Almost everyone in Cape Breton has a wood fired cook stove. My old buddy Neil , would sit by his stove in his rocker, 120 degrees in there. Most people when I was younger didn’t have an electric range, and we’d walk down to BEATON’s in summer. 100 degrees outside and 140 degrees inside, but always had bread or rolls baking. I still remember that smell.
He knew he was safe on his lawn. Haha
We do at the ranch in Oklahoma, both a wood burning cook stove in the kitchen and a wood heating stove center of the house…👍
That’s very cool for efficiency…👍
We had an old Enterprise cook stove for years but it took too long to heat up in the winter, and burned too much wood. But once the top got heated up, it worked good. This one is an EPA approved.
If you’re wanting to heat the camp with it in addition to cooking, by all means you need the high efficiency. It’s not an issue for us, we do that with a high efficiency Vermont Castings catalytic stove, whole house heater. I love working that old dual fuel 1860’s pioneer cook stove…But I am into history, artifacts and antiques…..like I have these kind of door knobs throughout the house, and many antique fixtures….in fact all the woodwork trim I did in the house is late Victorian style…..
A lot of big old Victorian homes in our south end. They survived the Halifax explosion in 1917.
A few big old houses were torn down, probably $500 K then, and built big new mansions on the property. Young Av, next to Point Pleasant Park. A giant park for the rich people. Haha
I’ll take a 150 year old maintained home over a new one any day. The lumber was superior….
Oh these people got the money but built a giant house that has everything you could want in a house. When they had the house warming, a couple friends went and played fiddle. And a tour.
Intrepid? Ours is a smaller one, I don't care for the catalytic part.
Yep, I’ve seen it. I love the catalytic feature on ours. Closes the fire down at night, burns with such efficiency that no smoke comes out of the chimney. This is why they make chocolate and vanilla smitty 😍
