How Do You Cook On A Woodstove?
• Heat up the stove by building a nice fire in it with the damper(s) wide open. • Get your cooking gear out and the ingredients ready. • As you heat up the stove, put a kettle or pot of water on to heat as well. You’ll need it for soup, stew, tea, coffee, dish washing…everything. It also serves as a heat-storage measure so use a big kettle. A canner works well. • Test the top of the stove by tossing a DROP of water on it. If the water sizzles and danced, the stove is pretty much ready. • To Make soup, put on a pot, let it heat up well (keep the stove hot, adding wood as necessary and opening/closing the damper to try to maintain a temperature), fry whatever you want fried (meat, onion, etc) and add some boiling water or soup stock. If you add cold water it will take forever to heat up again…that pan of hot water is crucial. • To “bake” something, put it in a pan (cake, bread) or in foil (potatoes) and if the top of the stove is VERY hot put foil items on a trivet or a bit of crumpl
