Skip to content Here's how to make a highly efficient, cheap, and easy-to-build rocket stove, optimized for cooking in off-grid environments. It can be made in less than an hour from a couple dollars' worth of easily sourced, mostly scrap materials.

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Hi Folks 🤩
I just found this nifty design for a small, homemade stove that looks like it can use twigs and small bits of wood for cooking. https://makezine.com/projects/tin-can-rocket-stove/

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Would some of you be willing to build a few of these and test them out to see if they are practical in your situation? Are the materials easy to find where you live? What do you have available for fuel? For example, does this stove work if you only have dried dung or small twigs for fuel?

Is a tiny stove like this practical, not as your only way to cook but for boiling small volumes of water or cooking just a few eggs?

If you build this stove, please take videos showing how you found the materials, what tools you used to put them together, your experiments with different fuels, and anything else someone would need to know to build one for him or herself. Include your mistakes as well as your successes. That way the next person can skip discovering how **not** to do it!

Finally, tell us whether you think this Low Tech gadget is worth the time and effort to build it. Is it really making your life better or should others skip it and find something else to play with?

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my response to the posting after some thought

nigel stonham now

Ok, I shall take this posting to my homeschooling groups in Vienna and see if we can get the 5 year olds working on this as a project, perhaps (AHA!) , Friday afternoon at Arboretum Educational Centre, in the woods where there are lots of twigs ... and Friday is an Open Day ... we can report back

Adding now, we can also do a comparison with Solar Cookers. Margaret has one and Bruno in Kakuma is working on a sales campaign there where the sun shines more brightly than here.