Wood stove cooking. I know it's been done.

[johnmcq4]

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.

[jfmorris]

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.

[jfmorris]

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.

[johnmcq4]

Thank you. That is what I have been thinking as well. While I could cook in it with small coals in the back I probably won't be spending much time in my recliner.

[FireMan]

Great lookin stove. Takes me back to when I was a kid for my grandmother. Very cool! 🕶

[jfmorris]

I say get a nice cast iron Dutch oven and make some nice meals in that on top of your wood burning stove.

[Frozen Smoke]

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.

[RonB]

I can't help, but I do have fond memories of my aunt cookin' on a wood stove when I was a kid.

[HawkerXP]

Just wait, I'm sure Mr. Bones has one or two in his backyard.

[mrteddyprincess]

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!

[EdF]

For yoks! https://www.rivercottage.net/recipes/cider-cured-ham