Lay Out the Foundation: Begin by creating a solid foundation for your rocket stove. Start by laying two bricks side-by-side to create the air channel for your rocket stove. Then lay out a larger ...

I fashioned my first rocket stove out of three cinder blocks, a couple of chunks of paving slab, a rusty can, and a brick that I dug out of an industrial dump beside the Kalamazoo River.

A rocket stove is a super-efficient cooking and heating stove that can be built with a wide variety of materials from bricks to pipes to clay to packed dirt. The design is simple and relies on an ...