Oven Design
Rocket Oven
26/11/11 08:35
A while back I read about the Green Rocket Pizza Oven, the most innovative pizza oven I've ever seen. It uses some of the wood combustion efficiency concepts developed over the past 35 years by people like Dr. Larry Winiarski. Unfortunately, it looks like the Green Rocket Pizza oven may only be available to people in the Dallas, TX area.
As I read more about rocket stoves, I came to realize how important they could be to the people in developing countries. As you may know women and children are spending many hours daily as they travel long dangerous distances trying to collect firewood. Also, millions die from the smoke pollution in their homes. The folks at Aprovecho are working hard to improve this situation around the world. While there are few stoves for sale online and even on amazon, this seems like an area for a lot of home inventors.
I've been thinking, these rocket stoves are cooking for hours using the amount of wood I might use as kindling just to start my oven. Could we redesign bread/ pizza ovens for greater efficiency? I might take this on as a project, possibly using castable refractory. Anyone have any experience with castable or rocket stoves? I'd appreciate any advice you might have.
Update 11/30/11 Thank you to those with information about rocket style ovens and stoves. One of the best was a lead I got from Kiko to Jon and his Haiti Rocket Stove Project. Great introductory video and useful photos.
As I read more about rocket stoves, I came to realize how important they could be to the people in developing countries. As you may know women and children are spending many hours daily as they travel long dangerous distances trying to collect firewood. Also, millions die from the smoke pollution in their homes. The folks at Aprovecho are working hard to improve this situation around the world. While there are few stoves for sale online and even on amazon, this seems like an area for a lot of home inventors.
I've been thinking, these rocket stoves are cooking for hours using the amount of wood I might use as kindling just to start my oven. Could we redesign bread/ pizza ovens for greater efficiency? I might take this on as a project, possibly using castable refractory. Anyone have any experience with castable or rocket stoves? I'd appreciate any advice you might have.
Update 11/30/11 Thank you to those with information about rocket style ovens and stoves. One of the best was a lead I got from Kiko to Jon and his Haiti Rocket Stove Project. Great introductory video and useful photos.
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