“Over the last year we have been entertaining the idea of some kind of permanent outdoor cooking appliance for our backyard.
Our choices were between a masonry oven, earth oven, or a rocket stove. After researching all three and taking an earth oven building workshop, I decided the rocket stove would be the easiest place to start.
The earth oven required a large base and I wasn’t sure of the quality of our local clay. The masonry oven involves a lot of brick work and I had never held a trowel before so I chose the simpler rocket stove…”
