Did you grow up with a wood burning stove?

Question

Did you ever have a Moore's 3 way wood burning stove, like the one in the pic below?

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Answer 1

No, I didn't grow up with a wood burning stove but during my marriage, we used wood stoves as a backup to heat our home while living in New England. Thanks for sharing the photo of the wood stove. It's a real beauty!!!

Answer 2

I think you will get more answers and we may be surprised at how many still use them. I had kinfolks who cooked and heated with a wood burning stove. The best fried chicken ever came off of that stove. The house I live in had a wood stove for the first 7 or 8 yrs.

Answer 3

I grew up with an oil burning stove but for 24 years of my life we had a wood burning stove. It was bigger than that one shown and had a large 2 story house to heat. We were warm if the electricity was out. That didn't happen often.

Answer 4

Didn't grow up with any, but had a wood burning cook stove in 1962. It's was great except sometimes I would forget to add wood and the fire went out. Had a heat stove in the early 80s, but the house was to big to heat it all so we added a propane stove. Never had on like you showed.

Almost forgot about the one I had in 1979. I had a large house trailer and we like to froze. This was in Colorado.

Answer 5

Yes to the wood burning stove. No to that type of stove. We had what my grandparents called " Warm Morning Stoves".
We had one in the living rm and another in the dining rm. They started the fire with newspapers and wood and added coal after the fire was going. They would have coal delivered by the ton when needed during the cold season. The stoves were black and sort of like a "Pot Belly" stove. Good question and great memories. ( Farmland of Indiana)

Answer 6

No, but when I had one I loved it...

When I was in college, I decided to take a summer off.....I rented a small house in Oregon that had a wood stove to keep warm with and also to cook with.....That was one of the best summers I ever had it was nice to slow down....I liked chopping wood and the smell of the house. It was summer, not winter I was young and had my health. I cooked on the wood stove and the neighbors bought over Vinson, I learned to can that summer(still do not understand why it is called canning when you use jars)...I learned to smoke salmon
make jerkey......I liked it so much I almost did not go back to school.....I saw that picture and I had two of those stoves. One in the front of the house and another in the back.....

Answer 7

My Swedish grandma had a wood cookstove that she preferred top use when cooking a big dinner for my family. (She also preferred her old ringer washer until my grandpa gave it to me and she HAD to use the electric one!) I myself had a small potbelly stove that came out of a caboose to heat a couple of my houses with. The neat thing about it was that being cast iron, we could burn coal after starting a wood fire and that heat lasted forever! The house I live in now has a woodstove in the back room that we fire up when it is very cold so that warmer air circulates in the house and the furnace is more efficient. Woodstoves can be a lot of fun and give a wonderful atmosphere to the house, but they are LOTS of work to maintain constantly.

Answer 8

Woodburning stoves? Yep. The one in the picture? Nope...nothing that fancy.

Until I as about 10-11 years old, we had a huge wood burning stove for cooking the the kitchen and a big square woodstove for heat in the living room. All of my aunts/uncles/grandparents had them.

Eventually we lived in places that had oil burning stoves for heat.

My mother always prefered a wood burning cooking stove....hated gas and electric.

Answer 9

I did not grow up with a wood burning stove, but my grandmother had one (a bigger version than the one in the photo). Using the stove in the summer made the house very, very hot.

Answer 10

I don't open websites since my last virus. I did have a wood/coal burning stove in our cabin. A pot-bellied stove & we could cook on it also. We also got our water from a spring 1/4 of a mile away & we had an outhouse.