Using a regular woodstove to cook

[ThrottleJockey]

Gram of 5, do you have a regular wood stove or one designed for cooking and baking? If you have a regular one, and are able to figure out how to cook bread, please, let me know how you do it! I'd love to be able to bake w/mine.

I haven't tried it yet but have often considered this an option for my barrel stove should we suffer a long term power outage. My thought was to make a box with 5 sides using sheet metal or even wood. place the bread on a piece of expanded steel or even a cooling rack to allow air to circulate under it and place the box over the top....Maybe I'll have the girls help me with that today to see if it will work. Well, I know it will work, just don't know how well...

 

[gram of 5]

That is so creative and handy. I have an old large turkey roaster that has a "steam vent" that I am hope to test this winter. I also have a fireplace grate that I use to slow cook that takes the cooking vessel off the heat and "slow" cooks I hope to use those two items in my attempt to "bake".
Let me know how you do, if you have time. Thanks

 

[ThrottleJockey]

That is so creative and handy. I have an old large turkey roaster that has a "steam vent" that I am hope to test this winter. I also have a fireplace grate that I use to slow cook that takes the cooking vessel off the heat and "slow" cooks I hope to use those two items in my attempt to "bake".
Let me know how you do, if you have time. Thanks

Hmmm, I hadn't thought to use a roasting pan...That seems like it would work great for things like bread! The way I see it, if a solar oven will do it, there's no reason a wood stove wouldn't.

 

[gram of 5]

I will try to find time this weekend to test it on say either bisquits or even muffins. I have my 3 grandsons over this weekend and they will help me to test and evaluate the results!! Mostly they are like "Mikey" and "will eat anything". Actually, they are good eaters of good homemade food so this could be fun. The youngest, 7 year old, is a little "foodie" and will love testing blueberry muffins that way. Oh, this is exciting.......