits, rocket stoves have economic benefits as well.
SIMPLE SOLUTION: Rocket stoves can be made into any size to accomodate any need. (Photo: fishermansdaughter/Flickr) 
With a rocket stove, only the tips of the fuel wood are burned, eliminating that waste (and, in an added benefit, eliminating smoke).- Check out how to build a rocket stove on sustainablog.org
- Design Principles for Wood Burning Cook Stoves, including In Field Water Boiling Test
- Video Instruction on How to Build Your Own Rocket Stove
- CCAT Rocket Stove
- Larry Winiarski’s Rocket Stove Principles
- Aprovecho Research Center
- StoveTec Retail Store
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...I'm pretty sure that as far as day-to-day cooking goes, electric stoves are much more efficient than anything else, because the hot air that escapes around the sides of the pot is minimized. The time it takes to cook your food is due to the slow transfer of heat through the pan and through the food itself, so having a hotter flame underneath isn't going to do do anything except waste fuel and burn the bottom of the pan. With electric stoves you can heat the food more slowly to give the heat.... More
or use a microwave either way your gonna draw way too much power to do a task that a lot less wood would do... lol like boil water or use a deep fry basin with oil ... or use a rocket stove oven with a bi.metal damper
That's a great idea. Microwaves are probably the most efficient way to cook with the least amount of wasted energy. However some things are hard to cook in the microwave.
Relavent to Americans? how many Americans will collect sticks to cook lunch? Where? In the Burger King parking-lots? When the oil "crunch" comes, and oh yes darlings it will come! Americans will realize they were set up as the fat-assed calves for the Asian alters in this world! The average American is so far removed from this type of survival stove as to be shamefully over-blessed! A broken down Amana is discarded if the repairman is late and the credit card still works! The average.... More
I don't know where the idea came this stove was invented in the 80's as I'm 68 and as kids we made these
Do you think campgrounds will start replacing fire pits with these stoves? What if really skilled people built the stoves and left them on trails and such for others to use after them?
