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Originally Posted by Simon96Taco
Has anyone (or does anyone know if I can) installed a wood burning stove into their house and used the existing chimney to run the steel flue?
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I'll start off saying that I have never done this but if you can get a wood stove in there try to get one that you can cook on/in. My parents had one in one of their homes on Vancouver Island and it was pretty awesome. It was in the same room as the television so you could bake on top of the stove using a dutch oven (teehee) while watching Hockey Night In Canada.
First game of the night my dad would pop some homemade cheese bread pull-apart dough in the dutch oven and put some soup or chili in a cast iron pot beside it. If the first period started to go long we'd all end up trying to get my dad to pause the game because we'd all smelled the bread baking and the soup cooking. During the second game we'd decide if it was snack or dessert time. Snack time meant nachos and dessert time meant cake ramekins with ice cream to cool it so it was still warm but not face melting. We ate them while holding the ramekin with an oven mitt!
The heat from the stove plus the smells of our food cooking/baking while bonding over hockey made for some really fond memories.