As I sit in my great room being warmed by our wood stove during the Indiana winters I often catch a whiff of the smoke and wonder how can I smoke meat and cook food on the wood stove while enjoying my recliner. Any suggestions would be welcome by me and we will have to see what my wife thinks later.
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Wood stove cooking. I know it's been done.
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Jim Morris
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The wood stoves that you bake in, like where my father grew up in east Tennessee (no indoor plumbing or electricity) had a separate baking compartment, from where you put the wood to burn. Some of the old ones I saw had the baking compartment to the side of the fire. Here's a modern version, with an oven below the fire:
https://www.lehmans.com/product/bake...eatcook-stove/
You can probably rig up some food grate in front of the wood, just inside the door, but I think it will be way too hot to smoke anything unless you use small logs and are able to keep them at the very back of the burn chamber, and keep the fire small. That's what I do in my offset basically - the fire is to the side of the food, and below it, with the exhaust on the other end.
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- Weber Genesis II E-410 w/ GrillGrates (2019)
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- Custom Built Offset Smoker (304SS, 22"x34" grate, circa 1985)
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- Lodge L10SK3 12" skillet
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Here's another one where the firebox and baking box are side by side, more like what I have seen in antique stoves.
https://www.lehmans.com/product/bake...od-cookstoves/
I don't think in these that the smoke goes through the baking chamber. No one wants a smokey cake or loaf of bread.
I know you are not looking to bake, but smoke. I just got off on a tangent thinking about how these old stoves worked. I think you can cook something inside there with the fire. But it will be harder to control than a true smoker.
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There was something kind of like that left in my Great-Grandmother's house that my Mom and I moved into after she passed on. My Grandmother said she did a lot of baking with it, including angel food cakes. I can't imagine . . .
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Murdy I cannot imagine either! Your oven temp was based on size of the fire, and I doubt they had any clue what temperature they were baking at. Your great-grandmother and mine probably just had to open the oven and check a lot while baking.
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- King Kooker 94/90TKD 105K/60K dual burner patio stove
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- Lodge L10SK3 12" skillet
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- Thermoworks RT600C
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I say get a nice cast iron Dutch oven and make some nice meals in that on top of your wood burning stove.
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I see quite a few of the old school antique wood cooking stoves on Craigs List. Been tempted a time or two to install one in the garage and learn to cook on it. Homeowners insurance company doesn't like the idea much.
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Good point HawkerXP I should be on the commercial except I got Progressive not the one that does those commercials!
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Mine was installed by the previous owners around 1980 right in our great room. My insurance agents have frowned a bit but it didn't cost me more that I'm aware of.
It keeps us nice and warm and the kettle ads some humidity, but the smell of smoke makes me want to throw some meat in it, or as jfmorris suggested at least put a Dutch oven on it.
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My great grandmother had an electric stove that the family installed for her in the late 60's. I never saw her using it. She preferred her wood burning stove/oven and used it every day. Great memories of her and her fire management skills, cooking on a Sunday when the whole family came for dinner at noon. Chicken and dumplings, fried chicken, mashed potatoes, giblet gravy, green beans, and lemon meringue pie!
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