Boiling a kettle on a Jotul...

My castine will boil water and it has a waffle top. I need a trivot so it only simmers

What it's your stove top temps reading at?

Im not sure the problem..... should boil unless the stovetop just aint hot enough. You gave me stove pipe temps which were ok, but lower than my norm during a burn, do you recall the stoveTOP temp at all?

Yes, that is a much different top than mine.

I would try to fill the waffle holes with some sort of conductive metal, then I would try using a copper pot....gl

WellSeasoned said:

My castine will boil water and it has a waffle top. I need a trivot so it only simmers

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I agree with WS, we have gotten away from boiling the stove top kettle to simmering. It just seems to let moisture out at a slower more even pace. I think the boiling will go through water so fast you could refill the kettle 5x a day.

And be careful on refilling, try not to refill on the stove. Spills help cause the cast to crack.

BOIL away!

How about getting a 1/4inch thick sheet of metal or cast iron, that would be the exact size of the stovetop. If the air can't escape between the waffles, it might heat up more?!? Just a thought....

I had the F100 and could never get water to boil on it and I always blamed it on that deep waffle top. When I switched to the Morso 1410 with a flat top I could boil water with no problems.

trainer said:

I'm not looking to run a moisturizer, I actually want to boil a kettle...

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Good way to ruin the stove, water and metal = rust.

trainer said:

I'm not looking to run a moisturizer, I actually want to boil a kettle...

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I have an F100 and some ideas. I'll be honest, because of my stove installation inside a fireplace there isn't much room between the stove top and the top of the fireplace. So, I haven't tried to boil water, yet, but I have a plan. First, over the summer, I found some small, short, all stainless steel tea kettles (about 24 oz.) in a restaurant supply store (the kind that they serve tea at the table so, yes, they don't hold a lot). The bottom is only about 4 in. in diameter so they fit easily on the waffle portion of the F100 top (not on the raised 'edge'). Second, since I can't use a flue pipe thermometer I've used a stove top thermometer. What I've found is that the temperature of the stove top varies. I get the highest temperatures at the back of the waffle pattern next to the top vent/stove pipe. It makes sense if you remove the baffle inside the stove and look at the inside top of the fire box. The front portion has a rectangular 'box' that contains the air control slide. This apparently blocks the heat (and the primary intake air cools it also) so the stove top over this is cooler. Behind this box, on either side of the flue outlet the top is covered with metal spikes, called 'heat cleats' by Jotul. They are intended to increase the surface area and thus the transfer of heat and result in a hotter stove top over them. (It helps to have an infrared thermometer to confirm this) So, my thoroughly untested (yet) plan/suggestion would be to get a good conducting, smaller kettle/teapot (so it fits with full contact in the waffle area) and place it as far back on the waffle pattern as close to the top flue pipe (or on the flue pipe cover if you rear vent). That's what I'm going to try when it gets cold enough to fire up the stove. Be careful, the metal handles on these little kettles get hot. Good luck.