I haven't been on here for awhile it's been like 6 years or more and it's like my 1008th time using this Stove it's still going strong today. I always get asked at the beach what is that!! Then I show them by cooking burgers, chicken,hot dogs,steaks,pork chops,bacon and eggs and Brew my coffee as well as make soups on the beach everyone always says where's the flame and smoke I tell them it's virtually invisible and ask me if I want to sell it. I'm like no but I will gladly show you how to make one. Best stove I've ever had I just walk along the beach picking up thrash and dry driftwood and branches or even dry seaweed and burn that for hours on end. Still love it and use it almost every day.
I made one today and it seems to work good, going to use it when I go ice fishing. I traced the soup can with a pen onto the pail and the larger center can, drilled a starter hole, then used a solid knife (banana knife) to cut out the holes a 1/4 inch at a time. I put a hole in the center can instead of notching it as you did, because I wanted to keep the base on the center can. I only used sand so that it would pack in and stay in place better. For those wondering how to clean it out, the ashes fall out of the inlet (soup) can easily enough. Thanks for the vid!
The ancient Romans used to heat their public baths using basically the same technology on a grander scale, heating both the floors and boiler for the water.Thanks for the tutorial. It's very instructive and useful in survival situations
Love the Rocket stove, built all sizes and shapes myself. Aviation snips are great for tin can work and a nail is good enough to puch the holes, that way we can save electricity. To avoid smoke you might have to increase the gap between the pot and stove, that seems to help for us! Keep up the solutions people, the time is here to share good info.
I really got into building these as well as the alcohol burners, etc, and find that the clay cat liter works very well, and if slightly moistened before first burn tends to harden the litter into a cement like base, making it burn even warmer.
Clumping Cat Litter is nothing but Raw Bentonite Clay. It is not good for firing into pottery, but: in a case like this where we aren't worried about Waterproof, who cares?
Thanks for sharing your brilliant idea, Mr. desertsun02! This could really help my poor provincemates in the Philippines. Firewood in some places there is getting scarce, most especially during rainy season. Been looking at the internet for a long time for a project of this kind at the least cost; but this one would not incur any cost at all. I'll bring it there. Thanks again...
If you can find waste vegetable or even motor oil, you can dip the wood in the stuff so it'll burn much longer. Just don't breathe in the fumes of used motor oil
I'm just going to say this. Ive been almost all over TH-cam and I havent found anything as good as your design for a little stove. Good job making it. It looks awesome
By fellowing your video I made one of these last night it worked great! I set it up in the dark and you could really see the vacuum in the low light. if I do any winter camping it might work as a small shelter heater as well as a great stove. Many thanks
Just a tip for people trying to cut the hole in the first tin.. If you fill the tin with DAMP sand , then lightly drop the can from about 5mm off the ground to pack it in, place the lid on top of the can and lay the can on its side.. you can now easily use a whole saw to cut the tin. ;)
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Search for 'Arizona penny can stove' way better design than this for camping. Its smaller, lighter, quicker to make and more efficient. You won't be disappointed
Beautiful work. I have tried this several times. Cutting a round hole in the side of a Cylindrical Paint can is a REAL CHALLENGE. You show a nice solution. Thanks.
hi and thank you! yes, it would be difficult to cut a round hole in the big can (especially a round hole of the exact size needed to hold the small can tightly). but doing it like i did allows for an 'adjustable size' hole in the big can. the little points of metal that are left over from the drilling grab and hold the small can very tightly. those points can be pushed in a little or straitened a little (as needed) to get the small 'fuel feed' can to fit perfectly.
Do you think making a chimney would make this safer for indoor use on a shed? I was thinking a flexible metal pipe and vent it through a window(make a sheet metal square same size as shed window take out window and replace with sheet metal then vent up a rigid stack? Maybe put cement board hearth pad and wall backing? Think it could work? I may try
The 30 deg is not for air. It allows for gravity to feed fuel for longer burns. As the old fuel turns to ash it allows for unburned fuel to fall into its place.
Fantastica..., es la mejor opciòn de cocina que he visto, pràctica y fàcil de elaborar con materiales reciclables, grava y piedritas, no busquen màs esta es la mejor opciòn.
My husband just finished his rocket stove yesturday. Looks just like yours but were still looking for a grate for the top.. will be testing it tomorrow
This is soooo coool! I've watched a few of your videos and I have to say, you are very descriptive, get right to the point, and show us some super cool stuff. I'm gonna call you the Can Man.... you can do some awesome stuff with cans!!!! LOL Thanks so much!
I am not sure if you're going to read this or not but I wanted to say, "thanks!" I made the Rocket Stove from the directions you gave me. I just finished it this afternoon. With not having all the tools it made it a little hard. The can isn't right in the middle but it's going to work for what it's intended. Once I go camping I am going to try it out. Again, thank you.
Well made video. Easy to follow instructions. Great job. I do have a suggestion. When cutting the inside can, you said the hardest part is getting the cut started past the lip of the can. If you take a can opener and turn it sideways, you'll cut the entire lip off rather than just the lid, but be careful as the edge is extremely sharp.
We lost power in Boston for 3 days. The only thing that saved us were the old ski suits ( It got down to 45 inside while zero F outside), and the burner on our Grill. This design is exactly what one needs to boil water and cook soup. Thanks for posting this!
Usually the insulation around the stack is a bit better than rocks, usually some sort of perlite and clay slip blend. Thats a little more complex for a hobo stove of course, but the insulated stack is where the magic of a rocket mass heater happens. Since that solidifies, you can turn out the ash no problem. The taller the insulated stack, the better the mass heat conversion is.
I'm clueless. Are you saying that a perlite and clay slip blend will melt and solidify - like fireclay? Perlite you can get a garden centre, can't you? And a potter could supply the clay slip or can you make your own if you have access to clay (I do). Can you give a ratio?
Fill the can with sand and use the hole bit to drill all of the way through. The sand keeps the can from collapsing when the drill is pressed against it.
+Oldtimer Lee Water expands, it could burst the container. If you do this, turn the can sideways and drill the half that's frozen to that side of the container.
megadeathx Lol, the cans are already open... does your ice tray warp because you make ice with it? No, because it has an open end. Think it all the way through mate.
Good Job!! .... one small detail... Try to put a flat platform, like a metal sliver in your feeding can... there is videos on the tube that shows the concept of fuel and air mix. Great looking stove and happy cooking! Peace
i have the same stove , and i can melt metals in it , lika aluminium and copper !!!!! i put sheesha-coals in it , and fire it up , with an hair dryer !!!!! yesss great video .
You should put some holes along the base of the outer can, above the sand line. The heat that builds in the outer chamber would cause air to be drawn in, adding to the upward flow parallel to the burn chamber. Not sure how much the gravel will impede that flow, though (most I've seen leave the air space).
hi and thanks very much! that was one goals of this one (to keep it super easy to make). no need for sealants, caulks, brackets etc...or any specials tools.👍🙂🔥
Great rocket stove, I am making one right now. It would have been helpful to say what ounce the cans were, instead of what was in them. Now I need to find the gas stove grate, can't wait.
That's a great idea to use the jiggers off the top of your kitchen stove on your marvellous rocket stove. I have a few different types but I LOVE yours. Super clever.
I love it! I have seen many different versions on how to do it and yours is one of the easiest. I assume that the paint can has never been used, it looked like that to me. I have a dremel and I think that would work a bit better in cutting the can. Cleaning it out would be easy once the coals are no longer hot.I have a wooden spatula that I use for cooking and that would be great to clean it out.
For insulation I mixed self-drying clay with shellsand and a spoonfull sugar, after the first burn this became rock-solid so easier to transport and throw out ashes. I also took a stainless steel drinking straw, cut into pieces and made airflow-holes at the bottom, drilled through both cans. Works perfect! Oh, and instead of making an arch on the inner can I drilled a whole cirkel in that can too. Now it is easy to take it along camping, I take the front can out and stack it inside the stove.
I’ve made a gallon rocket stove too. Keep it handy stored it’s does make a perfect cooking smokeless shooting hot flame for cooking tried water it a few minutes with just twigs around the ground. A must have.
If you have a dremel tool a grinding wheel will cut right through that metal fast. Nice design though, the paint can already has a nice handle built in.
I really like the easy part and the handle. I just wonder how to clean it out without spilling the sand and gravel. Plus I think of the sand and gravel as thermal mass rather than insulation-- because once you heat it up, it should stay warm, and wouldn't it be nice if you cook quickly outside, then carry the nonflammable hot rock inside to cut the chill?
Sara Cowgill cut out the hole in cans cover, so it covers the channel with sand so u can flip it up side down without spilling. This way the cover can be permanently in place and you can keep cooking
***** Mine stays pretty clean without washing it. Everything dumps right out and a quick pass with a bottle brush or similar tool works great without getting it wet.
+Sara Cowgill take plastic wrap, wrap the can securely, once everything is cold, ofc, then flip it upside down. once you get the sand and the gravel out, remove the foil and flip it again to take the ashes out :)
Sara Cowgill if the paint can comes with a lid, draw a circle the size of the can, cut several diameters inside that circle and bend the wedges down into the can. Pound that lid on good and right and you're set
Simple, but efficient. It would be the perfect technology for countries in Africa or poor people in the country of India or southern America were people don't have much money but live mainly outdoors. You can protect the forests around the world while using that "trash fuel" such as twigs or dried cattle poo and you get a wonderful fertilizer for the soil too.
you're right, i made one too and it works with little fuel. Just get grass, dried weeds, and sticks. For me though I use paper to start the fire as the flame wants to die too quick otherwise.
haha chimi, that's pretty much what they use in those type countries, if they don't buy cheap subsidized lpg cylinders. Lived in Indonesia for a while, Ibu still had an old clay one and a tin one from when she first married (1960's) and the real woop woop village crew just make them with earth bricks and clay. Burn cocnut husks and twigs and shit (literally).
Good stuff. I've been using something similar for years. Because I like to build my own furniture and bee hives, I have lots of wood shavings and saw dust. So instead of filling the outer sides with sand and gravel, I pack in my saw dust and or shavings and light that with a piece of paper. Beware the can will get hot enough to burn a floor so it needs to be set-up on stones or something fire-retardant. The inner cans are used for a mould to create a tunnel / chimney. A four litre / one gallon can of saw dust with give a good even heat for about an hour, so more cheese sandwiches please.
Wow ... great ideas from all. I like the ice or sand trick to let you drill all the way through. Hole saws can get grabby though, and cause a little two-step quicky on the ol' wrist. Another idea is to use the hole saw to 'mark' the circle, then use a jig saw with a fine-toothed blade to cut out the circle.
Thanks for sharing this, one question you may have answered elsewhere in comments... Why not use the hole saw to make the full cut on the side, rather than just scoring it? Seems like it would save a LOT of extra work? Thanks again
Ive made a stove with 1 inch perforated card board rolled tightly into a tuna can then pour hot wax over the top it makes like a sterno can and lasts along time then for the stove used a coffee can and cut the side up enough to slide the tuna can (Burning ) into the bottom __ for the coffee can use a church key (bottle opener pointy end) made holes along the ridge of the coffee can (top side_ so the heat can escape. learned it in a survival course i took yrs ago.
It's kind of amusing watching this; I'd never seen one of these until I came to Guatemala in 1999 and stayed with a desperately poor family and watched the grandmother start a fire in her home made stove. It was a rusted out 12 quart cooking pot (apx.) that someone had tossed. It wasn't made quite the same as the one in this video though. She filled the pot with sawdust and packed it in good, then drilled a hole in the sawdust, with a stick, through the rusted out hole on the bottom of one side and with another stick, at the same time, connected another hole, going down from the top through the center. once she had a connecting hole, she started a fire in the hole at the bottom and let physics carry the heat and flame up. I was impressed; the stove burnt long and hot and the black beans turned out great!
Great idea, well done and appears to work well. Just one thought. You've got to get your self a pair of aviation snips. Your life will be much easier. Good job.
Yes, I think the snipper will allow you to make one in the field, or if you had no power or a dead battery. I like to make things with hand tools, and leave the power tools for big jobs, like building a house or in-ground swimming pool.
Great! nice to have a movable stove when camping. You can cook a meal away from rain and sun under a tarp. Uses wood effciently too. The rocks/sand hold heat for nice simmering I imagine...
I stacked about 10 soup can sealed it with exhaust mud still got a foot to 3 ft flame. Then added a blower almost set self on fire haha... but did work great.
hi. i actually got them at a thrift store. but you can find them on amazon. local stores that sell appliances or used appliances might have them too. here's a link to one www.amazon.com/Electrolux-316055800-Range-Burner-Grate/dp/B003MYWSBK
one thing you can add to this is, a copper tube water line. you can make a hole on the side the size of the copper tubing, then run it to the center can chamber, from that point you coil it up in a tied coil towards the top then run the tube out outwards towards the outside top...then from this point run tubing on both ends, one being your water source and the other being your hot water collector...this is good to use for those moments you need nice warm water for a shower etc...I have found that if you take a plastic 5 gallon bucket and tap into its side and use that as your water source you can elevate it in a tree or simply higher up off the ground so it feeds the water through...as for the outlet you can modify a shower nozzle in the line, if you run enough rubber tubing on the run, you can use this for a heat source for a tent floor...as for the return you simply run a tap into the plastic bucket so the water goes back to its source. Use sand in the copper tubing/pipe when bending it into a coil so you dont kink the line..
lol while watching this I was like hey this guy sounds like Christopher Walken, wait, there was that other video I saw recently with a guy that sounded like Walken. Scroll down, it was you.
talk about insanely odd, i saw a video just today and the guy making the rocket stove looked like christopher walken - go watch video from bertacious you tube user "The best rocket stove video!"
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I haven't been on here for awhile it's been like 6 years or more and it's like my 1008th time using this Stove it's still going strong today. I always get asked at the beach what is that!! Then I show them by cooking burgers, chicken,hot dogs,steaks,pork chops,bacon and eggs and Brew my coffee as well as make soups on the beach everyone always says where's the flame and smoke I tell them it's virtually invisible and ask me if I want to sell it. I'm like no but I will gladly show you how to make one. Best stove I've ever had I just walk along the beach picking up thrash and dry driftwood and branches or even dry seaweed and burn that for hours on end. Still love it and use it almost every day.
Does the inner can ever burn out?
Next time, fill it half full of water and put it in the freezer. After it's frozen just use your hole saw, the ice will support the cut.
I'll remember that. Good idea!
Thanks for that!
my kind of grill. made at home. kicks ass. portable. space heater. no corporate involvement. well done bro.
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Google owns the TH-cam, and is corporate! Thanks for the minority report....
Cans,drill, bits,and tools we live in corporate America.
Don't use this as a space heater without proper ventilation
I wonder how long can this can keep the heat after the fire inside has burnt out. (Maybe use inside the tent.)
I made one today and it seems to work good, going to use it when I go ice fishing. I traced the soup can with a pen onto the pail and the larger center can, drilled a starter hole, then used a solid knife (banana knife) to cut out the holes a 1/4 inch at a time. I put a hole in the center can instead of notching it as you did, because I wanted to keep the base on the center can. I only used sand so that it would pack in and stay in place better. For those wondering how to clean it out, the ashes fall out of the inlet (soup) can easily enough. Thanks for the vid!
One of the classiest looking DIY rocket stoves I've seen on the Internet
The ancient Romans used to heat their public baths using basically the same technology on a grander scale, heating both the floors and boiler for the water.Thanks for the tutorial. It's very instructive and useful in survival situations
Love the Rocket stove, built all sizes and shapes myself.
Aviation snips are great for tin can work and a nail is good enough to puch the holes, that way we can save electricity. To avoid smoke you might have to increase the gap between the pot and stove, that seems to help for us! Keep up the solutions people, the time is here to share good info.
I’m a connoisseur of rocket stove video ideas onYT. This is brilliant. The fact that you have a north east accent is a bonus.
I really got into building these as well as the alcohol burners, etc, and find that the clay cat liter works very well, and if slightly moistened before first burn tends to harden the litter into a cement like base, making it burn even warmer.
you could use a nice pair of metal snips.
That is a good idea, thank you.
Pure genius and cat litter is cheap.
Shawn S. ... Super suggestion! Much faster than using cement like I had initially planned to do.
Clumping Cat Litter is nothing but Raw Bentonite Clay. It is not good for firing into pottery, but: in a case like this where we aren't worried about Waterproof, who cares?
IF YOU PUT WATER IN THE CAN AND FREEZE IT, YOU CAN DRILL RIGHT THROUGH WITHOUT BENDING THE CAN. CLEAN CUT
great tip cutting that circle is the hardest thing
great idea
+Tammy Noble Smart girl :D
Awesome idea!
Fucking brilliant idea but how do you ge the ice out?
thanks. yeah i think the stove works great. definitely make one. cost almost nothing to build and very easy to put together.
I love it that you used what you had, to do as good or better than sandpaper, etc. Minimal is the way to go! Thanks!
Thanks for sharing your brilliant idea, Mr. desertsun02! This could really help my poor provincemates in the Philippines. Firewood in some places there is getting scarce, most especially during rainy season. Been looking at the internet for a long time for a project of this kind at the least cost; but this one would not incur any cost at all. I'll bring it there. Thanks again...
If you can find waste vegetable or even motor oil, you can dip the wood in the stuff so it'll burn much longer. Just don't breathe in the fumes of used motor oil
I'm just going to say this. Ive been almost all over TH-cam and I havent found anything as good as your design for a little stove. Good job making it. It looks awesome
I agree genius idea
By fellowing your video I made one of these last night it worked great! I set it up in the dark and you could really see the vacuum in the low light. if I do any winter camping it might work as a small shelter heater as well as a great stove. Many thanks
Did you try it as a heater?
made one over the weekend with 11 year old daughter. we made Smore's after and cooked late lunch, rice and stew from scratch. Thanx for posting
Just a tip for people trying to cut the hole in the first tin.. If you fill the tin with DAMP sand , then lightly drop the can from about 5mm off the ground to pack it in, place the lid on top of the can and lay the can on its side.. you can now easily use a whole saw to cut the tin. ;)
Me encanta como enseñas yo no sé inglés pero al ver tan detallado como muestras tus enseñanzas eso explica muy muy bien haciendo las cosas es otro lenguaje universal excelente 😍💯😘
hi. thank you and i totally agree 🙂
Hey thanks for the idea. I just built one myself. Gonna take it winter camping with the boys. I'll let you know how it works!
Search for 'Arizona penny can stove' way better design than this for camping. Its smaller, lighter, quicker to make and more efficient. You won't be disappointed
Beautiful work. I have tried this several times. Cutting a round hole in the side of a Cylindrical Paint can is a REAL CHALLENGE. You show a nice solution. Thanks.
hi and thank you! yes, it would be difficult to cut a round hole in the big can (especially a round hole of the exact size needed to hold the small can tightly). but doing it like i did allows for an 'adjustable size' hole in the big can. the little points of metal that are left over from the drilling grab and hold the small can very tightly. those points can be pushed in a little or straitened a little (as needed) to get the small 'fuel feed' can to fit perfectly.
@@desertsun02 Seems PATIENCE is just as useful in this as in many operations. (Sigh!)
Do you think making a chimney would make this safer for indoor use on a shed? I was thinking a flexible metal pipe and vent it through a window(make a sheet metal square same size as shed window take out window and replace with sheet metal then vent up a rigid stack? Maybe put cement board hearth pad and wall backing? Think it could work? I may try
One small mod I made was to tilt the inlet up 30 deg to use gravity in my favor. Works great, thanks for the idea.
Jerry Ohmer isnt 30 deg bit much? i thought inlet was purely for air income like in jet engine. so it burns better
The 30 deg is not for air. It allows for gravity to feed fuel for longer burns. As the old fuel turns to ash it allows for unburned fuel to fall into its place.
That's what I was thinking I would do.
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Fantastica..., es la mejor opciòn de cocina que he visto, pràctica y fàcil de elaborar con materiales reciclables, grava y piedritas, no busquen màs esta es la mejor opciòn.
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Send a bunch of these to Texas!!
I'm in Texas I've been passing on the information hoping it will save lives
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Only bring them inside after the fires burnt out.
My husband just finished his rocket stove yesturday. Looks just like yours but were still looking for a grate for the top.. will be testing it tomorrow
This is soooo coool! I've watched a few of your videos and I have to say, you are very descriptive, get right to the point, and show us some super cool stuff. I'm gonna call you the Can Man.... you can do some awesome stuff with cans!!!! LOL Thanks so much!
I am not sure if you're going to read this or not but I wanted to say, "thanks!" I made the Rocket Stove from the directions you gave me. I just finished it this afternoon. With not having all the tools it made it a little hard. The can isn't right in the middle but it's going to work for what it's intended. Once I go camping I am going to try it out. Again, thank you.
Sorry for asking this question as it's over 7 months. Did you use a 5 litre (1 gallon) can for the outside, thanks.
Well made video. Easy to follow instructions. Great job. I do have a suggestion. When cutting the inside can, you said the hardest part is getting the cut started past the lip of the can. If you take a can opener and turn it sideways, you'll cut the entire lip off rather than just the lid, but be careful as the edge is extremely sharp.
Steve O They also have can openers that will do just what you mentioned, but without the sharp edge. It should work perfect.
Best DIY stove and best instructional video .Brilliant work !Thanks.
I first saw this type of stove 50 years ago in South East Asia. However it was made of concrete and used Rice Hulls as Fuel.
pretty cool. simple, hot and effecient.
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Yeah, that's what i used to be when i was child when cooking some food with my grandmother
Long long time ago
Such lovely time
Think tin snips might've come in handy but hey, it tuned out great! Good idea n I'll be building one myself. Thanks, man!
That is awesome, dude. I will definitely use your design to make a few and put them in my preps. Compact, convenient and easy to use...love it!!!
Agreed 👍
We lost power in Boston for 3 days. The only thing that saved us were the old ski suits ( It got down to 45 inside while zero F outside), and the burner on our Grill. This design is exactly what one needs to boil water and cook soup. Thanks for posting this!
Usually the insulation around the stack is a bit better than rocks, usually some sort of perlite and clay slip blend. Thats a little more complex for a hobo stove of course, but the insulated stack is where the magic of a rocket mass heater happens. Since that solidifies, you can turn out the ash no problem. The taller the insulated stack, the better the mass heat conversion is.
I'm clueless. Are you saying that a perlite and clay slip blend will melt and solidify - like fireclay? Perlite you can get a garden centre, can't you? And a potter could supply the clay slip or can you make your own if you have access to clay (I do). Can you give a ratio?
Wonderful design and "field" manufacture from "found" items...the very best type of Survival stove. Thanks for your video!!!
Fill the can with sand and use the hole bit to drill all of the way through. The sand keeps the can from collapsing when the drill is pressed against it.
mrsillywalk Another is to fill the can about 1/2- 3/4 full of water & then freeze solid.
+Oldtimer Lee Water expands, it could burst the container. If you do this, turn the can sideways and drill the half that's frozen to that side of the container.
+megadeathx
1/2- 3/4 full like Oldtimer Lee said won't burst it, or even slightly bend/distort the can really
megadeathx Lol, the cans are already open... does your ice tray warp because you make ice with it? No, because it has an open end. Think it all the way through mate.
thetravelinghermit lol
Good Job!! .... one small detail... Try to put a flat platform, like a metal sliver in your feeding can... there is videos on the tube that shows the concept of fuel and air mix. Great looking stove and happy cooking! Peace
you could use aquarium rock for the pea gravel, if necessary. I like how compact this stove is. gonna have to make one.
The ultimate cheap and useful car camping cooker.
i have the same stove , and i can melt metals in it , lika aluminium and copper !!!!!
i put sheesha-coals in it , and fire it up , with an hair dryer !!!!!
yesss great video .
I would love to see you do this
Perfect quarantine project!
You should put some holes along the base of the outer can, above the sand line. The heat that builds in the outer chamber would cause air to be drawn in, adding to the upward flow parallel to the burn chamber. Not sure how much the gravel will impede that flow, though (most I've seen leave the air space).
Some brick and mortar, you can make an outdoor cooking oven. Yea, I like your tin stove too.
Very cool, great job. That works great.
Let's see the one you made. What have you cooked on it?
That is beautiful rocket stove...I popped some popcorn to watch this video.
You can also make a ventilation control with the soda can. This way, both temp and fuel duration can be more controlled thus adding flexibility.
Man this the best simple and cheapest one I ever seen. Lord willing I'm definitely going to try to make me one.
hi and thanks very much! that was one goals of this one (to keep it super easy to make). no need for sealants, caulks, brackets etc...or any specials tools.👍🙂🔥
Salutes bro,,many Salutes !! Tin snips for Hunts can is all I would add. Thanks ,
A very nice camping tool. Simple, elegant, reliable. Thanks for the video.
Great rocket stove, I am making one right now. It would have been helpful to say what ounce the cans were, instead of what was in them. Now I need to find the gas stove grate, can't wait.
That's a great idea to use the jiggers off the top of your kitchen stove on your marvellous rocket stove.
I have a few different types but I LOVE yours. Super clever.
hi there. thanks very much 👍
I love it! I have seen many different versions on how to do it and yours is one of the easiest. I assume that the paint can has never been used, it looked like that to me. I have a dremel and I think that would work a bit better in cutting the can. Cleaning it out would be easy once the coals are no longer hot.I have a wooden spatula that I use for cooking and that would be great to clean it out.
For insulation I mixed self-drying clay with shellsand and a spoonfull sugar, after the first burn this became rock-solid so easier to transport and throw out ashes. I also took a stainless steel drinking straw, cut into pieces and made airflow-holes at the bottom, drilled through both cans. Works perfect! Oh, and instead of making an arch on the inner can I drilled a whole cirkel in that can too. Now it is easy to take it along camping, I take the front can out and stack it inside the stove.
Put the lid back on and you have yourself a nice little back woods hot plate! hehe
I’ve made a gallon rocket stove too. Keep it handy stored it’s does make a perfect cooking smokeless shooting hot flame for cooking tried water it a few minutes with just twigs around the ground. A must have.
I used perlite.
That thing is can-tastic!
😂😂😂😂can tastic🤣🤣🤣🤣
It "can" be done👍
awesome mini single stove to build and take on a camping field trip. likes.....
Definitely making one of these. A+
That's amazing.. I was just going to buy some soapstone warmers and put candles in them because it can hold heat for 12 hours
If you have a dremel tool a grinding wheel will cut right through that metal fast. Nice design though, the paint can already has a nice handle built in.
هبل سكن
Which attachment would you use?
Отличная печка из подручных материалов. Самоделкин молодец!
I really like the easy part and the handle. I just wonder how to clean it out without spilling the sand and gravel. Plus I think of the sand and gravel as thermal mass rather than insulation-- because once you heat it up, it should stay warm, and wouldn't it be nice if you cook quickly outside, then carry the nonflammable hot rock inside to cut the chill?
Sara Cowgill cut out the hole in cans cover, so it covers the channel with sand so u can flip it up side down without spilling. This way the cover can be permanently in place and you can keep cooking
***** Mine stays pretty clean without washing it. Everything dumps right out and a quick pass with a bottle brush or similar tool works great without getting it wet.
+Sara Cowgill take plastic wrap, wrap the can securely, once everything is cold, ofc, then flip it upside down. once you get the sand and the gravel out, remove the foil and flip it again to take the ashes out :)
+Sara Cowgill maybe build one with concrete, that way you can simply tip it over and it'll stay built
Sara Cowgill if the paint can comes with a lid, draw a circle the size of the can, cut several diameters inside that circle and bend the wedges down into the can. Pound that lid on good and right and you're set
I making one outta a old water heater. The hole is already there. So I'm using a 4 in a half inch grinder to cut my hole in the tube. .Great idea.
Bud Lite Lime?
now that a true survival situation.
That is a nasty brew
Cách làm bếp rất hay ,rất thuận tiện và không khó để làm ,cảm ơn anh
Simple, but efficient. It would be the perfect technology for countries in Africa or poor people in the country of India or southern America were people don't have much money but live mainly outdoors.
You can protect the forests around the world while using that "trash fuel" such as twigs or dried cattle poo and you get a wonderful fertilizer for the soil too.
you're right, i made one too and it works with little fuel. Just get grass, dried weeds, and sticks. For me though I use paper to start the fire as the flame wants to die too quick otherwise.
Chimi ....i thinking the same ,
Chimi lmao people have been making rocket stoves for thousands of years. This type of technology is well known to people in poor countries
haha chimi, that's pretty much what they use in those type countries, if they don't buy cheap subsidized lpg cylinders. Lived in Indonesia for a while, Ibu still had an old clay one and a tin one from when she first married (1960's) and the real woop woop village crew just make them with earth bricks and clay. Burn cocnut husks and twigs and shit (literally).
+stee vo oh yes animal dungvand yes human pop. high fuel as well can also use along with some paper as a ceramic raku. kiln
Best idea for poors economically.you are great , brother.Thanks.
Good stuff. I've been using something similar for years. Because I like to build my own furniture and bee hives, I have lots of wood shavings and saw dust. So instead of filling the outer sides with sand and gravel, I pack in my saw dust and or shavings and light that with a piece of paper. Beware the can will get hot enough to burn a floor so it needs to be set-up on stones or something fire-retardant. The inner cans are used for a mould to create a tunnel / chimney. A four litre / one gallon can of saw dust with give a good even heat for about an hour, so more cheese sandwiches please.
I love building these!
Im using this at work to boil water to make tea since theres lost of wood around its perfect just have to be responsible how its used
And now I can make my own camp stove. Thanks for the video.
To use the coals, you could put a metal lid with a few holes and some small brochettes inside it, maybe hanging from the lid. Yummy...
Very nice. You gotta make some tea using it; it will be extra delicious
next time you make one put water into the can and freeze it, then you can use the hole saw.
or put a 2x4 behind it???
Damn, that's a good tip. Ive used ice in copper lines like that. Same principle
George Hart
Great idea !!!
George Hart
Wow ... great ideas from all. I like the ice or sand trick to let you drill all the way through. Hole saws can get grabby though, and cause a little two-step quicky on the ol' wrist. Another idea is to use the hole saw to 'mark' the circle, then use a jig saw with a fine-toothed blade to cut out the circle.
You just saved me $150 over an EcoZoom. Yes they are $150 now. 😌
Thanks for sharing this, one question you may have answered elsewhere in comments... Why not use the hole saw to make the full cut on the side, rather than just scoring it? Seems like it would save a LOT of extra work? Thanks again
Ive made a stove with 1 inch perforated card board rolled tightly into a tuna can then pour hot wax over the top it makes like a sterno can and lasts along time then for the stove used a coffee can and cut the side up enough to slide the tuna can (Burning ) into the bottom __ for the coffee can use a church key (bottle opener pointy end) made holes along the ridge of the coffee can (top side_ so the heat can escape. learned it in a survival course i took yrs ago.
Awesome
An air inlet hole or door on bottom side would make it roar! Great design though. Thanks for sharing. I will try one 👍
I like it. I'm definitely gonna build one to keep in case of emergencies
I have been wanting to make one, where we live is full of trees and bush so plenty of fuel source. Your design is good, thanks for posting.
you're welcome 👍
It's kind of amusing watching this; I'd never seen one of these until I came to Guatemala in 1999 and stayed with a desperately poor family and watched the grandmother start a fire in her home made stove. It was a rusted out 12 quart cooking pot (apx.) that someone had tossed.
It wasn't made quite the same as the one in this video though. She filled the pot with sawdust and packed it in good, then drilled a hole in the sawdust, with a stick, through the rusted out hole on the bottom of one side and with another stick, at the same time, connected another hole, going down from the top through the center.
once she had a connecting hole, she started a fire in the hole at the bottom and let physics carry the heat and flame up.
I was impressed; the stove burnt long and hot and the black beans turned out great!
Wow good rocket stove
hi and thanks! 👍🙂
Great idea, well done and appears to work well. Just one thought. You've got to get your self a pair of aviation snips. Your life will be much easier. Good job.
Yes, I think the snipper will allow you to make one in the field, or if you had no power or a dead battery.
I like to make things with hand tools, and leave the power tools for big jobs, like building a house or in-ground swimming pool.
I think it's great how you only use hand tool and make it so simple to follow, great job mate
Excellent video. Does it make a lot of smoke, in case you don't want people to know where you are for safety reason? Thanks
Dry cured hardwood smokes less than damp or soft woods.
Great! nice to have a movable stove when camping. You can cook a meal away from rain and sun under a tarp. Uses wood effciently too. The rocks/sand hold heat for nice simmering I imagine...
S L I C K !!!!
I must make one now!
Thank you!
Excellent, simple, efficient intelligent! Bravo
You need a tray in the inlet that lets air in under the wood. You'll get a hotter fire.
more heat/not enough durable metal here.
I stacked about 10 soup can sealed it with exhaust mud still got a foot to 3 ft flame. Then added a blower almost set self on fire haha... but did work great.
How did you join the cans? anything special or just stacked?
diameter of ring is 6 1/2"
Me and my homegirl just did this and it worked great! We've been frying eggs, making wild boar and sauteing asparagus..thanks desertsun02!
Can I ask where you got the oven grate from? I am having a very hard time finding a source for these here in Canada. Thank you!
hi. i actually got them at a thrift store. but you can find them on
amazon. local stores that sell appliances or used appliances might have
them too. here's a link to one www.amazon.com/Electrolux-316055800-Range-Burner-Grate/dp/B003MYWSBK
Try scrounging the side of the road on trash day. Or habitat restores.
Excellent design
thanks 👍
one thing you can add to this is, a copper tube water line. you can make a hole on the side the size of the copper tubing, then run it to the center can chamber, from that point you coil it up in a tied coil towards the top then run the tube out outwards towards the outside top...then from this point run tubing on both ends, one being your water source and the other being your hot water collector...this is good to use for those moments you need nice warm water for a shower etc...I have found that if you take a plastic 5 gallon bucket and tap into its side and use that as your water source you can elevate it in a tree or simply higher up off the ground so it feeds the water through...as for the outlet you can modify a shower nozzle in the line, if you run enough rubber tubing on the run, you can use this for a heat source for a tent floor...as for the return you simply run a tap into the plastic bucket so the water goes back to its source. Use sand in the copper tubing/pipe when bending it into a coil so you dont kink the line..
Thanks but you may have to demonstrate it with a video. A picture, or in this case video, is more than a thousand words
I get the general idea, but I can 'see' it the way you describe it. A TH-cam video?
Very good and easy and quick method, thank you for sharing.
you're welcome. and thanks for watching and commenting 🙂
lol while watching this I was like hey this guy sounds like Christopher Walken, wait, there was that other video I saw recently with a guy that sounded like Walken. Scroll down, it was you.
talk about insanely odd, i saw a video just today and the guy making the rocket stove looked like christopher walken - go watch video from bertacious you tube user "The best rocket stove video!"
For some reason, I talked like Christopher Walken, while reading your comment
It's the uneven pace, definately some walken...
"Two mice fell into a rocket stove..."
Oriel River ,
you rock. great video... the sand and gravel mix.. awesome....