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To cook in the garden using fallen branches as fuel, you can make a very compact, portable wood stove using clay and cement. Food cooked on it is many times tastier than on an electric or gas stove, and besides, with it you will solve the problem of piling up branches. This oven is very easy to make.
How to make a compact cooking stove out of clay and cement

What you will need:


  • plastic bucket 20 l;
  • foam 100 mm;
  • clay;
  • cement;
  • steel wire;
  • fittings;
  • paint tin;
  • grate for gas stove.

plastic bucket and foam

Furnace manufacturing process


It is necessary to cut out a block and an insert from polystyrene foam. Block parameters in section 100x50 mm. The length of it should lie on the bottom of the bucket from wall to wall. To do this, it requires rounding the ends. The liner is made 250x250 mm. It needs to be given an arched shape so that it can fit between the walls of the bucket and the tin can inserted into it.
It is necessary to cut a block and liner from foam plastic

Next, a thick solution based on clay, cement and water is mixed.
a thick solution based on clay, cement and water is mixed

It is placed on the bottom of the bucket to a height of 50-70 mm. Then a foam block is placed on top of it. It must be covered with mortar on the sides.
lay down a foam block

A tin can is placed in the bucket and aligned in the center.A solution is applied to the sides of it, leveled and reinforced with a wire ring.
A tin can is placed in the bucket and aligned in the center

You need to compact 50-70 mm of mortar, then remove the can and lay out the grate bars from the reinforcement.
We lay out the reinforcement

The jar is placed on the grate again, and the liner is inserted between it and the wall of the bucket. It should be located above the block. Next, the remaining space in the bucket is filled with solution and compacted. The furnace is reinforced with wire along the upper rim.
the space in the bucket is filled with solution and compacted

The tin can is immediately removed and the walls are smoothed. The rim on top should be smoothed with a wet hand, and the grate from the gas stove should be pressed into it.
the walls of the stove are smoothed

press the grate from the gas stove into it

After the solution has dried, the plastic bucket is cut and the stove is removed. You need to cut out the foam, scrape off the sagging, and refine the oven by coating it with liquid clay.
After the solution has dried, the plastic bucket is cut and the stove is removed

coated it with liquid clay

You need to make a shelf from a piece of reinforcement and wire to support the stacked firewood.
You need to make a shelf from a piece of reinforcement and wire to support the stacked firewood

It will rest against the far grate. The stove is then lit and used for cooking. Be sure to use dry firewood to avoid soot on pots and pans.
How to make a compact cooking stove out of clay and cement

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