Why? A cookstove and fireplace in the same kitchen

Answering the question, Why a cook stove and fireplace in the same kitchen at the cabin. The wood fired cook stove is the best option for baking. The stone fireplace is the best for open hearth cooking. And then we throw in the potbelly stone as the best for heat!

[@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.

[@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!

[@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

[@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❤

[@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

[@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]

❤

[@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.

[@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.

[@mikemcdonald2755]

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

[@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

[@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!

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@stevansikes8477]

I like how you show different types of wood heaters.

[@jimzarlatanes9139]

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

[@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.

[@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!

[@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

[@Rhiannon-wv9dk]

It wasn’t a log cabin, but my grandmother’s kitchen in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿had a range with ovens either side of the fire, so we could toast bread and muffins in front of it on a big iron fork. My grandpa would sit next to it in a Windsor chair so the smoke from his cigarettes would go up the chimney. Nothing is as warm and welcoming as a proper hearth fire. Your house is lovely.

[@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.

[@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!

[@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 😊

[@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

[@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.

[@lindagreene1815]

A fireplace creates such a nice warm ambiance.

[@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

[@bonnienichalson5151]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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!

[@andreadejarnette6733]

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

[@logcabinlifestyle]

Thank you so much!!

[@stinkypants150]

Thanks for your videos. Relaxing and comforting. I completely understand the stoves and the fireplace. Just being able to look at an open fire like that is enough reason. You get to sit there and stare at that open fire with the flickering light bouncing off the stones with a big popping crack of the fire to make the moment even more interesting. That alone is worth the price of admission. You have an open fire pit in your kitchen. That's cool. Besides, it's not just a regular fireplace, it's one of those big open old school ones you can really sink your teeth into for heavy duty open fire cooking. I agree, coffee on an open fire...good luck beating that. I have an expensive french press. I heat the water on a portable induction cook-top. I'll bet your coffee is better than mine. You seem like a really good guy and your cabin is envied by many including myself. Hats off to you sir. Great achievement in building that and the lifestyle.

[@logcabinlifestyle]

Thank you my friend! Love the long comments. Take care and have a Merry Christmas

[@stinkypants150]

@@logcabinlifestyle Merry Christmas to you as well. May you have a healthy and satisfying year ahead. Cheers to more homemade pizzas and breads in 2024.🥂

[@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

[@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. ❤

[@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.

[@creed7779311]

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

[@douglasgatian1401]

Love the content!! Merry Christmas.

[@logcabinlifestyle]

Merry Christmas!

[@michelejones5538]

I absolutely love your cabin.

[@logcabinlifestyle]

Thank you

[@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!

[@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.

[@robindartt1278]

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

[@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.

[@tonyapacker4911]

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

[@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.

[@Missauthentic716]

Beautiful home! Thank you!

[@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.

[@lindaorozco4595]

LOVE your cabin !!! 😊

[@logcabinlifestyle]

Thank you

[@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!

[@waterboi4846]

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

[@vavasd1069]

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

[@pamquimby1685]

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

[@brianwhite9555]

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

[@rogerramjet7567]

Great setup. I am so envious!!😀👍👍

[@user-qw9tm7bl5o]

какой красивый дом,с ума сойти,великолепно! 💞

[@harrywernsman9045]

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

[@lancedaniels]

Thanks for posting and sharing.

[@jewel2022now]

Both of these are wonderful. I absolutely love the fireplace

[@jewel2022now]

I too cannot stop staring at a fire, so beautiful

[@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!

[@sherryannwilton76]

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

[@maryannhurley1395]

As God, our father puts it so beautifully in Exodus the Pillar of fire. As are light at night is our comforter. Also, warm us. It embraces us. It holds our soul. God bless you, Jerry, and thank you for loving Jesus Christ.

[@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.

[@VirginiaBPendleton-46]

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 👍🏻

[@joanngreen9714]

If i were living off grid i would definitely have more than one source to heat and cook with in my home,it makes good sense to me❤

[@gud2go50]

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

[@arts2353]

Wow.. what a beautiful cabin!

[@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!

[@nolamiller4113]

Absolutely beautiful .

[@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.

[@judithsmith9319]

What a dream.. wow. I cooked and heated our home for 15 years using a wood cookstove...

[@carolashton8543]

Amazing cabin the fireplace is welcoming❤ luv it

[@CrMizer]

Your home is beautiful thank you for a great video ❤

[@blainehearld3125]

It's just beautiful!

[@samhartfieldlewis5247]

Amazing place absolutely brilliant style. Thanks go steady Sam

[@dalezegarelli5553]

Place looks wonderful!!

[@user-ci7ej6wc5n]

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.

[@ishanaingerman5518]

Very, very nice! It all makes sense to me! Blessings on your New Year!

[@shirleyvastine9328]

For the first time in my life, I understand why a fireplace doesn't heat a home. All I was told was, you lose too much air. I need to know why something happens or I'll ignore whatever you say!! You are a very good teacher.

[@deliawright8626]

Train yourself better.

[@auntbea1664]

Love the cabin and pot belly stove. ❤🎉

[@FinneousFogg-ix6vr]

The kitchen is the center of the home, always been that way! In a one room home in the fashion of a pioneer home, everything will happen in that room, cooking, sleeping, eating etc.. Stands to reason a fireplace would be there.

[@mariansmith7694]

Sounds right to me... Beautiful...

[@lindafurr2111]

Beautiful home!❤

[@Sabrina-01]

Thats a beautiful place . Looks cozy .

[@0wl999]

Beautiful fantastic cabin, looks like the perfect place to spend the winter. 👍👍👍😻🐶

[@ritacontreras7146]

Love your beautiful cabin 🥰😊

[@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!

[@ArkansasRiverWakeboarding]

Great video, I learned a lot!

[@gud2go50]

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

[@logcabinlifestyle]

You are most welcome!

[@user-cp1me7nu1p]

I like everything what you make!

[@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

[@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.

[@Fenianboyo]

What an amazing home....congrats!

[@ricksteininger616]

Awesome cabin Sir!

[@charlespoff2405]

Great idea awesome cabin

[@LoveGrowLiveFree]

Such great explanations for something I didn't even know I was interested in, thank you KZbin algorithm ❤

[@lukewarm2075]

Yeah its a awesome setup you need options for different seasons😊

[@w.s.2102]

You have an amazing cabin and a great setup.... definitely cool 😎

[@logcabinlifestyle]

Thank you!

[@CatLola1212]

What a stunning place ❤