Biochar creating stove TLUD

[theremart]

Made my first TLUD.

TLUD stove from paint cans. - YouTube


My first build of a TLUD stove. Copied paint can design already on the net.

I really like how cheap and easy this is to build. 2 paint cans and a soup can and you have a rocket stove with a pair of tin snips.

Does a good job of making biochar. Will be adding this to my garden.

[velacreations]

What I don't like about it is that you can't keep adding wood to it. What happens if your fuel burns out and the beans are half cooked?

[theremart]

RE: Tlud

What I don't like about it is that you can't keep adding wood to it. What happens if your fuel burns out and the beans are half cooked?

Good question.

My plan is to only fill the stove 1/4 full, bring the water to boil, then use heat retention to cook the beans, thus only taking 20 minutes to load, heat, then set and forget the cooking.

If you use wood pellets you get over an hour of cook time. and at the end you have biochar which my garden loves :-)

[velacreations]

There are lots of designs that produce bio char, so I'm not too worried about that. I am definitely more concerned about undercooked foods, and 20 minute beans are definitely not cooked.

[theremart]

Cooking

There are lots of designs that produce bio char, so I'm not too worried about that. I am definitely more concerned about undercooked foods, and 20 minute beans are definitely not cooked.

Look up heat retention cooking.

You heat the beans up to boiling then they cook for the next 4 hours with that built up heat because it does not escape. It is very kool.

[velacreations]

yeah, I know about heat retention cooking, but have you ever tried it? No matter what you do, boiling water is never above 212 degrees F (at sea level). As soon as you take the heat off, even with excellent insulation, that temperature starts to decrease. I'm not a fan of crunchy beans.

The better route to quick beans is with a pressure cooker, and that could be done with this stove. You increase the pressure, which allows the temperature to rise, so the beans cook at a much higher temp than 212F

[theremart]

Heat retention.

yeah, I know about heat retention cooking, but have you ever tried it? No matter what you do, boiling water is never above 212 degrees F (at sea level). As soon as you take the heat off, even with excellent insulation, that temperature starts to decrease. I'm not a fan of crunchy beans.

The better route to quick beans is with a pressure cooker, and that could be done with this stove. You increase the pressure, which allows the temperature to rise, so the beans cook at a much higher temp than 212F

Yes, I have tried it with rice, now I am testing with beans with this means ->

thermos cooking (beans) - YouTube

It may take about 24 hours for them to cook, but will test to see how it does.

I agree normally retention cooking would not work, but this may get the job done.

I have looked at your rocket stove, looks impressive.

Cheers.

[velacreations]

Yeah, a thermos might work for beans. Alternatively, use a pressure cooker on the TLUD