Anybody hungry? Cooking on wood stoves

I've been looking for a thread where you guys talk about cooking on these great wood stoves but couldn't find anything. Could you point me into the right direction? Or should I start a new thread?

 

You should find some threads like that in the smokehouse.

The Smokehouse

 

Thank you Grizzly Adam. I still have to learn my way around on this forum.

 

I went ahead and moved this thread over to the smokehouse.

I've got some of the tomatoes we froze from our garden in the pot on the stove. Come suppertime it will be chili. At my next stove refill I will be frying the beef.

 

Thanks for moving this.
Chilly sounds great. I'm as excited as a child before Christmas. Can't wait to get the stove all set up and start cooking. Got one nice enameled dutch oven so far.
Do you know how much weight a stove like ours might handle? I like making souip stock and then freezing it in. How big a Stock pot do you think I can get and what kind of stock pot. Can one use those professional stainless steel ones?

 

As far as I am concerned I have just started making meals on my stove. My electric one has become obsolete as of two weeks ago. Right now I am cooking bacon over a morning fire. Got some pumpkin seeds made last night that still need to dry out a bit more.
Last weekend it was pancakes and maple syrup. Very very accomodating when the stove is generating free heat and tasty eats!

 

Pallet Pete cooks on his a lot, mainly breakfast guessing by the pics he texts me

 

Oh yeah!
We just finished a batch of our famous chili. Cold and raining here. It's going to be good!
Taking it to the church harvest celebration this evening.
Oh, it wasn't cooked on the wood stove... had to get er done...

 

I went seasonal with mine. I usually dump in a bottle of bear and let it cook down, but today I put in some hard cider.

 

interesting...

 

I'm a Grizzly, I do what I want.

 

Nope, some sort of mad apple or something like that.

 

Bacon on top of the wood stove seemed like a great idea for me too....until I tried it. Way too much spatter-even after I used a lid.

What does your stove top look like now?

 

Just fine. In fact my stove wasn’t running all that hot. Maybe 400° during that at the most and dropping. So it was just more like putting ham on a pan and since the pan wasn’t that hot it wasn’t sizzling. You’d also be surprised that a little coconut oil can do a bit of good to renewing the surface. I actually like it a lot better than stove black. At least least the oil doesn’t stain and smells a heck of a lot better.
I experimented with this when I noticed that a stain that couldn’t really be removed. It was from cooking some steak on the stove and pan wasn’t the best size. Anyways it was a great way to cover a stain while making the stove look like it never happened in the first place. When I dabbed the oil around, the stove was at the very last leg of the burn, warm enough to make a washcloth steam a little, then wipe dry after a couple mins. Don’t have take my word for it though...