https://cookstoves.net/articles/making-the-most-of-wood-ash/ The best place online for all things Cookstoves Wed, 03 Apr 2024 04:45:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://cookstoves.net/articles/making-the-most-of-wood-ash/#comment-9174 Fri, 18 Mar 2016 13:49:51 +0000 https://cookstoves.net/?p=1987#comment-9174 I talked with an elder recently who reminisced on how her one-room school in South Dakota was heated with a wood stove. Many of the kids would bring a raw potato to school and their teacher would place it in the wood ash drawer. By lunch they had a perfectly baked potato!
I tried this with my wood furnace. I wrapped my potatoes in foil, placed them in the ash and, with tongs, turned them every so often. It works and it is so satisfying to take advantage of another otherwise wasted heat source. Try it!

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