Tip:- Buy or make three ash pans. When you put in ash pan #3, then outside ash pan #1 is tipped into plastic bag and pan #2 is cooling outside. No need for an ugly bin or dust inside. And you get a nice plastic bag of 'potash fertiliser' for the gardener friend. That's how I do it in SW Ireland. Thanks for the vid...and your right about creosote fires. Sadly I know.
We have the exact same stove in black and absolutely love it. It makes great bread, soft on the inside and crusty outside. Also makes great pies, cakes not so much as you have to keep opening the oven door to move pans around. I have cooked meals on it for years. We have had it since the 80’s. My husband is from Waterford. His mom in Ireland had a white Stanley.
Hello Ann, apologies for jumping on your comment…I was trying to work out the make of this stove and thought you might be able to help since you have one too?! We would love to have one like this but not sure if they sell them in Scotland. Currently have an Aga but we need a workhorse with a back boiler! Many thanks and best wishes, Hanna 😊
Hanna Hyggelig Home- My family was originally from Scotland on my mother's side. I lived in northern England for three years. The first stove I came across was an Aga. It heated the entire three floors of a stone house. I had my first meal off the plane in that lovely kitchen. I had screaming hot gorgeous tea and steamed cauliflower with a golden cheese sauce over toast points. It was Heaven! I am not sure if you are able to buy Canadian stoves, but there are some good ones. ~ Diane
This was a top notch video. So informative,, and delivered in a clear manner that made it easy to follow and interesting to listen to. I remember my grandmother raving about being able to cook on a wood stove we had in a cottage we were staying at. I am a lot older than you, and that was well over 50 years ago. She swore that making food on and in a wood stove was better than modern cooking devices. Don't know if that was true, but do know she was an amazingly talented cook and baker, and she would have known. Really enjoyed this.
I saw a time machine kinda looking thing in a house when I was looking for new house in northern Ontario Canada, found out it’s a wood burning stove 👌👌🤗🤗 I love the idea of it and since then I’ve watched several videos about how to properly use it, this video is perfect and lots of small details mentioned and explained perfectly, can’t wait to use wood stove now 🥰
@@soaringsky4416 they've always flamed up for me, but I don't use more than a handful. Dried potato peelings work really well also. I've been using both methods for years.
You can save your cardboard egg crate save your dryer lint and burned down candles. ALL things you would normally throw out. Stuff the lint in the crate where the egg sits then melt wax over each one. Ready to build a fire, tear off 1 lint egg and WALA!!
This is such a informative video. You have done a wonderful job of building a fire in a wood stove 101. This is information that many people need but don’t understand the importance of air flow. Thank you Josh
If you're putting hot coals you probably dont want to use a galvanized garbage can. Zinc quickly turns to a vapour when hot and is pretty toxic. What could could do is have a fire in your can outside to remove the galvanization before leaving it inside.
great video - I just got my first wood cookstove this year and couldn't figure out why I couldn't get my oven up to temperature. My mum is fortunately well versed in wood cookstoves so she gave me a few pointers but this explanation covers the basics really well.
Do I live where I can't possibly ever use one of these? Yes. Am I still going to watch this with total concentration? Yes. 🙈 This is so interesting! ☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️
I love Ireland. I visited two years ago. I didn't want to come back to the US. 🥰 Killarney National park was so beautiful. My daughter drove us everywhere! What type of material do you use for the back wall where the stove is and on the floor?
We have just put in an offer on our homestead-it includes a large wood burning cook stove; which is the only cooking stove in this well built off grid home!This video was so very helpful! Thank you! I wish I knew the brand of the stove so I could look it up and try to find instructions, but I didn’t think of doing that! I’ve had lots of wood burning heating stoves that I’ve cook on during power outages, but not a sole way to cook! Thanks again!
Been heating primarily with electric, but burn a cord or two of wood in our buck stove fireplace each winter. Gettin ready to instal a new stainless steel chimney and buy our cookstove. Wood will become our primary heat source in our 1100 sqft home to help combat our ever increasing utility costs and decrease our dependence on their power grid.
Best tutorial I've seen on using a wood stove. I grew up with wood stoves...both my parents and grandparents had two stoves. Cool stove and chunk ( parlor,) stove as the cook stove burn time isn't very long. Chunk stove can take 2-3 large pieces and burn about 6 hours instead of the 2 for cookstove
It's nice to see the Irish Stanley range make its way across to the states! My Stanley 8 Mourne has a boiler on it and heats 6 radiators Though I burn Turf (Peat) exclusively on it though they can burn coal and timber too!
Good morning Josh. Well you made my day! I have owned four kitchen wood stoves over the last 40 years. Some airtight. Some antique. We currently have a 1930 Home Comfort that I restored. If I was going to buy a new one, it would be airtight, possibly a Kitchen Queen. I like the Irish Stanley for small cottages/spaces. Our stove is currently blazing away, warming our kitchen on this cold New Hampshire morning. Why not build your fire from the top plate opening ? Yours lifts right up. I like to take the covers off and lay my fire, so I can stand up with cup of coffee! Also do you have a back heat shield? Your stove is close to the back wall. We had to install ours with ample air flow because our stove is not airtight. Thank you for showing folks how easy it is to use this type of stove. Hopefully more people will get on board and use a kitchen wood stove.
You have to love the old "Home Comfort" kitchen wood cook stoves! Mine is a 1917 enameled model with chrome trim and a warming oven. I have considered an air tight Kitchen Queen but at my age (78) I don't see the sense in spending that kind of money on something that my family would just let go of in an estate sale. But, anyway while I am still on this side of the grass I will continue to enjoy my "Home Comfot" kitchen stove.
Michael Smith- Thanks so much for responding. We are a 350 acre working farm in Central Lakes Region New Hampshire- grass fed beef- commercial hay and logging and NONE of us are under 70! There are three properties. There is the main farm, our woodland cottage and the grandparent's original farm that stands silent. It is only used in the summer by relatives, however that farm kitchen also has a vintage Home Comfort like yours. Mine is currently heating the open living room/ kitchen area as I type. I restored ours. It came out of our Great Uncle's farm. I named her Matilda. She has a personality and is like having another person in the kitchen. If you don't get well acquainted with Matilda, she will not cooperate! Baked beans taste like no other and I enjoy using a 1908 Griswold waffle iron over an open flame. Some of the new air tights don't have the rings you can remove. Gram taught me how to polish up the surface when the stove is cold with crumpled wax paper to put a teflon like finish on the surface. Then I can place bread right on the stove for toast, while I'm cooking bacon & eggs and the coffee pot is perking away on the back. It doesn't get any better than that! Perhaps you can bequeath your stove to the local Historical Society? All the best and Happy Thanksgiving! ~ Diane
Definitely one of the most informative videos you've done. I've been looking into getting one of these for a little while now, this tutorial gives me more info to make my choice. Great video.
Thanks for the tutorial! This is our first winter with a woodstove which cut our electric bill in half! Hoping to be off grid and get a cookstove one day. What is the manufacturer of your stove, I love it! And also what is the r value/k value on your stove!. It seems like you should have more for wall protection. We put $.99 sq ft slate tile behind ours with a one inch air gap, plus cement board. For floor protection we got free granite countertop sink cutouts we cut and fit, plus 2 layers of cement board.
Hi Kitty. You did the same as my first kitchen wood stove installation back in 1976. We had a non airtight Glendale. Used stone board with real 1/2 brick .That board was mounted to metal 2x4s to allow that air flow behind the stove. And an approved stove mat. Worked great. Otherwise you could char your house wood 2x4s right through your back wall. The char does not show on your sheet rock! So that is how house fires can mysteriously happen! That Stanley is a honey of a stove!
Stanley is the main make of range (cookstove) that is used in Ireland on farms and rural areas. Every house in the past had them. Not as common now. I have one, a Stanley superstar. It heats all the radiators in the house as well as providing hot water. The one in this video is a Stanley Errigal. We burn our own turf which is dried peat and wood as well. The variety of models being manufactured have reduced big time unfortunately. Deemed to be not environment friendly which I don't think is correct at all..
What a great video!! I do have a question about the fire building. Have you ever experimented with "top down" fire building in the stove? It prevents the crushing/smoldering of the little/beginning layers, and also if you build the top layer close to the opening to the flue pipe it helps heat that flue quickly to create the draw. I fell in love with that method when we relied on wood heat exclusively.
Thank you for the show ,,thia is going to come in handy for us we got an amish wood cook stove just have to fix our kitchen floors to put it in ,,kep up the good work ,,we also got an amish wood burning hot water heater
Thanks for the information. I'm in the process of restoring an old kitchen wood stove. I'm curious, while in "maintenance mode" whether overnight or during the day, how long will it generally last before having to stoke the fire and adding wood? I have an old atlas 27 box stove I used to use, and I had to stoke it every two hours. Made for some very long winter nights.
I am getting hopefully an 100 year old sanico. Only thing missing is the water tank but it's alright. Getting it cheap too. For now itll be used in my garage until I get my next and last house with brick and root cellar. Awesome video.
How often should one have the pipe from the stove through the roof cleaned? 🧹 And do the pots on top of your stove contain water for moisture in the house?
Thank you for the how to, very thorough in your instruction. Just bought a house that has one of these wood cook stoves in it so I want to get to know it before winter.
The air flow will determine how fast the wood burns up also. Usually closing it up at night you will wake to coals and just opening the air valves will crank it right back up! No better way to heat a home and cook. Power or no power you have heat and a way to have hot meals!
I loved watching the video. Brought back a lot of good memories when I have had a wood stove. I would love to have a wood cookstove, but I live in Arizona, so don't need the heat from it, and I'm getting to old to be chopping wood.
Hello ROse, Just lettng you know that I had a foster mother that used a "Home Comfort" wood cook stove just about everyday of her life in upper NYS. she was 93 and loved to sit in front of the stove and tell us foster boys stories. It was the best way to grow up! I am now 78 and relish the memories of those days.
@@MichaelSmith-hs5iu That is a great story! I know I would love to sit in front of the wood stove too, if I had one. My parents raised 5 foster brothers most of their life. They are all like my brothers and their children are my nieces and nephews. I'm just a couple years younger than you.
This was extremely interesting. I had an old Ben Franklin stove 35 years ago after graduate school and I bought a house that is now a hundred years old. I miss my Ben Franklin and really love that warmer for fermenting and other things. What states are your companies located in? How do you take orders or build a stove in a home? I'm feeling my way around to understand how to get a stove. I have two locations Massachusetts and Ohio. Thank you this is really nice
Thank you for this informative & detailed information. God Bless you & your family. I'm a senior in TN & have a limited income. I looked at Buck stoves in western North Carolina. I need a cook stove & mainly heat. Do you have a recommendation? Thank you & God Bless😂😊❤🎉
FANTASTIC video! We bought a property this summer and in addition to the main house there is a cabin with a Margin Gem Pac stove. Been really difficult to find any print/video material for this stove so this video has been great. I did a test fire yesterday and have great info. for our fire today - I can see where I went a little bit wrong - we're hoping to overnight in the cabin - we'll see how that goes! LOL! It's New Years Eve in Northwestern Ontario!
I am loving your stove!! I am looking into purchasing one and would like to know what kind is yours and if there’s a model that as well please. It looks like it’s the perfect size as well. The ones I keep finding look extremely big and I’m not needing anything huge. Also, it looks like the stove is pretty close to the wall…. Is that ok? Clearly it is but just wondering what you have behind it to make it safe. Thank you for this video and all homesteading for those of us just starting out with homesteading. I’ve been in the making for years … just taking the leap of faith now!
Do you ever have any problems with your glass slider door being so close to the fireplace? Such as condensation in between panes and heat loss due to such a big opening. I'm sure there's plenty of reasons why the fireplace is located there, I'm just thinking that a corner with no window/door openings would be more efficient in the long run. Although it is convenient to have your woodpile right outside that door for quick trips in the biting cold!
Great video. What do you do with the ash once you take it out? I have many things but I am curious about its use in the garden. I have heard people swear by it being beneficial and others saying its one of the worst things you could do to a garden.
Alex Spitzer = Ashes are the best anti-slip you can use on snow or ice !!! We get a lot of it here in the NE mountains and that's what I save my ashes for !!! Have no idea what folks do, who don't have wood stoves ! Any left over goes on the lawn ........ no problems with that at all. Just make sure the ashes are cold !!! We use a metal garbage can to store them in for winter safety!
Ash is very alkaline and contains a lot of nutrients that make soil more fertile. So if you have acidic soil, that is a good thing. But if you have alkaline soil already, you wouldn't want to make it more alkaline.
Hi. I'm in Boise and would like to replace the electric stove in my 1910 bungalow to its (again) having a wood cook stove. I'm looking at an Elmira. What is yours?
Hello Homesteading Family, does your Stanley Waterford have a fire brick lined fire box? I just bought a used one that has burnt out heat plates in the fire box. Maybe Ill just cut up some fire bricks and call it a day! Thanks for the video
Great Video! I am considering a wood cookstove on our new homestead, but we have a very nice Blaze King woodstove already in the same space since our living room and kitchen are an open concept space. I am not sure if having both is practical. So I am still thinking it through.
Ramona Cook = You'll know just how practical it is ...after a winter without the two stoves. We have two, and I wouldn't part with my hundred yr old cookstove! Our glass front soapstone living room stove is a super heating stove.
My Mom has a regular cast iron fireplace in her house. Nothing something she likes messing with even though we know people find these things in our area valuable. I like them just for keeping the house warm in the winter, cooking, keeping foods warm, etc. BUT, I really prefer a traditional gas stove. Grill for hot summer days. Finding one of these big boys will be a challenge for our next home especially since most places do not have them. Too bad they are so $$$$$
If you are desperate you can use walnuts . 1 kilo burns for 1 hour. Also maintain the pipes clean 1 ce a year . It will burn better. Thank you for ths tips.
For some homeowners insurers, you may need to consider being sure your stove is a serially numbered UL tagged appliance professionally installed. They know what your state requires as far as fire resistant surround and can be sure it's working properly. For some insurers, a non-rated stove or handyman install can get your insurance cancelled (another way of saying what has been said here which is that your house can burn down). Also a more modern stove like the one shown here burns much more cleanly, safely and efficiently. Great video!
Couples questions 1: What is a flue virus? 2: what is the brand of the compressed logs? 3: Don’t you need a stove vent/fan for smoke/grease cooking ie. bacon? Wish I could afford one, lol. One day😕Thanks love y’all So excited just got my Strictly Medicinal seeds catalog , I mentioned y’all. God Bless.
What types of wood burn hotter than others? I would imagine hardwood would burn really hot and slow where as pine is more soft and would burn more quickly but I think its is more pitchy (sappy) am I correct in thinking that? Should you alway use the same kind of wood when cooking? Or does any ot this really matter. Thanks a bunch!
I’m considering buying a wood stove for our hybrid earth ship home we are building. I’m concerned that it will take a long time to cook on using the range portion, as well as heating the house too much. We live in SE Arizona. So cooking with it in summer probably won’t work. Any advice?
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Tip:- Buy or make three ash pans. When you put in ash pan #3, then outside ash pan #1 is tipped into plastic bag and pan #2 is cooling outside. No need for an ugly bin or dust inside. And you get a nice plastic bag of 'potash fertiliser' for the gardener friend. That's how I do it in SW Ireland. Thanks for the vid...and your right about creosote fires. Sadly I know.
Awesome video. He was easy to listen to and a great teacher...looking forward to the day I can afford and install a wood stove...
We have the exact same stove in black and absolutely love it. It makes great bread, soft on the inside and crusty outside. Also makes great pies, cakes not so much as you have to keep opening the oven door to move pans around. I have cooked meals on it for years. We have had it since the 80’s. My husband is from Waterford. His mom in Ireland had a white Stanley.
Hello Ann, apologies for jumping on your comment…I was trying to work out the make of this stove and thought you might be able to help since you have one too?! We would love to have one like this but not sure if they sell them in Scotland. Currently have an Aga but we need a workhorse with a back boiler! Many thanks and best wishes, Hanna 😊
Hanna Hyggelig Home- My family was originally from Scotland on my mother's side. I lived in northern England for three years. The first stove I came across was an Aga. It heated the entire three floors of a stone house. I had my first meal off the plane in that lovely kitchen. I had screaming hot gorgeous tea and steamed cauliflower with a golden cheese sauce over toast points. It was Heaven! I am not sure if you are able to buy Canadian stoves, but there are some good ones. ~ Diane
Could you go more into detail as to why baking cakes with it was difficult?
This was a top notch video. So informative,, and delivered in a clear manner that made it easy to follow and interesting to listen to. I remember my grandmother raving about being able to cook on a wood stove we had in a cottage we were staying at. I am a lot older than you, and that was well over 50 years ago. She swore that making food on and in a wood stove was better than modern cooking devices. Don't know if that was true, but do know she was an amazingly talented cook and baker, and she would have known. Really enjoyed this.
Best, most thorough video on YT on wood burning stoves. Thanks.
Love this video!! Brought me back to my childhood.
I saw a time machine kinda looking thing in a house when I was looking for new house in northern Ontario Canada, found out it’s a wood burning stove 👌👌🤗🤗
I love the idea of it and since then I’ve watched several videos about how to properly use it, this video is perfect and lots of small details mentioned and explained perfectly, can’t wait to use wood stove now 🥰
If you save your paper towel roll cardboard and stuff with the newspaper then it stays lit and catches kindling in fire very quickly.
Lint from a clothes dryer works really well too.
@@stevehairston9940 I would be careful with that since most clothes are made from synthetic fibers which melt rather than burn.
@@soaringsky4416 they've always flamed up for me, but I don't use more than a handful. Dried potato peelings work really well also. I've been using both methods for years.
Good tip Beverly, I will be making some of those for starting my stove. Thanks!
You can save your cardboard egg crate save your dryer lint and burned down candles. ALL things you would normally throw out. Stuff the lint in the crate where the egg sits then melt wax over each one. Ready to build a fire, tear off 1 lint egg and WALA!!
This is such a informative video. You have done a wonderful job of building a fire in a wood stove 101. This is information that many people need but don’t understand the importance of air flow. Thank you Josh
Love you guys!
If you're putting hot coals you probably dont want to use a galvanized garbage can. Zinc quickly turns to a vapour when hot and is pretty toxic. What could could do is have a fire in your can outside to remove the galvanization before leaving it inside.
great video - I just got my first wood cookstove this year and couldn't figure out why I couldn't get my oven up to temperature. My mum is fortunately well versed in wood cookstoves so she gave me a few pointers but this explanation covers the basics really well.
Struggling with the same issue and that brought me here 😅
European preparing for a powerless winter thanks to Greens stupidity 😡
@@laresilience5829 Greens? I think you mean Putin...?
What a great educational tool. We have a very old cook stove and need to figure out how to use it. You’ve given us a roadmap. Thanks!
Thanks for educating the rest of us.
Do I live where I can't possibly ever use one of these? Yes. Am I still going to watch this with total concentration? Yes. 🙈
This is so interesting! ☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️
Thank you Josh, for the tutorial. Very informative. Stay warm and God Bless!
Thank You GOD for showing us this!!!! We all need 1
Actually i think it was youtube...
I live in the city where these stoves are made, hello from Ireland.
I love Ireland. I visited two years ago. I didn't want to come back to the US. 🥰 Killarney National park was so beautiful. My daughter drove us everywhere! What type of material do you use for the back wall where the stove is and on the floor?
Hello Ireland!!! 😊🥰❤️
Oh you lucky duck ! :)
We have just put in an offer on our homestead-it includes a large wood burning cook stove; which is the only cooking stove in this well built off grid home!This video was so very helpful! Thank you! I wish I knew the brand of the stove so I could look it up and try to find instructions, but I didn’t think of doing that! I’ve had lots of wood burning heating stoves that I’ve cook on during power outages, but not a sole way to cook!
Thanks again!
Been heating primarily with electric, but burn a cord or two of wood in our buck stove fireplace each winter. Gettin ready to instal a new stainless steel chimney and buy our cookstove. Wood will become our primary heat source in our 1100 sqft home to help combat our ever increasing utility costs and decrease our dependence on their power grid.
Best tutorial I've seen on using a wood stove. I grew up with wood stoves...both my parents and grandparents had two stoves. Cool stove and chunk ( parlor,) stove as the cook stove burn time isn't very long. Chunk stove can take 2-3 large pieces and burn about 6 hours instead of the 2 for cookstove
It's nice to see the Irish Stanley range make its way across to the states!
My Stanley 8 Mourne has a boiler on it and heats 6 radiators
Though I burn Turf (Peat) exclusively on it though they can burn coal and timber too!
can I get these in Wales? I'm not sure whether we make peat in Wales
@@ajrwilde14 You could contact Waterford Stanley they make new ranges!
Thank you for the very thorough, detailed tutorial Josh! That is one gorgeous stove!
Good morning Josh. Well you made my day! I have owned four kitchen wood stoves over the last 40 years.
Some airtight. Some antique. We currently have a 1930 Home Comfort that I restored. If I was going to buy a new one, it would be airtight, possibly a Kitchen Queen. I like the Irish Stanley for small cottages/spaces. Our stove is currently blazing away, warming our kitchen on this cold New Hampshire morning. Why not build your fire from the top plate opening ? Yours lifts right up. I like to take the covers off and lay my fire, so I can stand up with cup of coffee! Also do you have a back heat shield? Your stove is close to the back wall. We had to install ours with ample air flow because our stove is not airtight. Thank you for showing folks how easy it is to use this type of stove. Hopefully more people will get on board and use a kitchen wood stove.
You have to love the old "Home Comfort" kitchen wood cook stoves! Mine is a 1917 enameled model with chrome trim and a warming oven. I have considered an air tight Kitchen Queen but at my age (78) I don't see the sense in spending that kind of money on something that my family would just let go of in an estate sale. But, anyway while I am still on this side of the grass I will continue to enjoy my "Home Comfot" kitchen stove.
Michael Smith- Thanks so much for responding. We are a 350 acre working farm in Central Lakes Region New Hampshire- grass fed beef- commercial hay and logging and NONE of us are under 70! There are three properties. There is the main farm, our woodland cottage and the grandparent's original farm that stands silent. It is only used in the summer by relatives, however that farm kitchen also has a vintage Home Comfort like yours. Mine is currently heating the open living room/ kitchen area as I type. I restored ours. It came out of our Great Uncle's farm. I named her Matilda. She has a personality and is like having another person in the kitchen. If you don't get well acquainted with Matilda, she will not cooperate! Baked beans taste like no other and I enjoy using a 1908 Griswold waffle iron over an open flame. Some of the new air tights don't have the rings you can remove. Gram taught me how to polish up the surface when the stove is cold with crumpled wax paper to put a teflon like finish on the surface. Then I can place bread right on the stove for toast, while I'm cooking bacon & eggs and the coffee pot is perking away on the back. It doesn't get any better than that! Perhaps you can bequeath your stove to the local Historical Society? All the best and Happy Thanksgiving! ~ Diane
I always wondered how to work one of those, thanks for this great video.
Definitely one of the most informative videos you've done. I've been looking into getting one of these for a little while now, this tutorial gives me more info to make my choice. Great video.
Wow! Great video
Thanks for the tutorial! This is our first winter with a woodstove which cut our electric bill in half! Hoping to be off grid and get a cookstove one day. What is the manufacturer of your stove, I love it! And also what is the r value/k value on your stove!. It seems like you should have more for wall protection. We put $.99 sq ft slate tile behind ours with a one inch air gap, plus cement board. For floor protection we got free granite countertop sink cutouts we cut and fit, plus 2 layers of cement board.
Hi Kitty. You did the same as my first kitchen wood stove installation back in 1976. We had a non airtight Glendale. Used stone board with real 1/2 brick .That board was mounted to metal 2x4s to allow that air flow behind the stove. And an approved stove mat. Worked great. Otherwise you could char your house wood 2x4s right through your back wall. The char does not show on your sheet rock! So that is how house fires can mysteriously happen! That Stanley is a honey of a stove!
Stanley is the main make of range (cookstove) that is used in Ireland on farms and rural areas. Every house in the past had them. Not as common now. I have one, a Stanley superstar. It heats all the radiators in the house as well as providing hot water. The one in this video is a Stanley Errigal. We burn our own turf which is dried peat and wood as well. The variety of models being manufactured have reduced big time unfortunately. Deemed to be not environment friendly which I don't think is correct at all..
Bakeries will usually give you stacks of pulp paper egg tray flats. I have used these to start fire in a Vogelzang cast iron heating stove.
Great video, thanks!
Great Video!!
What a great video!! I do have a question about the fire building. Have you ever experimented with "top down" fire building in the stove? It prevents the crushing/smoldering of the little/beginning layers, and also if you build the top layer close to the opening to the flue pipe it helps heat that flue quickly to create the draw. I fell in love with that method when we relied on wood heat exclusively.
Thank you for the show ,,thia is going to come in handy for us we got an amish wood cook stove just have to fix our kitchen floors to put it in ,,kep up the good work ,,we also got an amish wood burning hot water heater
Thanks for the information. I'm in the process of restoring an old kitchen wood stove. I'm curious, while in "maintenance mode" whether overnight or during the day, how long will it generally last before having to stoke the fire and adding wood? I have an old atlas 27 box stove I used to use, and I had to stoke it every two hours. Made for some very long winter nights.
Thank you so much for this instructional!!
I am getting hopefully an 100 year old sanico. Only thing missing is the water tank but it's alright. Getting it cheap too. For now itll be used in my garage until I get my next and last house with brick and root cellar. Awesome video.
Great information
Dried White Pine or any Pine makes good kindling.
thanks!!!
Really I need to know this ! Thank you 🙏🏻 God bless you and your family ! Beautiful Family !🕊
How often should one have the pipe from the stove through the roof cleaned? 🧹 And do the pots on top of your stove contain water for moisture in the house?
Thank you for the how to, very thorough in your instruction. Just bought a house that has one of these wood cook stoves in it so I want to get to know it before winter.
The air flow will determine how fast the wood burns up also. Usually closing it up at night you will wake to coals and just opening the air valves will crank it right back up! No better way to heat a home and cook. Power or no power you have heat and a way to have hot meals!
I loved watching the video. Brought back a lot of good memories when I have had a wood stove. I would love to have a wood cookstove, but I live in Arizona, so don't need the heat from it, and I'm getting to old to be chopping wood.
Hello ROse, Just lettng you know that I had a foster mother that used a "Home Comfort" wood cook stove just about everyday of her life in upper NYS. she was 93 and loved to sit in front of the stove and tell us foster boys stories. It was the best way to grow up! I am now 78 and relish the memories of those days.
@@MichaelSmith-hs5iu That is a great story! I know I would love to sit in front of the wood stove too, if I had one. My parents raised 5 foster brothers most of their life. They are all like my brothers and their children are my nieces and nephews. I'm just a couple years younger than you.
Great video very educational. Thank you
Nice show, great information
Great video 👍
This was extremely interesting. I had an old Ben Franklin stove 35 years ago after graduate school and I bought a house that is now a hundred years old. I miss my Ben Franklin and really love that warmer for fermenting and other things. What states are your companies located in? How do you take orders or build a stove in a home? I'm feeling my way around to understand how to get a stove. I have two locations Massachusetts and Ohio. Thank you this is really nice
Btw you or the miss should do some videos on how you do cooking on it. Would be awesome.
Great video and love the background. I,m considering a woodburner.
Thank you!
This was a great overview. thank you. Will you be showing us a few cooking recipes on the stove as well?
Can you share what is your stove’s manufacturer? Researching which stove to buy?
We're about to buy a home that has one and I would love to know how to safely cook on it it would be awesome if you made some videos on that
Awesome video very helpful thanks for sharing your knowledge 👍👍
Thank you for this informative & detailed information. God Bless you & your family. I'm a senior in TN & have a limited income. I looked at Buck stoves in western North Carolina. I need a cook stove & mainly heat. Do you have a recommendation? Thank you & God Bless😂😊❤🎉
FANTASTIC video! We bought a property this summer and in addition to the main house there is a cabin with a Margin Gem Pac stove. Been really difficult to find any print/video material for this stove so this video has been great. I did a test fire yesterday and have great info. for our fire today - I can see where I went a little bit wrong - we're hoping to overnight in the cabin - we'll see how that goes! LOL! It's New Years Eve in Northwestern Ontario!
You have a very beautiful family
Wonderfully helpful video. Thank you!
So useful and thorough! Best video I’ve seen on a wood cook stove! Thank you so much for sharing😉. Love y’all and God bless y’all❤️❤️❤️
This was the most useful information I've had in a long time. Thank you. Thanks for sharing 🙂🤚
Thanks for the tutorial...I learned a lot...thanks! 😊
I am loving your stove!! I am looking into purchasing one and would like to know what kind is yours and if there’s a model that as well please. It looks like it’s the perfect size as well. The ones I keep finding look extremely big and I’m not needing anything huge. Also, it looks like the stove is pretty close to the wall…. Is that ok? Clearly it is but just wondering what you have behind it to make it safe. Thank you for this video and all homesteading for those of us just starting out with homesteading. I’ve been in the making for years … just taking the leap of faith now!
Do you ever have any problems with your glass slider door being so close to the fireplace? Such as condensation in between panes and heat loss due to such a big opening. I'm sure there's plenty of reasons why the fireplace is located there, I'm just thinking that a corner with no window/door openings would be more efficient in the long run. Although it is convenient to have your woodpile right outside that door for quick trips in the biting cold!
Great information, thank you
Great video. What do you do with the ash once you take it out? I have many things but I am curious about its use in the garden. I have heard people swear by it being beneficial and others saying its one of the worst things you could do to a garden.
Alex Spitzer = Ashes are the best anti-slip you can use on snow or ice !!! We get
a lot of it here in the NE mountains and that's what I save my ashes for !!! Have
no idea what folks do, who don't have wood stoves ! Any left over goes on the lawn ........ no problems with that at all. Just make sure the ashes are cold !!!
We use a metal garbage can to store them in for winter safety!
Ash is very alkaline and contains a lot of nutrients that make soil more fertile. So if you have acidic soil, that is a good thing. But if you have alkaline soil already, you wouldn't want to make it more alkaline.
Wood ash is good for the garden and "Coal ash" is better for the driveway if you live where it snows.
Thank you.
Very clear tutorial, thank you so much. How long you use it? Do you are satisfied this stove?
Memories.. I remember my Grandmother using her wood cook stove until she died in the 70's
Hi. I'm in Boise and would like to replace the electric stove in my 1910 bungalow to its (again) having a wood cook stove. I'm looking at an Elmira. What is yours?
Ty for this
Great video! I would love to have a woodstove like that on our homestead, always wondered how they work and now I know!
great video going in details. thanks a lot
Nice job 👍
A waterford stanley errigal made in ireland..very nice I have one in my house here in ireland fired with peat from a local bog...
I just stumbled on this fabulous video! Is this stove an Irish Stanley? Any idea of where to purchase one? Thx!
Hello Homesteading Family, does your Stanley Waterford have a fire brick lined fire box? I just bought a used one that has burnt out heat plates in the fire box. Maybe Ill just cut up some fire bricks and call it a day! Thanks for the video
Hopefully you compost that ash ❤️🙌🏻🙌🏻
A+ video. Thank you.
nice video. thank you sir.
Great Video! I am considering a wood cookstove on our new homestead, but we have a very nice Blaze King woodstove already in the same space since our living room and kitchen are an open concept space. I am not sure if having both is practical. So I am still thinking it through.
Ramona Cook = You'll know just how practical it is ...after a winter without the
two stoves. We have two, and I wouldn't part with my hundred yr old cookstove!
Our glass front soapstone living room stove is a super heating stove.
Yes
My Mom has a regular cast iron fireplace in her house. Nothing something she likes messing with even though we know people find these things in our area valuable. I like them just for keeping the house warm in the winter, cooking, keeping foods warm, etc. BUT, I really prefer a traditional gas stove. Grill for hot summer days. Finding one of these big boys will be a challenge for our next home especially since most places do not have them. Too bad they are so $$$$$
If you are desperate you can use walnuts . 1 kilo burns for 1 hour.
Also maintain the pipes clean 1 ce a year . It will burn better.
Thank you for ths tips.
Awesome video! Any recommendations on suppliers of cast iron cook stoves?
What is the brand/name of your stove, and where can it be purchased? Thanks!
Hello Josh I'd love to find the exact stove you have. How would or where would I find d a similar one? Thanks
Where does he get the energy log that he showed and talked about? What kind of mill produces it?
For some homeowners insurers, you may need to consider being sure your stove is a serially numbered UL tagged appliance professionally installed. They know what your state requires as far as fire resistant surround and can be sure it's working properly. For some insurers, a non-rated stove or handyman install can get your insurance cancelled (another way of saying what has been said here which is that your house can burn down). Also a more modern stove like the one shown here burns much more cleanly, safely and efficiently. Great video!
What stove is that? Is that a modern made stove? Or a restored one?
Do you use the ashes in the garden?
Could also put wood in the warmer to help dehydrate the wood too
I like wood stoves very large so i can packem full large logs
Couples questions 1: What is a flue virus? 2: what is the brand of the compressed logs? 3: Don’t you need a stove vent/fan for smoke/grease cooking ie. bacon? Wish I could afford one, lol. One day😕Thanks love y’all So excited just got my Strictly Medicinal seeds catalog , I mentioned y’all. God Bless.
Blacktimus Prime 🤣Thank you ,I will have to rewatch it and smack my forehead 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♂️
My grandparents had a huge 8 burner cook stove with a full size oven and broiler
nice
What types of wood burn hotter than others? I would imagine hardwood would burn really hot and slow where as pine is more soft and would burn more quickly but I think its is more pitchy (sappy) am I correct in thinking that? Should you alway use the same kind of wood when cooking? Or does any ot this really matter. Thanks a bunch!
Hi Josh, how did you actually light the stove?
Do you do any canning on it?
I’m considering buying a wood stove for our hybrid earth ship home we are building. I’m concerned that it will take a long time to cook on using the range portion, as well as heating the house too much. We live in SE Arizona. So cooking with it in summer probably won’t work. Any advice?