The Justa stove is an improved cook stove that works like a rocket stove but adapted for indoor use and family cooking needs. It is designed to solve environmental issues such as climate change and deforestation produced by the inefficient and dangerous traditional open fire cooking.
Materials[edit | edit source]
- Material options:
- Brick and Adobe: 7 Adobes and 25 Bricks
- Brick and Blocks: 7 Bloques and 25 Bricks
- All Brick: 70 Standard Bricks
- Mud Mortar and 1 Bag of Cement
- Three sacks of River Sand
- 60" Length of 3/8 Rebar
- 1 Sack of Sifted, Dry Wood Ash
- 1 Milk Can, Coffee Can, or paint can with the bottom cut out and with metal lid
- 2 Wood Wall Studs 1"x2"x72"
- Handful of Small Nails
- 4 Strips of Cardboard 2"x22"
- 3-5 Brick Tiles (see below) 11"x11"
- A Ceramic or Metal Flue Shelf - Permits air flow under fire
Basic pointers[edit | edit source]
- Always use a Fuel Shelf
- Always chop firewood down in size for best results
- Always use dry firewood
- Once a week, tap chimney with a stick to keep it from clogging
- Once a week, dust the soot off the bottom of the plancha
Steps[edit | edit source]
Build the stove body from either adobe, brick or cement block, guiding yourself with the measurements shown in Drawing 1. The stove in this example is made of adobe with a mud mortar
Lay the milk can, with the bottom already cut out, on a little bit of mud in the space indicated by the drawing. Leave the walls of the stove leveled with a constant height of 11.5"
Frame the plancha with the strips of cardboard, and fill the space between the two frames with either cement or a damp, compacted mix of earth, sand and construcion lime
Rest a chimney tube on the two diagonal lengths of rebar and seal it in with earth or cement as shown in the drawing.
Build a 20" long, U-shaped sheet metal tray to catch wood ash falling from chimney - insert through can.
Related projects[edit | edit source]
Here you will find Appropedia Justa stove original projects
External links[edit | edit source]
Credits[edit | edit source]
- Drawings and Text by Sebastian Africano, 2006
- Based on Designs Used and Developed by: La Asociacion Hondurena Para el Desarollo (AHDESA), The Aprovecho Research Center, and Trees, Water and People