Coal Cook Stove
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I have an old Bengal Queen Stove. I am currently using pea sized coal. Should I be using a larger cut? Also, I have been unable to get the baking oven up to temp. What am I doing wrong???? The heat coming off the oven is very minimal
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Welcome, RC
Pea coal is too small to breath well enough to create the high volume of heat (BTU) that you need to get oven temps up.
Nut coal (aka chestnut) is commonly what works best in cook stoves and ranges. You can use the larger "stove coal" size, too.
And having a Manual Pipe Damper (MPD) in the stove pipe and how you set it, has a bearing on oven temps.
More details for the answer to this, and other questions you'll have, have been well covered in the Cookin' With Coal thread in the "Hand Fired Coal Stoves and Furnaces" section. Linked to here, Cookin' With Coal
Paul
Pea coal is too small to breath well enough to create the high volume of heat (BTU) that you need to get oven temps up.
Nut coal (aka chestnut) is commonly what works best in cook stoves and ranges. You can use the larger "stove coal" size, too.
And having a Manual Pipe Damper (MPD) in the stove pipe and how you set it, has a bearing on oven temps.
More details for the answer to this, and other questions you'll have, have been well covered in the Cookin' With Coal thread in the "Hand Fired Coal Stoves and Furnaces" section. Linked to here, Cookin' With Coal
Paul