[TheForge] The hard cider is good... OT:

[Jerry Frost]

There's nothing like a wood cook stove but it means you need a summer 
kitchen. Still.
Jer
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From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 7:20 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Re: The hard cider is good... OT:


>
>> As to those wimpy enameled French AGA's -- get yourself a Vulcan
>> instead!  If the 6-burner, single-oven job below isn't enough for
>> you, they make a 12-burner double oven model as well.  And they make
>> gas as well as electric models.
>
> As recently as 40 years ago, you could still buy a cast iron,
> wood-burning range meant for the kitchens of remote lumber camps.  Two
> fireboxes, two large ovens, twelve "burners" and, in the center, a
> griddle big enough to play hockey on (presumably by tying a bacon to
> each foot?).  IIRC, warming ovens over the stove were optional.  I
> suppose with 50 or a 100 hungry lumberjacks, nothing sat around long
> enough to worry about it getting cold.
>
>
> - Mike
>
> -- 
> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.
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