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The Book of Masonry Stoves by David Lyle. Builder Rob Roy says
these stoves are 35% more efficient than the best 'air-tight' stoves.
Many sketches and photos of old and new designs. Learn about masonry
stoves and how to maximize wood heat in your home. These stoves are
designed so you can sit close and not be burned if you touch them, heat
radiates out, making living areas comfortable for hours with less fuel
consumed. An excellent introduction to this most
environmentally friendly of combustion-based heating systems. Includes
extensive history of wood burning, principles of masonry stoves, and
examples of masonry stoves used around the world. 52 photos, 92
illustrations, index, softcover. #4014...$25.00
Burning Wood and Coal for Home Heating This publication is a
complete guide to using wood and coal for home heating. Current
information is presented on each fuel; stove technology developments;
heating units; stove installation; operation techniques; and problem
solving. 90 pages., #4013...$8.00 ( Note: Similar to the 1970s
book 'Wood Heat' by John Vivian, a great resource about stoves and
building them. Check used book stores. I usually have them in stock
too.)
Here's an idea for people in climates where the clouds come over, and
change your solar cooking plans. An earth oven is an outdoor 'retained
heat' oven, also called a Horno in Mexico and the Southwest. Start a
small fire in the morning, place bread loaves and meals inside at noon,
and enjoy a delicious dinner at night. And, on sunny mornings,use a
solar box cooker to start cooking, and then transfer pots to your earth
oven and you can have fully cooked meals, delicious in flavor, with no
burning or watching over pots. Also great for vegetarian and 'many-bean'
recipes.
An earthen oven called a horno, made of adobe/cob, is used for baking
bread and meals. Very fancy ovens sculpted by Kiko Denzer can be seen in
his book "Build Your Own Earthen Oven"
New Edition, expanded to 100 pages, color
photos! 
Building Your Earth
Oven> --by Kiko Denzer.
Learn how easy and practical an outdoor baking oven is to build and use.
The design is a two layer retained heat oven, and can be built with
onsite materials such as earth and sand, and uses a brick base-floor, or
even an earthen floor. These ovens burn a small amount of wood, get very
hot, and allow you to bake breads and meals slowly after the coals have
been raked out. Kiko sculpts his ovens with wonderful animal and nature
shapes. Imagine a huge Phoenix bird, its
belly the oven, the flue its throat, with smoke escaping from the
upturned beak! Children can help build these ovens, and play with earth
at the same time. Complete instructions, 100 pages, 8.5x7, line
drawings, and wonderful COLOR oven photographs of frog, squirrel, and
Phoenix bird oven-bench, plus B&W of a snail and other fanciful ovens.
#1003... $15.00
Build A Rocket Stove Cooker..Shows how to make a portable,
emergency stove - A hot, fast burning mini stove for boiling water, and
cooking food. Made from inexpensive metal cans, needs only scrap paper,
twigs, small wood pieces. ( Folks I have made these with coffee cans and
boy do they work! If you can punch a hole in a can, and follow the simple
directions you can boil water, fry eggs and burgers, saute, steam, and
cook just about anything. ) Shows four different metal can designs, and
a clay stove design which needs no tools to construct, and uses local
clay and sand. Lots of photos and clear directions. You'll be amazed at
how well these little stoves work. 12 page booklet #5012..$5.00
Jump to the Off the Grid Homesteading page to see
a photo of the rocket stove in use.
