ISO recipes to cook on a woodstove

[cat lover]

Now that we are starting to use our woodstove (our only heat in the house) for the season I would like to cook more on it. I've done beans, cornbread, and soups and stews. But would like to get into other areas of cooking on it. I always have a large enamel coffee pot full of water on it for hot drinks. Do you have any recipes that you will share for doing this?:confused:

[sweetnell3]

Cat what kind of stove do you have? Dh likes to bake potatoes in our ash pan,he washes the potatoes then rubs butter on them and then he wraps them in foil real good. It does take a while to cook not sure exactly how long but they are good. We use the woodstove as our main heat during the winter also. One year I had to use the woodstove to cook on as we lost electric power for almost a week.

[cat lover]

We have a Vermont Castings extra large Dutchwest Catalytic wood stove. It heats the whole house wonderfully; than goodness; like I said that is our only heat! I didn't have any furnace or AC put in when we built the house. I figured since we would be here all the time and we live in a log home that once you have it wether cool or warm it stays that way for about 12 hours without losing any, that the wood stove wuld do us fine. It hasn't disappointed us at al! We have an ash drawer that pulls out, but the mesh above is so fine it usually only does have small grey ash, not much on imbers at all so I don't know that we could cook in it. All I have done so far is cook on the top in cast iron Dutch ovens and cast iron skillets. I do cook a lot on the firepits outside. I have a tripod that pots hang from and a rack that goes over it. But you have to continually feed it unlike the wood stove.

Just want to find more recipes of tried and true items to cook on top mostly, but will welcome anything that could be cookedwith a woodstove. You never know when it will be a neccessity!


Sweetenell, I'm going to send you a link by email for the specs on it; I don't think the link here would be approriate.

Have a good day; and I look forward to some of your recipes!