Greetings from Oklahoma, USA Cooked my breakfast on my soapstone wood stove this morning. It's our first freeze this morning, and our first big fire in the stove. I'd love to see the potato/apple video and hear your review. I have a lot of cast iron, but nothing like what you've shown here today. Cheers.
May help if you give your log burner a good clean out - lot's of old ash in there. Also judging on the stove glass I think you may be burning your log burner at too high of a heat, causing the blackening on the glass. Great idea with the cookware though.
Tried the potatoe cooker but after 7 hours potatoes still not cooked, placed on top of our woodburner temperature never lower than 100f but more nearer to 150f for the whole process, any helpful advice greatly appreciated
I have the large (3-potato) cast iron baker. (if possible always go for the large (3 potato one: you can steam veggies in them, too) if You have a wood stove, buy online a flu thermometer, and keep an eye on how hot you're burning your stove. Remember it takes 2-3 times as long to cook atop a wood burner. So -- when I clean my burner when I get up (5-6 am) and start my day's fire, I build a nice hot fire with the filled kettle (and/or old fashioned percolator full of water and coffee) and the greased potato baker atop the burner to pre-heat. I put my 2-3 potatoes in, and go back to bed for a bit before refuelling the stove. Once I get up, the water's hot and I can make instant coffee; or tea in my Japanese iron teapot (holds the heat!) and I use a 2-egg coddler to coddle eggs in the rest of the hot water in the kettle. After cooking, this leaves the kettle and water clean for other use. (STRICTLY follow directions for egg coddler) I pour hot water into 1 or 2 vacuum flasks for coffee/ tea later in the morning; then refill and replace kettle on wood burner, and stoke the fire again . The trick with a wood burner is to put your lunch to cook at 6am or thereabouts for eating at 12-1pm. Don't keep a kettle steaming on your stove unless you *need* a lot of humidity in your house, to prevent your lips from chapping. Remember humidity ( which also comes from drying laundry near the fire) causes mould. So "vent" your house -- open the windows / doors of your cabin / house for 5 minutes at the warmest part of a winter's day, to keep healthy circulation in the house, and prevent mould. If you don't have good insulation / double-glazed windows, you don't have to worry about this -- you already have "healthy" drafts and not a dangerous amount of humidity in your house.