Cookin' With Coal

Smokeyja · Post by **Smokeyja** » Sun. Feb. 08, 2015 6:31 pm

So how hot are yall getting the cook tops on some of your regular coal stoves in order to cook some of these dishes ?

windyhill4.2 · Post by **windyhill4.2** » Sun. Feb. 08, 2015 6:44 pm

My wife has been doing a lot of the cooking on our Crane 404 with stove top temps around 400- 450*.

scalabro · Post by **scalabro** » Sun. Feb. 08, 2015 7:42 pm

Smokeyja wrote:So how hot are yall getting the cool tops on some of your regular coal stoves in order to cook some of these dishes ?

A cast iron trivet.

Sunny Boy · Post by **Sunny Boy** » Mon. Feb. 09, 2015 7:49 pm

Spent a few hours today walking behind the snow blower trying to keep up with clearing snow. It was nice to be able to take breaks and come in from the cold, hands numb from holding snowblower controls, and have a hot stove to not only warm myself up, but dry my gloves, hat, and coat quickly while checking on and stirring the sauce.

I made one of our favorites - slow cooked, Italian sweet sausage spaghetti sauce. Dinner, dryer, and house heat all in one.

Paul

Smokeyja · Post by **Smokeyja** » Mon. Feb. 09, 2015 8:01 pm

Yum!!! I see that kettle too!

michaelanthony · Post by **michaelanthony** » Mon. Feb. 09, 2015 8:11 pm

Sunny Boy wrote:...........I made one of our favorites - slow cooked, Italian sweet sausage spaghetti sauce. Dinner, dryer, and house heat all in one.

Paul

..fork in one hand spoon in the other and a dish rag tied around my neck

Bellisimo!

wilsons woodstoves · Post by **wilsons woodstoves** » Mon. Feb. 09, 2015 9:21 pm

Sunny Boy wrote:Spent a few hours today walking behind the snow blower trying to keep up with clearing snow. It was nice to be able to take breaks and come in from the cold, hands numb from holding snowblower controls, and have a hot stove to not only warm myself up, but dry my gloves, hat, and coat quickly while checking on and stirring the sauce.

I made one of our favorites - slow cooked, Italian sweet sausage spaghetti sauce. Dinner, dryer, and house heat all in one.

Paul

You forgot to mention pet warmer also

Buck47 · Post by **Buck47** » Mon. Feb. 09, 2015 9:34 pm

Update Monarch cook stove: Today - Water Reservoir rebuild.

Had the weld shop cut a new plate of mild steel for the right side water reservoir. This panel was missing when I purchased the stove. This plate and the front former nickel trim piece will be painted black same as the ash door I just heated and rebuilt.

Also polished the top of the water tank and find it looks much better.

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Still have to find a solution to the flue pipe transition so as to fit the MPD through the back panel, so I can reach across the cook top to adjust the MPD as stove was designed.

Overall I'm pleased with how it's turning out.

Photog200 · Post by **Photog200** » Mon. Feb. 09, 2015 9:51 pm

Looks good John!

Randy

ddahlgren · Post by **ddahlgren** » Tue. Feb. 10, 2015 1:47 am

michaelanthony wrote:
Sunny Boy wrote:...........I made one of our favorites - slow cooked, Italian sweet sausage spaghetti sauce. Dinner, dryer, and house heat all in one.

Paul
..fork in one hand spoon in the other and a dish rag tied around my neck Bellisimo!

There is an acquired skill to eating pasta and red gravy. LOL once accomplished no dish rag needed. My uncle is Beppe and ex-wife's dad Gaetano(sp?) from Brooklyn. Relatives on mom's side all have nicknames from the neighborhood, some hard to figure out.. Mom Italian as well so an appreciation for what you made for dinner. We have a local Italian butcher shop that makes it's own sausage to die for.

Sunny Boy · Post by **Sunny Boy** » Tue. Feb. 10, 2015 4:50 am

michaelanthony wrote:
Sunny Boy wrote:...........I made one of our favorites - slow cooked, Italian sweet sausage spaghetti sauce. Dinner, dryer, and house heat all in one.

Paul
..fork in one hand spoon in the other and a dish rag tied around my neck Bellisimo!

Grazie mille, MA.

Paul

Sunny Boy · Post by **Sunny Boy** » Tue. Feb. 10, 2015 4:55 am

ddahlgren wrote:
michaelanthony wrote: ..fork in one hand spoon in the other and a dish rag tied around my neck Bellisimo!
There is an acquired skill to eating pasta and red gravy. LOL once accomplished no dish rag needed. My uncle is Beppe and ex-wife's dad Gaetano(sp?) from Brooklyn. Relatives on mom's side all have nicknames from the neighborhood, some hard to figure out.. Mom Italian as well so an appreciation for what you made for dinner. We have a local Italian butcher shop that makes it's own sausage to die for.

One night a week my Mother cooked spaghetti. My Father would show up at the table wearing an old sports coat, but put on backwards. He referred to it as has "spaghetti coat". Who says an Irishman doesn't know how to eat spaghetti ?

Paul

Sunny Boy · Post by **Sunny Boy** » Tue. Feb. 10, 2015 5:09 am

Buck47 wrote:Update Monarch cook stove: Today - Water Reservoir rebuild.

Had the weld shop cut a new plate of mild steel for the right side water reservoir. This panel was missing when I purchased the stove. This plate and the front former nickel trim piece will be painted black same as the ash door I just heated and rebuilt.

Also polished the top of the water tank and find it looks much better.

Water Tank - rebuild - towel bar.JPG
Still have to find a solution to the flue pipe transition so as to fit the MPD through the back panel, so I can reach across the cook top to adjust the MPD as stove was designed.

Overall I'm pleased with how it's turning out.

Looking good John.

Was/is the MPD only reachable from the front ? Some things to think about MPD placement.

Ten years ago, I was the only one using the range, so I put the MPD where I could reach it, well above the back shelf. It didn't occur to me that someday Melissa (5'-2" tall) might be using the range and need to reach the MPD safely without reaching over hot surfaces and steaming pots.

The left half of the back and mantel shelf, below the MPD handle, can easily get to about 150 F - sometimes higher. She has to go around the hottest end of the range, between it and the wall, to be able to reach that high up.

If your going to put the MPD handle in through the back of the range, keep in mind that everything around the back of the range can be blisteringly hot. And, reaching over steaming pots and spattering frying pans to adjust the MPD while make heat changes, or adding fresh coal, safely,..... can get challenging !

Paul

Photog200 · Post by **Photog200** » Tue. Feb. 10, 2015 8:34 am

Paul, that sauce looks awesome, pasta is my weakness. I don't usually make a full pot of sauce like that regularly because I do it in the fall and then can it. Sometimes though, it is nice to have a big pot of sauce cooking on the stove like that.

I am confused as to where John is putting the mpd as well. It sounds like it is an internal part in the stove?

Randy

Buck47 · Post by **Buck47** » Tue. Feb. 10, 2015 9:14 am

Sunny Boy wrote: Was/is the MPD only reachable from the front ? Some things to think about MPD placement.

If your going to put the MPD handle in through the back of the range, keep in mind that everything around the back of the range can be blisteringly hot.
And, reaching over steaming pots and spattering frying pans to adjust the MPD while make heat changes, or adding fresh coal, safely,..... can get challenging !
Paul

Your points are valid. However stove placement will be at a 45 degree angle to a corner wall and reaching around or over the stove are poor options. I will need to be careful when reaching across the cooking surface and bubbling caldrons of soup stock.

Thanks for your thoughtful suggestions.

Regards: john

Cookin' With Coal

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