a New Book with the MOST information on how to
build a masonry stove/oven.
The Bread Builders: Hearth Loaves and Masonry Ovens, by
Daniel WIng & Alan Scott. This book has over 65 pages of complete
building and construction detail. The balance of the book is about
masonry stove bread baking, with recipes, stories, and more. The Stove
building section has many drawings, descriptions, instructions on
materials, tools, techniques, problems, fixes and more, on masonry
ovens. Photos show indoor and out door ovens, old style and new, and a
masonry oven with or without a bread baking area, can be designed and
built using this book. 253 pages, 12 color and 60 b&w photos,
illustrations, bread recipes, commercial baking information.
#4001...$35.00...VIEW &ORDER HERE
The Book of Masonry Stoves by David Lyle. Builder Rob Roy says
these stoves are 35% more efficient than the best 'air-tight' stoves.
Many sketches and photos of old and new designs. Learn about masonry
stoves and how to maximize wood heat in your home. These stoves are
designed so you can sit close and not be burned if you touch them, heat
radiates out, making living areas comfortable for hours with less fuel
consumed. An excellent introduction to this most
environmentally friendly of combustion-based heating systems. Includes
extensive history of wood burning, principles of masonry stoves, and
examples of masonry stoves used around the world. 52 photos, 92
illustrations, index, softcover. #4014...$30.00 ...VIEW &ORDER HERE
The New Woodburner's Handbook A guide to safe, healthy and efficient
woodburning. Very thorough information on using wood in the home,
heater types, options, and more. 168 pp. many drawings, tables,
photographs. #7024...$13.00
Earth Ovens/Hornos...
Here's an idea for people in climates where the clouds come over, and
change your solar cooking plans. An earth oven is an outdoor 'retained
heat' oven, also called a Horno in Mexico and the Southwest. Start a
small fire in the morning, place bread loaves and meals inside at noon,
and enjoy a delicious dinner at night. And, on sunny mornings,use a
solar box cooker to start cooking, and then transfer pots to your earth
oven and you can have fully cooked meals, delicious in flavor, with no
burning or watching over pots. Also great for vegetarian and 'many-bean'
recipes.
An earthen oven called a horno, made of adobe/cob, is used for baking
bread and meals. Very fancy ovens sculpted by Kiko Denzer can be seen in
his book "Build Your Own Earthen Oven"
New Edition, expanded to 100 pages, color
photos! Building Your Earth
Oven --by Kiko Denzer.
Learn how easy and practical an outdoor baking oven is to build and use.
The design is a two layer retained heat oven, and can be built with
onsite materials such as earth and sand, and uses a brick base-floor, or
even an earthen floor. These ovens burn a small amount of wood, get very
hot, and allow you to bake breads and meals slowly after the coals have
been raked out. Kiko sculpts his ovens with wonderful animal and nature
shapes. Imagine a huge Phoenix bird, its belly the
oven, the flue its throat, with smoke escaping from the upturned beak!
Children can help build these ovens, and play with earth at the same
time. Complete instructions, 100 pages, 8.5x7, line drawings, and
wonderful COLOR oven photographs of frog, squirrel, and Phoenix bird
oven-bench, plus B&W of a snail and other fanciful ovens. #1003...
$15.00...VIEW &ORDER HERE
ROCKET STOVES for COB Buildings....#4099...$15.00......Just printed.... a well done booklet on making a heat source for cob and other houses with simple methods, and materials ( metal drums) to use radiant heat.
Many people are not aware Ianto wrote a book on the Lorena stove many years ago, for a clay cooking stove used with low fuels. This booklet is the natural transition to home heating.
58 pages, B&W images and illustrations, 6"x8" format, softcover.
VIEW &ORDER HERE
Review of the Ianto's design by Ocean Liff-Anderson: From the "cob wood stove" discussion on flue-heated benches.......
As far as I'm aware the ONLY way to do this right is to build a Ianto-style rocket stove...normal wood stoves require a tall, vertical chimney to draft properly. If you take a regular wood stove and try force the flue horizontal, the most likely occurance will be the fire will go out and smoke will fill your room...
Ianto refined the rocket-cob design for over a decade, and the reason his rocket stove works with a long (up to twenty foot!) horizontal flue bench is specific to his rocket design. (If you don't know what a rocket stove is, it's a little elaborate to describe over email, so I strongly recommend buying his new rocket stove book!)
The key feature of Ianto's rocket is a super-insulated internal chimney, which he calls the "heat riser", which allows the wood to completely vaporize and burn at temperatures up to 1100F, so that only steam and carbon dioxide exit through the flue...no ash, no creosote, no chimney flue fires! Actually, it's instructive and somewhat amazing to smell(!) the exit gasses from a blazing rocket stove flue: no smoke, just steam more like a laundry-dryer vent with a nice woody scent!
So a well designed rocket stove combusts as close to 100% efficiency as anything I've seen. Why is this important, if wood fuel is plentiful? For one, no smoke to pollute our air. But note also that more efficient burning means more heat from less wood, hence less physical labor or money spent acquiring fuel, more time for other activities (gardening, reading, dancing, weaving, etc!)
Regarding the appropriate-ness of building a rocket stove versus some other heat source for seldom-occupied buildings... we decided to provide two heat sources in the cob Kiva at Ahimsa Sanctuary ( http://www.peacemaking.org ). We have both a rocket (built by Kiko) for long term heating of weekend-long events, and a Rumsford hearth (built by Ianto) for providing immediate heat in the previously unheated building for evening-only events. The Rumsford fireplace burns hot and clean, and provides immediate, intense radiant heat (it melted a plastic bucket 5 feet away!) while the rocket heats a buried-flue bench as well as radiating heat through its drum.
Cobbing Always, Ocean Liff-Anderson.....Intaba's Restaurant Corvallis, Oregon
NEW- A CD ON COOKSTOVES, OVENS &ROCKETSTOVES is available....$6.00 Visit the Dirtcheapbuilder site- Heat-Stoves- page to view.
Solar StoveTop Cooker PATTERN ...This amazing foil and cardboard
cooker focuses the sun's energy so well that temperatures reach 600
degrees in just minutes! Excellent for fast cooking foods ( you can fry
eggs in less than 3 minutes), also ideal to pasteurize water to 158
degrees F quickly for safer drinking water in an emergency. Pattern
includes the instructions and forms to build the reflective cooker, plus
materials list, and tips, recipes. This reflective cooker can also be
used INDOORS by a sunny window and works very well.
#5011...$13.00...VIEW &ORDER HERE
Build A Rocket Stove Cooker..Shows how to make a portable,
emergency stove - A hot, fast burning mini stove for boiling water, and
cooking food. Made from inexpensive metal cans, needs only scrap paper,
twigs, small wood pieces. ( Folks I have made these with coffee cans and
boy do they work! If you can punch a hole in a can, and follow the simple
directions you can boil water, fry eggs and burgers, saute, steam, and
cook just about anything. ) Shows four different metal can designs, and
a clay stove design which needs no tools to construct, and uses local
clay and sand. Lots of photos and clear directions. You'll be amazed at
how well these little stoves work. 12 page booklet #5012..$5.00
Jump to the Off the Grid Homesteading page to see
a photo of the rocket stove in use. VIEW &ORDER HERE
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