DIY Rocket Stove

DIY Rocket Stove

 

There are so many unique rocket stove setups that it’s impossible for me to describe even a portion of them. To prove this point, a YouTube search will reveal 144,000 videos on the topic.
So here’s the good news, I’m going to save you the trouble and hours sifting through all these videos. Helping you avoid the unnecessary rubbish and showing you just the hidden gems.
Trust me when I say that the rocket stove setups I watched run from the ridiculous to the sublime.
In its fundamental design, a rocket stove has a combustion chamber, an air intake, and a chimney (or flue) to vent the exhaust.
They can be made from many different types of containers. Empty cans, 55-gallon drums, cinder blocks all have been used to create a rocket stove.
I once found an old, rusty oil drum and modified into a stove. I found it in an old log grain storage building on my ranch.
Even though it looked like it was a hundred years old, it still was perfect for this DIY survival gear project. Since a having a stove is an essential survival tool for cooking and heating, you would be smart to make your own too.
There were so many how-to videos to choose from, but I finally settled on this one. The basic concepts are all the same so feel free to get creative after you watch: