Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Rocket Stove

I saw this rocket stove on Pinterest today and Logan and I decided we would try to make one. We had all the ingredients for the job anyway.

The stove took about an hour to gather everything and make, not too bad. We had to test it out. I got the Dutch oven out and we tested it with an egg. I had a small piece of wood the kids had been playing with, it was part of a fence or something. It was small, about 1x3x12, and I chopped it up into about 10-12 thin pieces with the hatchet.

I was pleasantly surprised how well it worked! We cooked an egg in a short amount of time. I was so excited about it that I wanted to try the one I purchased about 4 years ago and never used. It took more wood than the first smaller one and much longer to get hot. Since I had the Dutch oven out I decided to make some dinner in it. All in all, I almost preferred the home made version over the store bought.

Not too bad for zero money spent.