Started a fire today

Store bought or garden picked tomatoes tastes the same to me but I don't really care for either. A slice on a burger is about it.

Cukes though, big difference. All the ones I've bought were what I'd consider "going bad" where they are sort of mushy and floppy.

 

You dont eat enough or have had the wrong home grown ones. There is no comparison. Even the "local grown" ones your buy in a grocery store are what I call cardboard tomatoes...taste like nothing, no acid to them..just nasty. Subway the sand which shop has the poorest excuse for tomatoes I have ever tasted. In the summer I pull the ones off they put on and slice mine. I pick them by the 5gallon bucket full. We make sauce with them I eat gallons of them and give away tons. But I have like $20 in all my plants. I also eat tomato sandwiches sometimes twice a day in the summer. Tomatoes mayonnaise I like mustard too and salt n pepper

 

I have no idea. My wife does it. But others like it!! Its a pizza sauce recpie we like to make pizza and put it in at jars frozen and then thaw them out when we need them. I will ask her nut she just throws stuff in it?

 

You gotta try a late season , almost ripe , 3/4" thick slice, fried (barbecued ) tomato on a burger.
Taste is memorable on a moose burger .

 

Needed another fire

Yesterday rain off & on & 58°
This AM, 50° rain. House 63°. Yucky day

Started another fire,
Glad I have wood inside dry & ready to go.

 

Sounds good actually... rain on the roof and a fire going...

 

95F here right now! No fire for me!!! AC running wide open!

 

95....wowsers!!!

 

Look at my weather thing in my sig. May not be that hot now? It actually was 94 at the time I posted . I looked after I posted.

 

We like some big tomatoes with a vinegar oil and garlic dressing. Dead ripe tomatoes, nothing like them.
We plan to grow some cherry tomatoes, red and yellow. So good in salads. And the grand kids eat them like they are candy!

 

Ditto, just fired it up

 

54* f outside , going to fire for 4 1/2 hours today should be good till Monday.

 

Might burn a bit today. 48* out, 62* in the house. I'd just turn on the boiler but it takes a good 10-12hrs to get the slab warm.

 

That slab must make for a nice even heat in the winter.

 

Yeah, though I don't use it. Natural Gas boiler to run it and it's thirsty. I save $600+ a winter by using my Blaze King and that's with keeping the house warmer.

 

The Garn boilers come in four different sizes 1,000 , 1,500 , 2,000 ,and 3,000 gallon commercial model. Gasification boilers built with internal storage. The company has been around since 1983 and stock parts for its earliest model. It is a very simple and efficient set up which would be a perfect match for your slab heating .
I've been using a gasifcation boiler and heat storage since the early 80's. Efficient with heat storage plus storage gives you some flexibility as to when you want to have a fire .

This picture is taken with the boiler at full output capacity of 120,000 btu's per hour and burning at approximately 2,000 F. No woodsmoke odor and just hot enough to be uncomfortable to breath.
The Jetstream boiler at the bottom of the chimney is over 30 years old .

 

The couple folks I know that run the outdoor boilers go through a TON of wood. 10-15 cords to heat homes not a ton larger than mine.
I guess the losses between the boiler, piping, and slab all add up, even with it well designed.
With an in-room stove, the loses still heat the room aside from what goes out the chimney.
Also no electricity needed to run.

The floor heat was a reason I bought the place, but nothing what I know now I would have looked for forced air. The slow response time sucks.

 

Outdoor boilers to the unsuspecting can easily be confused with some very good technology. So I will try and give a short example.

Our home is 3,400 sq feet on two floors.
Our first boiler was like the one pictured below. It burned 22 cords per year, designed like most outdoor boilers less the little house surrounding it.


Our second was like the one pictured below (a triple pass cast iron down drafter). It burned 16 cords per year. When 1,000 gallons of storage was added, this number dropped to 10 cords per year.



Our third was a Jetstream gasification boiler connected to the same 1,000 gallons of storage and for the past 30 years has averaged 4 1/2 cords per year.

The PDF is the principal of gasification.