Any Home Bakers Here?

[Ladies-Eight]

Bakers good morning one and all!

Made a ham and spinach quiche, then made a bacon and asparagus quiche.

They are both in the freezer and I will vacuum seal them today.

Have a great day!

Bacon and Asparagus Quiche

Ham and Spinach Quiche

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[R2elk]

Morning Bakers. Grandma taught me wood ashes can half to garden half to birds no bugs just in the dirt where they do bathes

My garden soil is basic enough that I do not add ashes to the garden. The poultry get all of the ashes.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

A pellet stove is a lot like a regular wood burning stove but it has a hopper that you fill with pellets. The stove has a motor and will drop pellets into the stove as needed to keep the fire going. Unlike a wood stove, it will stop feeding pellets when the room reaches the set temperature so it doesn't make you open a window in the middle of winter to cool off the room, and will automatically start up when the room gets cold. Ours works off a remote thermostat - just like your furnace does. It also has a fan to help move the heat out into the room. That is a very simplistic description of a pellet stove.
The pellets are compressed wood (the ones we use are just wood, no binders) and come in 40 lb bags. They look like the pelleted feed you feed your animals. We buy 2 pallets of bags and stack them on our front porch for winter use. You must store the bags of pellets in a dry area - no knocking snow off the pile of firewood to bring it inside the house, lol.

Is this more economical than cord wood?


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When we lived in Kentucky we used a wood stove and loved it.

I would even cook on it.

Then we moved back to Virginia we added a wood stove in the basement which heated 3300 square feet.

We had baseboard heat throughout the house and boy was it expensive.

We added a heatalator in the fireplace.

 

[Sally PB]

Is this more economical than cord wood?

Wood can be cheap for heat... if you have the trees. (And you warm yourself twice.)

I don't know what cord wood goes for around here... If we had to buy it, I doubt we'd save much.

 

[ronott1]

Is this more economical than cord wood?


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When we lived in Kentucky we used a wood stove and loved it.

I would even cook on it.

Then we moved back to Virginia we added a wood stove in the basement which heated 3300 square feet.

We had baseboard heat throughout the house and boy was it expensive.

We added a heatalator in the fireplace.

wood is very expensive here!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I pay about $45 a rank for it here in SE MO, a rank being (I think) half a cord. A rank is 4' high x 8' long by one stove length deep. Basically, a rank is a face cord, right? The guy that delivers mine also stacks it, but that's negotiable. Some will deliver it, but just dump it on your property; others charge that but you have to pick it up and load it in your own vehicle for that price. I REALLY appreciate my guy! He does a beautiful job stacking and won't dream of taking any extra for doing so.

 

[ronott1]

I pay about $45 a rank for it here in SE MO, a rank being (I think) half a cord. A rank is 4' high x 8' long by one stove length deep. Basically, a rank is a face cord, right? The guy that delivers mine also stacks it, but that's negotiable. Some will deliver it, but just dump it on your property; others charge that but you have to pick it up and load it in your own vehicle for that price. I REALLY appreciate my guy! He does a beautiful job stacking and won't dream of taking any extra for doing so.

Wood is over $300.00 a cord here

 

[pennyJo1960]

We are at 300 here

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Yikes! My guy only cuts up wood that has been blown down in storms.

 

[ronott1]

Yikes! My guy only cuts up wood that has been blown down in storms.

That would not work the same here! We have fires but not storms that damage trees.