D.I.Y. Brick Rocket Stove ~ Grid Down Outdoor cooking

DIY Brick Rocket Stove ~ Grid Down Outdoor cooking
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[cathys]

Here's a cooking tip from an old Girl Scout: If you want to use your good kitchen pots over a wood fire, rub the OUTSIDE of the pot with wet, soapy hands - just coat the outside with a thin coat of soap all over and set it over the fire. When you wash the pot later, the black soot will wash right off due to the soapy coating. Have fun cooking outdoors!

[bettysweet]

I made mine from fire brick just to be on the safe side a few years ago. Placed it on the edge of my paver patio and like you mentioned I got a gas stove grate for the top. I’m in the Deep South, so when the temps cool off I cook on it., soups, stews and cobblers. Even made some Dutch oven bread. It’s fun to use and I clean up my yard for “fuel”. I have made morning coffee and breakfast during power outages from hurricanes. Heat is intense hence the name. Really glad I have it, cause you just never know. Thanks for what you do.

[dandycat]

Gotta admit...You ROCK, LADY!!!
At the start, my inner engineer said, "she's gonna need some kinda mortar (or mud, at least!).
But no, works well enough.
Best of all...like some others,
I GOT BRICKS!!
Finally, something I can have a go at.
😃😃😃😃

[patsweeney]

What a neat way to cook when the electricity is out!

[villagesteader]

I have a cast iron Dutch oven that would be perfect…like yours it has a bail(handle) for you to hook it and get it off the fire.
It was my Grandmother’s, sometimes it pays to be the oldest granddaughter!👍♥️🙏🇺🇸🤓🤣

[canabsk]

What a great idea to use a spider on!! (cast iron Dutch oven with legs) ... you wouldn't even need a grate, and the base of bricks is strong enough to support a large, heavy cast iron spider!!!

[kogabear]

I think I watched about every rocket stove video there is. I came up with all kinds of ideas for the first one but after trying a few, the type you show is the best. This is definitely one of those KISS projects. What really is amazing is how easy they are to make and how efficient they really are.

[Veetribe.]

This is excellent..because you surely don't want a big fire that draws attention to your house

[hkshooter]

i built one out of fire brick, with a u channel on the bottom, .temporarily with wet clay for sealant. had it going for a few min. my neighbor came over asked if i smelled something, like camp fires. he was standing right next to it about 3 ft away. no smoke at all. full tilt fire. then asked why its so hot over here on my patio. awesome.

[susankay]

I've had one of these for years that I use on my deck to make chili in the winter and breakfast frequently. I have one more layer of brick on my chimney as it seems to draw better, and I use an old Square gas stove grate on the top of it. If I ever have to bug out I can load it in the back of my pickup one brick at a time and always have a way to cook and heat.

[ArtGardenFoodExpressions]

Now, I see why your fans LOVE you. You share so much useful info and cheap alternatives. I never seen anyone else do this. I will be making this. I have tons of leftover bricks from my house, but they are the ones with holes in them. I do have the bottom slab pieces. I hate cooking in my house because things pop. I will definitely do this to fry burgers on and other things that need high temps. You are amazing. I am pretty new to your channel, about a couple of months in.

[ladyprepared]

Awesome video! It would be awesome to see a cooking series using this method of cooking!

[SR-iygg]

I have watched a number of videos recently like this, all from somewhere in Asia. This is the first time I've seen one like this without mortar and just using some concrete and regular bricks just stacked up. This is exactly like I've been thinking of recently. I watch those videos and I think of how I would do it and have been thinking along these lines. Especially when you're first doing it, building it this way without mortar would be good because if it doesn't come out the way you want, all you have to do is take it apart and start over. I think I would build maybe two or three like this side by side so you have multiple "burners, " but you only need to light as many as you need at a time. I've also been thinking of how to create an oven, what I could use for a metal box to surround with bricks to do with this also.

[me]

Thank you. You made my life so much easier. God bless you

[sergeantbigmac]

After doing A LOT of canning last season (Doing big jars of tomato sauce that needed to go for 45 minutes) in a BIG water bath canner that took like an hour just to get to boiling itself(!) it occurred to me that I was probably wasting a lot of $$$ in cooking gas. Also having that much water boiling indoors adds a lot of heat&humidity to a house and I live in a humid region... I can see this being super beneficial for stuff that requires long cooking times because you can burn basically whatever junk wood laying around in your yard and so its basically free to run. It would be perfect for running a water bath canner or making homemade bone broth that needs to boil for 8-10 hours but you dont want to blow up your gas bill...
Anyway this is my longwinded way of saying this still has uses even when society is running smoothly.

[SueD-lq]

Thank you 🙏 for helping me to learn survival cooking skills.this could come in handy if emergency cooking is necessary

[cynrest]

Just found you. Love the rocket stove. Thank you. New subbie ❤

[joanxox]

Awesome idea for when it's really hot as well! Cook outside and keep your house cooler 😎

[BaBa_Morris]

This video will probably end up really saving someone someday! Extremely helpful and relevant. Thank you!

[johnndavis]

Very nice. I have enough stuff laying around the back yard to build one of these.
Thanks for the videro.