What is best way to burn out excessive coals?

[Dmitry]

The temps are low here in North East. Lots of wood burned in short amount of time. There is lot of coals accumulating between reloads preventing from full loading.
What is the best way to burn it off. i remember reading somewhere that getting couple sticks and burning them with door open speeds up the process.
Thanks.

 

[begreen]

That's right but just try opening the air control 50%, not the door. A couple 2" very dry splits, branches, 2x2s work well.

 

[brewer69]

Red hot coals are a great source of heat, not sure why you would want to get rid of them, open the air control and they will burn

 

[stoveliker]

I would rake then coals to where the air reaches it (for me in a row E/W near the door, so the air wash reaches them), then add dry/fast burning small split on top, with sufficient air. Maybe twice.
That'll burn them down and get you some heat before you reload properly.

 

[Dix]

I rake the coals forward to the front boost baffle (leaving room for the air to wash over them), and open the air control. Toss in a small split of seasoned pine if needed.

Leave enough coals to reload, and lather, rinse, repeat on reloads. Ashes go in the ash can, and when the can is full in this weather ( and still snow/ice on the ground) the ashes go in the dirt driveway, and on icy spots I need gone.

 

[Flashback87]

Grill with them.... seriously!

I take out the larger coal chunks with some of those fireplace tongs and place them in a metal bucket and set outside. When the bucket gets to full I store them in a metal strash can. Already filled a 31 gallon this season and starting on the second. I can usually get enough good chunks out to reload on the smaller hot coals.

I save them and grill with them in my weber kettle grill. I even take them right out of the stove hot, place in metal bucket and put them on the grill in the colder months and im grilling in minutes.

Taste is significantly better then the briquettes bought at the store and my family loves it.

The stove just keeps on giving!!

 

[John Lehet]

For me coaling is just part of the heating cycle, but maybe the soapstone is the reason I can get away with that. The stove sitting with coals is the biggest part of the burn cycle for me. When the coals start getting low, start another fire. I think having an oversized stove helps a lot with this. If you've got enough heat overall you can spare some time with slightly less heat just coming from coals.

With my old undersized Jotul it would get really bad, because I needed to keep feeding logs to keep getting enough heat. By the end of a cold day it would be hard to fit more wood in and the coals so hot it was also hard to put a log in because of the heat from the coals. It wouldn't hold a fire overnight though, so the coals would burn all the way down, giving at least some heat in the night. Never had to fight the cycle for more than a day.

 

[Gearhead660]

Rake coals to the front of the stove and put a couple pieces of bark/pine on top with air open, door closed. Quick burst of heat and it burns the coals down. I keep a stash of pine by the stove to help burn coals down when the weather is colder and need to reload quicker.

 

[Dieselhead]

Softwood in the stash is key to coal management, as mentioned it works great!