Survival DIY Stove: Make a Brick Rocket Stove for a Survival Moment

brick rocket stove

This awesome brick rocket stove is a quick, easy and very inexpensive way to build a fire and heat source for cooking.

The “rocket” part of the equation refers to using air flow to build the fire, which as long as you have fuel, can provide more than enough heat to cook most food.

Being able to cook food in a survival situation is good for your physical, emotional and mental well being. A hot meal not only meets your nutritional needs, it helps sustain morale.

This awesome rocket stove made of bricks and a steel grate/mesh; it uses air flow to build a very hot fire that can be used to cook just about anything.

How would you improve upon this brick rocket stove design? Tell us below.


47 Comments

  1. Chava Navarro said:

    Haha I’ve known this since I was a kid. Shits old we invented this in mexico thousands of years ago.

  2. Doug Ervin said:

    Need an article on how to build one out of a dugout hole in the ground for “shtf”.

  3. Jon Murrish said:

    Look up “Dakota Fire Pit” in an old Boy Scout Fieldbook. It’s in there.

  4. Seraphim McCune said:

    Make it from fire brick or they might explode eventually. Rocket stove temps are extremely high and that heat and expand followed by cool and contract cycles will damage regular bricks.

  5. Jeff Dobkin said:

    You could also kiln fire your own pottery and temper your own glass.

  6. Damien Alexander said:

    and millions of people know EXACTLY the same stuff as you do and learned it at the exact same time….

    :- :- :- :-

  7. Michael Davis said:

    What a moron. Use your rifle butt to make a half brick? Who cares what it looks like? Just let one brick stick out the back! If you’re so stupid you have to be spoon fed step by step instructions on how to survive, just give up and die quickly. You’ll only prolong your own suffering while being a burden to the others in your group.

  8. Randy Edward Harvey said:

    Don’t use pavers like the guy in the photo. They can explode if they get too hot. Any real, fired ceramic brick will work safely, so long as you keep them dry.

  9. Tony Nash said:

    This and so many more are not survival skills. Like others said who carries a bag of bricks. Why make a compression fire starter and carry it when a bic lighter will last for a long time. What ever happened to the kiss method. Keep it simple stupid.

  10. Jerry Morelos said:

    Ok already!$#%&!@* Every fucking day! We get it already! You can make a little chimney!

  11. Willie Pierce said:

    This isn’t a rocket stove.

    This is a standard stove made from bricks.

  12. Willie Pierce said:

    This isn’t a rocket stove.

    This is a standard stove made from bricks.

  13. Joe Westhoff said:

    For real… This is like the 13th time I’ve seen this on facebook.

    Wow, you built a small chimney, this is not special or practical or need to know.

    Fail.

  14. Damon Mickey said:

    Don’t rocket stoves re-burn the exhaust? To make way more efficient.

  15. Doc Homestead said:

    This works really well. I am thinking about adding a second one so I can have a double burner effect

  16. Bob Marino said:

    I would think lugging all those bricks around all day would be a killer

  17. William Yzerman said:

    I have one of these in the backyard. works fine. it is not intended as something portable you take with you. after a disaster, there are bound to be shattered buildings and this is demonstrating how to use the materials at hand to do the things you need done. there is also another project idea using cinder blocks instead of bricks. deep in the woods you would dig a Dakota Hole instead of a rocket stove. but honestly, how long would most people survive deep in the woods with no access to modern materials? Try reading the short story “Lot’s Daughter” to see what those who did not die in short order in the wild would be reduced to. I guess it depends on what level of civilization you are willing to settle out at once the fall begins.

  18. Charles Dobson said:

    Stones that are wet will explode. It’s not hard to cook BY the fire so just make a regular fire and cook. The whole concept of using bricks to cook something is a waste of time and most importantly calories.

  19. Christopher Charles Latham said:

    great stove , i built a rocket stove once out of a metal bucket,tomato juice can, and a soup can worked great also distilled water in two tomato juice cans on said stove

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