Cooking WITHOUT Electricity (Woodstove Cooking)
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- Опубліковано 25 вер 2024
- Living like it's the 1800's in a modern world". Seems like a contradiction doesn't it? But even if you do have electricity and running water, there are some valuable tips to be learned for cooking on a wood stove that can really come in handy when needed.
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I loved this tutorial. I can't wait until we have our wood stove so that I can begin to use the cooking skills and recipes that you are sharing with us. Please share more cook stove cooking tips 🥰
Glad you enjoyed it and thank you for your feedback!
I have been waiting for more videos like this on UA-cam!! I’ve searched for the past 3 years. We need more videos like this. We are currently at the beginning stages of Winter Storm Landon, we are anticipating power outage and cooking on our wood stove will be a must
Thank you for your feedback! I’ll make note of this for future videos!
I love this, and smiled all the while as I watched!!! Our Lopi is now almost 40 years old, and your video brought back fond memories of the few times I cooked on it, many years ago. I never baked on it.
I'm impressed with your techniques and skill, and admire your spirit. I look forward to more videos like this!
Thank you Melissa. You are quickly becoming my favorite YT advisor. You do such a great job with your videos. BTW - I just messaged Lopi and suggested they thank you for showcasing their Endeavor stove :)
Thank you
MK you never cease to amaze with the things you do !!!
Loved this video! another idea that I have used for raising your pans up off the surface of the wood stove is cast iron trivets/grates from the tops of an old gas stove someone has thrown out. Can be found for free at landfills and recycle centers.
thank you for this! I cook soups and stews and bacon on the wood stove but have been intimidated to try baking. I never thought to use an upturned cast iron pot to act as a mini oven🤯 I am so excited to try this method!
Melissa, I greatly appreciate this video. I am new to using a wood stove and have started cooking a few things on it. This morning I made French toast! I have not attempted baking on it yet. It is good to know that if I bake on a wood stove, then I should place a spacer, like canning rings, between the stove and the baking dish. You’ve probably saved me from some burnt bottoms! Thank you 😊
Loved the baking technique & hand pie. I have a cast iron trivet that fits inside the Dutch oven. I use the trivet when baking chicken in the dutch oven. It keeps the chicken raised up from the drippings. It would work great instead of the canning rings. Thank you for demonstrating another use for the trivet.
What a great video on how to cook with a wood stove! Thank you for sharing, @MelissaKNorris
This fire pit is one of a few covered pits that is on the list ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxAU9pOCSV9Y5JprooHvfxTpOrt4hx8uRM of approved products for Disney Fort Wilderness. The product served its purpose well and provided excellent fires throughout the evening. We were able to open the door and do s'mores, but I had to be careful because the handle was a bit hot on occasions. Additionally, I wish they had replaced some of the standard nuts with lock nuts in some places. We lost the door handle after just a couple of days of usage. Not a deal breaker, just a recommendation. I still give it 5 stars.
Thank goodness we got that all cleared up.
Nice to see you cooking on this style wood atove. We have a similar model in our cellar and never have cooked on it, because we have a kitchen wood stove. Thanks for showing us how you bake meals. ~ Diane
I’m native in northwest BC. I grow up on this type off cooking, there wasn’t any electricity on Rez yet,till 1977. To warm up the house faster in winters, my mom would put a big pot off water on the stove , which later would be used for either cooking,or dishes, or the bathtub.
New Subscriber, I've already watched about 10 very informative content videos ,
We have a wood burning fireplace & when we lost electricity here in Montgomery County, Texas in February 2020 - I used my wood burning fireplace to cook items ,
Also bought a griddle for bigger space, we lose electricity alot here , Yes we have a gas grill with a gas side burner , but that year was so cold , I just used the fireplace ,
This year with the price of GAS etc....We bought several cords of seasoned wood as our home is a ranch style & I refuse to heat the whole house & keep getting $480 electricity bills year around , so we plan on cutting off the rest of the house & sleeping in our living room & wear sweatpants - use an electric blanket with a bluetti solar panel .
God bless you. IVE LEARNED ALOT WATCHING JUST 11 VIDEOS , I can't wait to watch alot more of your content .
God bless you
Mrs Josette - Montgomery County , Texas
Thank you for the video. I never thought of using a cast iron pan I make biscuits in the same way, sort of. I put a cast iron trivet on the stove top then but a glass pie pan filled with biscuits. I then put a stainless bowl over it and it seals on top of the stove making a really good oven. I leave it for 20 minutes and it makes the best biscuits I have ever made. I do the same process to heat up left overs. I cook soups on the wood stove as well. I bring the pot to a boil then transfer it to the wood stove to finish Works great You gave me a great idea to test how hot the stove is. I just sprinkle water on the stove and if it sizzles I am good to go. Thank you again for the great informative video.
I really enjoy your videos... thanks for sharing.
Back in 1983 we lost power for 3 days because of an ice storm . We had a wood stove at that time and my wife cooked all our meals on that stove. Our house was all electric, but we made it just fine because of the wood stove . Good video on what can be done during an emergency or at anytime with a wood stove .
I have a wood stove almost exactly like yours and I love it! I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. I have made beans and cornbread in mine before. Thank you for all these videos and information. I am so hooked on them and learning sooo much. You sure do know how to make a bakery chefs heart sing! 🤩 I appreciate you , and the way your really explain things and all your information and hard work. From watching your videos I have major goals now. You are loved and appreciated! I can't thank you enough😊
am experimenting with using my wood stove for baking.
My wood stove is similar to the one in the video.
Today I baked salad croutons and am currently baing my second batch of banana bread.
For the salad croutons I used a cast iron frying pan and a lid with a flange on top, like a camp Dutch Oven. I shoved hot coals to the side and put the Dutch oven on top of three canner rings, and used a big spoon to shovel some hot coals on top of the Dutch Oven, held in place by the flanged lid.
That worked fine.
The banana bread batter was spooned into small bread baking tins, with the tins placed on top of salad rings in the Dutch oven. A few hot coals were placed under the Dutch oven, with the Dutch oven going in the wood stove itself. Then a few hot coals were spooned on top of the Dutch Oven, again held in place by the flanged lid.
That worked quite well at baking, although I stopped to check on how it was doing several times over the hour baking time.
The second batch of banana bread is baking now--- same method as before.
Great tip to use the deeper pan over top. Love it.
Excellent video, right down to earth explanation, without filler gab. I think a lot of people will get the concept of baking fon the top of a stove from this Thanks.
Thank you Melissa! This is great advice, I've been nervous to start cooking on my stove but I now feel more confident to try.
i loved this video! We are looking at getting a wood stove in our next home, and I need all the tutorials I can get. Thank you!
Excellent work
Pork n beans and cider on our woodstove right now☺ While the neighborhood is running generators and neighbors disappointed in not being able to use a crockpot with no power , we are still cooking and stayingwarm..we tried to tell them to invest in a woodstove but cruises are priorities to them😪
We make garlic bread out of French bread too. I cut mine in half length wise. Melt butter, and a spoon of basil pesto, feta cheese, herbs, and a pinch of salt. Rub mixture on bread then toast in the oven. It does not last long in our house.
I would love to see more videos like this! Thank you!
Looks tasty! Looking forward to more wood stove cooking
Always an excellent teacher, and great role model!
Thanks for sharing. I do the same things. I use my roasters as the top of the oven. And I use a cast iron trivet for the bottom. Thanks Melissa.
You are so welcome!
I cook on my wood stove all the time love it and I had a old cook stove set up in the living room for a wile but the wife stopped using it even know she said she won't it so I went back to little wood stove because the old stove was too hard to keep going at night because of the skinny wood but it's still beside the wood stove because it's so heavy I can't get it out I was younger when I put it in the house lol lol love your show keep up the good work
This is so cool!!
Oh nice this reminds me of little house on the prairie. 🙂
I love that you only made one!! LOL This is actually really inspiring. Thank you for posting.
I used to cook curries on woodstove. Should really do more of that - but we do use it for heating a kettle of water for drinks, washing up and cleaning. It's saved us so much money over the years. Never tried baking pies though, must give that a go.
Thanks so much for this information!! This saves us newbies so much time. I had no idea this is how you do an oven on top of a woodburning stove. I have a cast iron pot like that but it doesn't have a handle. I will start looking.
Excellent! Thank you. I have the same exact stove.🤩
Oh my, looks so good 😊
Thanks.
That was so cool! I am totally going to attempt it soon ☺️
Yummy, looks good. We like watching videos like this. It's awesome to have the wood burning stove available. Nothing beats the smell of a wook burning stove 😍
The cast iron pot would be radiating quite a lot of heat, presumably making it difficult to get a good oven temperature for baking.
You really need something that doesn't conduct heat well to form your oven, or perhaps insulate your cast iron pot to minimize heat loss.
I'm guessing that some wall insulation formed around the cast iron pot might do wonders to reduce heat loss and increase the oven temperature.
I'll have to give that a try and see how it works.
At present I am heating water in a pot of perhaps a gallon capacity and reheating pizza. I heat all my water on my wood stove during the heating season, and use my wood stove for cooking when it's practical to do so.
My wood stove is much like the one you use in the video.
This is fantastic 😊
Hello from northwest Florida.
What is the name of your stove and where can you buy it.? I really like it
This looks so fun
Thank you for a great tutorial! I have one comment, though: The fan should be placed at the edge of the stove, blowing cold air towards the stovepipe. This way you get the highest effect and the fan will last longer.
Your husband is very lucky to have you. Stay warm. John
If you have a good woman like this you should be so thankful. Wish mine was like her.
As soon as I saw your freestanding...yeup a LOPI.
Love mine...though I wish it was a freestanding. That said, I can and Do cook on it.
Most Definitely need to try this
Looks tasty! Sourdough English muffins are one of my favorite things to bake on the wood stove 😋
Yum!
Love these wood stove cooking videos! Would you by chance have a link to your wood stove?
I’d like to know too
Thank you
We have a forced air system as well, and we voluntarily don't use it... yes it's work, and sometimes a hassle to build a fire day after day... but we have a large wood lot, and it's the right thing to do for us.
Hello! What a great Dutch oven top and bottom - would you please share what size Dutch oven it is? Do you also use it for breads? Thank you!
I absolutely love it that is the exact make and model I've had my eye on for years🔥 Do you have TV? The only place I have to put a wood stove is in my small 'bedroom size' living room. Right where I have the TV bookshelves, etc. I guess I could start over and design around the wood stove but the other problem is the thermostat for the furnace is also in this same room so I would kill the heat for the rest of the house. I think it would heat my small dining room and country kitchen but certainly not the basement, bathroom, or the two bedrooms on the opposite end of the house. My home is 70 years old and has the chimney going up through the living room with a chimney insert for the natural gas furnace in the basement. In the living room there is a round cover on the chimney, indicating at one point in time there was some type of other heat source going on here besides the natural gas that I am stuck with now. The whole house is 2x4 construction taken from the surrounding land of red cedar which has gotten very dry over the past 70 years, which is also a concern. Thanks for the great videos. I was so motivated, I cleaned and organized my kitchen today. Looking forward to the gardening season and I actually purchased a chicken license for $25 from the municipality which will allow me five hens. I will have a true suburban homestead hopefully this year! 😉
I just got a wood stove and this is great to see how to cook on it. As I watch I was nervous because I could see myself knocking something off the canning bands.
Where do you buy one? Do you replace your normal stove with it?
There are actual woodstoves with an oven and spots for pans. Guess Queen is the brand but takes up a lot of room.
That looks so fun, I want a wood stove but I’m in Florida so...I don’t really need it lol
Love cooking with wood !
That was so interesting and helpful, loved it
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I wish I'd had my stove ducted to bring in air from under the floor rather than from the room. This must be more efficient than having all of the warm air from the room sucked back into the stove and out through the chimney. Simple but great idea!
A cast iron trivet would be perfect for holding the pan off the stove
Thanks for this super helpful video, I am currently in the researching/ about to buy stage. I wonder what kind of stove that you have? Does it make a difference with regards to cooking whether you use a cast iron vs stainless steel stove? Any features or products or brands that you wish you had or other helpful advice? Thanks for any insight anyone can offer!
nice
You are absolutely the living end and the impediment of womanhood. Honey God broke the mold when you were born. So You be sure and tell that blessed husband of yours that he is more than blessed to have such a jewel to call his own. The Bible says such women are more precious than Ruby's. THERE simply are no Words.
Loving your programs.
I miss our fireplace for this very reason! We have some nasty weather about to hit in an hour or two.
Good morning from maryland!!!
Don't see much about how to use these for cooking. Would a trivet and cast iron dutch oven work too?
How do you keep the top from discoloring, scratched or otherwise scarred up from cooking on it?
You've sold me on having a wood stove
More wood stove recipes please :)
How are wood stove recipes any different than regular recipes?
Temperature regulation. A regular stove holds an maintains heat differently, sure the recipe itself may not change but tips on heat consistency is always welcome. I never put an upside down cast iron on my electric stove. Regardless, lots of people watch cooking shows in general, why not cooking on a wood stove instead?
Hi Melissa. I've had a hard late fall, and early winter regarding heating my home THIS year. I Live in Massachusetts. First, we had a big rain/windstorm in November. Many of us lost power for 3-5 days. I have 2 My Buddy Propane heaters that worked well that kept my home heated during that time. In January, my oil tank failed, and I couldn't get a replacement installed for two weeks. I used my propane heaters at first, but that is expensive to use all the time, even though I already prepped the propane. So, I used my oven instead, and was blessed with some electric radiant heaters I got from family members to use, during that time. This past week, we had a 2-foot snowstorm. I lost power for a few hours only. My regret: I wished I had a wood stove.
I've wanted a wood stove for years, but because of this year, a wood stove is on the TOP of my list (we always wait until the last minute about such, and wish we had things, right). Me, I prepared in other ways in the meantime. Anyway, I know a wood stove will cost more than I want to spend initially, but I don't want to go through what I had to go through, ANOTHER year.
So, I'm going to look at, not only getting a wood stove, but getting one that would work great for my house and cooking too. I'm looking to making a wood stove my primary source of heating, but I'm going to keep my oil burning furnace functioning at the same time. I've learned that I should always have a working backup for heat, and cooking, like other things in life!
In your video Melissa, I'm looking also at your floor and your walls, to figure out what I'm going to need to do, to have someone install a wood stove here. My floor and walls near where I would benefit having a wood stove will need to be up to code, so to speak, as I know my knowledge and skill alone is not enough to do such a project myself. I'm wondering what it will cost to buy, fix, and install a wood stove completely (I know you can't answer that. I'm just talking out loud about it). A ballpark figure would help though!
Thank you, Melissa, for sharing what you have, and explaining it so well !
We didn't do any to the walls, the floor will need a hearth pad but that's it. When we installed it was 16 years ago so prices are very different now, I would guess around $5,000 including installation
Very cool! How would you go about cooking something bigger, like bread? Is that even possible on the woodstove?
Add some whipped cream or a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top...perfection!
It's just fun cooking that.
What gloves are you using? Loved the video.
Is this a cast iron stove or steel? Does it matter when cooking which one you get?
Hi! Am setting up our wood stove and was wondering about your fan. Is it electric, or does the stove heat make it spin? Where did you get it? Does Amazon sell it? Thank you.
What is the fan thing on your wood stove?
MmmThat looks really yum n new cooking 4 me 🥧
Hi I was wondering where u got the fan?
What do you use to season your wood stove? I've been using Avocado Oil. Don't want to use the normal stove polish, cause I don't know what's in it that could fumigate my food.
Important safety imfo :
You dont want to have a dutch oven near open flame.
Do you have a link for your woodstove fan?
Do you have the stove brand and link listed?
I’ve cooked pizza and soup on our but need to try pie
Love it!
can you do the small granny apple pies?
What kind of stove are you using?
Yummy pie
I've watched a previous video of yours that you raised meat birds for profit. How did that that ever turn out? I'm interested in doing this for myself.
Are your pie pans the 7"? I want to try this on our wood stove 😊
"Cooking WITHOUT Electricity" - Pulls out a digital thermometer. 🤣
Actually, my neighbors used to cook on their wood stove (similar design without the front glass) in the winter, mostly frying, and once a pot roast, that I know of. Nice to see some of the tricks.
Pick fly shit from pepper much?
What are the dimensions of your woodstove?
You're so amazing! I'm convinced you're the daughter of Chuck Norris 😂
Why not bake with a Dutch oven? It seems like it would do everything your trying to accomplish.
2 Folds: Heat house and cook.
Now if I can figure out how to cook without a wood stove in the middle of a massive snow and ice storm. I 🤔
Good luck to you. I'm sure you'll figure something out. Stay safe and warm during this storm. Hope you don't have to go out! Liz
A simple paper towel, water and some ash will clean the window
Take sum advise from someone that nows,block your stove up! bending over,getting down gets to hurt in the long nun.
Your goofy background music is ruining you. Come on lady.