Embers...Golden vs Mystic

You get three gold stars for reading and understanding your operating manual! "***" A lot more people should do that.

Sounds like you are making good decisions there.

As a fireplace repairman for many years, I had many people really pleased by the improvement made in re installing logs, rocks embers and such the way the manufacturer intended. Over the years, the embers and such deteriorate and need to be renewed.

I'll bet your wife will be VERY happy with the results of your efforts!

Snakebit12 said:

Hi all.

I have a LP HG 6000TR that I have enjoyed using in the winter. Literally all of the embers are gone so I have been looking at buying some to brighten up the fireplace appearance.

My operating manual lists two types of embers:

1. Glowing - which you arrange on the burn pan along side (but not on top of) the port trail. I assume that these embers would glow based on their name and proximity to the flames.
2. Mystic - which (I think) you thinly scatter on the base refractory but not on the burn pan. I do not believe that these glow but give instead the appearance of ashes.

Am I understanding this correctly?

Home Depot carries an Emberglow product line which includes Glowing Embers and Vermiculite (which they say are frequently bought together). Can I assume that the "Mystic" embers are Vermiculite?

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I am using some glass things in my vermont castings stove. i like them but they get very hot and crack maybe thats the way they work!

k0wtz said:

I am using some glass things in my vermont castings stove. i like them but they get very hot and crack maybe thats the way they work!

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For a long time people were interested in gas stoves that imitated the appearance of flaming ----or smoldering wood.

In recent years, manufacturers have begun to find a market for flame appearances that no longer need resemble wood fires, and you glass things sound like a kind of that.

In the future, I'm expecting that artists and engineers will combine to create ever more exotic flame effects for gas stoves, and get away entirely from imitations of wood fires. That should be interesting to see.

Of course, it's not surprising that once the fad and fashion was for gas fires that LOOKED like wood fires. Now that manufacturers are often doing an excellent example of that, the new fad is for fires that DON"T look like wood fires!

wooduser said:

For a long time people were interested in gas stoves that imitated the appearance of flaming ----or smoldering wood.

In recent years, manufacturers have begun to find a market for flame appearances that no longer need resemble wood fires, and you glass things sound like a kind of that.

In the future, I'm expecting that artists and engineers will combine to create ever more exotic flame effects for gas stoves, and get away entirely from imitations of wood fires. That should be interesting to see.

Of course, it's not surprising that once the fad and fashion was for gas fires that LOOKED like wood fires. Now that manufacturers are often doing an excellent example of that, the new fad is for fires that DON"T look like wood fires!

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our stove has the logs and some sort of glowing ember made to look like pieces of wood i suppose set-up since vermont castings gone no telling where to get them thus i got some of the glass things. who knows what will be next?