{"id":55740,"date":"2020-11-24T09:26:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T14:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55740"},"modified":"2020-11-24T09:26:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T14:26:20","slug":"cinder-block-rocket-stove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55740","title":{"rendered":"Cinder Block Rocket Stove"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Partly the reason has been health issues (not Covid-19), and partly the reason has been a husband who has been working a lot more than usual (totally Covid-19). Even though it hasn\u2019t been a productive fall for writing, it\u2019s been a very <\/em>productive fall for resilience activities. I\u2019m excited to tell you about them, starting with the fun experiment of the cinder block rocket stove. <\/span><\/p>\n

As I\u2019ve written here<\/u><\/a> and here<\/u><\/a>, we cook mainly off-grid. In winter there\u2019s the wood cook stove. In summer there\u2019s the All-American sun oven and the camp stove, a ten year old dual-fuel Coleman. We have an electric kettle, a toaster oven and a crock pot as well, but I consider these to be convenience devices, mainly used for integrating the 9-5 life with the farm life as seamlessly as possible. <\/span><\/p>\n

In short, they provide caffeine to the wage earner who gets up way earlier than I want to start a breakfast fire, and a ready hot meal at the end of the (now very few) days the kids and I spend away from home. Very nice. Not essential. <\/span><\/p>\n

What is <\/em>essential is that camp stove. I need it for meals on warm but cloudy or rainy days, for quick meals during the heavy work months, for eggs which provide most of our summer animal protein, for the scalding pot. It keeps the cooking heat out of the house. It keeps the wet feathers out of the house. <\/span><\/p>\n

What if it failed? Some rust is apparent. What if I couldn\u2019t afford or couldn\u2019t get the gasoline, or maybe just forgot to refill the can? It will also run on kerosene, but boy is that stuff expensive. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Cinder Block Rocket Stove Partly the reason has been health issues (not Covid-19), and partly the reason has been a husband who has been working a lot more than usual (totally Covid-19). Even though it hasn\u2019t been a productive fall for writing, it\u2019s been a very productive fall for resilience activities. I\u2019m excited to tell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[30613,165,1526,28645,29090,30614],"class_list":["post-55740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-cinder-block-rocket-stove","tag-cooking","tag-food-preparation","tag-kara-stiff","tag-low-carbon-life-2","tag-stove"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55741,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55740\/revisions\/55741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}