HODLr on Nostr: My grandmother would cook for her 5 brothers, mother and father on a wood stove. ...
My grandmother would cook for her 5 brothers, mother and father on a wood stove. Arising a 5 AM, or earlier, visit an outhouse because no indoor plumbing, she first had to cross the dogtrot to the detached kitchen, covered only by a breezeway porch, (and it got turrable cold in North Alabama), draw water from the well to brew the coffee, start the fire to get it to the proper temp for their country breakfast of ham, eggs, fried chicken, biscuits, gravy and/or grits. Flapjacks on Sunday. While the fire was kindling, not ready for cooking temps, she would have to slop the hogs, feed the chickens, and milk the cows. Then the coals would be hot enough to manage proper cooking heat distribution. This was done by the light of a kerosene lamp every day before they all went to work in the barn and fields their 300 acre farm. We have little idea how intense their daily lives were.
quoting note1stn…uj4yGood nothing morning, #nostriches!
Today I'm going to write about some lessons I've learned about running a wood stove over the last few months.
1. The first fire of the kicking morning is not about warming yourself up. It is about warming up your chimney/flue. This is essential for a good draft, especially in colder weather. The temperature differential in the flue vs. Out of the flue creates the pressure differential that drives the whole system.
2. I use more kindling than most to get the fire going quickly and I I have learned to arrange the wood and coals so that most of the time, I don't need anything else to get the fire really going, especially with the mind to get the secondary air system heated up as quickly as possible in order to ensure the stove heats up into its best efficiency range as quickly as possible. Thus, I use less wood overall to achieve this.
3. Running your wood stove takes time to fiddle and learn. I read a bunch. I experimented. My dad never did that and has been loosing out on a lot of heat over the years because he didn't take the time to understand modern wood stoves and how they are supposed to be run.
4. Different types of wood need vastly different airflow rates to burn optimally, and this affects the temperature that is optimal for the that type of wood. Don't be afraid to run things hotter that the generic indicators may suggest, as long as you aren't hearing the stove up past the recommendations from the manufacturer.
I'm sipping tea before I head out to the fiat mine again. (Walmart, until my second fiat mining job starts next month.)
Have a good day, all!
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