Cooking on a Standard Wood Stove
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I love cooking on my woodstove. A bit of a lost art. Thanks for sharing.
I keep a 30 litter stockpot on our wood stove overnight when its minus 10 outside and its great thermal mass and is sometimes even warm in the morning still for washing your face
Have I ever mentioned how brilliant I think you guys are? I had always wondered how you controlled temps while cooking on the woodstove. Those rivets are so functional yet beautiful!!
Thank you Natasha! :D
I was taught how to cook on a four cap wood stove. The stuff that was cooked in the oven seem to taste better. It also had a water tank on the side.Dad would get up and make a fire so we had hot water to bath with in the morning. Good memories
Mason work looks fantastic!Its so good you can heat the home as well as feed the family! Yep inside clothesline are a must!
Especially where it rains nine months of the year!
It’s all about self-discipline. Good job.
Great ideal. We have a wood stove in the basement with pipes from it for heating the house. Years ago my ex and I had a home with a nice big wood stove in the living room and my favorite thing in the winter time was making soups on the stove. The house was warm and smelled so good plus saved on electricity.
Thank you for the helpful information, Heidi! We just put in a wood stove, and I knew you would have some great tips for getting me started for cooking on it! You mentioned you had done several tutorial videos in the past, now I’m going to have to check them out as well!😊
Just got our woodstove hooked up in the kitchen, it's small but has a flat top, last night I made sausage & eggs, reheated some pizza too! Need to do some taping or caulking in a place on the pipe but didnt see it until had the stove going, going to love using it this winter!
Thanks
I have learned a few things over the years due to power cuts and woodburner being only source for everything
I have the big stock pots for warm water pkus a kettle
I have ordered skillets now
My plan is to everytime we have the fire on, to cook something
In that way, I’m practicing, learning and saving electricity all the same time
Need to look into drying stuff also since our dehydrator is electric therefore really expensive to run
A million thanks!!❤
Love cooking on wood heat.
I like it. Looks like my grandmas house when I was little. ❤️ thank you for bringing back good memories
This is such good info … exactly what I’m looking for!!! Didn’t realize you can use Corell Casserole Dishes!!! Appreciate the video!
I needed this video! Thank you so much!
I remember my Mother baking many a pot of beans on the old wood stove...….you just can't reproduce that in the kitchen !
Love this information! Thank you!!
I was so excited to see this video! My husband and I were just talking about this a couple of week ago. We have a fireplace insert, and while we like it for what it is, it just doesn’t have the versatility we’d love to have. I’m going to have him watch this.
You will find a free standing wood stove has much better heat output and most inserts have no space on top for cooking. Some do have a little but ours had none. We DID cook IN the insert one time when we had a power outage though, by wrapping some leftovers in foil and clearing a space in a front corner to set the items. This works well for baking whole potatoes too
Ours has an area wide enough to heat a couple of small pots if necessary but the worst part is that it relies on an electric blower to blow the warm air into the room. Without that, it’s pretty, but worthless for heat.
Loved seeing this. I took back up box for 10 years and so did my children. it's very doable. I'm looking into getting a wood stove I hope I can.
Thank you!
Several years ago, I built a new chimney for our wood stove. The old chimney built by my grandfather didn't have a clay liner and it fell apart. The new chimney is lined with clay liners. I made a metal form to make a cement thimble that goes through the wall. Burning out the chimney once a year will crack the clay tiles. I'd rather they crack than let the creosote build up and catch fire when we're sleeping. I burn the chimney out when snow is on the ground. Once the chimney is burned out, I climb up on the roof and run a chimney brush down the chimney. The stove pipes are taken outside once a week, filled with newspapers and set on fire to burn the creosote tar in them. I brush them out with a wire brush. Using wood to heat our log cabin saves us money. In forty years of using our wood stove and keeping the chimney and metal stove pipes cleaned out, I've never had a chimney fire when I didn't want one.
Patrick also does the regular cleaning of our chimney, the is very important.
Dried potato peels thrown in once a week help to keep the Creo build up. Plus the type of wood you burn makes a huge difference.
@@kathryngagne5813 Interesting on the dried potato peels! Thank you for that. Yes, hard woods are best but because where we live, we do not get as much hard woods so we have to burn a lot of softer woods. We can get alder but it rots quickly so has to be burned first. As such, we go through more fire wood than those who have access to a lot of hard woods and have to clean our chimney more.
@@RainCountryHomestead Do you and Pat have a video on chimney maintenance and safety? Also depending if your chimney is internal or external. Unfortunately up here there are a lot of older homes with internal brick chimneys. Families have died because the mortar crumbled and cracks formed leaking fumes in the house. MUST have a carbon monoxide detector! So sad.
Great vid!
Thank you for the great information! My husband cooked a pancake on our new fireplace for the first time, we were pretty excited!
Awesome, Heidi! This was just what I needed. We're getting things ready to install our wood stove. Wow, you do so much with yours! Thanks and God bless!
Wish my wood stove had the flat top. Maybe someday I will be able to get another one. Love your videos. 💖
So enjoyed this video. I want to go and fire up my stove and make coffee. Thanks for all the ideas, so helpful thanks.
Thanks!
This is such a useful video in these tough times. It would be great if you have time to do a couple of cooking demo videos using your woodstove.
I actually have done several through the years
You are so awesomely full of great info. Thanks.
Enjoyed your video!
Found it! Love it! (I had commented on your off grid dehydrator video that I’d love to see wood stove cooking videos. I didn’t see the link you mentioned but it easily came up in a search. You’re THE pioneer woman! We’re about to guy a wood stove and I’m trying to learn about the features to look for.
Oh, Heidi! Thanks for making this wonderful video! It couldn't have come at a better time. We're having a wood stove installed in our living room in December. I tried my darnedest to get hubby to agree to a wood-burning kitchen stove, but no such luck. The main floor of our house is around 1,000 sq ft, so we're getting a smaller stove than you have, but it's a QuadraFire flat top too. Since we won't have the nice alcove you have, I'm going to experiment with our Coleman camp oven on the stove top and see how that works for baking.
Thanks also for the passage from Ephesians. It's one of my favorites!
Great idea on the camp oven. Patrick has considered making something that would fit back on one of the sides but it would certainly have to be a custom design. I would be happy for something that held a single loaf of bread :)
I love your videos. They are always so practical. Unfortunately, we have a fireplace insert, and the front just doesn't get very hot. We have a camp enamelware coffee pot we keep on it, but it doesn't even get hot enough to steam. Anyway, you're inspiring. Look forward to chatting when we all get home.
You are so very talented. Love all your videos.
Thank you for this very informative video. I’m hoping to get a stove sometime in the future. I am a little worried as I have asthma that I will have a problem with the smoke. When we camp, it takes me a few days to get used to campfires.
Wood stoves are different because the smoke stays contained inside the stove and is carried up and out through the chimney. The only time smoke is a problem is if the chimney needs to be cleaned out.
We had to save for quite some time to replace the horrible insert with noisy fan/blower that was here and now I have a beautiful La Nordica Rosa wood cookstove in our living room area. It doesn't have the upper warming shelf that makes them look like cookstoves, but rather a lower warming drawer, so it blends in beautifully. We're in snow country and love the heat it gives from hardwood we scavenge from rural roadsides and ditches, and I can also bake in the small oven. We keep a perpetual old stockpot of water going to humidify the house because wood heat is very drying and by spring you can develop bronchitis from the dryness. There's enough flat surface to cook a big meal if I want, and its great for heating up my homemade soups or water for tea. Both my cats give it a high approval rating.
I did not realize they made something like that. I am guessing there would be as size that would fit in our little space there. O yes, I had forgotten about that noisy fan in the insert! You had to have it on to get any heat out too! ugh!
Thank you for the inspiration!
I would never live in a house without a wood stove. Also I have clotheslines in our big downstairs bathroom. Great for clothes but I also hang herbs and bush beans to dry. I also hang onions. People who visit are quite surprised when they go in for the first time. I am having my husband move the bathroom pieces across the hall. It's too valuable a work space for a wash closet. It also holds a meat saw, industrial meat grinder, chicken hospital cage, storage cabinet and a 8 foot freezer chest lol. It's the coolest room in the house so potatoes and winter squash are all in there too!
Your story about your big "bathroom" made me smile. I've lived in two older houses where what formerly had been the kitchens were turned into bathrooms when "indoor plumbing" was added. Those bathrooms were huge!
That's a very nice multipurpose work station. I am sitting here with no electric for the second time and this one looks like it will be longer the Normal. I have a generator and next year it's a wood stove year. A wood stove would be my lifesaver after that its water catchment system. I hate being vulnerable. Great ideas Hiedi. Btw I recieved my seeds and thank you for the added note on stratifying them. Which most need more ur less. Thank you!
Thanks so much ~ very helpful!! Would you do a This and That about treating it with the coconut oil? Any tips and tricks about reducing dust from the woodstove? Thanks Again!! Love and Prayers from The Catskill Mountains of NY! 💖🙏🐓☀️
I can do better than that as I already have a stand alone video on how I clean my woodstove here: czcams.com/video/iGjj9nQj-Gc/video.html
Great! Just watched it ~ thank you!! I searched for it but didn't find it 🤦♀️ Appreciate you sharing the link, will be watching the others as well! 💖 I did a quick coconut oil rub yesterday and boy did the house stink 🤣 Will try the palm oil. 🙌
Thank you, Heidi. Excellent information.
We are currently planning some kind of wood-based heat backup system. We also want to be less reliant on the public utilities. I would love a wood cookstove. A cookstove or regular wood stove will not heat our walkout basement.
So we are looking into a mass heater (sometimes called a russian stove). It would heat the whole house and basement, keep the floors toasty (as i write this my feet are feeling frozen), but...no cooking. And no pretty fire to look at!😊 also, a mass heater retrofitted into this house could cost $20K or more. Awful.
So we are also thinking about a wood stove of some sort, then build a rocket mass heater into one of the outside walls of the basement.
Lots to think about. I will share this video with my DH, so he will have an idea of the wood stove uses, besides heat.
Thanks again.
I had forgotten when I was talking about this that the wood stove seen was not the first one we put in there when we had the brick work redone, it was a step top one that we had already had. It has been in the recroom that we had later converted to my dance studio. So I practiced cooking on that for several years until we finally upgraded to this larger flat top. This one does a better job at heating more of the house because of its size, our other one was considerably smaller. They make them larger than this too. The larger they are, the less often they need to be stoked and more area they will heat.
Rain Country Thank you, Heidi. Would you mind sharing the size of your home and the wood stove make and model you have? (I understand if that's too much information to share!) There's so much to consider...I sometimes feel quite overwhelmed.
@@rosehavenfarm2969 I do not know the model but it is a quadrafire. Our house is 2400 square feet. Years ago Patrick installed hidden fans close the ceiling and behind a strip of oak paneling he put up above the mirrored tiles that we can turn on to blow the heat into the big rec room (former dance and martial arts studio). This works well but on really cold days where we need that room heated, the fire needs to run pretty hot and the fans must be on for a few hours at least. It is rare we ever use them but I plan on turning them on today because that is where we will congregate for our dinner and it has been very cold the last few days so I need to take the chill off that room
My aunt on dad's side had the old enamel wood cook stove, I always wanted that! My guess is they ditched it 😢, but getting it here is nearly impossible, besides I have no room for that mini-monster😔
Very nice informative video on how to cook on a non cook stove. Thanks so much. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving and God bless!
Thank you and same to ya'!
@@RainCountryHomestead You're welcome!
For water I bought a 10 gallon stainless steel fryer pot. It has a spicket. The spicket needs a little modification for better control of output but for hot or cold it's great. I also use it to make bone broth. It comes with a fryer basket. I put my bones, veg and herbs in a cheesecloth then in the basket. When all done I can fill my canning jars with the spicket.
I haven't cooked on my electric range since I finally got my wood stove installed last month. The range has just become extra counter space. LOL!
Yep, as does ours but in the summer the hot plates that run off our solar get used on it.
@@RainCountryHomestead I would love to go solar! Someday!!!
All that sounds great. I salute you because you seem to have a Lot of work but I guess you have master all this ways...I bet the biscuits most taste delicious in the wood stove....stay well..Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours...........Be Blessed.............MINDY
It is really not any more work than using a conventional range. It is just a matter of knowing what height to set the items at to keep them from burning. I have been cooking on this for many years so I have it pretty well figured out and I love being able to put a roast or whole chicken in the back there and just forget about it all day :D
Love your wood stove and the way it sets back, looks like a pizza oven, have you not tried baking breads, cakes and pies in a dutch oven on the wood stove? have a Blesses Thanksgiving
Yes, I have tried a dutch oven but there is still not enough heat coming down from the top to brown the breads on the top.
Not off grid, but I LOVE cooking on our regular wood stove....can't believe how many people don't understand the concept though...been a while, but we use to get this one A LOT: "what do you do, open the door and cook on the coals?" Both hubby and I grew up with our mums cooking on a regular wood stove.
Really? People ask that one? I do have to say, we HAVE done that before when we had the insert and had a power outage. Since there was no space to cook on top, we wrapped things in foil and stuck them inside the wood stove and it worked great!
Rain Country ....Heidi.....Yes, we got that one a lot, about 20 years ago...they seriously thought we put our skillet or Dutch oven on the coals...as if cooking on a campfire. What I found interesting was that some of these were individuals who heated with wood and...some of them were older than me...they honestly didn't know you could cook on top of the stove! Then when I explained it to them, they were fascinated with the idea...have no idea if they ever did cook that way or not. It really blew me away, needless to say.
Heidi,
love your ideas on how to cook on your stove! I have the step up shelf on my wood stove. Next one I get will be just flat top. Heidi, dose Patrick have a youtube video on he made the drying rack? Thank you Heidi, another great video
Yes, he does! Here is the link: czcams.com/video/5AmaK9vnG9k/video.html
Question: Have you tried to bake a loaf of sourdough bread in a small cast iron pan with a lid (like you bake sourdough bread in), normally? I would imagine that if you turned the pan around 2 times, it would keep from burning and you would be able to bake the bread in the cast iron pan at high heat. The oven is 475 degrees, give or take 25 degrees. Please let me know. God bless you too.
Yes, I have baked bread on the wood stove but the main problem is not burning on the bottom, it is the need for heat coming down from the top to brown the bread. Even with a cast iron lid in place, you still need heat on top. If you can pile hot coals on top, this will work to brown but a new item I have is this: czcams.com/video/PjnfahkUEHY/video.html
Thanks for the great tips. I don't have the woodstove put in yet (and it is not as large) but I will put these tidbits in the memory bank (I hope LOL). Just curious, do you ever plan or think about replacing your kitchen range with a woodstove cook range?
I have thought about it but it would require a whole makeover on at least one side. While the upper cabinets all still need replacing, I would not want to sacrifice any of my beautiful lower cabinets that were entirely hand crafted by Patrick.
Great video!! You explained everything so well! I'm a newbie to all this and subscribing to your channel just because of this awesome, detailed video. Would you mind explaining why you need to repeatedly season the top of the stove if you cook inside of pans? I know pans,such as cast iron, must be seasoned after use, anyway.
For one, I do cook my tortillas directly on the wood stove but because of constant use, the wood stove gets worn, often time wet from spilled coffee or tea or sauces, soups, or whatever I am cooking on there just like any stove will and needs to be cleaned off. So just like your pans, your stove top needs to be seasoned and cared for
Hello Heidi! Wonderful info all around! Is it just the top u oil, or do u do front and sides as well? Having a stove like this for cooking/ heating is a dream I hope one day will come true! Happy Thanksgiving to u and urs, I can’t remember how u felt about this day, let me know and I’ll remember n the future. Thank u
Hi Joy! Yes, I just do the top, the rest of it does not need it and the sides are about impossible to get to anyway, that stove just fits in there.
since stove has paint when new did you wait till it burnt off before starting to season the top?
I do not believe ours had paint, it is cast iron but yes, it was burned hot for awhile before cooking on it
The top of my wood stove is painted like the rest of the stove. Is it alright to cook on top of this and should I season the top? Thanks.
I really cannot say anything about that myself as I have never worked with something like
I do. No problem. I cook and heat everything I can on mine
Thank you very much for this great video. Such cooking method seems good in cold weather, but what about summer? Do you still use your wood stove or cook in other ways, especially since you don't have air conditioning?
I talk about this in other videos but I cook on hot plates and bake in a toaster oven that we plug into our solar power in the summer and of course use our BBQ
What brand of wood stove do you have, please?
Quadrafire
What type of stove is this? Cast iron or steel? What brand? Thank you!!
Cast iron Quadrafire
Hello, would cooking with an enamel cast iron dutch oven (like a le creuset) be okay on a woodstove?
Yes, it would. I also use stainless steel and glass quite often on mine
@@RainCountryHomestead Ok thank you! That is great to know, I'm surprised glass wouldn't break!