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  • From: sjc <indexer AT fairpoint.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] deer hunting
  • Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:15:16 -0500

Cathy wrote:
So, do you pressure can on a wood stove? I had trouble with that, but maybe
it was my less than ideal stove.
I'm not since the last fire, but I did for the 30 years before then. You do need a decent stove, so you can depend on it to respond, it needs to be clean, and to know the stove and how it burns, and of course, after you have all that down pat, then you'll know what wood you need and how you want it all cut up. Then it's just a matter of staying glued to the job. Usually sent the kids to the neighbor's to play for the day, and she returned the favor, because if you can just concentrate on the job at hand, it goes easier (and maybe safer, depending on how distracting one's kids are; the problem with mine was they'd go to the woods or the creek and forget to come back).

Actually, when you get used to your stove/wood/canner set up, it seems easier to me, because you often just move the canner a tad if it needs it, whereas sometimes finding the right setting on gas/electric stoves can sometimes be a real PITA. The news controls that don't have to be in a certain place help with that......

And speaking of wood cookstoves, I went to Ellsworth yesterday to pick up a part for a heatstove, and they had a beautiful modern cookstove in there from Spain, all black enamel with stainless steel oven and trim, absolutely gorgeous; I could have been convinced that it was sculpture...Beautiful, beautiful, $4800. I don't think I've ever, in my life before, seen any household item that made me think "I'd just to take that home with me" but this thing broke the record.

SJ




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