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Wood-Fired Grilling!

Here is a journal of BBQ’ing “parilla” style at home.  You can see next to the grill is an apparatus designed to let coals drop in order to shovel easily shovel them underneath the grill.  It is referred to as the “brasero”.  I usually start my fire where I will actually be grilling in order […]

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Additional Barrel Oven Construction Information

We have decided to focus on production of the barrel oven and backed off – for the moment – on production of doors, grates, and ash drawers sometimes used for the firebox below. As explained in our book, Build Your Own Barrel Oven, these are optional and a barrel oven can be built with a

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The Cabin Stove at Rob and Mal’s

This heater was built as part of the Sustainable Shelter Workshop Series at Aprovecho.  It completely turned around the residents’ experience of their home in winter time.  Their previous propane heater provided a “wet” heat that also didn’t reach the outlying bedrooms causing mold issues.  The design is a Cabin Stove with heated bench.  The

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The Harlan Cabin Stove

The Harlan Cabin Stove was built during a two-day workshop in December 2015.  While I am very happy with it architecturally, it is an iteration of the design that shows it still needs some fine tuning. I suspect that we need to tighten the gap beneath the metal of the cooktop in order to get more

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Cabin Stove Workshop – Dec. 5-6 – Harlan, OR

HOW TO BUILD A COMPACT, WOOD-FIRED MASONRY HEATER Learn to build a compact wood-fired masonry heater designed to maximize heat gain from minimal amounts of fuel. In this intensive two-day workshop, we will show you, brick by brick, how we build a small, efficient stove that combines space heating with cooking capabilities. We will also

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Testo Results of Cabin Stove 2.0 Prototype

Here are some initial Testo results of the original Sidewinder we built in the shop.  The build as well as some insight  of Mathew Walker’s on the data is documented at the original Cabin Stove 2.0 post.  We mostly share this as an example of more testing we hope to do.

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Masonry Heater Hardware Updates

Some videos showing recent work in the shop. ?The first two are for a masonry heater that I am building and the last one is a prototype for an improved firebox door for the barrel oven kits.

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