Zuka
A two-burner wood-fired cookstove that gets the most out of every log — designed, welded and cooked on.
Get the most
out of every log
Zuka is a two-burner cookstove that maximises the use of firewood — clean, efficient heat from a rocket-type combustion chamber.
The identity comes from two materials in conversation: steel and wood. Metal reads as the technology and draws the line of the design; the pine is the everyday material that brings warmth to the whole. It's a versatile kitchen that adapts to different households, where the design lives alongside the everyday as one piece — quietly raising the quality of daily cooking.
Zuka was a nine-person team project under Cátedra Rondina at FADU (UBA) — with Camila Piantanida, Federico Kakazu, Maximiliano Schivo, Florencia Di Salvo, Lucila Leone, Alejandra Fernández, Sofía Piazza and Juan Policastro — taken from Rhino models through hand fabrication to a working stove that cooked eggs, burgers and stew in the field.
Rocket combustion,
regulated air
A rocket-type combustion chamber burns wood hot and clean: air is drawn through a controlled intake into an insulated vertical chamber, so the fire reaches high temperature and combusts more completely — more heat, less smoke, less wood.
A regulable O₂ intake lets the cook tune the burn; glass-wool insulation keeps the heat where it's wanted; and the hot gases sweep beneath the two cooktop plates before leaving through the flue (salida de tiraje).
Modelled,
then made by hand
Modelled in Rhino, then cut, bent, welded and finished by the team — the chimney, combustion box, sheet-metal ash pan and the branded pine cladding all fabricated from scratch.
Cooked on, in the field
Final boards
