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| FISHER BABY BEAR |
Mother Nature, this time won,
Nights, towards morning, chill,
Getting out of bed a thrill.
Breezes through windows drift,
Giving us a spiritual lift,
I shiver, starting a fire,
Fulfilling immediate desires.
Frying pan, on the stove set,
Bacon, ready in minuets,
Perfection, over easy eggs,
Fried in the bacon dregs.
My day began with a chill,
I'm warm now, on my hill,
Breakfast over, soup pot's on,
All the dishes, are now done.
I can't tell you how happy I was when I awoke to the furnace coming on. Why, the why is because that meant the house's temp was cold enough I could start a fire in the wood stove. We don't have the stove for heat all the time. It is a little stove, not the size to heat the 1000 square feet by 19 ft tall area. If the electric is off in a storm and it is Zero outside it will heat the area as long as I am there to feed it wood and keep a roaring fire in it.
This morning I went to look up info on our little stove to share with you. I received a surprise. My stove has become a collectors item. Except for needing a good exterior cleaning and painting our stove is in great condition. We bought it probably the second year they were manufactured. It has been in yearly use since then. We also bought a Mama bear stove. It is in our basement (I wish we had used it upstairs.) We can't switch them because we had the flue out the back go directly into the fireplace system. It has its own chimney with the fireplace and the other stove.
These muffins weren't made today. They are from a colder morning. The challenge with the little oven is to find pans which fit the shelves. They are not removable. I do have another oven which has sliding shelves but it doesn't have a thermostat, it is a very ancient one.
The muffin pan you see barely fits. I have a square stainless pan which works. Several of my corning wear dishes work well. Of course cake pans and bread pans work well.
This brings us around to pans for the stove top. Cast iron of course are fabulous. Sometimes it takes a lot to preheat them to cooking temp.
I am crazy for "All Clad" Pans but recently I have found two pans which outshine them on the wood stove and on the conventional stove (we have electric). I happened on one pan at the re-sell-it shop. It was a medium size skillet. Everything I have is either small or humongous I hadn't a medium size frying/sauteing pan. This pan had a thick disk on the bottom and I wondered if that would help or hinder. It was made by Revere ware in 1986. It was called "Triply" It has been discontinued. They designed it for use with the new flat top stoves which came out then. This is my very favorite pan, it's only draw back it doesn't come in a larger size with straight sides.
If you have a wood stove you like to cook on, I recommend you procure one for yourself. The series came in a stock pot and a 9 inch fry pan and a 1 quart sauce pan. The pan comes up to cooking temp almost immediately. If the stove is real hot I have to use my antique heat diffuser to control the heat. The pan works even better on an electric stove. I can crisp fry things on the low burner setting once it has been preheated.
I was wishing I had the stock pot when a local grocery ran a promotional. It was earn points through purchasing groceries and exchange them for cook pans. I really wasn't interested but we shopped there anyway so the points were collected. Hunny does the shopping so I hadn't seen the items. When it came time to redeem the points I told hunny to get the stock pot I can always use another large pot to blanch in.
It turned out to have a triply disk on the bottom. I had never heard of the brand before so was skeptical of the quality. It was "Thomas Rosenthal professional cookware". When I looked it up it evidently is mainly sold through promotional events. The stock pot was 8 qts stainless steel with a glass lid. It did not have Teflon interior (which I would have thoroughly rejected).
Both of these pans I highly recommend. They are almost no stick when you use the old adage, "Hot pan Cold oil, food won't stick." They hold heat and cook at lower temps than other pans I have tried.
Clean up has been a breeze. If there are cooked on bits....a little soaking or light scrubbing with a plastic scratchy pad usually takes care of it.
Happy cooking. BTW...I have no affiliation with any cookware manufacturer I am just a very satisfied consumer.
Other blog sites by me:
Chronicling our adventures with a dumped Pit Bull Pup who has become a hidden treasure.
A blog mostly about quilting,
cooking, poetry, prose and a little gardening,
Tutorial on how to make 5 panel Boxer Shorts.
Check out "A MYSTERY IN THE MAKING"
A mystery quilt designed with the novice in mind.
cooking, poetry, prose and a little gardening,
Tutorial on how to make 5 panel Boxer Shorts.
Check out "A MYSTERY IN THE MAKING"
A mystery quilt designed with the novice in mind.
blogs about the wildflowers on our farm
Organic methods we use, some cooking and some poetry,
blogs about Seed sprouting, insects, and garden pictures
Blog about an endangered beneficial beetle
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