Deep freeze question

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My baseboards were costing close to $300/month and the house was maybe 12c (could not get it warmer) with pellet stove bills are around $100/month with a much warmer house
Im just supplementing with the electric ,my central heat is doing the heavy lifting. Electric just makes up the difference between 65 and 75. If i were all electric id expect a bill of about $1000 a month for 25 million BTUs of resistance electric. As opposed to $170 for the solid fuel.
 
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What time is dinner tonight? Do you want me to grab some nice bread? lol sounds good
Nope, fresh buttermilk biscuits. Tomorrows menu, chicken al king over biscuits.
 
What time is dinner tonight? Do you want me to grab some nice bread? lol sounds good

I'm just about to sign off and sit down to an elk roast with brussels sprouts and spuds from the garfen with apple pir for desert. See ya later.
 
Just finished a dinner of Pennsylvania venison (deer meat) Stew. Wifes specialty. Washed it down with , 12oz bottle of Dogfish Head 90 Minute Imperial IPA.
 
Got my apple pie (with whipped cream on top) in hand or should I say mouth as I type this... I'm full, the great American pastime....eating.

I prefer elk over venison (I have both btw). Elk is a finer grained meat, but we eat venison too. I don't hunt bucks at all, just doe's and no bear this year (didn't get a tag but probably will next year). I like bear if it's done right as well as squirrel and wild turkey.

Bear gives me a good excuse to exercise my 44 Smith. 240 grain hollow points dispatch Michigan bear quite well.

Yes, the oven door is open, contributing to the heat in the kitchen. No point in wasting any heat unlike summer when it's unwanted and most times I'm doing dinner on the Traeger.

Stole a glance at the thermometer outside the kitchen window and it's closer to zero than 10. Loos like another 'Arctic Sunday'....
 
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As long as it works. My electric bill went up a whopping $12 since i start supplementing my central heat with electric space heaters and running the oven a lot.
Not bad for 2 months of the coldest temps in memory. My boiler is running 24/7 already producing about 85000 BTUs.

You must have a large home. 85K would handle our abode quire nicely. Actually, the stove running pellets and corn will hold the house pretty well at 70 until the wind kicks up and the mercury is south of 20 and the the heat plant cycles ocassionally to help out.

I'm thinking seriously about a coal stoker to replace the biofuel stove, a keystoker or a Hitzer. Edison is super high here, we are paying for Fermi yet....
 
I'm thinking seriously about a coal stoker to replace the biofuel stove, a keystoker or a Hitzer. .
Its my lowest cost per BTU around here. Depends on what it cost to buy the fuel. You may have to burn soft coal,i dont think they have anthracite in your area.
 
Soft coal is 200 miles west of me for about $25 a ton. Its real tempting to find a decent stove to use. Theres a Harman WC for sale
 
Its my lowest cost per BTU around here. Depends on what it cost to buy the fuel. You may have to burn soft coal,i dont think they have anthracite in your area.

Reading and Blashlak have distributors within 150 miles of me (2) that have rice anthricite baggrd so it's doable. Not sure about burning bit. It's dirty compared to anthricite.

Below 0 here this morning.
 
Soft coal is 200 miles west of me for about $25 a ton. Its real tempting to find a decent stove to use. Theres a Harman WC for sale

For that price, it sounds like it might be worth it.
 
It's rising pretty fast here and now only -7 at 9am CST. They say we will get to the mid 20s and that's only five or six degrees below normal. Be interesting to see if the DNR allows the fish houses to stay on the lakes an extra week with this extra stretch of bitter cold.
 
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