![]() I have also seen most other rocket stoves use insulation in their burn chamber and I am thinking this would result in a huge boost in combustion efficiency. ![]() I think that would make this thing exponentially more efficient. I am also wondering about using a pot skirt/wind screen. Got the pan super hot and everything came out great. I also cooked up some stir-fry in a wok last night over top of it and it worked like a charm. I think if you wanted to use keggles its going to take a bigger stove. ![]() I am hoping that once everything dries we will see a boost in performance. I am thinking that this may have something to do with there still being a lot of water in the clay mortar and this is preventing the burn chamber temperature from getting as high as it could be. I mocked it up without any mortar and think it worked better before. Here is a photo of one I built out of old bricks and cinder blocks from the woods. I do wonder if you couldn't "throttle" a rocket stove, restrict the incoming air-flow to slow down combustion and cool things off, much like closing the lid on your grill when you want to cool down the coals? This would be easier to build than an adjustable-height system, but it seems like it might result in smokey, incomplete combustion. I did wonder whether nine pounds of sticks or thinly-split logs would be hard to come by, but, some quick googling puts a cubic foot of wood at anywhere between 25 and 50 pounds cut that in half to account for the air space between small, irregularly-shaped pieces, and his nine pounds of feed stock would be a pile a foot on a side and somewhere between five an ten inches high - seems imminently doable. The Minuteman is the only self-contained rocket stove on the market.Presuming he's got a big enough stove to bring his pots to a boil when it's going full blast, a combination of adjusting the height between burner and kettle and simply choosing strategically when to add more wood should give OP the ability to maintain temperature - if he's willing to invest in good thermometers and watch his system like a hawk. Gather a handful of sticks and twigs, start your fire, and you will be cooking in less than five minutes. The Minuteman solves this problem and is also fast to light and easy to use. Most of us live in a city or suburb and do not have access to an adequate and sustainable supply of fuel if using traditional wood-burning cooking methods. This results in a huge time and energy savings from collecting and processing firewood and affords sustainability. The fuel is readily available in almost any environment and requires no saws or splitting to process. The Minuteman requires much less fuel (small sticks, pine cones, bramble, biomass) than the larger rocket stoves and uses less than 1/10th the wood required by an open cooking fire or wood-burning cook stove. When camping or tailgating, a smokeless fire will make you much more popular with the neighbors, and you do not go home smelling like you and your gear spent the weekend fighting a forest fire. In a survival situation, this keeps others from detecting your location and advertising that you have food. The extremely high, internal heat double burns the combustible gases and results in a smokeless flame. Due to the premium, ceramic refractory insulation that fills the space between the burn tube and the military ammo can chassis, the Minuteman can be safely used on a wood picnic table without damaging the wood. Its’ highly insulated construction allows for minimal heat loss and focuses the heat where it is needed…on the cookware. Even large cast-iron Dutch ovens, canners, and full-sized stew pots are no problem for the Minuteman. The Minuteman Rocket Stove is one of the most compact, portable and efficient rocket stoves on the market today, making it perfect as a survival, camping, or expedition cook stove.Īs a result of its rocket stove design and internal ceramic insulation, the Minuteman Stove reaches operating temperatures in excess of 1200 degrees.
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