Wednesday 3 October 2012

What You Can Use Your Wood Stove to Do


In months of heavy rain, snow and wind storms, power is often knocked out. Sometimes these outages last for long periods. Homeowners with an electric or gas range in the kitchen don't have a way to cook the many canned goods or frozen items that will soon go bad. Bringing camp stoves and barbeques indoors is a bad idea and can lead to carbon monoxide poisoning. What will you do if this occasion happens and you're hungry or thirsty at that time unfortunately?

The answer is a good wood stove. Most wood stoves have a flat surface on top that have a high temperature. You can cooking, heating, boil water and anything someone can do on a cook top can be done on a wood stove.

Moreover, electric or gas stoves tend to require much more maintenance and care comparing with wood stoves, and thanks to the subtle way they work in. Moreover, they might even more dangerous than wood burner.

For one, wood is much less messy than charcoal, and poses less of a health risk (due to ingesting carbon particles from the charcoal). Wood fuel is not at all volatile, and thus presents much less of a safety risk than bottles of gas or flammable spirits, which must be kept away from heat and open flames at all times.

In addition, there're hidden benefit of wood stoves which usually be ignored by human beings. For example, you can burn scented wood fuel to fill the home with attractive, soothing scents, or burn special kinds of wood in order to smoke meats with a unique flavor. And you also can do romanic things in the front of the wood stove. With all the upsides owning a wood stove has, it's a wonder why there aren't more people with one!

All is propitious to buy a multifuel stove or wood burning stove.

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