The Cabin Stove is a compact wood-burning stove for heating and cooking. It uses a mix of clean, efficient combustion, and heat exchange strategies, which provide both immediate heat via the cooktop as well stored heat through the channels inside the brick work. Effectively, it converts wood into warmth and good food.
This cookstove is a hybrid between rocket mass heater and masonry heater technologies that has precedents throughout the world, especially in Europe. While it embraces many aspects of rocket mass heater design, one of the main differences is that it substitutes the barrel-style heat exchanger for a flat metal cooktop which makes for a compact footprint. It also includes a batch-style firebox which is characteristic of masonry heater and newer rocket mass heater designs.
Featured Project(s):
- The Shop Cabin Stove – February 2017
- Wild Acres Build of Rocket Cabin Stove (rocket mass heat w/ cooktop) – April 2016
- The Cabin Stove at Rob and Mal’s (w/ heated cob bench) – Sept. 2015
Cabin Stove Videos:
Project Map:
- The Cabin Stove Plans are currently not available for purchase as I feel that they are outdated. Joining our mailing list is the best way to stay abreast of updates.
- Edit Current Documentation. (2018)
- Design New Cabin Stove using simplified hardware. (2018-2019)
Cabin Stove Hardware:
We now have a full line of hardware to offer for your project. Check out our Masonry Heater Hardware Catalog!
Design History:
- The Shop Cabin Stove – February 2017, definitely the model I am most excited about at this point. Here is a photo report of the build which is the closest to plans currently available.
- Wild Acres Build of Rocket Cabin Stove (rocket mass heat w/ cooktop) – April 2016
- The Harlan Cabin Stove (compact footprint) – December 2015
- The Cabin Stove at Rob and Mal’s (w/ heated bench) – October 2015
- Cabin Stove 2.0 (heated bench) on re-enforced wood floor and with heat shield against wood paneled wall done as workshop at Aprovecho. – August 2015
- Matthew Remine of Walker Stoves builds another iteration and provides insight to evolution of the combustion unit. – April 2015
- 1st prototype of Cabin Stove 2.0 is born in Firespeaking’s shop from collaboration between Max Edleson, Lasse Holmes, and Kiko Denzer. Matthew Remine joins and contributes initial combustion efficiency testing results. – March 2015
- The first Cabin Stove is built at Aprovecho to try to address the need for a well-designed DIY wood-fired heating and cooking solution for small spaces. – September 2012
More Design Background:
- Criteria: Brick-based construction, minimal cuts, minimal specialized tools
- The Cabin Stove at Aprovecho
- Albie Barden’s Cookstove Pamphlet, Heart of the Home, Current Work.
- Alex Chernov’s contributions, the Russian Rocket, thoughts on isolating combustion chamber in single-skins, general Russian precedence.
Links:
- Don’t miss updates! Join our mailing list!
- The Cabin Stove Contact Form
- The Masonry Heater Association (MHA) Website