Black Snow!!!

Got home today and as usual I cleaned out the stove for the weekend burn and got a fire going....A mix of Ash, Oak and Pine to start it....However..I forgot it was only 16F outside and the stove was basically cold since early morning.....What happened???? You guessed it...Burning so hot and fast thin creosote flake were blowing out of my stack...Snow on the lawn is covered with black flakes......Blew it right out...WOW!!!

 

Say what?

 

Well that's never good...

 

Never had it happen here.

 

Using paper to start the fire by chance? I've heard of burnt paper doing that.

 

Ouch! Left the air intakes open, did you???

 

I would like a little more information about how this happened and how a fire needs to be started in your stove, since using a stove is now important to me, i would like to know if all stoves need a common way of getting a fire started or do some like a stove using a Cat above the fire do not require a special way to start from cold.

I hope my question was stated correctly, not knowing a lot about wood burning stoves my questions might be mis-stated.

 

I remember the days that snow would be black....from burning coal.

 

I burn all winter long without cleaning my stove pipe one time and never get creosote out of the stove pipe.
Sounds like something else is going on. I always try to get my stove as hot and as fast as I can in the morning. I do not run it at night so I start a new fire every morning.

You sure you have dry wood your burning. Oh it was -9 * here when I got up to start a fire this morning.

 

Welcome, you may want to check out

Modern EPA Stoves and Fireplaces

 

Thank you for the welcome and the direction for finding already posted information.