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Domestic Hot Water and Wood Cookstoves: What To Know

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Many folks who want to live the self-sufficient lifestyle know how to handle their food: Hunting, gardening, and building a fire. Mastering the methods behind each of those tasks means you’ll never have to worry about starving, no matter the situation. But what about water? Specifically, hot water?
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Cookstoves in Washington State

Cookstoves in Washington state might not seem like a big deal, especially after the EPA ruled that wood cookstoves are exempt from emission regulations as part of the New Source Perfomance Standard for Wood Heat. Great news for all cookstove users, right?
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Firewood: Six Tips For Better Burning

If you’re new to wood heat, you might be tempted to just grab the nearest block of wood, throw it in the fire, and call it good for the day. But those of us who have lived season after season by the light of the fire know the most important aspect of wood heat: Firewood. Here are six tips to help you get the most out of your firewood and keep that fire burning bright and hot all winter long.
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Cookstove Basics

Choosing Your Cookstove

When you picture a cookstove, what do you see? An old, dusty piece of equipment from a time gone by? An oddly shaped woodstove? Or maybe just an ordinary old stove? Whether you’re looking for a new cookstove or just curious about what’s out there, there’s a whole world of designs and features to investigate. The following is a short list of cookstoves that demonstrate the kind of variety in visual and mechanical quality offered today, all of which we recommend to anyone choosing the cookstove life.
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Cookstoves: Better Living Through Wood Heat

The sound of wood cracking against an ax, the hollow thuds of the blocks hitting the ground, the popping and hissing of evaporating moisture as the fire begins in the stove, and the unmistakable smell of burning wood as its warmth engulfs everything around it and ushers winter out the door, where it belongs.
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EPA Wood Stove Regulations: What You Need To Know

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This article was originally published in 2015, and some information contained within it may no longer be accurate. For a more up-to-date overview of EPA regulations for wood heating devices, please read our article Wood Heating Regulations – What You Need to Know About the EPA and Emission Standards.

Do you own a woodstove or wood cookstove? If so, chances are you love it- there’s just something about the warmth and smell of burning wood as a heat source that makes many Americans choose it over other forms of heating. However, using wood heat is not without complications: Smoke, even from burning wood, is an emission regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In the following article, we will explain what the EPA wood stove regulations mean to those of us who use or manufacture stoves.
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Cookstoves and the Prepared Lifestyle

Imagine this scenario: It’s the dead of winter. The ground is covered in snow, the temperature is below freezing during the daylight and worse after the sun goes down. Your power goes out. You’ve got water and a decent amount of food in storage, but your heat source went with the power and the temperature inside your dwelling is rapidly dropping. What can you do?
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Recipes

Allison’s Roast Chicken

The thing about chicken is, it likes to turn hard and rubbery if it’s nicely browned, and it likes to taste steamy and horrid if it’s nicely tender.

But here is a roast chicken that’s nicely browned, and also very tender. It tastes delicious, and is pretty easy to prepare. And to top it off, it is not finicky about temperature, which makes it an excellent choice for novice woodburners like us. This one was cooked at anywhere from 250 to 450 degrees, starting at the low end and ending at the high end (as in, the opposite of how we are usually told to roast meat), and was none the worse for the wear and tear.
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Genie’s Steel-Cut Oats and Cherries

Steel-Cut Oats and Cherries - Cookstove Community

It’s a simple fact, but important to know… The happy combination that is steel-cut oats and dried tart cherries.

My friend introduced me to this breakfast treat in Tennessee some years ago, and I’m glad she did. It gets a nice chewy texture from both oats and cherries, and it tastes delicious.
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Rump Roast

Thanks mom, it was delicious.

This is my mom’s version of roast beef. Technically, it’s a pot roast, because it’s cooked with a lid on it and allowed to steam in its own juices. But it doesn’t come out like a pot roast, i.e., wet and slow-cooked till falling apart. It’s more roast-y, with a roast meat texture and consistency. And it’s very, very tasty.
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