Stove/cooking discussion (split from recruiting forum)

[Burger]

Lulz. I should bring one to a game. If you like your steak Pittsburg style, pronto crispy outside, bloody as hell inside, a rocket stove is perfect. The temp is around 1000 f leaving the heat riser. Now that's searing

That sounds beautiful. You're one guy I need to talk to someday.

 

[StoVol]

All you fellas ... thanks. I'll post one of a brick rocket stove I made on an island in the middle of a pond for this guy. I'll make one and bring it to a volnation tailgate. Us and fire... that ought to be fun. I'm still out working tonight so I'll post it in the next few days.. Back at it bros

 

[jjay2518]

All you fellas ... thanks. I'll post one of a brick rocket stove I made on an island in the middle of a pond for this guy. I'll make one and bring it to a volnation tailgate. Us and fire... that ought to be fun. I'm still out working tonight so I'll post it in the next few days.. Back at it bros

Yeah, I'd love to see some pictures of one you've done, or even better see one in action at a tailgate.

 

[UT_Dutchman]

The Masonry Stove


To the uninstructed stranger it promises nothing. It has a little bit of a door.. Which seems foolishly out of proportion to the rest of the edifice. Small sized fuel it used, and marvelously little of that. The process of firing is quick and simple. At half past seven on a cold morning the servant brings a small basketball of slender pine sticks and puts half of these in, lights them with a match, and closes the door. They burn out in ten or twelve minutes. He then puts in the rest and locks the door...The work is done.

All day long and until past midnight all parts of the room will be delightfully warm and comfortable...it's surface is not hot; you can put your hand on it anywhere and not get burnt.

Consider these things. One firing is enough for the day; the cost is next to nothing; the heat produced is the same all day, instead of too hot and too cold by turns..

America could adopt this stove, but does America do it? No, she sticks placidly to her own fearful and wonderful inventions in the stove line. The American wood stove, of whatever breed, is a terror. It requires more attention than a baby. It has to be fed every little while, it has to be watched all the time; and for all reward you are roasted half your time and frozen the other half... and when your wood bill comes in you think you have been supporting a volcano.

It is certainly strange that useful customs and devices do not spread from country to country with more facility and promptness than they do.

Mark Twain

I have an Englander, I replenish the wood twice a day, holds a little more than a cubic foot. Quite easy to keep constant heat if you understand forced air through baffles.

 

[StoVol]

this is the fourth or fifth one i did. i ride motorcycles with this cat from the local brickyard and was trying to score a good deal on some firebrick. he said if id build one on his island at his home he'd give them to me. So i built it for him for free. Common firebrick, sairset mortar, ceramic fiber 2800 degree inside coated with satanite. what i tried to figure out with this one was a way to build one without having to cut a single brick, since id be on a pond island, so i skewed the heat riser 45 degrees, burns like hell and the bricks are barely warm on the outside, but an incredible amount of heat is coming out the riser

 

[StoVol]

I have an Englander, I replenish the wood twice a day, holds a little more than a cubic foot. Quite easy to keep constant heat if you understand forced air through baffles.

I'm familiar and like wood heat in case the power goes out, but a metal stove of any kind sucks the heat away from a fire so that it can never reach the temps to burn it in the most efficient manner. most of these stoves are lined with firebrick to alleviate the loss somewhat but cast iron or any metal is not ideal for heating. if you ever get a chance visit someone with a rocket stove or masonry heater... you will not see any smoke leaving the chimney, only carbon dioxide or water vapor. I've tested many with a heat gun. ive rarely seen a metal stove reach 1200, i can get 1600 minimum on most of the stoves ive built. we americans just send hot gases right up the chimney, but people who know cold burn faster and hotter and channel the hot gases through thermal mass (like a stone battery with channels). they calculate the distance until the exit temps should be between 3 and 400, then send the gas to a chimney. instead of convectively heated air, you now have radiantly heated stone or some mass.

 

[UT_Dutchman]

I'm familiar and like wood heat in case the power goes out, but a metal stove of any kind sucks the heat away from a fire so that it can never reach the temps to burn it in the most efficient manner. most of these stoves are lined with firebrick to alleviate the loss somewhat but cast iron or any metal is not ideal for heating. if you ever get a chance visit someone with a rocket stove or masonry heater... you will not see any smoke leaving the chimney, only carbon dioxide or water vapor. I've tested many with a heat gun. ive rarely seen a metal stove reach 1200, i can get 1600 minimum on most of the stoves ive built. we americans just send hot gases right up the chimney, but people who know cold burn faster and hotter and channel the hot gases through thermal mass (like a stone battery with channels). they calculate the distance until the exit temps should be between 3 and 400, then send the gas to a chimney. instead of convectively heated air, you now have radiantly heated stone or some mass.

Yes mine is lined with firebrick and it has a heat exchanger with a blower. I have seen this channeled type, I have been lucky enough to be able to build about anything, I am working on a smoker right now. Are there plans for the rocket stove available? Thanks UT D

 

[StoVol]

Yes mine is lined with firebrick and it has a heat exchanger with a blower. I have seen this channeled type, I have been lucky enough to be able to build about anything, I am working on a smoker right now. Are there plans for the rocket stove available? Thanks UT D

yes sir theres a link to it way above. there is a heater mason, Mr. Pryor who built a smoker from a masonry heater firebox type design at mha last year (link above as well). i ate cream cheese stuffed jalapenos from it. I was thinking of trying something like that but simpler. just firebrick and sairset would be all you'd need

your englander.... is it a fluid filled heat exchanger? That would help alot i'm sure

 

[jhen713]

Not a burger, but even when it is 17°, you can smoke brisket and boston butt. Here it is ready to go:

I've got my butt in the smoker. Ribs will soon follow.