Who cooks with their stove?

We just got done with an Atmospheric river storm that dumped rain for a day and a half, then turned cold and dumped another 10" of Sierra Cement aka Heart Attack snow... Anyway, we have 37,000 people without power (us being one of them). I specifically bought our Ideal Steel 7 years ago for being more self reliant (a secondary heat source) and a cooking source.

Well today is the first time we're seriously using it as a cooking appliance. The wife chose woodstove cook top lasagna in our Dutch oven. Chugging away after a quick cook up of ground beef and Italian sausage. Smells great!!!

Who else uses theirs as a cooking source either emergency or regular use???

 

Backup cooking is certainly a benefit of wood heating. Sure is hot in front of regular wood stoves when cooking though!!! Cooking wood stoves often have a removable heat shield so you can stand in front of it without melting your yoga pants… any complaints from your wife about melted thighs?

 

Haha we would take turns and also took breaks away from the stove from the heat... It was a great meal for sure though.

 

I use ours to cook whenever I can.
Typically that's coffee, soup, bone broth, hot water for whatever use.
I'll heat a HUGE pot of water yearly to run boiling hot water down the kitchen sink drain.
It preheats cast iron pans so I don't use the range to preheat.
Rice and pasta cook well on the wood stove, the water doesn't need to boil as much as just be warm.

Pic is pancakes from a couple weeks ago, on my grandparent's cast iron griddle.

 

I tried cooking on the IS once just to see if water would boil.
I'm not sure if water would "boil" on our Fireview, but, as mentioned above, it really doesn't need to boil.

 

After snow shoeing in fluffy 20" deep snow, years ago, that hobo hash sure tasted good off the cabin's wood stove...

 

What have you cooked on your stove top?


We do soups and stuff like that on top. Have made mountain pies inside, the kids have roasted marshmallows. I recently found a piece of I beam I’m going to cut down to put in the stove to rest a cast iron pan on. There are some pics floating around of that but I haven’t had luck finding them.

 

I cooked on my fireview three or four times a week. I’d just put a Dutch oven on it and cook roasts, beans, stews. Loved it.

 

Use ours all the time to cook and heat water. Slow cooked dishes in Dutch oven on a Sunday while watching football...does not get any better than that.

 

My personal setup won't cook well since it has a jacket around the stove to blow air through the HVAC duct work.

My aunt had a Flameview wood fired stove and oven. It was built to cook on. My family would go to her house for Thanksgiving or Christmas breakfast that lasted all day. My kids remember with great joy the smell and taste of bacon and cinnamon rolls cooked on a hickory fire.

 

Not on but in. Burgers in a grill clamp, but most often steaks in cast iron.

 

There it is!

 

That's a really good idea. Never thought of that method.

 

celery soup will be making on it shortly. ingredients about to be puree'd , and then to the wood stove for a couple hours.
Looking forward to a hot meal. Fits in with beginning of year (corporate and individual) fast (Daniel fast) we're getting into.
But, not letting soup sit on a range for an hour or two will save liquid (compressed) dinosaurs.

 

Awesome!!! I like that cast iron griddle!!! That's what we had for breakfast this morning!!!

 

Those trivets are pretty nifty. Where from?
I don't regularly cook on trivets, most cooking I can move to a cooler corner, but keep a baking rack handy.
Good trivets are hard to find here. I saw one at TSC the other day though.

My favorite is blueberry pancakes. Ever try corn pancakes? They're quite good as corn is typically sweet.

 

These are actually built into the top of the Ideal Steel woodstove by Woodstock Soapstone Company. The center burner can be lifted off to expose a stainless steel burner for high heat (it's directly above the catalyst). It's a great stove to cook with, just a little hot standing in front of it....

 

I wrap potatoes,beets,carrots,etc in tin foil and put them in the stove in front of the coals not on the coals.Cooks them up in no time.