Using your wood burner at home to cook on (1 Viewer)

[Wildbill]

I know it not cooking in the MH but dose any one use ther bog standard woodburner to cook on
Tips and hints her please
Bill

 

[Raul]

We don’t bother, only a water pot. A heating stove like one pictured, it’s not very efficient for cooking, it takes ages, unless you have a slow pot on, with prolonged fire. Firebox needs to be hotter, ash grill higher and baffle out. Otherwise takes ages, as it’s designed for heating, not cooking. A cooking stove it’s quite different, with no baffle to the cooking plate, a baffle it’s right at the stove exit, or in the pipe as it exits the stove.
In a cooking stove, the height of the fire box it’s small, so the fire is concentrated on the plate above, the one you cooking on. My opinion anyway.

 

[CazPaul]

We do sometimes, it saves putting the electric cooker on.

It works really well, great for soup, stir fries, sausages fry ups, jacket tatties in foil in the ash pan, I’ve cooked loads on it.

Raul ours has a baffle at the start of the flue pipe but you can just open and close it fully with a lever, it was designed to cook on, it’s a Dowling stove.

 

[Ridgeway]

We use a wood fired cooker, single oven and hotplate. Just have plenty of wood and know your wood if that makes sense as it all burns slightly differently. For the oven we bake on that down side of burn ie we get to temperature and then bake. Otherwise the temp is always rising and it's hard to find any stability, on the opposite side it always holds it temp better ie in the cast iron.

Mrs R is the master of the fire management process, her sponge cakes are a testament to that.

 

[Wildbill]

Well just tryed it to see the veg water is on a slow boil
And the chicken seems to be cooking it is taking a bit longer but seems to be working
Bill

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[Raul]

That’s the clue, designed to cook on.
Our with top exit, it has a thick 5mm baffle right before the exit, not adjustable, and shields the exposed top plate. So not much heat gets to the top plate, but it’s a very good heating stove.

 

[Wildbill]

We don’t bother, only a water pot. A heating stove like one pictured, it’s not very efficient for cooking, it takes ages, unless you have a slow pot on, with prolonged fire. Firebox needs to be hotter, ash grill higher and baffle out. Otherwise takes ages, as it’s designed for heating, not cooking. A cooking stove it’s quite different, with no baffle to the cooking plate, a baffle it’s right at the stove exit, or in the pipe as it exits the stove.
In a cooking stove, the height of the fire box it’s small, so the fire is concentrated on the plate above, the one you cooking on. My opinion anyway.

Well it seems to be working slowly but working
Bill

 

[Ridgeway]

Ours also attracts cats when it's on....

 

[donkey]

We use mainly wood on our multi-fuel Rayburn. heats all he hot water, central heating and most of my cooking. However, if the fire is low, which it can be in these mild days, I tend to use electric rather pile loads of wood on, just so I can cook a meal.
The stove has a diverter for the flue, either out the back and up through the boiler or up and over the oven casing.

Geoff

 

[Raul]

Well it seems to be working slowly but workin
Bill

If you happy, fire away, I’m glad it works for you. I don’t have the patience, unless is a slow stew on.
I do have a cooking stove built myself in a outbuilding, we use it in the summer to avoid heat in the house.

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[donkey]

Ours also attracts cats when it's on....

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Looks very similar to ours, but ours is green. It is also coveted by three dogs, not a cat in sight.

Geoff

 

[Wildbill]

Spuds cooked and sprouts cooked perfectly
A good bit slower than the gas hob
Should be good for soups and stews any way with gas and electric as it is every little helps
Bill

 

[Zoobec]

Greasy Chap Butty barbecues rib of beef, pork chops, sausages etc on our stove in our house in France. Cooked over wood on the grid that swings out from the stove. Here’s a rib of beef resting, whilst he sautés sliced potatoes in butter in a cast iron frying pan directly on the wood.

 

[Pusscat]

Charnwood have a cooking plate that sits in the vent that exits the top (you have to have rear exiting flue fitted…) 2 sizes depending on hole. I fitted one for our morso wood burner with a bit of adjustment with an angle grinder to the plate…

the plate gets much hotter than just the top of the stove did, haven’t tried it yet for cooking but should be ok if wanted for slow simmer of a stew or similar. Noticed that it has ‘calmed down’ the air flow a little when fully open when lighting which probably isn’t a bad thing as it roared like a jet engine if you let it before.

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[Pusscat]

Ours also attracts cats when it's on....

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My God, they look contented!

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[Pusscat]

Just tried out the new cooking plate on the wood burner.

the fire isn’t roaring as you can see, back flue temp is actually quite low at just over 100 deg c. Put a cold pan saute pan on top with yesterday’s pre-made Thai curry, had a read of a few web entries and could smell loveliness!! It’s simmering away nicely. If I had the heat up further, it would probably be too much!!

rather impressed! Will get the water For rice heated up in the kitchen and immediately bring it in to cook. The movable little trivets will keep the curry warm…

 

[L' Hobo]

In one of the barns on my fathers farm, we used to have an old 'copper' (like the ladies used to use on wash days for boiling the clothes) in which we cooked the feed for the pigs and chickens (not at the same time). Around the nice upright chimney, my father coiled a 2" copper pipe and a header tank & water feed above and tap on the bottom.
It was supposed to be for adding hot water to the feed but got used for many other things which was handy if the vet came.

 

[Puddleduck]

We put a kettle on ours (non cooking type) and put the hot water into a flask for the next morning's tea. I think it would keep things warm but I don't think it would cook from cold.

 

[robnchris]

Don't understand some of the comments made here, ie. if it's made for heating then it gives off heat.
Our multi-fuel stove will boil water just as fast as the electric kettle, we cook on ours all the time, obviously fried food is covered.
Using trivets will allow simmering, if the coals are low and glowing we open the door using a cast iron frying pan direct on top of the coals cooks fillet steaks in minutes.

 

[Burgo]

We have an inset in our lounge, so there's no hot top to access, but still cook jacket spuds at the side of the fire as well as chestnuts in a pan and toast crumpets on it. Outside the wood fired pizza oven does pizzas, chickens, legs and shoulders of lamb, pitta and naan breads, tandoori skewers, etc etc.

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[pampam]

Wildbill you can get a jacket potatoe cooker to stand on stove off ebay

 

[Wildbill]

Wildbill you can get a jacket potatoe cooker to stand on stove off ebay

We have a enameld cast iron pan with lid like a Dutch oven heavy duty it dose lovely rosty spuds.
Sinc starting this thread we have cooked a few slow stews Currys pot roast
That have turned out well
Bill

 

[Wildbill]

Don't understand some of the comments made here, ie. if it's made for heating then it gives off heat.
Our multi-fuel stove will boil water just as fast as the electric kettle, we cook on ours all the time, obviously fried food is covered.
Using trivets will allow simmering, if the coals are low and glowing we open the door using a cast iron frying pan direct on top of the coals cooks fillet steaks in minutes.

Thanks since starting this thread we have done loads of things.
Bill

 

[Wildbill]

Charnwood have a cooking plate that sits in the vent that exits the top (you have to have rear exiting flue fitted…) 2 sizes depending on hole. I fitted one for our morso wood burner with a bit of adjustment with an angle grinder to the plate…

the plate gets much hotter than just the top of the stove did, haven’t tried it yet for cooking but should be ok if wanted for slow simmer of a stew or similar. Noticed that it has ‘calmed down’ the air flow a little when fully open when lighting which probably isn’t a bad thing as it roared like a jet engine if you let it before.

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Do you have ther eBay link I have been on ther weeb site but can't find it
Bill

 

[Tonks]

Do you have ther eBay link I have been on ther weeb site but can't find it
Bill

It's in the accessories bit: https://www.charnwood.com/all-stoves/stove-accessories/all-ranges/charnwood-cooking-plate/

I'm due to have a Charnwood stove fitted in the spring.

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[Wildbill]

It's in the accessories bit: https://www.charnwood.com/all-stoves/stove-accessories/all-ranges/charnwood-cooking-plate/

I'm due to have a Charnwood stove fitted in the spring.

Got it thanks just have to measure the blanking plate
Baill

 

[Pusscat]

They come in two sizes, I think for 5 and 6 inch hole and they also come with kit for fitting With rope etc.Theres two ways of fitting included, either a backing ring that you screw into the plate so it clamps to the burner hole or you can screw a couple of lugs into the plate that clamp onto the inside of the hole. I used an angle grinder just to take a bit of edge off the bit of the plate that fit’s in the hole so it would fit correctly.

On the website, if you have a Charnwood burner already, it gives what size you need for which burner. Obviously mating it with my Morso burner, there was no guarantee!