Hello everybody!
I've been noticing that a "white haze" kinda discoloration materializing & slowly spreading on the top of my flat black stove, is this normal?.
I would be inclined to think that maybe its caused by overfiring but I usually run it at 425-500 degrees, sometimes hotter but never above 600 (I'm pretty cautious in this regard), anybody else have similar experience with this "phenomena"? If it was some other item/object a bit of oil or a shot of spray paint would take care of it but thats not the case obviously. The paint is feasable but it could re-occur I would imagine.
Also, how does one know if one's stove has an air leak, & I'll come clean here :red: . When I was beggining to break in my stove on the second burn the temp shot up to 550+ degrees (the first burn was according to book- A-OK), I damped it down hard & got the temp to drop quickly.
I ask this question for two reasons, first is because I cannot seem to get more than say 5 hrs on an overnight burn and by that last hour the temp is down to 300 with some embers. Second, yesterday when I was cleaning out the stove I noticed that some of that mortar/paste material that seals in the corners/edges had cracks in it. Could they have been caused by that momentarily out of control second burn. Now they may have been there before but then again maybe not. Could that be affecting the burn times & how could I find out if they are leaking??? Should I just try to seal them up with that special material?
Thanks guys, hope everyone is well!
I've been noticing that a "white haze" kinda discoloration materializing & slowly spreading on the top of my flat black stove, is this normal?.
I would be inclined to think that maybe its caused by overfiring but I usually run it at 425-500 degrees, sometimes hotter but never above 600 (I'm pretty cautious in this regard), anybody else have similar experience with this "phenomena"? If it was some other item/object a bit of oil or a shot of spray paint would take care of it but thats not the case obviously. The paint is feasable but it could re-occur I would imagine.
Also, how does one know if one's stove has an air leak, & I'll come clean here :red: . When I was beggining to break in my stove on the second burn the temp shot up to 550+ degrees (the first burn was according to book- A-OK), I damped it down hard & got the temp to drop quickly.
I ask this question for two reasons, first is because I cannot seem to get more than say 5 hrs on an overnight burn and by that last hour the temp is down to 300 with some embers. Second, yesterday when I was cleaning out the stove I noticed that some of that mortar/paste material that seals in the corners/edges had cracks in it. Could they have been caused by that momentarily out of control second burn. Now they may have been there before but then again maybe not. Could that be affecting the burn times & how could I find out if they are leaking??? Should I just try to seal them up with that special material?
Thanks guys, hope everyone is well!