A Heavy Duty $6 DIY Rocket Stove

hey I'm Stephen with cooking different today I'm going to show you how to build a cheap rocket stove that uses biomass in other words yard debris sticks twigs pinecones all the good stuff as fuel and we can do it on the cheap this projects going to cost about 4 bucks and then the stove will last a very long time if not indefinitely so stay with me to build the stove we're going to need a five-gallon bucket just the old cheap you'll do properly one that you don't really care too much about this is going to be ruined after we're done and some concrete and any kind of old PVC pipe that Chevrolet and around preferably a 4-inch one now we use the pipe and draw a circle around it to get a template to draw a hole into the bucket which I'll show you how that works in just a second now we can draw a circle on the plastic bucket so we'll know where we need to cut out now we have the front elbow put into the bucket so you can see here and then now the next piece we'll flip it over this way to form a 90 degree angle and this will be the burn chamber this is where were you putting the sticks and twigs and all that good stuff in through through the front here and the heat will come out the top now we filled up the bottom of the bucket and this will be the base of the stove once we're done and now that we have that the bottom part filled now we'll put the elbow back in and continue to bring up the concrete through the top so now that we got the bucket about half way full of concrete and the elbows in place and everything stands properly about itself we'll add some water in there because this is a quick setting concrete and what we do is we'll let that water permeate a little bit and then we'll continue rising up to the top and then add some more water I just exhausted the first 50-pound bag of cement and we're not up to the top which means they're gonna have to break them in another bag of a cement and the first one was 50 pounds so this thing's going to be in 60 or 70 pounds so it's not going to be light set up but definitely durable that's where we are for now we've got the whole thing filled up and I'm going to wait about an hour for us to set up a little bit then I'll remove this piece and that piece and then continue to let it dry so I let this stub cure overnight and let it set up and harden a little bit let's see what we got looks pretty solid the next thing we have to do is get the stove out of the five-gallon bucket there's the stove without the five-gallon bucket on it came out pretty good one of the benefits of rocket stoves are typically that they don't smoke very much the reason this one's smoking is that we've used a lot of wet wood from the ground last night because it rained but once it gets up the speed and gets up the heat you won't see as much smoke when I'm just placing towel around the edge right here as a kind of a podium for the pot that we'll be cooking on and for this kind of cooking you never can go wrong with a good old cast-iron skillet I'm not sure if you can hear that but one of the other good things about this type of stove is that air sucked in through the bottom which allows the fire to keep breathing and then it comes out the top and that keeps your fire super hot and then another good thing about this type of cooking is that you only use a super small amount of wood just twigs as you can find from the ground or chopped up larger pieces of wood that you've turned into kindling and so this way you can stretch your wood much farther if you want to use this type of cooking on a day to day basis for Chuck which I love to do once you get your initial fire started you can feed it through the top and through the bottom then you can just kind of start taking longer twigs and just kind of start feeding them in there and as they get burned up you just push them in if for some reason why you're cooking and the flames decide they want to go down on you which hasn't happened in this case but just is to demonstrate to you you can just give it a nice steady little blow and it will act almost as a forge and heat things up and get the flame back going and that's how you make a rocket so made from a concrete mold that we used from a five-gallon bucket total total project cost was about six bucks and assuming you never drop it from a nice height Etowah should probably last a lifetime because it's pure concrete I've seen what other people use vermiculite or para like mixed in with in the concrete itself to help insulate heat but to be honest I don't see the point in that because by the time you cook yourself a meal there's no way it will get up to heat in the first place so that's how you do it six bucks it's good little project go out and try it thanks for watching see on the next video

Channel: Cooking Different

Views: 2,434,090

Rating: 4.7722955 out of 5

Keywords: rocket stove, diy rocket stove, concrete rocket stove, pvc, biofuel stove

Id: vmDTj2py-1k

Length: 7min 24sec (444 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 10 2013

Reddit Comments

[u/67Mustang-Man]

I aint lugging that shit to my next camping trip.

Side note let that concrete dry longer than he did, that moisture can cause it to crack or explode

[u/Low_Pan]

But concrete is toxic?