Yeeeee-haaaaw!

[rb.]

Went to the oooold local hardware store today. Bought me an enamelled perc coffee pot for my little woodstove. And a cast iron trivet. And a small Lodge dutch oven. And a larger Lodge "Chicken Fryer" pot, which is actually just a little lower than a med. size dutch oven, but with a handle. Dutch oven and fryer fit perfectly together on top, with room at the back for the coffee pot.

A recent, brief, power outage showed that I really didn't have proper tools to use the stove for any cooking other than my 4 cast iron fry pans.

I was looking at the enamelled pots with lids for boiling stuff. Anyone use these on a woodstove? They ok for that? Can they take the heat? The exterior of these pots are just like the enamelled canners.

 

[Pogonip]

Well, if the enameled coffee pot survives on the stove, the enameled -pots- should! You might want more than one trivet, to prevent scorching.

Reminds me, I need to get some more cast iron pots to use if I'm reduced to cooking over coals--doubt my aluminum/teflon pans would survive...need a -big- honkin' stainless steel tea kettle, too...

 

[A.T.Hagan]

The percolator should be OK. I line the filter basket of my stainless steel percolator with a paper filter because it makes it easier to clean and keeps more of the grounds out of the coffee.

The other enameled steel cookware I don't care for. It usually has poor heat transmission which makes it easy to burn the food within.

Cast iron for a lot of stuff and heavy bottom stainless steel for everything else. That's my preference.

.....Alan.

 

[rb.]

Thanks, guys. Alan, I, too, was planning on using paper filters as well for the coffee. Remembering days of my grandmother's "sludge" coffee that she perked makes me shiver.