wood cook stove

[mississippifarmboy]

We only use ours in the winter, too hot to fire it up in the summer months. The key to cooking on a wood fired heater is the correct size and kind of wood. It was a chore explaining to my yankee wife that it was called stove wood for a reason. When it's cold out it does help a good bit with the heat (Especially in the room it's located in), but most antique or repro wood cook stoves aren't made for heating.
Ours is a modern combo heat and cooking stove, made primarily for heating but has a large cook surface too. There is always something simmering in the fall / winter.

Fall means a wood fire and sasafrass tea.

 

[Kim_NC]

Thanks for the stove compliments

Berkeleysprings - we pass through your area often when travelling to visit family in PA. Pretty there!

 

[JetBlack]

I was looking on Amazon.com for a book abotu cooking with cook stoves and found this .

I sent the link to my Mom. When I got them a subscription to "Cooks Illustrated", I put the subscription under "Donner Party Recipes". They still get junk mail, occasionally with that as the recipient's name. Their mailman and I went to college together and he recognized my handiwork

When we go to dinner and have to wait, the hostess always asks for a name and how many. "I say, "Donner, for six"." then when they call you, saying "Donner party of six" and you show up with only five, you can say "We got hungry". Once in a while they get it. Just often enough to make it worth it.

 

[Royd]

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Being raised in Colo. I understand.

 

[streetglide]

Oh my! I had to comment! I've had some of the best dinners ever made from a woodfired cook stove! My great grandparents heated the house with one so it worked out just fine. I can't tell you any of her secrets, but with practice you can cook or bake anything we bake in our modern ovens in/ on 'em.
Fied chicken in that huge iron skillet....corn bread in the oven...oh wow! Now I'm hungry! She baked beautiful cakes, made candy, canned incredible amounts of everything from the garden. I have no idea how she took the heat in warmer weather!
Every Sunday....EVERY... there was always a crowd.
Thanks it made me feel good just remembering those days!

 

[TheChickenCameFirst]

My grandmother has a big black one in her old farmhouse. It has Three oven compartments, and four stove top burners. They use it primarily for heat nowadays, but she has baked some of the most delicious BREAD in it that I have ever tasted! She is an awesome cook anyways, but when she uses that stove... yum!

They work really well if you learn to regulate the temp well. We have a wood stove that we have scrambled eggs on, and browned ground beef, but it doesn't have an oven, so I can't say as I have actually used one myself. Worth it though, In my opinion!

 

[berkeleysprings]

well my plans are to find one sometime soon ,sounds like they work great and im a guy but i cook for the family i like to cook , and i like haveing a girlfriend lol
and im old enough to do the math ! and how to keep her (unless she finds another better cook )
thanks everyone for your thoughts on wood burning cook stoves ... now i gotta have one