Hot Ash Wood Burning Stainless Steel Rocket Stove

Hot Ash rocket stoves are long lasting stainless steel twig stoves
Hot Ash rocket stoves are long lasting stainless steel twig stoves

The Hot Ash rocket stove is designed with primary and secondary burns so they burn hot and efficient. Boil a cup of water with just a handful of sticks, wood pellets, or most other biofuels.

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Silver Fire Wood Stoves

SilverFire® Mini Mongolian Dragon is an affordable rocket style stove that you can cook on.
SilverFire® Mini Mongolian Dragon is an affordable rocket style stove that you can cook on.

“The SilverFire® Mini Mongolian Dragon is a natural draft single burner chimney stove. This stove is heavy, with a refractory ceramic combustion chamber, to provide mass for radiant heat in addition to cooking in a small footprint. Cost: $380”

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A Portable Wood-Burning Stove for the Tiny House Generation


“British company Anevay’s portable wood-burning Frontier Stove was first conceived and built for humanitarian aid use in disaster zones around the world. But the stove appealed to camping enthusiasts, and the company began retailing the compact, durable, lightweight stove suitable for heating and cooking.

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The Cabin Stove – A Small Masonry Heater at Aprovecho Research Center

Specially designed masonry heater for small homes
Specially designed masonry heater for small homes

“The challenge of the design of the Cabin Stove was to come up with something that was very compact but also still resembled and functioned like a masonry heater. The design criteria included heating the small space, an efficient and clean fire, utility for cooking, heating water, combining some quick/immediate-release heat with slower retained radiated heat, relative ease of construction, not too expensive, aesthetically pleasing, and being as compact in size as possible. A very interesting process to try to combine all of these together.”

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Rocket Mass Heater Failure

The folks at Mud Dome blog couldn't get their rocket mass heater to work in Canada.
The folks at Mud Dome blog couldn’t get their rocket mass heater to work in Canada.

I love rocket stoves and mass heaters and have been recommending them for years. However, there are limitations to everything. Here’s a report from frigid Canada where a rocket mass heater wouldn’t work.

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Smokeless Rammed Earth Stove

Smokeless rammed earth cookstove
Smokeless rammed earth cookstove

Rammed Earth for Everyone has some very interesting rammed earth cookstoves and wood stoves with lots of photos that show how they’re built. Looks simple enough for any do-it-yourselfer. Cost would be negligible if the forms were reused to build additional stoves.

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