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pot, ripping the tops off Keurig cups, and a flat execute something interesting to eat, and not
trivet on top of the cast iron furnace. BOOM No let our freezer full of anniversary treasures go
problem! Encouraged by this success, we put to waste. Every time it came up roses. We fu-
that furnace to work for all manner of culinary eled it with oak. We fueled it with kindling.
delights. Could it re-heat pain perdue? And We fueled it with Amazon cardboard shipping
melt the butter?? Yep. OK how about boiled boxes. We melted frozen bowls of water for
eggs – yes, in the water pot, it took about 30 the pets. We dried wet wood from fallen tree
minutes. Shades of Sous vide! OK moving on branches cut with our trusty axe so we could
– how about roasting salmon in foil? We put burn it the next day. We melted snow to use
that directly inside the furnace. 30 minutes, for the toilets, preserving our drinking water
perfect. What about a steak? We had some since the well was frozen. Every morning one
lamb chops set aside for the Anniversary; we of us would awaken at 5AM to set the first fire
should try to cook them since we can’t really and start the pot of water to heat, so that by
freeze them a second time. A large cast iron 8am we would have a way to wash up and
skillet pre-heated on top of the furnace at top get warm. And the house stayed just above
temperature, and then onto a grill rack that 50 degrees in the main room (and 45 in our
successfully straddled the small ledge inside bedroom brrrrr). This is a survival tool I will
the furnace and boom, roasted lamb chops recommend to everyone, and will never live
in 10 minutes! We wrapped potatoes in foil without!
and baked them for 90 minutes. Done. Over As we documented the successful use of
and over, we would challenge the furnace to this furnace, Barbara started to make a diary

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