[TheForge] coal stoves

[Bruce Freeman]

Okay, Mike, so how are the coal fumes kept from the food, anyhow?

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Mike Spencer <mspencer at tallships.ca> wrote:
>
>> I've never seen a fossil coal stove intended for cooking, but I don't
>> know they didn't exist.
>
> I didn't know was *that* old.  Hey, we're talking *stoves* here, not
> barbecue grills. The fire is in an iron box.
>
> Whenever you see an old kitchen range, look at the floor of the
> firebox. Wood ranges had flat grates -- flat plate with slots.  Coal
> ranges had two (possibly 3) counter-rotating iron shafts, geared
> together, to support the fire.  Wood has fine ash but coal has
> clinkers and rocky cinders; the rotating bits were both grate and
> clinker breaker.  You stuck a hand crank into a hole on the front of
> the stove and cranked the shaft before adding more coal.
>
> I have to say that heating and cooking with anthracite in a kitchen
> range is very nice. Hot fire, holds overnight without tending.
>
>
> - Mike
>
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Bruce
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