Love this!! There is a lack of RU-vidrs demonstrating cooking with rocket heaters. I have just build a batch rocket heater and I can fry egg as and bacon on the top of the bell but incorporating an oven would definitely complete the jigsaw. Thanks for sharing.
Just starting a video series of baking in my rocket oven have done a basic bread video and Foccaccia and Pizzas yesterday. Next i want to bake 50 loaves in a day to show people in SA how to make a living out of the oven will do this next month other videos will be up in the next 10 days but my plan is to bake a whole host of things in my oven this year (as you say nobody showing this)
Hi, I have made a couple of rocket stove ovens for my friends in Vanuatu. I had trouble with too much heat on the bottom of the oven, so I made them thermowave ovens using electric fan circulation. My intention was to fit a solar panel on the top of the oven and a low voltage fan for in the oven internally, but Clovid19 stopped that, however, I did fit 230 volt fans as my friends have both got solar panels. I like the idea of using clay tiles to even the heat. I used a baffle tray to achieve something similar. I’m just brassed off that I saw your video after my ones had been shipped out. Thanks for the idea that I will incorporate in my next ones.. also the bread temperatures... Brian in NZ.
Hi Brian i use the refractory to do the job of the fan as consistant still heat is best for baking bread. the temperaturs range from 180 - 280 degrees celcuis but most bread i bake in the 220 to 250 range as i like a slightly darker crust
@@breadrev2008Thank you for your reply. Although I originally watched your video 2 years ago, I was pleased to be able to watch it again. Since the time of sending the ovens, they tell me they haven’t needed to use the circulating fans and that just having clay tiles has been sufficient. They also tell me that by lifting the oven off the rocket stove they are able to use the stove for day to day cooking. Since the recent cyclones, Judy and Kevin, the ovens have been in constant use because of the damage to their traditional retained heat clay ovens.
Thanks for the great video. Your micro bakery concept in ZA with these ovens as a centrepiece is a wonderful initiative, I hope it really takes off! I have a question about your rocker burner module: It seems to be made out of mild steel. Is it just square box section mild steel with no insulation anywhere? Not around the burn chamber or heat riser? I ask as other advice online suggests mild steel will not last long with the rocket combustion temperatures and that it also looses heat too quickly and is too higher mass to achieve a really good burn...
Hi the baby ovens work fairly well using mild steel but they do have a shelf life. The bigger commercial ovens which bake for up to 6hrs a day we use firebricks set in in a galvanized case. One has lasted 5 years and still going strong recon it will outlast the actual oven
Can you share link for sketches and materials, procedures. I can make better changes in our community. I can donate for breadrev ZA
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Hi, this makes so much sense for a community with limited resources. I would like to provide such an oven for impoverished villagers in Papua New Guinea - would you have any plans that I could follow to make one? I clearly understand the general idea, but I need some help to understand the construction of the oven box. Do you have a design that also allows a cooking pot to utilise the heat of the exhaust? Thank you
Wonderful!!! I have enjoyed all your videos. Quick question that I didn't see answered on previous videos: How long does it take to get the oven up to temperature? Roughly how much wood does it consume per bake?
Hi a small oven takes 15-20 minutes to get to a consistent heat (220c) big ones double that due to larger amount of refractory in oven that gives consistent heat. Wood use is about 20% of a conventional woodfired oven (or pizza oven) so small oven like this video a small bag of offcuts will do you a bake or 2
@@breadrev2008 Wow. That sounds fantastic! Thanks for the reply. That is very helpful. I am looking to make a small one but don't have the metal skills. I could use concrete or cob. Would you recommend any adjustments to the stove if I used cob or a concrete dome? Do you think cob or concrete would work best? It is to be outside permanently, under cover.
@@bpbehnes Hi I would use a barrel rocket oven and use cob am building one starting in January plus baking out of one I have built. Basic metal skills needed for the barrel and will use refractory concrete for the rocket will start to build end Jan and post on youtube. the trick is to use two barrels the second one creates an air gap then you can use cob for insulation. So basic answer is concrete for rocket and cob for insulation
@@breadrev2008 Got it. Thank you so much again for the advice. That makes a lot of sense. I look forward to seeing what you will create. I will definitely try it out and am looking forward to it.
Do you use resinous wood such as pine? I've heard resinous wood is not good to cook with. Did you eat the bread? Your design seems to work better than most.
The fire or smoke does not enter the baking chamber so you can use any wood you want obviously the more resin in the wood might vlog up the flow of air quicker
There's a Kickstarter right now for building a rocket oven - no welding required! www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/rocket-ovens-feature-length-documentary?ref=95clci
Unglazed ceramic tiles they hold heat steady don’t put bread directly on them not sure if they are food grade in bigger ovens I use refractory bricks which are food grade
Just made 10 small ones like this for a project but have sold then all think i have 1 left not planning to make any more as they are too small if you want to bake a bit more than just for yourself We normally make bigger ones 2 pan (oven size 800mm x 650mm) and a 6 pan which is about 1200mm square
Depends on the insulation you use (you could use something to insulate the top to create heat that would allow you to cook off the top or use insulation to stop it completely) we use fire clay or fibrofax so it gets hot but not enough to cook off
Unfortunately not just worked it out on a pics of paper as we built 10 as once off they are training ovens really small the normal ones we build are much bigger
