I can't believe the heat from this new stove. Also, I can not believe how I do not have to feed it as often. I am very pleased and today my office was closed so I have some good quality time with the new stove to learn it better. Right now the temp in the stove room is 85 and the stove top is cruisin at 500. I think I will make some chicken soup on top of that sucker!!
Update on new stove, 13-NC
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That room is too hot. :wow: To even out the temperatures, take a table or box fan, set it on the floor at low speed and blow some air from the cooler parts of the house towards the stove room. The cooler air will be replaced with warm air.
Thanks, will do. I do think the digital thermometer on the wall is a bit high since its location is across from the stove. It does not feel that hot in there, I will put a different thermometer in there to get a more accurate temp. The rest of the house is 65 which I think is pretty comfortable-the furnace is not turning on very often at all and I have ceiling fans in the other rooms to help circulate the air.
In just a short period of time, I can tell the difference in heat distribution. We were pulling the air out of the stove room instead of pushing air into it. (I know I read on this forum it was wrong but the husband insisted). The results in a short amount of time are amazing.
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How are you making out with the controls? Getting good secondaries? I know you were concerned that your wood may not be perfect.
Yes, I am getting good secondaries. My husband said that "you don't have to make it look like an inferno". I tried to explain to him that you have to get the temp up when reloading then turn it down. He likes a long slow burn but I like a little inferno upon reload, then I turn it down to burn slow. I have not had any problems with our wood except for one big freakin piece I put in. I don't think the stove likes big pieces.
My husband said that I remind him of the Poltergeist movie because when I reload I can't pull myself away from the firebox. He thinks its funny because when he turns the corner all he sees is me in front of the stove like that little girl in poltergeist in front of the tv.
Lids drip on many dutch ovens! Make sure you put down some Aluminum Foil first.
If you don't have a trivet, you can stop by your home store (or look in your basement perhaps) and use a piece of ceramic / porcelain tile between the stove and the pot for some temp control.
I did a 1/2 a fresh ham butt for pulled pork over the weekend on mine. I had a piece of soap stone to cook it on from an old stove I tore apart but a tile from the hardware will work just fine.
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If you don't have a trivet, you can stop by your home store (or look in your basement perhaps) and use a piece of ceramic / porcelain tile between the stove and the pot for some temp control.
I did a 1/2 a fresh ham butt for pulled pork over the weekend on mine. I had a piece of soap stone to cook it on from an old stove I tore apart but a tile from the hardware will work just fine.
pen
Well, I took Begreen's advice and put a fan blowing into the stove room and the temperature in the other part of the house went up 2 degrees. The main area is 67 degrees now. Every degree counts
!! The air circulates much better by having the fan blowing into the stove room.
!! The air circulates much better by having the fan blowing into the stove room.
GAMMA RAY said:Well, I took Begreen's advice and put a fan blowing into the stove room and the temperature in the other part of the house went up 2 degrees. The main area is 67 degrees now. Every degree counts
The pulled pork was delicious. If you want the recipe just look up in google "pulled pork cooks illustrated" I used their recipe. The only exception is I added about a 3/4 of a can of ginger ale to the bottom of my dutch oven and a layer of 3/4 in sliced onions to keep the roast up from the bottom.
Yep, having the fan in the right place helps a lot. If your stove room is too warm and the rest of the house cool then it's like you are wasting heat. Might as well share the wealth.
I have only used my stove damper 3 times. 2x this winter and once last winter. Even then I only used it for the first hour or two of the burn. Those nights the wind was not necessarily too strong but blowing out of a different direction than normal and just had my stove ripping. The stove top temps were trying to climb over 800 w/ the damper closed down so that why I utilized it. Once the stove calmed down and the burn progressed some I opened it back up like normal and still had my normal coal bed in the morning which told me the stove didn't over-draft after that time. If I suspect I could have this problem in any particular evening, I load the stove a little earlier than normal, about an hour and a 1/2 before bed just to make sure I have things under control before I start snoozing.
Now I don't know exactly how many times my wife has used the damper but she tends to get the stove a little too hot on start up. She treats it like it's a brake pedal.
pen
Well the temps all last nite through the rest of the house were about 67 degrees and held steady with the fan blowing into the fan room. Even the temps upstairs with the door open were about 60. The furnace has not had to turn on so....Success!! Thanks to the plethera of information I have received here on the forum, I could not have done it without you It seems that when you think you finally have a handle on things, you realize your journey has just begun and there is so much more to learn every day.
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