Cookin' With Coal

 
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Post by North Candlewood » Mon. Dec. 30, 2013 7:43 pm

Hello All
Just read a bit of this and thought I'd show you what we have been learning to use this year.
Installed in October after a few years as a decoration. We had been deciding weather it was to much for the space. So decided to just do it and see!

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Post by Photog200 » Mon. Dec. 30, 2013 7:54 pm

North Candlewood wrote:Hello All
Just read a bit of this and thought I'd show you what we have been learning to use this year.
Installed in October after a few years as a decoration. We had been deciding weather it was to much for the space. So decided to just do it and see!
Very Nice! Tell is about the stove...I cannot read the brand. It looks a lot like my stove. Looks like you got a good hot fire going, by the looks of that thermometer in the oven.
Randy

 
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Post by lsayre » Mon. Dec. 30, 2013 8:19 pm

North Candlewood wrote:Hello All
Just read a bit of this and thought I'd show you what we have been learning to use this year.
Installed in October after a few years as a decoration. We had been deciding weather it was to much for the space. So decided to just do it and see!
Sweet! Are you using it successfully with wood or bituminous or anthracite?

 
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Coal Size/Type: Nut Rice

Post by North Candlewood » Mon. Dec. 30, 2013 8:24 pm

She is a Atlantic Princess & we keep it going 24/7
It keeps the furnace on idle so we use the same amount of coal either way.
Kitchen / upstairs is toasty, actually warmer than the furnace is set at.
Pot of soup on simmer, boiling down the ham bone.
Shake it twice a day and add coal on a looks like it needs some basis.
Anthracite nut and thinking of trying stove in the real cold.
I have thought of throwing a little rice on it to slow the burn.
Started out burning wood in it only to find its a chore!

 
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Post by buffalo bob » Mon. Dec. 30, 2013 9:08 pm

boy is dat nice wish mine looked half that good...

 
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Post by Sunny Boy » Sat. Jan. 04, 2014 2:04 pm

North Candlewood wrote:Hello All
Just read a bit of this and thought I'd show you what we have been learning to use this year.
Installed in October after a few years as a decoration. We had been deciding weather it was to much for the space. So decided to just do it and see!
Terrific stove !

I guess your also finding out how wonderful it is to have a stove that not only warms your outside, but can also cook up food to warm your insides. And, all with the same heat ! ;)

Looks like you have a chunk bigger than stove coal on the left trivet shelf ?

Paul

 
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Post by Sunny Boy » Sat. Jan. 04, 2014 2:22 pm

Cleaned out accumulated junk in my "stove stuff" cabinet next to the range and found my simmering plate.

Not sure this originally came with the stove, but it was with it when I bought it, and it's a perfect fit for the 8-1/2 inch size top plates this model Glenwood uses.

Sorta the "slow cooker crockpot " of it's day. When you want to run the stove hot, it works very well for keeping soups below a boil for long, slow cooking like making pea soup, or as North Candlewood is doing in a few posts back, boiling bones to make cooking stock, or soups.

The underside is ribbed and open at the outer edge to let heat travel outward as it slightly shields a pot sitting on it. And, the Glenwood lid lifter just happens to fit the openings in the outer edge.

They turn up once in awhile on eBay under, "cast iron stove parts".

Paul

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Post by Photog200 » Sat. Jan. 04, 2014 7:36 pm

Sunny Boy wrote:Cleaned out accumulated junk in my "stove stuff" cabinet next to the range and found my simmering plate.

Not sure this originally came with the stove, but it was with it when I bought it, and it's a perfect fit for the 8-1/2 inch size top plates this model Glenwood uses.

Sorta the "slow cooker crockpot " of it's day. When you want to run the stove hot, it works very well for keeping soups below a boil for long, slow cooking like making pea soup, or as North Candlewood is doing in a few posts back, boiling bones to make cooking stock, or soups.

The underside is ribbed and open at the outer edge to let heat travel outward as it slightly shields a pot sitting on it. And, the Glenwood lid lifter just happens to fit the openings in the outer edge.

They turn up once in awhile on eBay under, "cast iron stove parts".

Paul
I have never seen one that looks like that...very handy to have. I have been back to burning coal in the cook stove, it has been too cold to keep running out to the garage every hour to put wood on it. I was also afraid that with the sub zero temps, it might freeze at night when the wood fire went out. I made a quick dinner on it tonight, was nice to have a hot fire where I could just throw a skillet on and cook right away.

I will be happy when the wood is gone!
Randy

 
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Post by Sunny Boy » Sun. Jan. 05, 2014 8:25 am

Yes, it's come in handy a few times. It drops the temp about 40% from what the top plate is that it's sitting over, and it spreads the heat evenly.

Forgot to mention, it doesn't sit on the rim. It has three round tabs sticking down off the rim, like some trivets. They let air in under the rim so that much warmer air can exit out those vent holes.

And, it can be used like a trivet to protect a table, or counter top from hot pots, or pans.

Paul

 
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Post by Sunny Boy » Sun. Jan. 05, 2014 8:55 am

Using "stove plate" as a search on eBay, the same one as mine just turned up.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Vintage-Cast-Iron-Sa ... 4d1719b478

Paul

 
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Post by Photog200 » Sun. Jan. 05, 2014 9:27 am

Sunny Boy wrote:Using "stove plate" as a search on eBay, the same one as mine just turned up.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Vintage-Cast-Iron-Sa ... 4d1719b478

Paul
That's an awfully steep price for being cracked...

 
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Post by Sunny Boy » Sun. Jan. 05, 2014 12:50 pm

Photog200 wrote:
Sunny Boy wrote:Using "stove plate" as a search on eBay, the same one as mine just turned up.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Vintage-Cast-Iron-Sa ... 4d1719b478

Paul
That's an awfully steep price for being cracked...
Yeah, I noticed - and no bids. Gee, I wonder why ? :D

Too bad that one's cracked. But they can be even more expensive if they're not cracked. Mine cost $1100.00 . . .

. . . . but they threw a working kitchen range in to sweeten the deal ! :D

Paul

 
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Post by Photog200 » Sun. Jan. 05, 2014 3:06 pm

Too bad that one's cracked. But they can be even more expensive if they're not cracked. Mine cost $1100.00 . . .

. . . . but they threw a working kitchen range in to sweeten the deal ! :D

Paul[/quote]
Such a deal! LOL My stove actually has one of the round plates that has recessed holes in it for the trivet to rotate so it raises or sits flush. Can be used as a stand alone trivet as well.
Randy

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Post by Sunny Boy » Sun. Jan. 05, 2014 3:11 pm

Now that's a neat idea !

I've seen pix of a couple of ranges with a recessed plate in the top, but never saw the trivet in place, or had it explained. Thanks Randy.

 
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Post by Photog200 » Sun. Jan. 05, 2014 7:19 pm

Sunny Boy wrote:Now that's a neat idea !

I've seen pix of a couple of ranges with a recessed plate in the top, but never saw the trivet in place, or had it explained. Thanks Randy.
Yes, and it works well too...cooked rice on it tonight to go with my pollo Mexican dish. (all with coal too) :D


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