The partly tamped wood releases its producer gas (the white smoke). Air traffic had to be diverted for three hours, man do these babies smoke!
As the smoke turns blue, we tamp all the air ducts and put rocks and soil on the lid, and wait twelve hours or so until it is 100% cool
Et voila, charcoal... our half an oil drum of wood yielded three full carrier bags of charcoal
Not just for BBQs, you can cook anything on it!
Using the rocket stove for another of Ricks impressive squid stews
Rocket stove at night, Stuart's delight
Given the amount of wood cooking systems, thought it was better to install five fire extinguisher points!!
Owl given a rare second off from playing with apricots to barmaid
One drawback with apricots is they tend to ripen all at the same time then have a very short shelf life
Dehydrating apricots for winter. They will freeze well for stewing and crumbles as well
NB Please note pictures of the opening party are on a previous blog, please click on the first entry for May in the right hand column
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