Cookin' With Coal

 
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Sunny Boy
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Post by Sunny Boy » Wed. Sep. 19, 2018 9:27 am

Yup, a real nice find.

I see the shaker handle. When it was converted to oil, did they keep the grates and frame ?

I think those oval covers were used to fill in the stove pipe holes through the cooktop and roll top warming oven when the pipe was lead out through the back of the stove. Some of the Glenwoods could be piped out the back instead of straight up from the cooktop pipe collar.

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Post by D.lapan » Thu. Sep. 20, 2018 5:15 pm

I searched everywhere, no grates or Frame so I will be looking for them as a oven gauge “glass is missing and needle has been bent”
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Coal Size/Type: Nuts !
Other Heating: Oil &electric plenum furnace

Post by Sunny Boy » Thu. Sep. 20, 2018 10:02 pm

D.lapan wrote:
Thu. Sep. 20, 2018 5:15 pm
I searched everywhere, no grates or Frame so I will be looking for them as a oven gauge “glass is missing and needle has been bent”
Dana
Contact member Wilson (wilsonswoodstoves). 508-763-8941. He restores a lot of Glenwood ranges and may have recasts of the grates and frame, and maybe even an oven gauge.

Paul

 
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Post by Sunny Boy » Sun. Sep. 30, 2018 8:37 am

And so begins another fun season of Cookin' With Coal.

While waiting for my bulk delivery I picked up some bags of Lehigh nut to tide us over. Spaghetti dinner last night.

Melissa was also caramelizing some onions to make onion soup for another night.

Plus, it's that time of year when apples are on sale, so we started cooking up some homemade apple sauce.

Enjoy,
Paul

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Post by archangel_cpj » Sun. Sep. 30, 2018 11:14 pm

Too warm here yet the old Qualified Range 1818 has been cleaned up and I pulled lid frames and sealed them up for the year just to make it a bit tighter cleaned up lids made sure they sat in frames well and polished top...I'm thinking 3 more weeks if weather man is right...

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Other Heating: Oil &electric plenum furnace

Post by Sunny Boy » Mon. Oct. 01, 2018 8:33 am

Were late this year. We had a cold spell back in early Sept, which is when I've had to fire it up the past few years. Melissa was kinda disappointed that she didn't get to cook on the range sooner.

By the way, she reminded me that there was fresh-picked squash baking in the oven while that dinner was cooking.

These coal ranges can be tough on the waist line. :lol:

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Post by D.lapan » Tue. Oct. 02, 2018 9:34 am

It’s been in the 40s at night here in NH so I’ve been burning chunk wood from my fathers firewood processor, prob won’t run coal for another month or so.. and Wilson dose have the pieces I need for the cabinet, they are interchangeable with a 508E
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Post by Sunny Boy » Tue. Oct. 02, 2018 9:41 am

That's good news that Wilson has the parts, but not surprising. He's restored many ranges in his 30+ years of stove restoration.

So, when the Glenwood is fixed, what happens to the Crawford ?

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Post by D.lapan » Tue. Oct. 02, 2018 10:08 am

The Crawford will likely stay, the glenwood is far to big for my kitchen so it will probably be for sale or trade after I get it fixed and cleaned up.
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Post by Sunny Boy » Tue. Oct. 02, 2018 11:47 am

It'll be a pretty range when it's cleaned up.

And with a 24 inch firebox, it will not only hold a nice long coal fire, if someone is looking for a shoulder months wood burner that's a better size to get much longer burn times between loadings.

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Post by archangel_cpj » Fri. Oct. 12, 2018 10:53 pm

The Qualified Range Company 18-18 is lit probably for the season... Unless we get a spell of Indian Summer... Next 2 weeks look chilly and it's currently raining a cold rain...

 
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Coal Size/Type: Nuts !
Other Heating: Oil &electric plenum furnace

Post by Sunny Boy » Fri. Oct. 12, 2018 11:53 pm

Yup, back to cold weather and Cookin' With Coal. :yes:

I had the range going for awhile up until a couple of days ago when the weather warmed up. Cooled off last night and only got up to 50 today. Dropped to 45 as soon as the sun got low.

This afternoon I got delivery of a pallet of Lehigh stove coal just in time to try out for cooking dinner. So I fired it back up this evening. Sure burns hot with such large pieces that have so much air space around them !!!! Stove cook top was running hotter than the Lehigh nut that I was using the past week. Won't burn as long over night, but I have nut coal to fill it up before bed time.

I'll be interested to see how the large stove coal works for canning next weekend.

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Post by archangel_cpj » Sat. Oct. 13, 2018 10:18 pm

I had 9500 pounds of Lehigh delivered (nut) few interesting observations vs the TSC coal I was burning... First is the larger size and way fewer fines... It is a heavy coal and takes alittle more to get going but once it's going even running with the draft just cracked hot... It also burns longer... I shook down this morning after 12 hours and it was very little ash when compared to the TSC stuff... So far I'm impressed...

 
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Coal Size/Type: Nuts !
Other Heating: Oil &electric plenum furnace

Post by Sunny Boy » Sat. Oct. 13, 2018 10:53 pm

I haven't used much of the Tractor Supply coal since they were selling Kimmels, which burned like a cross between coal and wood. Very easy to get to light, fast reloading recovery, but did not burn as long as the bulk nut, or the Blaschak I've used.

I've been running the Lehigh stove size all day. Stayed in the upper 40F and damp outside, which doesn't make for a strong draft, so reloading and recovery times are still a question, but,..

This easier breathing stove size coal has the cooktop plates over the firebox running about 100F hotter, at the same primary and MPD settings, than the Lehigh nut did last week. So far, the stove coal is looking like a good choice when needing higher temps for cooking/baking.

The only drawback is it's a lot tougher to get one of the small coal shovels down into the stove size than it is the nut size. :o

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Post by archangel_cpj » Sun. Oct. 14, 2018 1:32 pm

I switched to a metal feed scoop from TSC 2 years ago best way to load coal...


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