Build a rocket stove

This video from Aprovecho Research Center (www.aprovecho.org) shows how to build a rocket stove from readily available materials. The rocket stove design uses significantly less fuel than an open fire to accomplish the same amount of cooking. Because the combustion is so efficient, the rocket stove generates much less smoke and carbon monoxide than an open fire. Rocket stoves are becoming increasingly popular with campers and those preparing for emergencies. CAUTION: EVEN THOUGH THE ROCKET STOVE DESIGN BURNS MORE CLEANLY THAN AN OPEN FIRE, YOU MUST STILL PROVIDE ADEQUATE VENTILATION. DO NOT USE INDOORS.

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[aproresearch]

Making bricks is a lot easier than making a monolithic structure that would want to crack. Bricks provide expansion joints.

[dexterquincy1]

a whole lot of us wont exactley have access to a kiln to fire bricks. there r a lot of other stove designs here on tube that r much simpler and work as well as this stove.

[mannhorn34]

Why can you not use regular bricks?

[jmg1957]

peace

[macrumpton]

@aproresearch If you put ridges in the mold for a monolithic structure it would crack on the grooves rather than randomly, so you could prevent cracking that would cause the internal structure to fail.

[macrumpton]

Since you are making the combustion chamber out of molded bricks, wouldn't it just be easier to mold the whole combustion chamber as a single piece? Is there any reason the whole stove could not be made of a single molded piece with perlite poured into voids for insulation?