LifeHacker brought our attention to this really cool DIY rocket stove design. You just needs some tin cans, a pair of tin snippers and some vermiculite. Using four soup cans and a #10 can (like ...

I recently Googled “rocket stoves” and was inspired to ... and within an hour, I had a tin can stove I could cook an individual meal on. To assemble: Near the bottom of the two larger cans ...

One or two of these items can be used to create what's known as a "hobo stove" for heating food or boiling water efficiently. The hobo tin-can stove is about as simple as it gets. Find a large tin ...

sock, and prepares a can of chili in under an hour with candle power. Too much hardware for you? You can make a disposable rocket stove out of wood.

I fashioned my first rocket stove out of three cinder blocks, a couple of chunks of paving slab, a rusty can, and a brick that I dug out of an industrial dump beside the Kalamazoo River.

With a rocket stove, only the tips of the fuel wood are burned, eliminating that waste (and, in an added benefit, eliminating smoke). Rocket stoves can use most any dry plant matter, not just wood ...