Super Cedar Starters, CAT Stoves, Blaze King

Hello, Wise Ones!

We have ordered our BK Princess, and we have received shipment of our cut and split wood, and we have cross stacked that wood under an overhead shelter but with the sides of the pile opened to prevailing winds (from all directions.) We are now working on the little details so we'll be up and running for cold weather as soon as that wood dries.

I did a search on this forum and I found a thread from a few years ago that says that Blaze King ships its stoves with samples of Super Cedars. I have visited the Super Cedar web site and I see that the Sud-Chemie Prototech endorsement is still posted on their site.

I was just about to order a box of Super Cedars, but since the thread that referenced the Super Cedars and Blaze King CAT stoves is a few years old, I thought I'd check in to make sure that this is still considered a good starter for CAT stoves and for the Blaze King.

Thank you all for your help!

OK, here in is the raging debate happening AT THIS VERY MOMENT in my house:

Beca Sunshine: "OK, I have a current endorsement from a Hearth.com forum user, Mod and wood stove owner. I'm going to order a box of 100 Super Cedars, unwrapped."

Mr. Sunshine: "Unwrapped?"

Beca Sunshine: "Yes, you can get a box of Super Cedars that are individually wrapped, or you can get a box of Super Cedars that are not wrapped. I'm guessing that the box of wrapped ones are possibly good for individual resale, or for traveling, like for camping. I guess. We don't need the individually wrapped ones, and the box of unwrapped ones are cheaper."

Mr. Sunshine: "Cheaper? By how much?"

Beca Sunshine: "Two dollars a box cheaper- and less waste. I'm going to order the unwrapped ones. NAKED FIRE STARTERS! YEAH!"

Mr. Sunshine: "But suppose they get stale? Get the wrapped ones. They will stay fresh, and it's only two dollars more."

Beca Sunshine: "Fire starters get stale? Are you serious?"

Mr. Sunshine: "I WANT FRESH FIRE STARTERS!"

Beca Sunshine: "I WANT CHEAP AND NAKED FIRE STARTERS!"

Yes, this is our life.

So. Do we want FRESH WRAPPED FIRE STARTERS? Or do we want CHEAP AND NAKED FIRE STARTERS?

I think I might have moved this forum into the PG rating.

I apologize.

BUT I'D STILL LIKE AN ANSWER TO MY QUESTION. SOLVE OUR MARITAL DILEMMA, WISE ONES.

Thank you.

Beca Sunshine: "I WIN! I AM VICTORIOUS. I WILL NOW TAKE A VICTORY LAP AND DO THE VICTORY DANCE IN THE LIVING ROOM."

Mr. Sunshine: "Naked or wrapped?"

Beca Sunshine: "SHADDUP."

Thank you, Everyone! Unwrapped it is! Uh, THE SUPER CEDARS, that is.

Thank you, Smokedragon! I made chicken pot pie for dinner tonight, so I'm good on the home front despite my rather elaborate Victory Lap.

BrotherBart said:

Damn. I was hoping for pics.

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Brother Bart, you *really* don't want to see that. Your imagination is going to be a lot kinder to both of us.

smokedragon said:

Well I would love to sit here and tell everyone just how much I love my fatwood, since it is all natural (with no wax or additives).......however, I fear it may sound a little dirty to talk about my fatwood with the direction this thread has headed in

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Baby, I just want to hear about your Ideal Steel.

No, really, I want to hear about your Ideal Steel. We went to the Wood Stove Decathlon in D.C. specifically to see the Ideal Steel- and to see the other stoves as well. We considered waiting for the Ideal Steel for our application, but we have no chimney in this house and our homeowner's insurance is demanding a certificate of professional install.

We inquired about having other stove shops install a chimney, take delivery of a Woodstock product and install it for us, and we got a tepid reception for that idea, even though we'd pay for it. We weren't asking anybody to do it for free, for pete's sake. Part of the tepid reception was installing a product they didn't sell (they would have much rather sold us a stove too) and part of it was driving out to The Twelfth of Never to install it.

When we found out that there is a stove shop in Virginia that carries Blaze Kings and was willing to drive to the out back to install it for us, along with a chimney, and the stove shop owners have many years of experience with installs and chimneys, that sealed the deal for us.

So, there. Blaze King. Can't say that I'm unhappy about it- but at one point I did have my heart set on an Ideal Steel.

Can I piggy-back on my own thread? Is that OK? Or should I start a different thread? One of the things that attracted me so strongly to the Woodstock stoves was the cook top. Obviously Blaze King stoves don't have that cook top, but is the special cook top necessary? I am interested in cooking on the stove top, regardless. I'm thinking about asking for Lodge cookware (Dutch ovens, etc.) for birthday, Christmas, etc.

Anybody have any experience with cooking on a Blaze King stove top? Cooking on any wood stove top? I'm not particularly interested in splattery things, but more like putting a chicken and vegetables in a Dutch oven on the stove- or a beef stew, ditto Dutch oven.

OK, maybe a pineapple upside down cake in a cast iron frying pan with a lid.

Cooking on the wood stove is not a priority, more like wringing every bit of value out of the energy. I want to know how to do it, and how to do it relatively well. I'm aiming for simple, one pot meals and I'm looking for simple solutions. Things like the trivet idea, or stuff like "Use a Dutch oven for blah blah blah" or "Don't use a Dutch oven for blah blah blah."

We have a Lodge hibachi that *rocks* and a fine propane gas stove at this location. I figure, if the wood stove is running and the top is hot enough, why not use it? I also cook in a Sun Oven frequently in the summer, and I use a thermal mass cooker on a regular basis, so I'm a bit accustomed to using "alternate" cooking methods.

All that being said, I do respect your points, Highbeam. I'm not likely to try to bake a cake on the wood stove, although I have baked a cake in a crock pot and in an electric frying pan. (The cake in the bread maker was a real flop. Hated it. But I don't use a bread maker anymore, either...)