The Rocket Powered Oven

Tim and Joel take you through a step-by-step guide to building an extremely cheap, rocket stove powered oven using easy to access materials such as bricks, clay and reclaimed steel barrels. These designs may not quite have the domed top elegance that has made the backyard cob pizza oven so trendy, but they do have a farm yard charm of their own. And rather than taking hours to heat up to cook a couple of pizzas (and subsequently only used once a year!), these are super efficient, and very practical stoves. Both Tim and Joel use theirs on a daily basis. Their potential as a genuinely sustainable backyard fixture of the future is very high.





In the first section you’ll learn about the fascinating principles of the rocket stove, and in subsequent sections they will get down to the detailed business of building them. To complete the projects yourself, you’ll need a handful of common tools, and a little confidence using them, but the process will demand nothing beyond the scope of the most casual backyard tinkerer. The focus of this volume is on cooking, and we’ll be presenting two options for DIY ovens, appropriate for both outdoor and – if correctly flued and sited – indoor use.