Heating stoves and ranges that were sold with coal grates sometimes came with a "wood plate" - a cast iron plate with a series of small holes that better supported a bed of wood embers than shaker grates can.
The plate was laid directly on top of the coal grates only when burning wood.
With ranges, it was often referred to as a, "summer plate". It would be used when switching to wood to burn quick, hot fires when just wanting to cook and heat water, but not heat the house like a long-running coal fire does.
Paul
Blaze King - good or bad?
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I’ll have to look for one on the farm, they have plenty of coal and wood stoves laying around, thanks
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