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[sjc <indexer AT fairpoint.net>]

roxann wrote:
> i think the water holds the heat and dispenses it slowly after the fire is 
> gone. although i guess you could also use it for creating hot water, which 
> would be nicer if it had a spigot at the bottom somewhere.
>   
Some can be attached to the house hot water piping.  We used it for 
anything we wanted hot water for--cooking, dishwater, whatever.  Use to 
come in from morning chores and drop a couple of eggs in there--hard 
boiled eggs to go with your cottage cheese and bread for noonmeal when 
the men were gone off somewhere, used to be my 'fast food'.

SJ