[TheForge] coal stoves

[Mike Spencer]

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

Um, well Bruce, if it's a coal *stove*, the fire is in the firebox,
connected to the smoke galleries in the stove, connected to the stove
pipe, connected to the chimney flue.  Unless you have a problem with
the draft in the flue, the coal smoke goes out that way.  If you *do*
have aproblem with the flue draft, the whole house may fill up with coal
smoke. Typically a small amount of smoke always escapes and so you can
smell it, just as you can often smell a bit of wood smoke in a
wood-heated house. 

Since that's obvious and you're a very technical guy, I must be
missing something here.  Did I mis-read something?


- Mike

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