Do you cook marshmellos in your woodstove or fireplace?

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How? Directions please.

I roast marshmellows and cook chicken breast in my open fireplace. I am currently looking at fireplaces now for heating in a new house build. One of my criteria is that it has a screen and a door or double doors that is easy to open and use open just for the purpose of cooking.

You should look at the harman stoves. they have a grill part that drops into the top for cooking
OR you should install a rack on a post to push into your fireplace to cook on we have cooked on the top of our wood stove

Sure, we've roasted marshmallows! It's about the best marshmallow-roasting environment I've ever seen. I also have picked up a grate and have been wanting to some time try doing burgers over a low coal-bed. Why not? The biggest issue would be getting the internal stove temp down low enough so it doesn't just vaporize them in minutes, and balancing that low stove temp with the need to keep the house heated.

I have also toasted bread in front of the glass once when we had no power for the toaster. Need a really hot coal bed for that.

I'm sure you could even bake bread in there if you were very careful to catch it when the temperature is right.

Heck why not? They cook things inside the wood-fired pizza ovens.

lucy said:

How? Directions please.

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Place marshmellow on stick, open stove door, place marshmellow near heat and rotate till golden brown.. repeat if still hungry.

My wood stove burns down to awesome coals for cooking marshmellos over. It would probably do good with a little grate and a couple peices of meat. Ive thought about it several times, but when its between 0* and 20* im thinking more about keeping the house warm than smores. Although i do like smore, i think a certain someone would be mad if the house got cold and im sitting in front of the wood stove stuffing my face full of smores! lol

When the coals are at their peak, I'm sure you could roast a marshmallow holding it on a stick close to the glass. Just don't touch the glass, leaves a mark but burns off pretty quickly.

One of my kids shot one of those nerf darts at the glass. It stuck for a moment then dropped off, but left a circular melted spot. No problem, it was ash by the time the fire had cooled and just washed off with glass cleaner (non ammonia, of course).

A number of years ago, one of the boys warmed up in front of the stove with his winter jacket on. It melted the back of the jacket without any physical contact.

Even at my normal reload point, if I put a marshmellow into my stove it would be a ball of flames before I could rotate it to toast the other side!

Definitely, over the burned down coals. Loooong metal forks are very helpful, or your kids burn their little hands off.

My wife and daughters roasted marshmallows last week on the Jotul. Not quite the same as a campfire in the backyard but they enjoyed it.

We roast "smashmallows" as the kids call it in the fireplace all the time. On occassion we do hot dogs too. Not as good as outside, but good enough for winter!