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    This document provides tips for cooking using a wood burning stove or fireplace. It discusses the necessary cooking utensils like Dutch ovens, trivets, and roasting forks. It explains that the fire needs 30-45 minutes to burn down to hot coals before cooking. Foods can be baked in the stove box by wrapping in foil and placing on coals. A Dutch oven on a trivet over the stove is good for slow cooking stews, soups and roasts. Cooking makes use of the stove's heat while heating the home.

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    How To Cook With A Wood Burning Stove

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    This document provides tips for cooking using a wood burning stove or fireplace. It discusses the necessary cooking utensils like Dutch ovens, trivets, and roasting forks. It explains that the fire needs 30-45 minutes to burn down to hot coals before cooking. Foods can be baked in the stove box by wrapping in foil and placing on coals. A Dutch oven on a trivet over the stove is good for slow cooking stews, soups and roasts. Cooking makes use of the stove's heat while heating the home.

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    How to Cook with a Wood Burning Stove

    Not too long ago stoves were people's fireplace. Now they have become more of a
    lovely thing to sit around for a romantic evening or just to relax. However, you
    can still put your fireplace or wood burning stove to use for more than just
    heating your home and providing ambiance. It's still a great way to cook. It's
    useful to have should you lose power during a winter storm as well. So here are
    some tips for using your wood burning stove or fireplace for winter cooking.

    What You Need to Cook on a Wood Burning Stove/Fireplace

    You will want to make sure you have the right utensils to cook on a wood burning
    stove or fireplace. The stuff you normally use in your kitchen might not be good
    enough. You'll want things with long handles. Try some of these basic implements:

    � Roasting fork
    � Corn popper or chestnut roaster � has a wire basket you use to hold what you're
    cooking over the coals
    � Pie irons for grilling sandwiches
    � Dutch oven � go for a cast iron one as it distributes the heat better. This will
    hang over the fire and cook
    � Cast iron trivet � to help regulate the amount of heat your Dutch oven gets
    � Aluminum foil
    � Tongs
    � A fireplace shovel
    � Pot holders

    These are all very helpful tools when you want to cook on your wood burning stove
    or fireplace this winter.

    Judging the Fire for Cooking

    Knowing when the fire is ready might seem quite simple, but it's not really like
    cooking on your charcoal grill outside. You will need a fire that has been burning
    for about 30�45 minutes.

    A fire in its first stages is really very unpredictable in temperature. With all
    the leaping flames and embers burning it is not the best fire for cooking by. It
    will either burn your food or leave parts uncooked.

    Once those flames die down and you have a nice bed of coals, you have the perfect
    temperature for cooking with on your wood burning stove or fireplace.

    Now you can rake and distribute the coals to make for a nice cooking surface.
    Placing a few coals on the lid of your Dutch oven will make things cook faster. Get
    at it from all directions. Remember, you must keep adding fuel to the fire to keep
    it burning hot.

    Cooking Inside the Box of the Wood Burning Stove

    You can bake white potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, and apples inside your wood
    burning stove. Just double wrap them in aluminum foil and lay the box right on the
    coals. Pile some coals on top and close the box. Allow to cook for half an hour and
    then turn over. If one area of your box is hotter than another then move things
    around to give them a chance to use all of that heat.

    Cooking on the Stove of a Wood Burning Stove


    This is where the Dutch oven comes into use. You can use the stove of your wood
    burning stove as a slow cooker. It's great for making stews, soups, casseroles, and
    roasts. Place all of your ingredients in the Dutch oven and place on the stove
    uncovered. Allow it to come to a boil and then place the trivet on the stove and
    move the Dutch oven on top of the trivet. Put the lid on top and cook soups and
    stews all day.

    A roast will be done in about 3-4 hours. Just check every hour or so that nothing
    is sticking and the fire is hot. Should the fire die down, just build it back up
    again. If the food cools, then take it off the trivet and allow to heat up directly
    on the stove (uncovered) as you did originally. Once heated, put it back on the
    trivet.

    This is how you can use your wood burning stove and fireplace to cook - killing two
    birds with one stone by heating your home and cooking a meal at the same time.
    What's your favorite meal cooked on a wood burning stove or fireplace?

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