Wood-Fired Heating and Cooking: How to choose, maintain, and operate a wood-fired appliance

A guide for homeowners, preppers, and homesteaders who are planning to install a wood-fired heating appliance, improve their existing masonry fireplace, or install a wood-fired cooking appliance. Gene and Marge Padgitt explain how each type of appliance works and how to properly locate, operate, and maintain them. Heating appliances covered in this book are masonry fireplaces, Rumford fireplaces, circulating fireplaces, wood-burning fireplace inserts, freestanding stoves, masonry heaters, furnaces, and rocket mass heaters. Wood selection and preparation is included. Cooking appliances discussed are wood-burning indoor cook stoves, indoor and outdoor brick ovens and oven kits, Tandoori ovens, grills, and campfires, along with cooking utensils. The authors provide references and suggested reading, online groups, and educational resources. A bonus section contains delicious recipes