Rocket Stove Venturi Camp Cooker

A Twig Burning Camp and Emergency Stove!

Using rocket stove technology you can build the most efficient camp stove imaginable.

After my portable gas grill gave out in less than a year, I was determined to come up with a simpler way to cook while camping.

As a Permaculturalist and familiar with rocket stove technology, I felt there had to be a more sustainable way.

Let's face it, disposable gas containers are a huge waste and burning large log camp fires to produce coals is extremely inefficient. So, I built what I call the "Rocket Stove Venturi Camp Cooker".

Never spending another dime on fuel gas or wood.

Pieces of stove pipe is all that is needed. Good sizes for a "Rocket-Stove Venturi Camp Cooker" are 3inch and a short 4inch inlet pipe. From there, you'll need a skillet, wok, dutch oven, or flat cooking surface of some kind. Now dig a trench in the ground a little longer than the pan is wide. On one side place the 4inch pipe to use as the feeder pipe. Then place the 3inch stove pipe down along the opposite side of the pan to be used as the throat or chimney. It should be at least 6"-8" long. Dig the hole larger directly underneath the cooking surface. Pack the excess dirt from the hole all the way around to seal up cracks and allow for good air flow.

A simple hole in the earth is your fire box.

When you light some tinder and begin burning twigs, air will draw out from the chimney, thus a venturi is created. A venturi is when a smaller opening on one end creates a vacuum that draws in air. It draws so well in fact that you can cook an egg in about 30 seconds. Hot enough to do any type of cooking you can think of. I have even boiled 9 cups of water using only a medium sized cardboard box for fuel.

With the pulling of air up through the stove and with such large surface area of the twigs, the flames burn almost white hot and with very little smoke once it gets "rocketing".

With the "Rocket-Stove Venturi Camp Cooker" no more wasteful fuel canisters, no more large log fires to create adequate cooking coals, and never any more expense other than the original pieces of pipe.

You could even fashion pipe from old tin cans.

I believe this type of stove to be one of the easiest, most efficient, and sustainable design for cooking in the great outdoors.

* Patent Pending - "A Machine for a Twig Burning Camp Stove"

Currently seeking manufacturers.

**Recently, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Partnership for Clean Indoor Air approved grants for five organizations, including Bolivia-based CEDESOL Foundation, which stands for Center for Development with Solar Energy.

The grant, CEDESOL Executive Director David Whitfield toldUSINFO,is for a scale-up project involving a uniquely designed wood-burning device called a RocketStove that "has been certified to be at least 42 percent efficient," does not pollute the environment, and gets about 95 percent of all the harmful gas particles out of the living space.

Other links related to Rocket Stove Technology:

*Arprovecho's Rocket Stove Research Page

*Rocket Mass Heater

*Rocket Stove in Sub-Saharan Africa