Rocket Stove | 2020

Rocket Stove

During isolation, my dad and I thought of an idea to build a rocket stove. A rocket stove is sort of like a mini stove. You have a whole in the side of whatever your making it out of to feed the twigs (or whatever your using as fuel) into and then the big hole in the top where all the heat comes out of. We made ours out of a bunch of old food cans and a bigger paint can.

We began by cutting both ends of one can out using tin cutters and then only one end of another can so we had one hollow one and one with only one open end (a lot of ones in that sentence). We then went on to use a rivet gun and two pieces of metal to hold both of these cans together. After that we made a hole the same size of the smaller cans in the lid of the big paint can where the small cans would eventually sit. We then had to cut a hole in the side of the cans to fit yet another can into the side where the fuel would be fed into. After this we cut some more holes and fastened some more cans until it was time to pour the cement.

At this time the cement is still hardening however, we're not sure whether we are going to have to knock the cement out and replace it with sand because of how the cement might react. We also added on some wire to the top where the pan or pot your cooking with can sit. I though that this was a really fun project and would love to do something like this again in the future. (Warning, if you are to make a rocket stove then it is the best and the safest to do it with sand as cement expands under heat. We will be changing it for sand.)

Here are some photos :)