cooking in a pellet stove

Well seems to me there was talk of cooking a turkey around Thanksgiving time!!
The drippings, as I remember, would keep the auger quiet!!

I guess you could heat up some chestnuts on top of stove, maybe warm up leftover's

Betcha you could bake a helluva hot potato in the firebox! BTW they do make pellet fired BBQ grills....

I'd bend up some coat hanger's and break out the marshmallows!

I saw that people put meat and stuff in foil and cook them in the engine compartment of snowmobiles. It would seem you could do it in a stove too?

There are books out there on exhaust manifold cooking, for cars and trucks.

Our GI's drop a can of food down the exhaust pipes of certain trucks to heat them up. When they figure it's hot enough, they goose the throttle, the can flies out, and they "catch and eat". I've seen a video of it, it's a riot.

Wood Heat Stoves said:

I'd bend up some coat hanger's and break out the marshmallows!

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Haha, I thought about making my kids some smores before....

I used to cook steaks and pork chops on my old, old Franklin wood burner. Drove the neighbors nuts in the middle of winter to smell that! OMG, were they good over a wood fire. I bet you COULD fit a small dutch oven off to one side of the fire box. I wonder how hot it gets in there. It's a wonder no one put a thermocouple in there, besides the one that reads proof of flame (so we know it's at least 600*) in the firepot.

On my Harmon Advance I could install the shelf that holds the fake log set. and wrap some potatoes in foil and set them there until done! I would hit them in the Microwave for 15 minutes to par cook them first. May try it next winter

Thought you guys might get a kick out of this pic....no sizzle until I turned the feed up...

Let's see,...I've got some potatoes, yams, onions, and aluminum foil. Think I'll be doin' some burn chamber cookin' tomorrow. I'd throw in a chicken breast but I've already got one cooked. Maybe I'll remove the top cover and cook some brownies on the stove roof too.

Makes a great baked potato! Wipe 'em with butter or oil, wrap them in foil and place them around the pot inside the stove. Just don't forget them. Don't ask.

Czech said:

Makes a great baked potato! Wipe 'em with butter or oil, wrap them in foil and place them around the pot inside the stove. Just don't forget them. Don't ask.

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Sounds great! How long do they need to be in there? It depends on the temperature, I suppose, but I'd appreciate a ballpark figure. TIA.

Turbo-Quad said:

We cook baked potatoes in the welding rod oven at work and occadisionally forget about them. Funny thing is they just go completely hollow and you wind up with just a carbon shell. They do stink thought. The pellet stove would probably carry the smell outside I imagine.

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"Those sure are some strange-smellin' pellets you're burning…what brand are they?"

"Idaho's best."

And people thaught that I was nuts for coming up with the Idea to use cooking pellets to heat and smoke meat at the same time. the smoke would vent into a smoke box outside and cook the meat, with me nice and warm inside.

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Turbo-Quad said:

We cook baked potatoes in the welding rod oven at work and occadisionally forget about them. Funny thing is they just go completely hollow and you wind up with just a carbon shell. They do stink thought. The pellet stove would probably carry the smell outside I imagine.

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"Those sure are some strange-smellin' pellets you're burning…what brand are they?"

"Idaho's best."

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I think that brand was tested, and they burned dirty with to much ash!!

BXpellet said:

heat seeker said:

Turbo-Quad said:

We cook baked potatoes in the welding rod oven at work and occadisionally forget about them. Funny thing is they just go completely hollow and you wind up with just a carbon shell. They do stink thought. The pellet stove would probably carry the smell outside I imagine.

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"Those sure are some strange-smellin' pellets you're burning…what brand are they?"

"Idaho's best."

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I think that brand was tested, and they burned dirty with to much ash!!

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Yabbut - they tasted okay with lots of butter and chives on them.

Well, my cooking experiment worked well, but not without a crisis. I wrapped potatoes, an onion, and yams in aluminum foil, let the pellets burn down, the placed them in the stove, closed the door and then....stove failure! Pathetically lazy flame, I thought they must be wrecking the air flow by some inexplicable principle, so I removed the grub, and no difference. So I scrapped the burn pot, -no change, Then began to try to get a look at the combustion impeller when I noticed that the door was hanging by only the top hinge, the lower hinge bolt was sheared off! It's always something. So I had to pound, and pound some more but the imbedded pin wouldn't budge, so I had to knock-out the top hinge pin to remove the door and turn it upside down so I could pound with lots of force. I finally got it out and just happened to find in my tool box one bolt that coincidentally was the exact same dimensions as the pin (!) I got the pin and the bolt into the hinges and lite the stove. No more loss of vacuum, good strong flame, -which heated the grub for an hour and...it was nice and tasty! I even baked two loaves of bread....(but in my electric oven)

What no ash gravy?