Comments on: Let There Be Fire

By: IowaDeb

IowaDeb — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:43:12 +0000

You will love love that stove! I have a cast iron kettle on mine that I bought online at NorthlineExpress.com

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:22:20 +0000

Wish I had one. I would simmer orange peel, apple peel and whatever else I found all day long on it if I had one. Envy you!!

By: Amanda

Amanda — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:37:38 +0000

I have a wood stove and love it in the winter. There is no better way to cook a pot of pinto beans than right on top of the wood stove. Oh and some baked potatoes baked in the coals. Have someone that buys store bought pie crusts save the pans for you they are great to use for cooking in the wood stove.

By: Amber

Amber — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:51:08 +0000

That looks so cozy and inviting! I have a little electric heater that looks like a mini woodstove…not quite the same but it keeps our bedroom warm.

By: Kathleen H from Indiana

Kathleen H from Indiana — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:26:15 +0000

Woohoo…… HOT TIME IN THE OLD HOUSE TONIGHT!!!
Best way to keep warm is a wood stove. You are ready for winter. Hope you’ve been stacking up the firewood. Just think, it’s snowing outside, bread baking in the oven, roaring fire, good book, glass of wine. Ahhhh.. all the hard work has paid off.

By: Cranberry

Cranberry — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:07:08 +0000

Nothing better than a crackling real wood fireplace. ours is converted to gas, and it’s too expensive to use! Dad roasts chestnuts on his wood stove, and keeps coffee hot, all kinds of things! and the rec room is always nice and toasty, my kind of room!

By: maryann

maryann — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:04:12 +0000

I miss our woodburning stove, we got rid of it in 94 right after we sold the property where we got our firewood from. At $360 a cord it isn’t that cost effective to run. One thing we used to use as fire starters was to take paper egg cartons, fill them with dryer lint (highly flammable) then carefully pour paraffin wax on them. I suppose you could create your TP holder that you use for seeds but with paper tape on the top and bottom securing it.

By: monica

monica — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:18:36 +0000

You can dry your clothes on a rack close to the fire, instead of running the dryer all winter. If the clothes get too stiff, you can add them in with a load of wet clothes and they will soften right up.

I can’t imagine a winter now without wood heat!

By: Runningtrails

Runningtrails — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:15:24 +0000

If we had to split all our own wood, we would probably pick up a second hand gasoline splitter, as hubby works all day. While I will move and stack wood, I don’t think I could split a lot of it. Even buying wood is a lot cheaper than other forms of heat.

Our power goes out quite a bit in the winter but just for an evening or so. We have a chair ledge behind the sofa which we fill with candles to read. Works great, but you need a lot of them to get good light to read or work by. A mirror behind them helps a lot too. It uses up a lot of candles so I buy them all summer long at garage sales just to be prepared.

By: Flatlander

Flatlander — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:09:39 +0000

I cannot and will not live without a woodstove.
We put a real antique one in our first house, so cozy and homey.
In our current house we bought a antique looking, but high efficiency stove, we love that one even more.
Homey, cozy and good on firewood.
I think this kind of heat is the best heat there is…