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Honestly, it just tastes better IMO. Even my wife thinks the same. Probably just the psychological connection of seeing that little perker thumping like mad on top of the woodstove and the smell of that Columbian bean wafting through the house!We're not even burning yet, but I bet that smells good.
trust me, rotti ......that's in the plans someday. We built our hearth specifically to fit the Esse Ironheart cookstove. Someday, someday......Scotty, you better put a old time wood cookstove in the kitchen. That with a couple of well seasoned cast iron pans, and you would have reached Nirvana.
Not yet Scotty, how was it?
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Not very hot, was probably around 450 to 500 stovetop temp. Since I made the trivet hole in the top shield big enough to accommodate a pot or pan, now I can sit cookware right out on top of the firebox. I can bring water to a boil now in a big stockpot, I couldn't dream of doing that before. Do you have access to your stovetop or is there a shield on top?My parents used a faberware electric percolator until the 90s. The chug chug chug sound is a fond memory of childhood.
How hot did you have to crank the stove to get that going?. My steamer pot almost never boils...
that's one nice perker there!We use this 28 cup percolator at our cabin.
Started using that about 5 or 6 years ago. Would have killed for that as a kid out there. At the time, we had 3 percolators about 8 cups each. With 20 some hung-over adults waking up in the morning, us kids were busy keeping the coffee flowing.
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Not very hot, was probably around 450 to 500 stovetop temp. Since I made the trivet hole in the top shield big enough to accommodate a pot or pan, now I can sit cookware right out on top of the firebox. I can bring water to a boil now in a big stockpot, I couldn't dream of doing that before. Do you have access to your stovetop or is there a shield on top?
I'm betting that is most of the problem right there. Try putting a stainless steel pan on it once, see if that will boil.....Hmm, might just be that hte heavy cast steamer doesn't get hot enough... We have it right on the griddle, no heat shields or anything. But it is a VC cat stove with the combustor in the back of the stove.... the stove top doesn't get as hot as a lot of other stoves do, this one throws a lot of heat from the back.
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