looking at building a horizontal fed by rocket stove

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mitch lane

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Aug 24, 2014
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Im thinking of building a horizontal smoker/bbq, fed by a smaller rocket style stove up through bottom. And using a removable, thick diffuser plate to spread the heat out and provide an indirect cook; but be able to remove for grilling. Cant find any simolar builds. Anyone been down this road before?
 
Rocket stoves burn fuel efficiently... there won't be any smoke... you need a slow smoldering bunch of coals with hunks of flavor wood to provide smoke etc.... You would have a good oven maybe.... good for pizza....
 
Ok, thank for the input! Ive read about the thin blue smoke, but the rocket design will burn too clean to get any flavour you say?
 
Ok, thanks. I better build a tried, tested and true method and learn to bbq before I try changing stuff. Lol.
 
At the risk of digging back too far I’ve been wondering about this very thing. Specifically with all the rave reviews I’ve seen of the KBQ c-60 and it’s claim to fame being “light/clean” smoke... How complete is too complete for combustion?

Has anyone tried a rocket stove feeding into a smoker?

If on one end we have a smolderzing campfire with wet wood, and the other end is a rocket stove, do we want to be somewhere in the middle? If so why does the KBQ get good reviews (or maybe it’s just at amazingribs?) Isn’t the KBQ drawing smoke back through the coals to achieve more complete combustion?
 
Interesting idea. A rocket stove has an unrestricted exhaust draw. It you put an adjustable exhaust on the top of the RS where it feeds the chamber, you could build a hot base fire with full draw, then choke it a tad as you feed it new wood to get the slower burn and control the chamber temps. An open feed port would make keeping it fueled easy. Probably wouldn't cut the baby sitting time but now I want to see one!

If you build it...

Edit: I checked out the C-60. Interesting concept, but seems like there's a lot of wasted heat.
 
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