[Cob] Re: Rocket stove question

[Amanda Peck]

Sorry about the extra (non-) message.  I don't know why I hit send instead 
of back!

What I gather is that the rocket stove works because of the physics of 
chimneys. The whole idea is to get enough velocity in the first one to push 
the smoke out through the long horizontal one--not something smoke does 
without being given a serious push.  Also important is the VERY hot fire to 
burn up all the creosote and other nasties.  Otherwise, horizontal or long 
slanted flues tend to accumulate creosote and have--we don't want to even 
think about them--chimney fires.

Putting an oven in the system somewhere sounds like a nice idea, but it does 
have to take into account those two (one and a half?) principles.

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Ed asked:
     Has any one ever heard of a cob oven attached to the stack of a rocket
stove? The problem with the rocket stove is the small size of the fire box. 
I
was thinking of building a cob oven with a 6 inch chimney attached from the 
back
to the vertical stack of a rocket and then through the bench in a
conventional manner.