Why? A cookstove and fireplace in the same kitchen

[@femalism1715]

Your kitchen, with the cook stove, the fireplace, and the potbelly is my idea of a perfect dream kitchen.

[@logcabinlifestyle]

Thank you my friend

[@timburris3758]

Amen! I Have Cooked On A Few Woodstoves In My Days

[@veraf.7660]

❤

[@deborahstewart2322]

But how much wood do you use all winter? Grandma only had a pot belly and it was only warm in front of it. She used coal

[@logcabinlifestyle]

It’s all relative, how warm do you like it, how cold is it. And so on and so no. Saying that I have burnt less this year than I have in years.

[@jimzarlatanes9139]

You are living in my version of Better Homes and Gardens! What an outstanding life you are living!!!

[@seansuttles1813]

When I was little my mom would take my sister and I to Bandon, OR to visit my great grandmother. It was a small house and it was bitterly cold especially in the mornings. The only heat she had in her house was her cast iron wood burning cook stove in her little kitchen. I have so many little kid wonderful memories helping her fetch wood and watch her cook us breakfast!

[@lenapas9480]

Wonderful memories, wish I had that❤

[@matthewhays9410]

Sitting and looking at a fire with loved ones feels like the most ancient soul-bound human experience possible to me

[@logcabinlifestyle]

I agree!

[@JulieBraun-r8e]

This is how log homes in earlier times were. Actually one big room which had huge fireplace and wood stove.

[@SarahBearah2023]

Amen

[@isabellavalencia8026]

Yes!!! A fire pit is a must at every home I have ever had.💙🙂

[@sillililli01]

One winter here up in Northern Alberta, we had 10 days of -27C (-17F), we've had -48.2 (-55F) in this Province, our wood stove in the LR kept the entire home warm, and our furnace never kicked on, not even once. My husband had it on a slow burn 24/7, it kept us toasty warm and I was able to cook on the stovetop. Kept a cast iron kettle filled with water so that it put moisture back in the air. Love it.

[@logcabinlifestyle]

Great story! Thank you!

[@kaboom-zf2bl]

@@logcabinlifestyle a pelltier fan on the pot belly stove or it's flue pipe will use the heat to run the fan and you can place several of them to get loads of air movement and heat movement btw even that pot belly stove sucks cold air into the home ... the difference between it and the others is that you can control better how much air it pulls in which limits how much f a cooling effect the incoming air has ... since the stove now gets time to heat that new air up

[@homebuddha]

We have our heater stove low burning 24/7 in winter, cooking winter stews, soups, curries on the stove top, stove top fans moving heat around & always have a kettle of water boiling to add moisture back in the air so we never ever get sick in winter. Keeping our home sterile clean always helps.

[@nancysmith2389]

Yeah, if you really want to heat with the fireplace, a fireplace like they have in Russia seems more cost effective. One fire lit will last till morning.

[@thevintagerecipeblog]

@@nancysmith2389 Storage heaters. They have them in older houses all over Eastern Europe and Scandinavia and they're starting to get more popular in the USA.

[@Caoucaren]

My Mother always had her fireplace going, i asked her once why, as she lived in a modern home with central heating, She simply replied; “ a fire is company” She lived alone as i do now in my cottage in Northern Ontario, Canada and i now fully understand what she meant. Happy Holidays and i wish you and everyone the very best for 2024.

[@logcabinlifestyle]

Beautiful story and memory of your mother. You have a most wonderful Holiday yourself.

[@erismana2105]

Makes so much sense

[@dimmacommunication]

Yeah the fire is like a pet lol :)

[@ssticketagency]

I put mine on this morning ,before work Love It

[@WayWordWay]

A real fire does indeed bring joy to the soul. Why? Probably thousands of generations of safety and warmth has seeped into our DNA. It saddens me how most young people have no such experiences now.

[@lindagreene1815]

A fireplace creates such a nice warm ambiance.

[@caraoosterhouse7348]

I completely understand. I had a fireplace and love watching the fire, but wanted more heat for all the effort I put forth cutting, splitting and stack firewood. I have an airtight stove now with a really nice window and it is the best of both worlds. Nothing I like better than starting the morning with a cup of coffee and watching the fire.

[@jamesguralski5156]

What stove are you using?

[@milosterwheeler2520]

That is one cozy-looking home. I can vouch for a good pot-bellied stove being a champ in the heating department. A relatively small stove will keep a surprisingly large area toaster in cold weather. And I think they have a quaint charm all their own.

[@shannonadams3101]

There's a reason the phrase "home and hearth" is so comforting. So many family gatherings, daily chores, and relaxing moments were spent in front of the hearth. And what old country store would have been complete without the group of men playing checkers or visiting (gossiping) around the pot-bellied stove. 😊 I love your cabin design. My husband and myself are trying to figure out the logistics of putting a wood stove in our house. Oh, and I'm glad to see that Archie has a feline buddy!

[@MrSpotface]

Just discovered your channel and Im very impressed by not only your craftmanship, but also how clear and precise you are with your words. The cabin is amazing and to me is an almost perfect balance between old and new. Too many times I see ppl preaching the gospel of off grid, solitary living and to me that is antithetical to being a human. We are meant to have community. I like how how u still have some modern stuff too like electricity. Not everything modern is a bad thing. Honestly just a very balanced and thought out way of living. Bravo Sir

[@logcabinlifestyle]

Thank you much for your kind words! Much appreciated on my end

[@keithstegall1961]

I love your house. I love the way you present it. And I love the fact that you use three sources of the heat. Just like my grandmother used to.

[@ArtesianFalma]

The oven at my cabin in Norway has this newer technology where it doesn't even suck air from the room. It has it own pipe going under the floor to the outside, using the cold outside air for combustion. It is a sealed system so no smoke can get into the room either.

[@onedaydayde]

你来介绍一下

[@chan4754]

What is the name of the oven

[@UncleFester84]

My grandparents lived in the Alps in northern Italy, their house was built in 1771 and was made of stone and mortar, the only heating in the house (and only heated rooms) was a cast iron cookstove in the kitchen, and a special masonry stove called "fornel" in the living room. The former was your typical wood cookstove with oven, the latter worked in a principle somewhat similar to a dampened rocket stove, with the smoke of the fire going through various channels and heating it up until you could barely touch it, and because of how it was built, very little wood could keep the entire living room warm and cozy all winter.

[@mary1494]

Great video. I grew up with wood heat.. very warm. My mom would keep a kettle of water on top to put moisture in the air. One of my sisters would bake bread and let it rise near the stove.

[@kevinbugner3346]

Love the Cabin and how you put it all together. And how you stayed true to the history and character of the cabin.

[@logcabinlifestyle]

Thank you

[@randyjohnson3412]

Sitting in front of a fire relaxes me like nothing else. Your fireplace is absolutely perfect, it's not too overdone, yet it's very beautiful. Great job on this!

[@mikemcdonald2755]

Because I like it like that! I want it like that! God bless

[@trinitywright7122]

Okay, I might be too old for you but that is my dream house and that is a dream kitchen, the cook stove and the real working cooking fireplace. I am in awe. That is fantastic brother.

[@stevansikes8477]

I like how you show different types of wood heaters.

[@oldchickenlady]

I have always thought you live like a king with your set up!!! I hope every dwelling in Heaven looks just like your cabin but with a little land to farm! I taught 1840 life skills for many years and loved every day no matter how hard I worked and how tired I got. I would still be doing it but "progress" came to the historic site I worked at🙄. Now I still live a life that others don't understand but I'm happy...older than dirt now but happy!😁

[@logcabinlifestyle]

What a great story. I believe heaven will be a lot of what is in our hearts. I’m going to be the baker. Delicious bread for everyone.

[@wandamiller4473]

❤

[@Jewelmind]

Both of these are wonderful. I absolutely love the fireplace

[@Jewelmind]

I too cannot stop staring at a fire, so beautiful

[@melodysfiresidefarm]

I don’t live in a cabin but I do have a wood cook stove right beside my fireplace also. I grew up in a home with no heat but wood set up like yours but with smaller potbellies in the bedrooms also. I never asked why so from listening to you I can only assume my parents knew what you know and I just copied what I grew up with. I really enjoyed learning this! My favorite is in front of any fire inside or out. Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Jerry!!

[@logcabinlifestyle]

Love the long comment with a back story, a story that let me take a look into your life and your childhood

[@logcabinlifestyle]

Merry Christmas to you and yours as well!

[@carolechenowith900]

My house is 1885 and only had a wood stove for heat. In order to get a mortgage 30 years ago it had to have a heat source other than the stove so they put in electric baseboard heaters which doesn't heat my old uninsulated house. I don't use them. Got a pellet stove about 20 years ago as the fire would go out and my son would get home from school and the house would be freezing ( I worked 77 miles away) that went up a few years ago and I don't have time for the woodstove so I just have space heaters. It's cold in here lol. Oh well.

[@louisel.sinniger2057]

I learned how to cook on a slightly bigger cook stove than you have and I absolutely loved it. I also learned to cook in a fireplace. Enjoy using both! LOVE that cabin. Watching a wood fire is so mesmerizing

[@bluebiegrace1828]

I love iron cast stove. It’s my dream to own one. It’s a classic that is ageless. Looking at it as if time stood still.

[@rubenskiii]

It being your house “because i wanted too” should be all the explanation required, so thank you for going more in depth and passing on some valuable information. Warm greetings from the Netherlands🇳🇱.

[@logcabinlifestyle]

You are right! And you are most welcome. Greetings!

[@reidcrosby6241]

I love your home. Beautiful. We heat our home with VC Defiant. Been a wonderful 30 year relationship with that appliance. I have burned wood for 43 years. Only air/air., best way to go. Our cabin has FP, woodstove AND vookstove (multi fuel Kalamazoo Pilgram) , my wife said WHY three wood burning items.? BECAUSE of all the reasons you listed. Again lovely home.

[@blauer2551]

My uncle had a deer camp in Alpena, Mi with a beautiful pot belly stove. Lots of brass accents on it definitely a high end model yet still very old. Once that thing was heated up that main room was almost too hot to be in for me, but after sitting in the woods all day it was appreciated by all.

[@logcabinlifestyle]

For sure there are times the cabin is way too hot as well! Great memories my friend

[@notmyname3883]

My grandfather had a hunting camp very close to that, too. He had my dad and some of his drinking buddies over one deer season. Ol' gramp used to love to keep the fire stoked all night long. The boys had been drinking pretty good one night and were SWEATING in their upper bunks. One of 'em told the story the next day of waking up to the DEVIL stoking the fires of Hell. Ol' Gramp had some red longjohns, and wore 'em to bed. Ken said when he rolled over, he saw Gramp with his red longjohns on and swears he also had a POINTY TAIL and a PITCHFORK! That's been a laugh for years!

[@arts2353]

Wow.. what a beautiful cabin!

[@racebanning6390]

All 3 Heat sources are Epic. That potbelly is so efficient, The Firellace is Grand and elegant, the stove is a Cooks Best friend👍👍🇺🇸🛠️🔧🛠️Be blessed brother.

[@Victorialands]

I Absolutely love your home… that fire place is beautiful, the wood cook stove and the potbelly… basically all 3 would be a dream to have. Your whole place is a dream. Love it!

[@chrisoconnor3119]

Fantastic place! Absolutely dreamy to me, I'm "city folk" from the 'burbs of Detroit but i will retire ti the country soon. Well i never dreamed of such a cabin but now i certainly will!

[@logcabinlifestyle]

Congratulations on your upcoming retirement, and the best of luck to you!

[@chrisoconnor3119]

@logcabinlifestyle I'm super interested in your cabin and homestead ideas. I subbed. Thanks for showing your place, I will be diving into your videos and sharing it with my family also.

[@logcabinlifestyle]

@chrisoconnor3119 thank you and enjoy them!

[@bonnienichalson5151]

Thank you for shareing your beautiful Home with KZbin :) the driffences between cook stove ,fireplace an potbelly stove is very interesting ✨👍 .

[@blancolirio]

Excellent thermodynamics lesson!

[@garymittelstadt7821]

Love your place! I have a modern frame house, well insulated, on a crawl space foundation. To illustrate your point on drawing air for combustion, the air has to come from somewhere. That somewhere is ultimately from outside. I burn a Kuma secondary burn stove for heat. When I 11:56 first put it in it was vented into the crawl space for combustion air. During -20F weather this drew that outside air through the crawl space access door, chilling the crawl space and the floor in the entire house. The stove couldn't keep up. That summer I installed dryer vent hose from a vent on the access door to the makeup side of the stove. Makes a huge difference. House stays toasty and the stove doesn't have to work so hard.

[@blackshear6423]

Glad to see my dog is not the only one who is always in the way when I'm trying to go in and out the door.

[@logcabinlifestyle]

😂😂, true, i thought about editing that out but then thought it’s not only my dog

[@creed7779311]

I love the presentation of this video. I love learning new things about stoves.

[@waterboi4846]

i camp with my mates every winter and yes camp fire does warm the soul

[@danielleterry2331]

Your place is beautiful! My grandparents had a stone fireplace on one side of home and kitchen on other side and they used both in the evening. Sat around the livingroom fire place and listened to the radio.

[@maureensmith4451]

This cabin is sweet perfection.

[@rld1278]

I love your cabin. It looks perfectly livable and cozy, all anyone needs...

[@photosbyjf]

even though I am only 66 yrs old, I remember living in a house with Pot Belly stove and we lived in the city. One of my earliest memories is my dad and uncle melting lead to make fishing sinkers and using the pot belly to heat the metal. 1958 Evansville, IN

[@logcabinlifestyle]

Great memory! I have done that also! I’m only 52 and we had a potbelly when I was growing up also

[@asahearts1]

Makes a lot of sense. In summary... Pot-bellied stove: Super efficient heater Wood cookstove: Great at baking and cooking Fireplace: Was installed prior to the others being popularized. Good for cooking meat. Also best aesthetics.

[@logcabinlifestyle]

Exactly!

[@joydavis4087]

I love it. Your cabin is beautiful. ❤ We’ve got a kitchen queen 480. Can’t imagine life without it. It heats our whole house during the winter. Rated to 5000 sq ft. We only have 2000 sq ft, so it far exceeds our needs. 6 pieces of wood per day during cold days brings our house to 70 degrees. Really cold days we build a fire in the mornings and stoke it up again add one or two more logs to get us through the night. Uses convection to move air, a wonderful design. Built by the Amish out in Montana. What we’re missing is that beautiful fireplace, in the kitchen for cooking. That’s a dream. ❤

[@pamquimby1685]

I totally love you cabin. i would give up to have your setting. Cabin is beautiful.

[@andrepohle7485]

Ich schaue mir dein Video zum ersten mal an. Ich dachte mir so ein gemütliches Sofa und ein Sessel wäre nicht schlecht. Und schau an, genau der Typ Sofa und Sessel die ich als besonders gemütlich empfinde stehen da. Genau an einem so schönen Kanonenofen den ich auch richtig klasse finde 😊. Es sollte möglich sein, das jeder der so wohnen möchte genau so leben kann. Bei solch einem Zuhause braucht es kein Fernsehen 😊

[@HiddenBlessingsHomestead]

I love your cabin, my dream, I have an addiction to cooking with fire and heating with fire. My many stoves can vouch for it. I keep building spaces to give them purpose 😂. I absolutely love your home!! This is the first video of your's that I've seen and I am hooked.

[@logcabinlifestyle]

Thank you, and Congratulations! I am most certainly the same way. Don’t miss the outside brick oven.

[@andreadejarnette6733]

I love your home and that cook fireplace is incredible!!!

[@logcabinlifestyle]

Thank you so much!!

[@dianemitchell1717]

My father built two of our homes in the late forties and early fifties. Before the furnace was installed Dad had a potbellied stove in our kitchen to keep us warm in the evenings in Wisconsin. This video takes me back to simpler times. Beautiful cabin and so homey.

[@joeb5603]

Well done. Expert analysis on different types of wood burners in a very simple way. Thank you.

[@stevenpitts376]

I heat with wood myself in my house living in the Huron National Forest. Had a fireplace the first winter then upgraded to a fireplace insert for this winter. Super efficient and have used only 2 cords of wood so far this winter. Plus I put a pot of water for tea that stays on there all day. Amazing setup you have there and a great cabin

[@escapetherace1943]

Hello. You should change out to cold water then boil and make tea, it tastes a lot better than tea made from water that has been hot or boiling all day. Tea flavor is actually a lot more muted and hard for your tongue to pick up when all the oxygen has been dissolved out of the water. Another solution is having some way to shake air into your water before making tea, it really does make a difference, cheers.

[@user-mjg1067]

Your Cabin was built in the same year that "Stille Nacht" was first performed in Austria how apt. for the time of year, The Song is Silent Night for those who do understand German.

[@logcabinlifestyle]

Wow, this is incredible. Thank you for sharing that with me.

[@lisasessums3509]

I really do dig your home. This video is so cool. Learning about the difference in your heating devices and marvelous fireplace is a new one for me. Thanks for sharing. Also, your lighting fixtures are lovely. Such a great idea with all the period lighting.

[@michelejones5538]

I absolutely love your cabin.

[@logcabinlifestyle]

Thank you

[@blainehearld3125]

It's just beautiful!

[@harrywernsman9045]

That completely makes sense. I can see having all three if I owned a cabin. Great presentation! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@anastash7900]

Great info on the fireplace and stoves. Way back in the early ‘60s my folks had an old cowboy friend of theirs that lived without electricity. In the winter when it snowed and was cold, he’d always have that pot belly stove going in the middle of his living area. They’d play poker half the night under kerosene lamps with us kids tucked into the big ‘ol’ bed he had. Good memories.

[@SkyeGirl28]

I only just started watching you and this image of your cabin at 0.46 reminds me so much of the Ingalls house on Little House on the Prairie except behind the fireplace was Ma and Pa Ingalls bedroom with the children in the loft above. I loved watching that programme in the 1980`s. I will need to go back to your oldest video now to watch in the correct order.

[@wanderingtheusa]

First of all your home is breathtakingly beautiful and second of all thank you so much for such a great explanation this was the best video ever

[@logcabinlifestyle]

Thank you so much!

[@seresamgala8125]

Such a beautiful cabin and interior setup! 🥰🥰🥰 If renovating or building new it would be smart to build radiators in the flue to circulate heat into pipes under the floors and to radiators in other rooms so the fireplace fire is taken maximum advantage of.

[@arthur_naga]

Amazing place!! Congrats! A dream place... and very useful information, makes totally sense!

[@Cynthia-h5i]

You did such an amazing job on that fireplace. My favorite feature of your house.

[@augustasimone9323]

I am watching this with slow jazz music in the background. One day I would love to have the set up you have but I would hire you to set it up safely ! Thank you for explaining all the nuances of woodburning stove vs. firplace and of course you new Living room stove intstallation. You video are keeping my mind off of health issues ! Perfectly. Many , many thanks.

[@VirginiaBPendleton-511]

I totally love your setup. My fireplace was converted over for a deisel heating furnace. I'm hoping to bring it back into a fireplace again! For a potbelly of sorts. We used to have a mama bear stove. But we didn't use it that much. 😕 love your vision!!! Thanks for sharing 👍🏻

[@brettb5257]

I gotta say, this is just about the best thing ever. Love seeing how this potbelly stove works and thanks so much for sharing your home with us. Excellent explanation of how these things work. Lots of appreciation and kindness here, thanks man.

[@sherryannwilton76]

Good to know! Beautiful Home, rustic, all anyone would ever need right there. Lovely. Merry Christmas

[@joeygay7115]

3 diff ways to cook and or heat the cabin is smart. Backups to the backup. That's smart thinking. Would come in handy say for a big Thanksgiving family dinner or in an shtf scenario. Great ideas for viewers if they wanted to do a complete off grid build. 2 thumbs up!

[@valentinaleissler4212]

I’m very happy I’ve found your channel! Live in 200 yo farmhouse. Started with VC wood stove then went to pellet stove due to mobility issues. Wish I had my VC back! I love your set up! One suggestion if I may? Maybe a steamer or large cast iron kettle on the pot belly? Will hydrate the air and sometimes makes the heat more comfortable…thank you for your info! Take care!

[@logcabinlifestyle]

Very nice to hear from you. Yes I agree. Believe it or not heat doesn’t move well in dry air. It takes a bit of moisture to do that. Luckily, my basement is a little damp in the beginning of the winter. So no worries for a while but pretty soon I will have to do something like that for sure.

[@ChrisCruz-gp6lo]

What a beautiful house and a beautiful way to relate back to nature with the wood burning stoves and your simple easy relaxed lifestyle thanks for the video we enjoy looking at the Old log cabin type construction

[@lindaorozco4595]

LOVE your cabin !!! 😊

[@logcabinlifestyle]

Thank you

[@douglasgatian1401]

Love the content!! Merry Christmas.

[@logcabinlifestyle]

Merry Christmas!

[@vavasd1069]

Thanks for the heating knowledge. Good to know so I can appropriately prioritize what to install.

[@tonyapacker4911]

I love your home! It's super rustic cozy and I would totally live is a log cabin! It's beautiful 😍

[@ИраМисс-ч2ш]

какой красивый дом,с ума сойти,великолепно! 💞

[@lengas675]

Great cabin!! Perfect fires!! You gave me the proper ideias!! Thanks!!

[@Fido-vm9zi]

Love you place, and items in it! Love your doggie, too.

[@guk2740]

Fantastic explanation. Thanks and regards from Madrid ❤

[@logcabinlifestyle]

Hello and welcome!!

[@reginagraves9767]

That fireplace is beautifully constructed!

[@christineellis5690]

Beautiful place, great design. Thank you for sharing

[@DavidCarrasco-z9d]

Man ! This is 1st video I've seen of yours. I'm digging all of it. Great stuff. I was 10yrs old visiting an enclave of my mother's side of family just outside Bogota, Colombia; back in August '72. Most of the Household's meals were cooked in wood burning stove/oven. Produce and some poultry & some livestock at property or by family neighbors. All fresh. Dont remember ever going to a market. Aunt/Uncle had a gas (propane) stove & oven but the woodburner was mostly used. Introduced to coffee at that age and damn I'm still drinking it. But theres something to be said of food cooked that way everyday, all day & food source on land or bartered & bought fresh. Sometimes like life fresh and field dressed home. Prepped by everyone in family and cooked on/in that woodburner. Great memories. Im smelling/tasting the food as I watch this video. I can't better explain it than that.

[@ChristopherSeaDawg]

I Love your home! Perfect setup and decor! Excellent job!

[@Penelopeelesuecarte]

I fell in love with your place!!!!!! I love fireplace ❤❤❤❤❤

[@logcabinlifestyle]

Thank you!

[@bsellman6881]

Love the content brother, play ambience of a fire is insane because it brings in love❤

[@samhartfieldlewis5247]

Amazing place absolutely brilliant style. Thanks go steady Sam

[@nancygross2196]

I use an old parlor stove to heat my old farmhouse( I have a furnace) but feel so safe knowing I have wood heat in the middle of a S.D. Blizzard. Love your cabin.

[@gud2go50]

Beautiful cabin. Feels like home! I was shocked when you said how old it was!

[@eriqadariah2138]

Your cabin and everything be my dream.....love it

[@gud2go50]

You sold me on a potbelly stove! I did not know any of this! Thanks!

[@logcabinlifestyle]

You are most welcome!

[@bobbyscott8024]

Hey Jerry, you did an excellent job explaining the differences and purposes of the three! Not that you need my help, lol. I grew up in the 60's - 90's around all of these but predominantly it was the ''upright'' Atlanta wood-heater in my area. Fireplaces gave way to inserts and Pot-bellied stoves were mainly in old Country stores. My Grandmother also had a wood ''cook-stove'' and boy did she know how to use it! We have Central H&A but I still own a Wonderwood/Ashley cabinet style as well. You are exact about nothing warming you up faster than wood in a heater if you've been out all day and gotten chilled to the bone! Thank you for sharing your knowledge. You have a beautiful cabin there my friend that God has blessed you with from your hard work! I pray He blesses you with long life and favor with your channel! From Sophia, N.C.

[@logcabinlifestyle]

Thank you my friend! Love your story. God bless you and your family.

[@melissacomer8404]

First house the hubby and I owned was heated with wood stoves. We upgraded to a Fisher Grandma Bear. Best heat in the winter ever. That type of heat does it thru and thru. Wish I had it today

[@brianwhite9555]

Great looking log home! I like your layout with the kitchen table and 3 heat/cooking sources.

[@carolynkinsley1964]

Thanks for this video, I’ve been contemplating adding fireplace to my cabin kitchen along with the Kitchen Queen cookstove. Going to do it!

[@cathybobalek8069]

lived at 11500 ft.cabin had 5 stolves.in it fireplace.needed them all.loved it.frig was a pull up one.2 stoves heated the large water container.and making bread. 1 was back up.2 for cooking and extra heating of the cabin.so I got it why the stolves.thank you.

[@paytopray1468]

I have a potbelly stove that I heat with and a wood cook stove right next to it. I’d hate that imagine having to heat with a cook stove that would make for a restless night that’s for sure. I use the potbelly stove for cooking things that can be fried at an indiscriminate heat or for boiling pots of water or soup because in the winter there is always a fire going in it and I can’t be bothered to start one in the cook stove and wait for it to heat up (a long process) enough for it to be useful as an oven or for a vigorous heat for frying things. That being said your comment about it being the best for baking is certainly true and for cooking anything that requires a low steady heat (I make cheese so it’s very useful for heating the milk slowly without scorching it.

[@mollyrobinette6265]

OMG! I wish I had the fireplace too! I look at your kitchen, and it’s like looking at my own. I see my dough bowl - serving as a camera tripod! The irony there is phenomenal! The waffle iron is the maker of the best waffles on earth. I see all of your cast iron kitchen accoutrements. Crocks for pickles and on and on…..congratulations on living the BEST life.

[@chowe9]

It would be nice if you had an "about" tab and used it to post basic info about the cabin. Dimensions, climate zone, etc. Thank you! Looks like a lovely space.

[@rockandpillarrange6104]

Love it 😊 we built our log cabin in 2016, wood burning fireplace was a must.

[@WayWordWay]

I've always found that burning a fire in a fireplace warms a person up exceptionally well - when one has to constantly go outside to chop more wood. ;) I find it interesting that many such period fireplaces in Europe were often vented for partial oxygen intake at the back of the hearth, and minimize the cold air seepage but I've never seen that done in the US or Canada. That was even more often the case with large brick or cast iron stoves. Our cottage had two such wood burning stoves, and two coal burners. My grandfather still did a lot of wood chopping all the way into his mid eighties. What an appetite 40 minutes with a 3 kilo axe builds.

[@Marie_Laveau_]

Love it! First time watching

[@logcabinlifestyle]

Welcome

[@darlenehaines257]

This is the first one I've watched of yours. Enjoyed it tremendously and am going to save it. I've been saying for years I wanted a FP and most people say why in the world would you want one. Your answer said it so well. It will warm your soul. I long for that and to feel that warmth when my arthritis is bothering me. Best warmth in the world. Ha! You have a lovely home. I hope I will be able to find something like it soon. Not getting any younger! Lol! Best wishes for you and your daughter. Merry Christmas!