35P2 Cooking Test of a 35 Gallon Wood Cook Stove

Lanny Henson demonstrates the incredible efficiency of his 35 gallon wood fired cooker by cooking a 50 lb bag of rice (186.3 lb cooked) with only 10 pounds of wood, for an impossible score of 1 to 18.63, or 1 gram of wood cooked 18.63 grams of rice! See more details at
OffGridCooking.blogspot.com.

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Science & Technology

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• Wood cook stove
• biomass energy
• camp stove
• Haiti cooking fuel
• charcoal
• off grid cooking

[tonysshadow]

Good Googa Mooga!.. if you're cooking up a mess of chili with this piece of work....I want an invitation!

We have State Fairs coming around in a few months (as Im sure you're aware, being a son of the south). Seems to me you can cook up grits (or rice), chilli, or a whole cookbook full of things from south of the Mason Dixon. If you haul that thing to Louisiana, I suspect you could sell 10 just driving past the state line.

I can imagine shrimp bobbing up and down while simmering.

[lannyplans]

@tonysshadow

I got you down for 10 gallons of chili, you going to pick that up or do I need to deliver?

[marco9bear]

Wow , thats a serious cooker , nice job ! . I'am curious about what you did with the rice after this shoot Lanny ? . thumbs way up.

[lannyplans]

@marco9bear

I did not mind spending $17 for the rice, to do the test, but hauling two wheel barrow loads of rice to the compost pile, did make me think about the hungry.

Next I will cook chili. That will not be wasted! LannyPlans

[insAneTunA]

I was wondering, I am growing some bamboo for years now, and I found out that it has a high density. The kind that I have is winter proof and used for gardens, it's not a native plant, it stays green all winter. It also doesn't die every several years. I have burned some bamboo and noticed that it gives of a lot of heat. Are you familiar with burning or gasifying bamboo? If not maybe you should try it, just to experience the heat, you can tell if it is normal or more heat then normal wood.

[lannyplans]

@insAneTunA

Bamboo is an excellent fuel. Did you see my Bamboo Fired Bean Cooker?

When cooking rice you can save the charcoal.

[jw934]

Both rice and beans cook with less fuel if they are pre-soaked. Unfortunately that is not how most families cook them. But for institutional purpose I think there would be no objections. Not sure. Love all your videos. Cheers, Andrew

[wwe107]

Nice boiler. Good job Lanny, needs some soy sauce.

[Consumerofknowledge]

ok . so what did you do with all the rice?? who ate it.???

[MrRazputain]

Are there plans for these? this would be good for disaster relief.

[stefanobi64]

LOL! Impressive, really. I've made and tested some wood stoves made by myself with good results in low fuel consumption, but this is astonishing!! Really like it!