Best way to clean your burn pot?

[doublewide]

Is it okay to just brush the ash out of the burn pot into the ash pan when the stove is cool?

Or is this something that I'm just going to make a mess of, and it would be better to brush off outside?

I'm a newbie, and I'm just wonder how most of you do it. Thanks

 

[newf lover]

I don't know what kind of stove you have, but I am assuming you have a burnpot where all the ash collects, or is pushed out to the ash pan underneath? You don't have to wait till the stove is cool. My Harman comes with a metal scraper thingy and just push the ash from the burnpot into the ash pan if needed. Obviously don't use a nylon paint brush or something that's going to melt to push hot ash into the pan below....If you don't have a manual for your stove, my suggestion is to get one and read it cover to cover, then read it again. You will save yourself a lot of headaches taking the time to thoroughly get acquainted with your stove.

 

[nailed_nailer]

DW,

On my EF-2 the Burnpot itself just needs dumping or vacuuming when I do a cleaning.

The burn pot liner needs to get scraped every couple of days.

I use a stiff painters 5 in 1 tool. It takes a good bit of chipping to really get the baked on clinkers off the steel.

I do it outside on my back porch railing.

I get all of the accumulated crud off the steel. Sometimes you have to carefully examine the inner walls to see the crud.
It looks alot like welding slag.
I make sure all of the air holes are clean.

This is what works for me.
---Nailer---

 

[smwilliamson]

Toss your stove info into your sig so we can tell ya what to do. Hard saying not knowin.

 

[jtakeman]

If you happen to have a stainless burnpot and it is removable? I found with my testing last season that if you soak the burnpot in a bucket of hot soapy water you don't need to use a chisel to get the carbon out. The hot water and soap soften the carbon and it is easily removed after! This is for that stubborn hard carbon build up. I just could see beating the daylights out of the burnpot to remove it. It worked for me!

 

[doublewide]

Stove is a Breckwell p2000fs (updated my signature, thanks!)

I'm only planning on burning the stove when I am home from 3:00PM to 10:00PM when I am home and not over night until I am used to it. I don't have a thermostat on the stove. I noticed that when the stove is turned off a small amount (1/4 to 3/8 of an inch) of gray powdery ash is left in the burn pot. I have been just dumping it below to the ash pan, right before I light the stove for the next use. Do I even have to dump it out or will the stove light fine with that small amount of ash in the pot. I notice that barely any of the holes in the burn pot are clogged when I dump it. I'm asking because I am thinking about getting a thermostat, but am concerned if the stove will light.

 

[krooser]

I clean the burnpot every week or two depending on when I do a cleaning... I use a stiff wire brush or I use my wire wheel on a bench grinder.