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Cycle X Outdoor Kitchen 

CycleX in Andes commissioned an outdoor kitchen featuring an oven and two cooktops. The oven is a rocket-barrel oven. It is powered by a rocket J-tube where small diameter is fed into the firebox vertically, the heat from the fire is then directed up and around the barrel oven chamber, heating the oven from the outside but not coming into contact with the food. The rocket stoves use the same style of J-tube but the heat from the fire directly hits the bottom of your pot or pan. The appliances are powered by three separate fires.

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It all starts with a barrel... and some intensive grinding to remove the residue of the spray foam that had been stored inside. 

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Building the frame out of pressure treated lumber.

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Fabricating an oven chamber within the barrel, and running chimney.

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Insulating before laying out bricks for fireboxes.

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Laying J-tubes for the oven and rocket stove-tops

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Insulating and creating smooth transitions to direct air flow

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Barrel needs to be suspended 2" above J-tube outlet

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Barrel is set!

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Plywood and luan armature will support cob arch, and burn out once the clay is dry.

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Tile backer board is cut and attached to support cob facade

First Cob Workshop- Oct 2021. Photos by Alanis Vulpis

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Mixing cob at oven workshop!

 

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Photo by Alanis Vulips

Photo by Alanis Vulips

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Building a roof after late-fall rain disaster. Battening down the hatches for winter.

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Inlaying handmade tiles

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Complete!

Plastering

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Oven in action

Stovetop in action

Photos by Georgia Hilmer

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