I LIVE WITH A COOKSTOVE AND LOVE IT

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January/February 1971
 
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Once I learned to operate my wood stove I began to really enjoy its coziness. While I'm writing I can see to dinner and mind the fire box. It gives me a warm, everythings-fine-with-the-world feeling to fill the fire box with "just right" green wood for gently boiling a big pot of vegetable soup or turnip greens and a good ham bone.

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Yes, I enjoy my wood-burning stove, but a word of caution to the would-be owners of one: If you're geared to live in a mad dash, stewing in your own juice AND you don't wish to change . . . you'd better not tinker around with a wood-burning cookstove. Chances are you'll flip your lid as well as the stove's.

But if you're able to slow your pace; you don't mind some of your friends clucking their tongues or lifting their eyebrows at your action; if you like a taste of yesterday, the wonderful smell of wood smoke, apples in your cheeks AND you have a jim-dandy supply of wood and fat pine kindlin' . . . you just might get the same pleasure from your wood stove that I have from mine. I hope so.

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  • Ronnie Hallsell 11/25/2008 8:37:35 PM

    How do you get the bottoms of bisquits and pies to browm? My stove has the fire box on the left side of the oven.

  • Connie 11/17/2007 7:54:02 PM

    Dear Folks, I'm looking for that Stovepipe oven, looked all over
    the internet. Can't find. Please tell me where I can get one.

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