Improved Cinder Block Rocket Stove design! We have been using it on a regular basis and it really works. Easy to make, burns fast and hot, pressure cooks beans quickly.
What a strong and intelligent woman this is ! Modest yet skilled in survival and creative in using what is available! My sincere compliments ! I learn a lot now how to build a stove and use the wood efficiently
I love how you are cooking high off the ground to save you back! Great idea on your improved rocket stove and pressure cooker, I learned some good stuff here!👍🏼
This lovely woman is what reminds me of how America became great. I can imagine her ancestors being very proud of her. Very clear instructions and tips.
an old scout master taught us to wipe the outside of your pots with a thin layer of dish soap before placing them on a fire to easily wipe the black off when finished.
Good tip but if your rocket stove is properly designed and put together there will be no smoke or soot since the main principle of the rocket stove is complete gasification.
The Girl Scouts used powdered laundry detergent mixed with water to form a thin paste and apply to the out side of the cast iron. When you put it in the wash water the scorched soap would just melt away.
I’m a late comer to this video. Just happened to run by it by chance. Looks like what I was going to say had been said already by several men and women. But I will say it again: what an awesome woman!! Not afraid to get her hands dirty, and is quite skilled in all the things that really matter it seems! Doesn’t need make/up and papering and probably is an excellent companion to some lucky guy. The world needs a lot more of gals like this!!!
Did you have any idea in 2016, how important your video would become in 2020? Thank you so much for taking the time to help us all. Really, this could make the most important difference to many people. You did good.
Yes. That is a REAL woman. Equal and capable. I happen to be blessed with the partnership of one myself. Life is good. Real women - you ROCK!!! Don’t stop.
3 years later and we are officially in a SHTF situation. Thanks for posting stuff like this. I feel like I’m trying to cram decades worth of survival education. But it gives us once non-believers a chance. -Be blessed
if you can find a lady that gets her hands dirty you better keep her. she's a lady that will help you get thru many things and not afraid to work. she deserves extra credit, yes.
The long braided hair,round glasses,long dress n lace up boots remind me of granny Clampet from the show 'The Beverly Hillbillies'. But this lady got sex appeal !
Excellent, absolutely excellent video. Special Thanks for saying "Masonry Blade on a Skilsaw" ( circular saw). A joy to use with the right wind. That said, I've made your design including the two riser blocks ( so a total of 7 instead of 5 ). Oct. 2022 I put out a total under $30 including the under $5 blade and an 8th block in case I messed up cutting the first block. Didn't mess up. EZ, I cut the 8th one anyway for a backup fire chamber and just because I was really enjoyed cutting that concrete so easily. Bonus Points to you for the often left out can air intake. You are AWESOME! ( and I know this is 6 years later, but still great!) Thanks You!
Old smoker restored, wood cut and split. 1915 enameled cook stove in place outside. Cabin ready hand pump and well box all tapped in. Pressure not best but free spring water on my property. Grandma taught me alot she was born in 1897. Smart old gal.
Hey where did you go? I just discovered you but no vids in 4 years. That is just beautiful because your legacy lives on with YT. 1.3 million views on this vid alone and almost 10k subs...not bad. Thanks for the stove lesson.
Your stove is very simple yet cleverly built. I think everyone who has a garden should have one of those and get used to cooking meals outside. Thank you so much for sharing!
@Billthewelder55 you're an amazing person! I wish to have your anergy to do so much! Thank you very much for directing me to the other stove! All my love and blessings! 🙏❤️☀️🙏
@Billthewelder55 you're such a sweet person, you've made the stove and the video and you thank me! Some people are really angels but they don't know it yet. You're one of them. My first post was six months ago, when my life was still bearable. Now I've lost my husband and I'm trying to remind myself what I used to do, how I was planning to make a stove capable of melting aluminium and glass. Sodium glass, low melting point. But now I can only dream about that life as it will never be realised as I'm unable to do the most basics things without my husband being here with me more than half of me has already gone with him. We don't realise when our husbands are with us how blessed we are. Id give 10 years of my life for 1 day with my husband . Id give my all remaining years for just one day with my husband. But God doesn't trade in lives. So I've been praying for some kind of help, anything, doesn't matter how small and God says no. If I run away, I'll be able to build a stove like this so I won't need to eat raw roadkill. You've helped so many people! God bless and enjoy every second you have together. We were so in love , married for 40 years and one day it all had collapsed. Look after yourself, I worry about these cement blocks exploding without a warning. Don't want to nag. All my love. ❤️🙏❤️
I'm so sorry for telling you all this. I must've felt at the lowest point at that time. Sometimes I feel a bit better and manage to watch some videos and even ask some questions. And God must've directed me to you as you're such a wonderful, down to earth person. Thank you so much for adding me to your prayers but I really don't want to add to your already busy life. Just one little prayer from you will be worth a lot to God. He might listen to you and send my guardian angels to help me. Thank you again, your message has brighten my day! Bless you and I'll say a prayer for you too, to thank God for putting you on my path. ❤️🙏❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏
Great job, consider building a concrete block bench right next to the top of the rocket stove so you can easily slide the pot onto it rather than moving it like you did.
Great vid hon. Clear descriptions of what you're doing and why. Demonstration was just long enough that I didn't lose interest and not so short that u left a bunch of unanswered questions to plague me. Good job!
Brilliant Miss lady and i love your pressure cooker thank you for this video very informative and simple yay 😊 and you built your fire place up higher well done
Enjoyed the vid, nicely done the only women I've seen setting up a stove made up of center blocks, what a surprise when u said we are going to start it now and you pull out a blow torch! Sweet icing on the cake. I'm tempted to make one of these stoves i enjoy cooking outside all yr round.
Yup. After she uploads the video, just updates her Facebook and checks how many views before writing a message to Granma to let her know she only has to upload a couple more of videos to get cash enough to go on vacation to Thailand.
There's no need to be rude. These lovely people are teaching you something that could possibly save your life. This is a very informative video and very easy to watch.
Excellent video from a knowledgeable person, instead of a yuppy playing "living off the land". I'm 71and lived, as a youth, without modern conveniences. The only recommendation that I can suggest is using nonshiny paper to start the fires. Like regular newspapers. The shiny have chemicals in them. Newspapers usually use soy print. I taught living off the land and Colonial living for decades. And used something similar to your rocket stove for cooking and dying yarns/fibers. Your stove is much better! I just bought cement blocks, so will now build your model. Thanks!
Very nice presentation with relevant details, and I'd like to say nice job honey, because its a sweet video, not a macho insult to your proper & knowledgeable lady-ness. You go girl learning us something.
Genius to use a pressure cooker with the rocket stove. The p.c. requires much less heat & time to cook the same food in a stock pot. I love your design. I especially like the height! Keeps the kitchen cool in the Summer too. Thanks so much for the cool video!
Awesome work. I could see making a oven from center block too. If you get your hands on a old water heater and strip everything off the tank you can use it to heat water over a fire but you have to add a pressure valve to keep it from blowing up.
at 6:52, note the cracks in line on 2 blocks. Your blocks are failing, they hold too much moisture left outside. They may collapse suddenly with a pot of hot liquid on them. Be careful.
The block turned up on end is longer which creates a stress point for the ones stacked part way on top of it......then the blocks get hot......and POP ! ! ! ! ! !
exactly, this is why that one cracked; Because the one on it's end is higher than the two sat on top of one another, creating a void beneath the top brick. I noticed that too. It's nothing to do with them holding moisture or that they're failing. They were designed to build houses.. @@gustav24-7-52
I a time like this we women should learn survival skills.Thank God I'm one of those women.I have a great deal of respect for this woman.I have every modern gadget but there none better than self reliance.
Well done! Just an fyi for you. Cinder blocks are known for cracking in higher heat. They cos a bit more but, you can get red or fire bricks shaped like standard building bricks and build the same thing by staggering the way you stack them. Then you won't need to worry about them breaking and you will get years of use out of them. I also recommend cast iron pots. Never the less, well done. Shows what you can do with a little effort.
Modest, smart and experienced in innovative and useful survival/cost saving skills. Most modern cultured women nowadays are in big trouble for what’s to come. Lol
Liked the video. Please head all the warnings in the comments. That type of concrete was not made for high heat. Also please don’t have your burn pile that close to your stove. With the sticks hanging out that far, it is a dangerous set up. I like you and appreciate you, wouldn’t want you getting hurt. Please keep the good content coming.
That was too much. All the homesteading, life off the grid aspect, the pioneer dress...then a friggin propane torch! Like Carl Spackler ( Bill Murray) cleaning his living area with a leaf blower in Caddyshack. Cannonball!!!!!
Excellent video love how you dress like women should. Reminds of my mother years ago as a little boy. Really enjoyed the cooking outside and just every thing about the whole video. I grew up on the farm and this reminds me so much of my mom and grandma cooking outside. I trully enjoyed this keep up the good work. Your dress is pretty to.
Instead of a stove grill on the top, you can use any (metal) spacer; we used coat hanger wires on our version, and the tiny gap turned out to be enough to keep the chimney draft going, but made better use of the heat since not as much would bypass the pot. Another BSA related improvement: "skirt" the pot with tinfoil that drapes the outside of the pot, extending below the top of the block; leave a gap in the foil for gasses to escape. This really increases the heat transfer by heating the sides of the pot as well as the bottom. It took a lot less fuel. I like the tin can combustion air "duct"!! Another thought: use a wok ring (doesn't everyone have one of these?!!) instead of buying a grill.
I need 1 not the rocket stove but a Woman like Her old fashioned & knows how too cook & not scared of a little dirt & knows how too dress with out trying to expose her body to impress people & tbh She look's Beautiful from what I see just saying She was definitely raised right
Maybe the guy should be cooking and then we could make comments that he would make a good husband someday. Lol! And that it looks like he was raised right. LMFAO
2nd that notion, but even though she's wearing a dress, she wears the pants in the house. I fine it sexy... this coming from a macho man that loves a real woman like that. i Like, OLE!
@@cynthiamoon372 The tragic thing is that precious girls like her were almost common back before they destroyed our culture - now we have ignorant sluts who are Totally useless when their '15 minutes of fame' as a 'party girl' is over - then it's cats and dyed hair and bitter childless loneliness. And they called it 'Women's Liberation'.
@@johncook3496 I hear you, John. They are so desperate for a man that they dress like whores, swear like sailors, and drink like bums. Feminism IS CANCER!
@Michael Wolff I came across your reply by serendipity, they usually hide them from me - don't want the un-reconstructed being encouraged in their aberrant thinking - lol. I just wanted to thank you - I did the same with my two, as best I knew at the time - they are not too bad, considering. I really hope your girl doesn't fall for some young fool with great potential - she needs to be looking among the 40 ish men who are _Ready_ for a family. It's funny how nature creates women with virtually all they need to know 'built in' but quite the opposite for men. 20 something year olds are just not ready to be fathers - it's all they can do to not murder their offspring in a temper tantrum...
PLEASE be aware that all forms of concrete has many air bubbles/ pockets and will EXPLODE off they get too hot or there's heat applied for lengthy cooking time. Unlike fireplace bricks concrete id not tempered for high heat An acquaintance didn't have proper river rocks to heat up for their native American sweat lodge and the fire tender used concrete bricks to heat up on the fire. Even before water was added to create steam, 2 bricks exploded and shrapnel went everywhere
A trick to help with black bottom pans is to wipe them with dishwashing liquid and let it dry. The black will form over it and wash off easily. Old camping trick
Just found your channel and love it. Great improvements on the rocket stove. We just got the cinder blocks and are clearing an area. The plan is to pour cement as a base and put the rocket stove and bbq on it to prevent any accidents/fires. Also can wash the area with a bucket of water.
I see many comments warning against the use of concrete against high-heat applications. I won't add to them even though they are all true. My suggestion to you would be to use fire brick. They aren't very expensive and would remove any worries of explosions. Concrete explodes like a bomb when subjected to high heat, and a prolonged fire could do it.
@@nunyabiznis817 Then use regular bricks, which are way safer than concrete, although fire brick are recommended, but usually rocket stoves are not used long enough for the heat to do to regular brick what it does to concrete blocks.
c fedyszyn Or burns all over her whole body, that long cotton prairie dress is a perfect fire combustible it will catch fire real fast. Safety first always and you don’t want to start a forest fire either.
This video helped me rethink some things.. all those sticks right next to the tower.. oh my.. I think I'm gona have a fire extinguisher in my area when mine becomes built. I think I will also have my sticks away enough not to be a explosive landmine in case I had to get out.. still am going to start my homestead with this stove but now I have a heads up of some variables to consider.. bricks are first.. fire extinguisher, sticks away in a metal feeding troft I have, and a long lighter and grill plate.. ok here I go!
I'm glad it works for her. It looks so flimsy to me. I wouldn't try it as it is. Maybe with a different kind of cinder blocks in a more sturdier position..
I have used cinder block rocket stoves for years and they work well but the blocks are not made to withstand heat and they crack quickly. If you can find some where to get clay blocks or pipe, they last longer.
I almost forgot to hit "LIKE" .. I am a lot better about remembering than I used to be. 1 out of 20 or 30 will hit like, even if they do like the video. I know it helps the channels so I try to remember :) 👍👍👍
@@epicjohnson9396 Correct, usually they all crumble after being hot enough a few times. I'd be more concerned about trapped moisture than trapped air, steam can make powerful explosions. I once saw a damp sandstone in a fire ring explode like an M80, fragments drew blood on several bystanders, but luckily , that time at least, nothing too serious -- it could of been fatal.
Cinder block concrete is usually too porous to build up pressure. I think it is called spalling when you put a lot of heat in concrete and a chunk explodes out. Like if you pour molten metal on it. But that is usually poured wet kind of concrete that is pretty compact.
Thank you! Interesting and practical. We are playing with rocket designs using some old 'single' cinder-blocks (just a cube with one square hole), eventually hope to convert our wood stoves to Rocket/Mass heaters to heat the mud brick house in the winter. As we play, we learn. Ours have a longer riser - four to six blocks tall and thus run much hotter. The bottom block cracks! The Pyrometer says that it was ~160C on the outside and around 380C inside, so no surprise. Repaired it with clay 'slip' and baling wire... We'll see how that works when it has cured.
I have watched many tutorials about rocket stoves, and many people waste a lot of time getting it started. Your technique is the most common sense approach that I've seen! Something you might try is dryer lint, which is mostly cotton, and can be kept in a zip lock bag. A cheap effective startup fuel is 91 to 94 percent isopropyl alcohol. Try spray painting your cinder blocks with high temperature Krylon paint to prevent cracking from high temperatures and prevent water absorption of rain. You can put a layer of tin foil on your pots to keep the soot off, or put your pot inside an aluminum pan, and this can be reused. Great video, looking forward to more!
What a strong and intelligent woman this is ! Modest yet skilled in survival and creative in using what is available! My sincere compliments ! I learn a lot now how to build a stove and use the wood efficiently
Pretty sure anybody can start a raging fire using an acetylene torch and any nearby fuel source. LOL.
This is akin to starting a fire using a flame thrower.
Reminds me of my time among the Amish, where simple living is as good as life gets.
Know that's right
I love how you are cooking high off the ground to save you back! Great idea on your improved rocket stove and pressure cooker, I learned some good stuff here!👍🏼
This lovely woman is what reminds me of how America became great.
I can imagine her ancestors being very proud of her. Very clear instructions and tips.
She has a great understanding of what it takes for a successful fire.
How do you turn it off?
She is actually an awesome teacher! She should be so proud. 👍👍👍😁😊
@@damarisdelgado7 put a brick on side and top
@@adilsamara5005 Thank you!
an old scout master taught us to wipe the outside of your pots with a thin layer of dish soap before placing them on a fire to easily wipe the black off when finished.
Good tip but if your rocket stove is properly designed and put together there will be no smoke or soot since the main principle of the rocket stove is complete gasification.
Bill Burd ***{ thank you .. }***
An old scout master taught me to wipe too...
@@RedfishInc lol
The Girl Scouts used powdered laundry detergent mixed with water to form a thin paste and apply to the out side of the cast iron. When you put it in the wash water the scorched soap would just melt away.
I’m a late comer to this video. Just happened to run by it by chance. Looks like what I was going to say had been said already by several men and women. But I will say it again: what an awesome woman!! Not afraid to get her hands dirty, and is quite skilled in all the things that really matter it seems! Doesn’t need make/up and papering and probably is an excellent companion to some lucky guy. The world needs a lot more of gals like this!!!
Did you have any idea in 2016, how important your video would become in 2020? Thank you so much for taking the time to help us all. Really, this could make the most important difference to many people. You did good.
So far, as I look at rocket stove videos, this is the best one. Nice she has all the dried sticks available.
Dang my kinda lady pretty, smart, not overly prissy and knows how to cook.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I agree. Nice woman.
@@tims6540 I did value women like this in my teens, but none like them existed. Moreover, the women I told that I liked this ridiculed me.
Yes. That is a REAL woman. Equal and capable. I happen to be blessed with the partnership of one myself. Life is good.
Real women - you ROCK!!! Don’t stop.
In India we use Pressure Cookers, it saves lots of energy & nutrients, just keep the steam exhaust clean.
Nice idea,
I LIKE PRESSURE COOKERS FOR DISTILLING.
Do a video on how's that's done please..
Still have mine i bought in Srinagar, exiting times using it on my cycle tour from Srinagar-Leh-Manalli ;))
Pressure cookers are Awesome. Most people are afraid of them!
3 years later and we are officially in a SHTF situation. Thanks for posting stuff like this. I feel like I’m trying to cram decades worth of survival education. But it gives us once non-believers a chance. -Be blessed
Wait another year, it gets worse.....
@@beansncornbred2576 Wait some more, it's getting really bad.
Wait a little longe
Those words are more true today than 2 years ago
What are you people talking about?
SHE'S GONNA PUT DOOR DASH OUT OF BUSINESS!!!🇺🇸🙂👍
You may just be the smartest lady I have ever seen on RUclips. Im gonna have to build one of these
Indeed, a woman who is not worried about getting her hands a bit dirty deserves extra credit.
she deserved a real man
Well done,,,,,,,,,,,
Now if we can only find a man that doesn't mind getting his hands dirty.
if you can find a lady that gets her hands dirty you better keep her. she's a lady that will help you get thru many things and not afraid to work. she deserves extra credit, yes.
If she's not married some aren't doing their jobs. She should be someone's wife. She's lovely.
Its always good to see a modern day mountain mama show you how its done :)
The outfit reminds me of an old time tv series little house on the prairie...
andiwidiyantogm huterites maybe
The long braided hair,round glasses,long dress n lace up boots remind me of granny Clampet from the show 'The Beverly Hillbillies'.
But this lady got sex appeal !
@@raysova7666 Reminder: it were granny who held things together.
@@peggynash5995 : Exactly, & she trusted NO ONE! Smart lady!
good night john boy good night billybob
A beautiful, intelligent, innovative and MODEST woman. Thank you.
The perfect woman!
WHERE IS SHE? *IN BATMAN VOICE*
🙂🙃👍
It's kinda like seeing like a UFO or elvis.. fascinating.. also kudos on this variation of rocket stove you have here!
Halleluyah.......
I don't know why this showed up on my RUclips but I'm glad it did.
Regular cinder blocks crack when repeatedly heated to extreme temperatures. I suggest building a more permanent stove lined with fire brick.
Famtastic video!!!!... I learned to do this 30 ot 40 years ago and never looked back!!! You can burn leaves for fuel too.. Thank you very much!!!!
Excellent, absolutely excellent video. Special Thanks for saying "Masonry Blade on a Skilsaw" ( circular saw). A joy to use with the right wind. That said, I've made your design including the two riser blocks ( so a total of 7 instead of 5 ). Oct. 2022 I put out a total under $30 including the under $5 blade and an 8th block in case I messed up cutting the first block. Didn't mess up. EZ, I cut the 8th one anyway for a backup fire chamber and just because I was really enjoyed cutting that concrete so easily. Bonus Points to you for the often left out can air intake. You are AWESOME! ( and I know this is 6 years later, but still great!) Thanks You!
Old smoker restored, wood cut and split. 1915 enameled cook stove in place outside. Cabin ready hand pump and well box all tapped in. Pressure not best but free spring water on my property. Grandma taught me alot she was born in 1897. Smart old gal.
Great demo guys.
G'day from Australia 🇦🇺
Wow!! I like your simple but useful and practical explanation. I admire you and I bow to you!
I watched so many how to make rocket stove videos, this is the easiest and I love the idea of using concrete blocks.
Hey where did you go? I just discovered you but no vids in 4 years. That is just beautiful because your legacy lives on with YT. 1.3 million views on this vid alone and almost 10k subs...not bad. Thanks for the stove lesson.
She’s so damn cute!!
Your stove is very simple yet cleverly built. I think everyone who has a garden should have one of those and get used to cooking meals outside.
Thank you so much for sharing!
@Billthewelder55 you're an amazing person! I wish to have your anergy to do so much!
Thank you very much for directing me to the other stove!
All my love and blessings!
🙏❤️☀️🙏
@Billthewelder55 you're such a sweet person, you've made the stove and the video and you thank me! Some people are really angels but they don't know it yet. You're one of them.
My first post was six months ago, when my life was still bearable. Now I've lost my husband and I'm trying to remind myself what I used to do, how I was planning to make a stove capable of melting aluminium and glass. Sodium glass, low melting point.
But now I can only dream about that life as it will never be realised as I'm unable to do the most basics things without my husband being here with me more than half of me has already gone with him.
We don't realise when our husbands are with us how blessed we are.
Id give 10 years of my life for 1 day with my husband . Id give my all remaining years for just one day with my husband.
But God doesn't trade in lives. So I've been praying for some kind of help, anything, doesn't matter how small and God says no.
If I run away, I'll be able to build a stove like this so I won't need to eat raw roadkill.
You've helped so many people!
God bless and enjoy every second you have together.
We were so in love , married for 40 years and one day it all had collapsed.
Look after yourself, I worry about these cement blocks exploding without a warning. Don't want to nag.
All my love. ❤️🙏❤️
I'm so sorry for telling you all this. I must've felt at the lowest point at that time. Sometimes I feel a bit better and manage to watch some videos and even ask some questions.
And God must've directed me to you as you're such a wonderful, down to earth person.
Thank you so much for adding me to your prayers but I really don't want to add to your already busy life. Just one little prayer from you will be worth a lot to God. He might listen to you and send my guardian angels to help me.
Thank you again, your message has brighten my day!
Bless you and I'll say a prayer for you too, to thank God for putting you on my path. ❤️🙏❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏
Very smart and very pretty too! 😘 Good job 👍 and thank you for your knowledge!
I always feel better after watching this type of film. Excellent.
Great job, consider building a concrete block bench right next to the top of the rocket stove so you can easily slide the pot onto it rather than moving it like you did.
THANKS VERY MUCH FOR TEACH US THIS , VERY UGLY TIMES ARE UPON US , WE MUST LEARN EVERYTHING TO SURVIVE, THANKS VERY MUCH GOD BLESS US ALL
Great vid hon. Clear descriptions of what you're doing and why. Demonstration was just long enough that I didn't lose interest and not so short that u left a bunch of unanswered questions to plague me. Good job!
I agree with you except you should never use cinder blocks for this type of project!
Those are cement blocks, not cinder blocks! True cinder blocks are very dark gray, and not as strong in compressive strength as cement blocks.
Brilliant Miss lady and i love your pressure cooker thank you for this video very informative and simple yay 😊 and you built your fire place up higher well done
This is one of the best RS vids...Love the down home...Gotta get one of those P cookers!
Enjoyed the vid, nicely done the only women I've seen setting up a stove made up of center blocks, what a surprise when u said we are going to start it now and you pull out a blow torch! Sweet icing on the cake. I'm tempted to make one of these stoves i enjoy cooking outside all yr round.
GREAT JOB ON THE VIDEO, Dr Mount
I learned in the Boy Scouts to soap the outside of your pot before cooking to make cleaning easier. Brilliant design btw!
Little House on the Prairie 2019
Damn you beat me to it.
Yup. After she uploads the video, just updates her Facebook and checks how many views before writing a message to Granma to let her know she only has to upload a couple more of videos to get cash enough to go on vacation to Thailand.
There's no need to be rude. These lovely people are teaching you something that could possibly save your life. This is a very informative video and very easy to watch.
little outhouse on the prairie comes to mind. little snotty, bratty nellie oleson of whose head you'd like to smack with a cinder block in hand.
Little house in the hills .
Excellent video from a knowledgeable person, instead of a yuppy playing "living off the land".
I'm 71and lived, as a youth, without modern conveniences. The only recommendation that I can suggest is using nonshiny paper to start the fires. Like regular newspapers. The shiny have chemicals in them. Newspapers usually use soy print.
I taught living off the land and Colonial living for decades. And used something similar to your rocket stove for cooking and dying yarns/fibers. Your stove is much better! I just bought cement blocks, so will now build your model. Thanks!
Love the couch in the background, out in the element's
LOL ! Yeh maybe that is her living room :)
Very nice presentation with relevant details, and I'd like to say nice job honey, because its a sweet video, not a macho insult to your proper & knowledgeable lady-ness. You go girl learning us something.
You go girl : great job .😊
Brando Steele sounds like the name of a comic book hero.
My kinda gal....thank God i,m a country boy....thank you for your knowledge.
Genius to use a pressure cooker with the rocket stove. The p.c. requires much less heat & time to cook the same food in a stock pot. I love your design. I especially like the height! Keeps the kitchen cool in the Summer too. Thanks so much for the cool video!
Smart, self reliant and beautiful without makeup. Just the way I like my woman.
Fantastic! I love the addition of the can beneath the sticks. :)
Awesome work. I could see making a oven from center block too. If you get your hands on a old water heater and strip everything off the tank you can use it to heat water over a fire but you have to add a pressure valve to keep it from blowing up.
at 6:52, note the cracks in line on 2 blocks. Your blocks are failing, they hold too much moisture left outside. They may collapse suddenly with a pot of hot liquid on them. Be careful.
perhaps inserting additional coffee cans to insulate the chimney would help prevent a sudden failure?
The block turned up on end is longer which creates a stress point for the ones stacked part way on top of it......then the blocks get hot......and POP ! ! ! ! ! !
exactly, this is why that one cracked; Because the one on it's end is higher than the two sat on top of one another, creating a void beneath the top brick. I noticed that too. It's nothing to do with them holding moisture or that they're failing. They were designed to build houses.. @@gustav24-7-52
@@PrimeTime345 that's a really good idea
@Kevin Olschesky really good way. Using flue liners
I a time like this we women should learn survival skills.Thank God I'm one of those women.I have a great deal of respect for this woman.I have every modern gadget but there none better than self reliance.
Well done! Just an fyi for you. Cinder blocks are known for cracking in higher heat. They cos a bit more but, you can get red or fire bricks shaped like standard building bricks and build the same thing by staggering the way you stack them. Then you won't need to worry about them breaking and you will get years of use out of them. I also recommend cast iron pots. Never the less, well done. Shows what you can do with a little effort.
Modest, smart and experienced in innovative and useful survival/cost saving skills. Most modern cultured women nowadays are in big trouble for what’s to come. Lol
Great! Also, your explanation was SO thorough. This came up on my menu after five years, and I’m glad it did!
Liked the video. Please head all the warnings in the comments. That type of concrete was not made for high heat. Also please don’t have your burn pile that close to your stove. With the sticks hanging out that far, it is a dangerous set up. I like you and appreciate you, wouldn’t want you getting hurt. Please keep the good content coming.
lol love it , builds a natural fire then BLASTS it with a blow torch lol , that was funny
I chuckled at that too.
You never know when you'll need a blowtorch!
Or five cinder blocks
That was too much. All the homesteading, life off the grid aspect, the pioneer dress...then a friggin propane torch! Like Carl Spackler ( Bill Murray) cleaning his living area with a leaf blower in Caddyshack. Cannonball!!!!!
@@patclair9555 Like a Mennonite with a cell phone
Excellent video love how you dress like women should. Reminds of my mother years ago as a little boy. Really enjoyed the cooking outside and just every thing about the whole video. I grew up on the farm and this reminds me so much of my mom and grandma cooking outside. I trully enjoyed this keep up the good work. Your dress is pretty to.
Now that's WIFE material!
No,that's husband material,most guys are like girls three days...
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Get your spelling right lol
Yeh. Thinkin' alike. I like her voice and everything.
Wow, where can I find a woman like this!!!???
Right. That is my kind of woman.
I’ve built several on my property over the years and they work great
Respect lady... I like the way you dress you really impressed me
Thanks for excellent presentation.
21st century man, watching videos about fire. Life is good.
A feast of recognition.
Excellent presentation and useful information. Thank you!
Instead of a stove grill on the top, you can use any (metal) spacer; we used coat hanger wires on our version, and the tiny gap turned out to be enough to keep the chimney draft going, but made better use of the heat since not as much would bypass the pot. Another BSA related improvement: "skirt" the pot with tinfoil that drapes the outside of the pot, extending below the top of the block; leave a gap in the foil for gasses to escape. This really increases the heat transfer by heating the sides of the pot as well as the bottom. It took a lot less fuel. I like the tin can combustion air "duct"!! Another thought: use a wok ring (doesn't everyone have one of these?!!) instead of buying a grill.
Oh, yes! I use my wok ring all the time on my gas range it is made from cast iron from the 1970's, it keeps my wok steady and secure.😁
Very nice ! And what a nice and intelligent lady.
Nice Stove. Good looking Woman too. 👍⚘
My kind of girl. Smart ,good looking, and not afraid to work.
I need 1 not the rocket stove but a Woman like Her old fashioned & knows how too cook & not scared of a little dirt & knows how too dress with out trying to expose her body to impress people & tbh She look's Beautiful from what I see just saying She was definitely raised right
Maybe the guy should be cooking and then we could make comments that he would make a good husband someday. Lol! And that it looks like he was raised right. LMFAO
or maybe it was just chilly outside. LOL
@@bodean2222,u sick.
@@raysova7666 Yah!!! Im not sure what I said, but ok
@@bodean2222,don't take it serious. Just a saying(about the situation u commented on. Kinda funny.
I’m looking to make one and like your design. Thanks for all your info.
Very well done! I love the way you dress.. Lovely... Nice to see.
2nd that notion, but even though she's wearing a dress, she wears the pants in the house. I fine it sexy... this coming from a macho man that loves a real woman like that. i Like, OLE!
Not only is she dressed like a lady, she probably can make her own dresses.
@@cynthiamoon372 The tragic thing is that precious girls like her were almost common back before they destroyed our culture - now we have ignorant sluts who are Totally useless when their '15 minutes of fame' as a 'party girl' is over - then it's cats and dyed hair and bitter childless loneliness. And they called it 'Women's Liberation'.
@@johncook3496 I hear you, John. They are so desperate for a man that they dress like whores, swear like sailors, and drink like bums. Feminism IS CANCER!
@Michael Wolff I came across your reply by serendipity, they usually hide them from me - don't want the un-reconstructed being encouraged in their aberrant thinking - lol.
I just wanted to thank you - I did the same with my two, as best I knew at the time - they are not too bad, considering.
I really hope your girl doesn't fall for some young fool with great potential - she needs to be looking among the 40 ish men who are _Ready_ for a family. It's funny how nature creates women with virtually all they need to know 'built in' but quite the opposite for men. 20 something year olds are just not ready to be fathers - it's all they can do to not murder their offspring in a temper tantrum...
Well done presentation encouraging logical bare bones approach, to getting a meal done outside.
PLEASE be aware that all forms of concrete has many air bubbles/ pockets and will EXPLODE off they get too hot or there's heat applied for lengthy cooking time. Unlike fireplace bricks concrete id not tempered for high heat
An acquaintance didn't have proper river rocks to heat up for their native American sweat lodge and the fire tender used concrete bricks to heat up on the fire. Even before water was added to create steam, 2 bricks exploded and shrapnel went everywhere
Great improvements. Like the hight of the cook grate.
A trick to help with black bottom pans is to wipe them with dishwashing liquid and let it dry. The black will form over it and wash off easily. Old camping trick
Just found your channel and love it. Great improvements on the rocket stove. We just got the cinder blocks and are clearing an area. The plan is to pour cement as a base and put the rocket stove and bbq on it to prevent any accidents/fires. Also can wash the area with a bucket of water.
I see many comments warning against the use of concrete against high-heat applications. I won't add to them even though they are all true. My suggestion to you would be to use fire brick. They aren't very expensive and would remove any worries of explosions. Concrete explodes like a bomb when subjected to high heat, and a prolonged fire could do it.
Firebrick is $31 for 6 bricks. That's expensive.
@@nunyabiznis817 Then use regular bricks, which are way safer than concrete, although fire brick are recommended, but usually rocket stoves are not used long enough for the heat to do to regular brick what it does to concrete blocks.
Or she could make her own from perlite and a concrete mix
c fedyszyn Or burns all over her whole body, that long cotton prairie dress is a perfect fire combustible it will catch fire real fast. Safety first always and you don’t want to start a forest fire either.
This video helped me rethink some things.. all those sticks right next to the tower.. oh my.. I think I'm gona have a fire extinguisher in my area when mine becomes built. I think I will also have my sticks away enough not to be a explosive landmine in case I had to get out.. still am going to start my homestead with this stove but now I have a heads up of some variables to consider.. bricks are first.. fire extinguisher, sticks away in a metal feeding troft I have, and a long lighter and grill plate.. ok here I go!
Great, simple design. I also like the pressure cooker. I'll be looking for one of those. Thanks for sharing.
Holy crap mate, she looks and dresses like my older sister! That`s too ace. Any road, the stove design is champion and so was the video itself.
Well done video. Thank you.
Also, LOVE your dress!
Smiles don't come easy for me.I smiled through this whole video.
And what would be the reason you're smiling?
@@eriklee9462 nothing specific..the video as a whole..her presentation..No fancy filming,no annoying music,just clear and easy instructions.
I wish you many more smiles
This was really informative. This seems the easiest way to make a good rocket stove.
I'm glad it works for her.
It looks so flimsy to me. I wouldn't try it as it is. Maybe with a different kind of cinder blocks in a more sturdier position..
Very well explained 👍
Thanks 🙏
You can paint the bucket with old engine oil for a quick non-stick release. It's what is used in pouring concrete foundation forms.
Love it. Great ideas! Wonderful presentation! Thanks.
I have used cinder block rocket stoves for years and they work well but the blocks are not made to withstand heat and they crack quickly. If you can find some where to get clay blocks or pipe, they last longer.
Chimney blocks right?
Hmmm.. simple n practical..awesome!!! genius too!!!
Your a very beautiful women. Its nice to see women like you still exist.
Lovely 😊 I have in my garden and it works beautifully,. Thank you for sharing.,excellent.,have a nice day and night.,
I almost forgot to hit "LIKE" .. I am a lot better about remembering than I used to be.
1 out of 20 or 30 will hit like, even if they do like the video. I know it helps the channels so I try to remember :) 👍👍👍
Interesting rocket stove. mine is a little different but works the same. I like your pressure cooker, smart design.
Concrete blocks will explode in the heat, not the ideal material for a rocket stove. use fire honed clay or chimney blocks instead.
Idk about that, maybe break
@@gfy2979 If there is a flaw or air-pocket in the cinder bloc it can explode.
@@epicjohnson9396 Correct, usually they all crumble after being hot enough a few times. I'd be more concerned about trapped moisture than trapped air, steam can make powerful explosions. I once saw a damp sandstone in a fire ring explode like an M80, fragments drew blood on several bystanders, but luckily , that time at least, nothing too serious -- it could of been fatal.
Cinder block concrete is usually too porous to build up pressure. I think it is called spalling when you put a lot of heat in concrete and a chunk explodes out. Like if you pour molten metal on it. But that is usually poured wet kind of concrete that is pretty compact.
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Awesome job young lady 👍
This is one of the most amazing things I've ever seen. Thanks from Texas.
Thank you! Interesting and practical.
We are playing with rocket designs using some old 'single' cinder-blocks (just a cube with one square hole), eventually hope to convert our wood stoves to Rocket/Mass heaters to heat the mud brick house in the winter. As we play, we learn.
Ours have a longer riser - four to six blocks tall and thus run much hotter. The bottom block cracks! The Pyrometer says that it was ~160C on the outside and around 380C inside, so no surprise. Repaired it with clay 'slip' and baling wire... We'll see how that works when it has cured.
I'm guessing your bricks are cracking because of the extreme heat the burn chamber creates?
Thank you for sharing this video with me.
I spent the first two minutes of the video trying to see if you had a wedding ring on 😂
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Cringe
You and me both ;)
Good one
Josh Hernandez cringe? Because what kind of weirdo would be attracted to her... right?
Wonderful simplicity
I have watched many tutorials about rocket stoves, and many people waste a lot of time getting it started. Your technique is the most common sense approach that I've seen! Something you might try is dryer lint, which is mostly cotton, and can be kept in a zip lock bag. A cheap effective startup fuel is 91 to 94 percent isopropyl alcohol. Try spray painting your cinder blocks with high temperature Krylon paint to prevent cracking from high temperatures and prevent water absorption of rain. You can put a layer of tin foil on your pots to keep the soot off, or put your pot inside an aluminum pan, and this can be reused. Great video, looking forward to more!
clear and sensible explanation, thanks!