Wood burners

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An old lady I knew (because she was a top cake maker) had an aga which she was happy enough with it. Although it was in the sitting room. So she couldn't pretend she wasn't cooking cakes when I called in. Her funeral was brilliant, all the WI top cake makers were there all trying to out do each other.
Alas they are dieing off and even I am supplying the odd cake for Sunday teas..... Lincolnshire Farmhouse Dripping Cake. Goes down well only have to supply it every 2nd week as there is always half a one left!

 

[Ganymede]

An old lady I knew (because she was a top cake maker) had an aga which she was happy enough with it. Although it was in the sitting room. So she couldn't pretend she wasn't cooking cakes when I called in. Her funeral was brilliant, all the WI top cake makers were there all trying to out do each other.
Alas they are dieing off and even I am supplying the odd cake for Sunday teas..... Lincolnshire Farmhouse Dripping Cake. Goes down well only have to supply it every 2nd week as there is always half a one left!

I had a two-oven Aga - the hot oven was too hot for cakes and the bottom one was too cool. I barely baked anything for 2 years. Beastly, restrictive, glamorised piece of tat!

 

[BlueDog]

Sorry if I'm going slightly off topic, but I have a long standing dialema regarding my wood burner which I've always thought as a bit of an elephant in the room really.....

There have been numerous occasions where I've loaded the paper, kindling and logs into the burner and have been about to set light to it when I see an innocent cute looking spider running across the logs inside.

In the past I've: a) pulled everything out and started again. b) pretended not to see it and carry on. c) shouted 'honey, I'm just going to the loo, can you light the fire for me'.

I'm sure I'm not alone in wondering what to do when this happens, so is there any spider/wood-burning etiquette that I should be following in such instances?

 

[Ganymede]

Sorry if I'm going slightly off topic, but I have a long standing dialema regarding my wood burner which I've always thought as a bit of an elephant in the room really.....

There have been numerous occasions where I've loaded the paper, kindling and logs into the burner and have been about to set light to it when I see an innocent cute looking spider running across the logs inside.

In the past I've: a) pulled everything out and started again. b) pretended not to see it and carry on. c) shouted 'honey, I'm just going to the loo, can you light the fire for me'.

I'm sure I'm not alone in wondering what to do when this happens, so is there any spider/wood-burning etiquette that I should be following in such instances?

You reach in, pick the spider up in your fingers and hoick it out. Where you put it to run free is up to you!

I do sometimes think, when I put wood on to burn - I wonder what's living in that? And I'm always conscious that the wood itself was a living thing.

 

[summerdays]

Sorry if I'm going slightly off topic, but I have a long standing dialema regarding my wood burner which I've always thought as a bit of an elephant in the room really.....

There have been numerous occasions where I've loaded the paper, kindling and logs into the burner and have been about to set light to it when I see an innocent cute looking spider running across the logs inside.

In the past I've: a) pulled everything out and started again. b) pretended not to see it and carry on. c) shouted 'honey, I'm just going to the loo, can you light the fire for me'.

I'm sure I'm not alone in wondering what to do when this happens, so is there any spider/wood-burning etiquette that I should be following in such instances?

Don't look?

 

[slowmotion]

Why bother with kindling, useless scrumpled up newspapers etc? Technology solved that problem decades ago. OK, it doesn't appeal to the caveman types who want to strike sparks off a flint into a handful of dried moss..... but it works. Besides, it uses clean, planet-saving sustainable nuclear electricity....

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[welsh dragon]

[QUOTE 3595355, member: 9609"]@raleighnut , @Globalti @welsh dragon

Allt the kindling burnt really well

To be honest it looks Of hard work Not to mention a lot of wood being used used. I don't blame you for going back to your tried and tested method.


and then, just as you all predicted it just went out - think I'm just going to stick with my tried and tested method that sees the fire underway in about 3 minutes - I'm sure the upside down method wood work, but you would probably need to spend an hour a day preparing vast quantities of kindling and logs to and then laying them out in a precise method - the other crap thing about this method is - the kindling cracked and sparked for about half an hour which meant the fire guard had to be up, normally the small amout of kindling is at the bottom and the sparks are shielded by the logs...

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[Ganymede]

Why bother with kindling, useless scrumpled up newspapers etc? Technology solved that problem decades ago. OK, it doesn't appeal to the caveman types who want to strike sparks off a flint into a handful of dried moss..... but it works. Besides, it uses clean, planet-saving sustainable nuclear electricity....

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But then what would I do with all this left-over newsprint?! (no, don't answer that, I know many ways already!)

Seriously, it is always best to know the lowest forms of technology for when the newer ones fail. I learnt in the Guides to light a fire using no paper and only one match, I am a total pyromaniac - and own two steels!

 

[ayceejay]

If you store your wood outside all kinds of creatures will gather there to hide or hibernate but you (obviously) won't be aware of them. When you bring the logs indoors they may wake up before you burn the logs, bang the logs on the ground outside before you bring them in. Mice and other vermin will scatter on their own.

 

[sight-pin]

Smog warnings over London, on this mornings news, I still say it's your wood burner exhaust lol

 

[stephec]

Holy thread resurrection!

I have a wood burner question, we're thinking of getting one but Mrs Stephec has asthma and is worried that it might not suit her.

Can anyone put her mind at rest, or is she right to query it?

 

[Drago]

Mind D has asthma and it doesn't seem to affect her unless she sleeps on the roof next to the flue.

 

[Fnaar]

All wood burning stoves are not equal. The cleaner burning ones are on an approved list and are considerably more expensive than an ordinary stove. I've also given up burning logs now and use the compressed logs, which burn better for longer.

I used to have one of these, for compressing old newspapers into logs. Not quite sure what happened to it

 

[TheDoctor]

Mind D has asthma and it doesn't seem to affect her unless she sleeps on the roof next to the flue.

Does she do that often then?

 

[green1]

Does she do that often then?

I'd imagine it would be one way of keeping her sanity living with Drago.