[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

"A rocket stove is an efficient and hot burning stove using a few twigs. Fuel is burned in a simple combustion chamber containing an insulated vertical chimney, which ensures almost complete combustion prior to the flames reaching the cooking surface. Rocket stove designs are most often used for portable stoves for cooking."

Here are some manufactured rocket stoves. They have some larger ones that can be used for heating and showers in off grid use.

Silverfire Stoves

(I have no association w this firm!)

[greeneyes]

Thank you all for your links-perhaps they will help people who have not heard of rocket stoves. They truly are wonderful.

I have cooked several meals very quickly with just a handful of twigs collected from the yard. I have made one stove with with coffee can and soup cans, bricks(should use the fire liner bricks) and we have a manufactured one that we purchased which is good for wood or charcoal.

Given that 1 is none and 2 is 1.....and so forth, we have many options for meals and heated water:

1. fireplace 2. BBQ grill 3. Sterno stove 4. Rocket Stove
5. Solar Oven 6. Outdoor fire pit 7. Coleman Camping Stove 8. Solar Shower for heating water for bathing 9. I guess we could use one of the slots on the generator for the microwave or electric skillet/griddle.

Hopefully that’s enough. LOL