Do you cook on your woodstove?

That Coleman oven shown is like one my mother used when we didn't an oven. It always worked well, though I don't recall ever using it myself. I think one of them would sit on my Vermont castings wood stove. I will have to check out Walmart for it. Used to see them occasionally at yard sales.

RenieB

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There are two ovens in the Lehmans catalog, a small portable one and a larger two shelf model. They may work on a heating stove as well.

the little one on lehmans, I got at wal mart for 28.83.
The big two shelf model looks great I just wish my stove was bigger.
I live on a bed of iron ore and we have big iron rocks im starting to collect them so I can put them in the wood stove to heat up and use to bake with and cook with.

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I just won the american wood hearter cookery cookbook on ebay for 1.99 +sh . Oh yeah I cant wait to get it and get to try it this fall/winter.
thank you daves

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I've got that book and love it. Has some good recipes. Especially love the cinnamon pudding, though it's a little sweet, I use less sugar.

The oven that goes on the stove will even bake cookies. They come out perfect.

AuntieM, I just came back to this thread today. I am sorry I didn't answer you back. My stove is a Alaska Woodstove with double doors with a 8" chimney pipe. It has a double surface like Cabin Fever's but is twice as big, the lower cooking surface is 29.5" X 11.5" and the top surface is 29.5" x 12". I put 4 pots of water on it for hot water, as that is how we heat water to take baths or showers. It sits on a big pedestal where my cats sleep all winter.

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We have an old pot belly that is cracked and unsafe to use in the house. Last month we set it up in the back yard to use like a chimnea. My wife has discovered it's much more comfortable to do her canning out there, rather than heating up the house, doing it on the electric stove indoors. So, the old potbelly has found itself a second carreer as a canning stove.

That's great. I hate to see the old pot bellies end up as junk. I use my wood cookstove all year round though. Doesn't really heat up the house anymore than the propane stove. I just use it, then let the fire die out. It's just so relaxing for me to make a big breakfast on that compared to the propane range (though, I do love my range too).

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im looking for and old busted wood cook stove for use outside in the summer for cooking and canning. but for now I use my wood grill.

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I'm hoping to do the same w/ the cookstove in my barn that isnt worthy enough for indoor use anymore

I just got the american wood heater cookery (cant remember the whole real name at this second) I love it soooooooo much. this is the best book I have ever seen so far and I have ALOT of old cook books. I realy like the depression food.
The book has alot of recepies of things from in the garden and wild critters. I cannot wait to start using this cook book. It even has the "regular stove" times and temps. Out of 5 * I give it 10. Very much worth paying full price for this book.

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It is a definine dream of ours (both me & my DH) to have a wood cook stove. Difference between us is that I could care less what it looks like, where DH strictly wants a cast iron type. Tough to find one though. Sure, we can find a regular wood heat stove anywhere, but not a wood COOK stove.

Sometimes Ebay has them, but most say "Pick up", and are too far away for us to pick up.

But I fantasize about having a nice wood cooking stove. I'd love to use it all winter long - using the same fuel for heating and cooking. My grandmother had one a long time ago (when I was a kid), and I sure wish I had it.

Snugglebunny look up voglezang. I believe I spelt it wrong. I have a link for a GREAT cast iron wook cook stove you can have shipped to you. Cast iron last forever steel will oly last a few years if not brick lined and still the bricks break and need to be replaced.
Ill try to get the link for you

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http://www.vogelzang.com/hh005.htm here is the link it is super nice this is my dream stove.

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OH it's just GORGEOUS!! Surely we couldn't afford that - I'd have to be saving pennies and dimes for a decade!!

Seriously though, right after I put in my post, I saw a potbellied-type wood heating stove - parlor-style that has a burner on the top - on ebay. My DH said he'd bid on it for me provided he could use it to make beer!

How do you go about cooking on a wood heat stove? How is it different? I know things don't get quite as hot.

I do like their little 'Rancher' stovetop stove, though. They have that at Northern Tool for about $300.

snugglebunny I HIGHLY HIGHLY recomend the "american wood hearter cookery cookbook" OMGOSH I just got it today and its a full history on wood stove and or heater cooking. It is fully worth full price. i got mine for 1.99 plush s&h on ebay. I cant say enough about this book.
vouglezang has a few wood cook stove. We have the mountineer. Its a heater but I cook on it all the time.

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charleen what a beauty. I would love one of those.

I get er done on my wood heating stove but I bet that stove would have some better adjustments.

Beautiful

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This information is from another post, with updated image, showing veggies grilling on griddle, beans and veggie dogs in the pot. We love our cookstove.

To cook on it is quicker and easier than many other stoves.

• You need to understand about the draft,
• air-control,
• and bypass damper at the back which puts the heat in the oven.
• Also, you will learn about which wood burns best, slowest, fastest, hottest, etc and use the correct wood for your cooking.

VERY IMPORTANT:

• Clean out both the top of the oven of ash,
• and the bottom (birds can get caught in the flue and drop to the bottom and partially block the flue out let and mess up the oven temperature.)

We re-conditioned the one we bought at a garage sale for $87.50 USD in Vancouver.

• added new cast iron fire box liners all around,
• did a little grinding to make the tops fit better,
• added a lift lever to lift up the top grate to add wood.
• glued new gaskets all around,
• spent a total $87.50 USD getting her in good shape.

The difference those few things made were amazing. After we added the improvements/reconstructions it was like day and night. The stove is such a pleasure to cook on now. There are "unique" (sorry Tom Robbins) cooking experience and temperature areas on the surface. None of the pleasure can fully be experienced without having your stove in top air tight condition and fully functional.

Even the lifting the grate to add wood, instead of the front door makes it nicer and we can use bigger wood that burns differently.


"Katie II"-The-Cookstove, 1934 Facwett $87.50 USD at Garage Sale, Note Lifting Lever At Left of Cook Top

Good luck, I think you are going to have a good adventure.

Alex

btw Our Katie II has a cast iron heat exchanger that is the left fire box liner. We have not hooked that up yet to our hot water system. It will serve as a water pre-heater for our currently electrically heated water after we connect it.

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How much does it cost to install a woodstove if you don't have any woodstove Hookup or fireplace or anything? From scratch (not counting cost of woodstove itself). DH insists it would cost a lot of money to install one.

Here is some info from another post of mine about proper flue installation.

This is what is required, the cost varies CONSIDERABLY based on the structure in which you install it. The cost is dependant on the size required, the distance inside (double wall sheet metal), distance outside [double wall insulated with 1" to 2 1/2" (depending on the outside air temperature)], and pitch of roof (must extend min 2' above the peak.)

But here's the idea;


Flue needs to extend 2' above roof (and must be 10' away from anything horizontally.)


This package shows all the things you need to be safe.


An insulated flue, and double wall Stainless steel is a type A flue, and what is required for wood heat, we used an 8" ID flue, with 2-1/2" high temperature insulation all around.


The double wall air insulated steel flue is below the ceiling flue support thimble at the top. Our wood stove is a catalytic Blaze King, 82.5% efficient (you will burn 17.9% less wood, and longer than with a standared air tight)


Finally you need to protect the floor from all those sparks.

Enjoy your wood stove, talk to a supplier about your exact situation (regarding heat distribution, size of unit, size and type of flue, routing, and placement),

Enjoy your wood stove, we do,

Alex

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