Log burner cooking

[Cyres]

I am very lucky in having fitted a Burley Debdale log burner into my home. Not only is it super efficient but has a flat top so super for cooking on. It is supplied with a circular trivet. I have a set of lovely round pans with side handles so perfect to sit on top of my stove.

Now its up and running in the evening its now time to resume cooking with it. In a house clearance I chanced across an old flat bell bottom aluminium AGA kettle which boils in no time. This eve I have a roe neck slowly simmering. Culled a buck on Tuesday and cut neck into two portions. Browned off in a heavy pan, cooked onion and garlic and added some beef stock, big dash of Lea and Perirns, redcurrent jelly and washed out nearly empty bottle of Batts Tomatoe sauce. Added bouquet garni and let it simmer for hours. The meat will eventually fall of the vertebrae just fish them out and the spinal cord and you end up with a lovely goulash, super with a baked spud.

I regularly cook spag bol, chilli and stews on my log burner, most done in an IKEA cast iron casserole pot.

D

 

[Freeforester]

I am very lucky in having fitted a Burley Debdale log burner into my home. Not only is it super efficient but has a flat top so super for cooking on. It is supplied with a circular trivet. I have a set of lovely round pans with side handles so perfect to sit on top of my stove.

Now its up and running in the evening its now time to resume cooking with it. In a house clearance I chanced across an old flat bell bottom aluminium AGA kettle which boils in no time. This eve I have a roe neck slowly simmering. Culled a buck on Tuesday and cut neck into two portions. Browned off in a heavy pan, cooked onion and garlic and added some beef stock, big dash of Lea and Perirns, redcurrent jelly and washed out nearly empty bottle of Batts Tomatoe sauce. Added bouquet garni and let it simmer for hours. The meat will eventually fall of the vertebrae just fish them out and the spinal cord and you end up with a lovely goulash, super with a baked spud.

I regularly cook spag bol, chilli and stews on my log burner, most done in an IKEA cast iron casserole pot.

D

Only further suggestions this end would be to give the saw another four turns or so, turning the neck into oxtail-like sections (you should get 6 from a decent roe neck, discarding the front atlas joint) and possibly adding some root veg into the pot for delicious accompaniment.

If you’re really brave, take pot off the pot burner once all is done, and then treat yourself to a boiled egg tonight, and reheat the main event for tomorrow evening - second days is absolutely divine, you can also do that with one of your two sections, but it’s great when there are three bits plus some of the saucy veg awaiting your attentions - Bon appetit!

ps - personally not too wild about aluminium receptacles with water, but that’s just me, linked to dementia if any acidity in the water, so they say, but who knows?

 

[Cyres]

Agree its on for a second night and slowly dissolving. As for boiled egg Yuk cant face them after mum made me eat a bad one. However a duck egg poached is a divine meal! Didnt saw just chopped with my grandmothers huge cooks knife. Had a taste and it is yummy.

D

 

[sauer]

I love the neck done as said into “discs/rounds” but once done I tunnel out spinal cord whilst still raw …. Just me , can’t justify why …. Just, after watching that cjd / bse documentary couple years back I was put right off.

I meant to try this on my wee log burner .. I do have a wee cast iron Dutch oven but it has 3 wee stump legs so air gap between bottom and top of stove ….. shin o beef be good as well

I’ll have a look for another pot with no stump / legs

Note…. Didn’t know acidic water was the Aluminum link to Alzheimer’s ….. I know aluminum was the material but not why

Paul

 

[Bavarianbrit]

We have a 90 cm wide Lohburger stove from Austria in our kitchen that gets used far more than the induction hob, a tip, I found some aluminium rings one 5mm wide x 75mm diameter and another 20mm x 75 mm diameter we use them to stand off the pots from the hotplate to get a better simmer control.

 

[Bowland blades]

We use an esse ironhart , through the winter 80% of our main meals are cooked in it and all our kettles ! Heats the kitchen and lounge up a treat, once its really going a bedroom above warm up lovely via the chimney breast . Had it in 13 years so far , had a few repairs and rebuilds but i make all the parts besides the glass

 

[rem284]

Cooking with wood. Log mk 1,2,3. Tastes even better when there's a power cut.

 

[joe6r]

Add one of these and you have a full meal (not used one yet I may add).

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[reiver]

Fitted this for a customer last month
It replaces a knackered Rayburn

 

[Bo Diddley]

Add one of these and you have a full meal (not used one yet I may add).

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What's better than a jacket potato ?. A crispy jacket potato cooked on top of your wood burner or multifuel stove ! Our cast iron baked potato cookers are designed to sit on top of all cast iron wood burners and multi fuel stoves - and most steel ones too (though not cool wall units or those...

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Thanks for the link, I'm only 15 minutes away from the Attlebourgh branch so I'm calling in to pick one up when I pass.

 

[addjunkie]

Fitted this for a customer last month
It replaces a knackered Rayburn

As they are over the 5 kw do you need an external vent when fitting one of those, were currently considering one of the smaller esse ones. Following last years power outages.

 

[joe6r]

Let me know how you get on I will order one if you say it’s good?

 

[Bo Diddley]

Let me know how you get on I will order one if you say it’s good?

Will do, picking one up on Wednesday, got to go to Attlebourgh for a Covid booster.

 

[reiver]

As they are over the 5 kw do you need an external vent when fitting one of those, were currently considering one of the smaller esse ones. Following last years power outages.

It’s a 8 kw so it had to have vent in the wall .
That wall was 3ft thick as well !! You need a vent even if there less than 5 kw if it’s in a kitchen as well .

 

[Cyres]

May depend on how draught proof the room is. In my case 1940 semi with suspended pine T/'G floor so more than enough air despite 30mm double glazed windows and patio doors.

Mine has v big chimney breast so takes ages for it to warm up as stove is so efficient then rises up through bedroom above and its luke warm but certainly keeps S facing bedroom warm.

Venison casserole was yummy
.

D

 

[reiver]

May depend on how draught proof the room is. In my case 1940 semi with suspended pine T/'G floor so more than enough air despite 30mm double glazed windows and patio doors.

Mine has v big chimney breast so takes ages for it to warm up as stove is so efficient then rises up through bedroom above and its luke warm but certainly keeps S facing bedroom warm.

Venison casserole was yummy
.

D

Direct Air supply or Vent required on any new wood burning stove appliances over 5kw and for any wood burning stove fitted in a kitchen . Carbon monoxide detector fitted correctly is also a must ,

 

[sauer]

im going to ask......

can those who are aufait with the regs regarding vents etc ...specifically CO monitors .....advise as to "correct fitting"?

im assuming low down not up high but does it need to be within "x" amount of feet form the stove etc?

Paul

 

[Sellars]

Paul, there are various rules and some companies interpret these differently. I see you are in Angus and assuming you want a CO detector for a house there, perhaps starting here at www.gov.scot;

Fire and smoke alarms: the law

Every home in Scotland must have interlinked fire and smoke alarms. Find out what you need to keep your home safe and compliant with regulations.

www.gov.scot

Direct quotes are;
"All carbon monoxide (CO) detectors should be either: ceiling mounted and at least 300 mm from any wall (unless otherwise indicated by the manufacturer) or. wall mounted and positioned at least 150 mm below the ceiling and higher than any door or window in the room (unless otherwise indicated by the manufacturer)"
"All smoke and heat alarms should be mounted on the ceiling and be interlinked. If you have a carbon-fuelled appliance – like a boiler, fire, heater or flue – in any room, you must also have a carbon monoxide detector in that room, but this does not need to be linked to the fire alarms"

Note "unless otherwise indicated by the manufacturer", so there is scope to follow manufactures guidance where it differs form the government statement.
Whichever brand you buy should include fitting instructions. A brand I have bought and seem good are Aico, Aico | The European Market Leader in Home Life Safety They have 10 year battery and mains options and a neat RF link option that works to link battery to mains units, useful where it is complicated to run a mains cable to the detector.
You did ask!

 

[reiver]

Paul, there are various rules and some companies interpret these differently. I see you are in Angus and assuming you want a CO detector for a house there, perhaps starting here at www.gov.scot;

Fire and smoke alarms: the law

Every home in Scotland must have interlinked fire and smoke alarms. Find out what you need to keep your home safe and compliant with regulations.

www.gov.scot

Direct quotes are;
"All carbon monoxide (CO) detectors should be either: ceiling mounted and at least 300 mm from any wall (unless otherwise indicated by the manufacturer) or. wall mounted and positioned at least 150 mm below the ceiling and higher than any door or window in the room (unless otherwise indicated by the manufacturer)"
"All smoke and heat alarms should be mounted on the ceiling and be interlinked. If you have a carbon-fuelled appliance – like a boiler, fire, heater or flue – in any room, you must also have a carbon monoxide detector in that room, but this does not need to be linked to the fire alarms"

Note "unless otherwise indicated by the manufacturer", so there is scope to follow manufactures guidance where it differs form the government statement.
Whichever brand you buy should include fitting instructions. A brand I have bought and seem good are Aico, Aico | The European Market Leader in Home Life Safety They have 10 year battery and mains options and a neat RF link option that works to link battery to mains units, useful where it is complicated to run a mains cable to the detector.
You did ask!

This is what we use for HETAS In England and Wales .

 

[Freeforester]

I love the neck done as said into “discs/rounds” but once done I tunnel out spinal cord whilst still raw …. Just me , can’t justify why …. Just, after watching that cjd / bse documentary couple years back I was put right off.

I meant to try this on my wee log burner .. I do have a wee cast iron Dutch oven but it has 3 wee stump legs so air gap between bottom and top of stove ….. shin o beef be good as well

I’ll have a look for another pot with no stump / legs

Note…. Didn’t know acidic water was the Aluminum link to Alzheimer’s ….. I know aluminum was the material but not why

Paul

I suppose you do realise the connection between use of Organophosphate pour-on use in domestic cattle and CJD, or eg the mechanism by which it is cumulatively absorbed via the spinal cord and encapsulated within the fats in the animal (the same fat that was later stripped and incorporated into er, bovine animal foodstuffs ), and/or the fact that CJD isn’t a ‘thing’ in organic-produced (non-OP intervention) cattle, much less wild deer here? There is a reason why we have much difficulty in buying beef from mature cattle (over 18month old) in the U.K these days, and it has more than a hint of connection to the annual mandatory use of (cumulatively toxic) OP as dictated by the Dept.

Irrespective, you can be sure that on the one hand a) you’re not in any danger of contracting CJD by eating the spinal cord of a wild roe deer, and b) just like eating organic carrots, in the end we’ll find it’s a ‘zero-sum game’ either way.

Eat, drink and be merry!