Making chicken feed of my mortgage

muddywhitechicken

We're using our new log burner for the first time this evening... not very successfully

The radicchio was used in a bacon, radicchio & red wine risotto - delicious but Mr MWC never quite cooks it enough for my liking!

A no egg day :eek: Blooming !!!!!!!!!!s

smallholdingsister

What's the problem with the woodburner? They are stinky when new?

muddywhitechicken

No, we're just novices! Our second attempt was better - managed to get it burning in the optimum operation zone on the thermometer but it didn't seem to warm the room :huh:

smallholdingsister

You have a thermometer, there's posh!

They get really hot when they are going well and you close the air vents.

How many kw and how big a room?

muddywhitechicken

5KW in a room approx. 16m2 SHS

The raised beds are ready for Tuesday and the garden is looking good

Mr MWC used the beetroot and courgettes harvested yesterday to make Sri Lankan-style curries for dinner :drool:

Greying_Pilgrim

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

5KW in a room approx. 4m2 SHS

Um, we have a 5kw log burner in our small front room, which is something like 13 feet x 9 feet (approx 10m2). On occasions, it struggled to warm the room, but that was usually if it was raging damp/wet and the stove hadn't been in use a while, or if it was stone cold out, and again, the stove hadn't been used in a while. But probably the main problem was our utterly, utterly carp sash windows, which were about as energy efficient as a piece of tissue. Is your burner really in a room about 6 foot by 7 foot? I'd of thought a smaller stove would be in order in a room like that. When our stove gets going, it makes the room too hot.

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

Mr MWC used the beetroot and courgettes harvested yesterday to make Sri Lankan-style curries for dinner :drool:

I know those recipes But, ooh, the luxury of it being your own veg :drool:

PS - what is 'yellow' gin? Presumably a flavouring, or made from something that causes it to take colour???

Greying X

muddywhitechicken

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Um, we have a 5kw log burner in our small front room, which is something like 13 feet x 9 feet (ish). On occasions, it struggled to warm the room, but that was usually if it was raging damp/wet and the stove hadn't been in use a while, or if it was stone cold out, and again, the stove hadn't been used in a while. But probably the main problem was our utterly, utterly carp sash windows, which were about as energy efficient as a piece of tissue. Is your burner really in a room about 6 foot by 7 foot? I'd of thought a smaller stove would be in order in a room like that. When our stove gets going, it makes the room too hot.

No, it's not Greying :doh: It's approx. 4m x 4m so 16m2. I'm blaming the wine...!
MWCx

muddywhitechicken

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

PS - what is 'yellow' gin? Presumably a flavouring, or made from something that causes it to take colour???

The yellow gin is Ungava. It's made with plants and berries of the Canadian tundra - wild rose hips, crowberry, labrador tea, cloudberry, arctic blend and nordic juniper. The rose hips give it the yellow colour.

Greying_Pilgrim

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

No, it's not Greying :doh: It's approx. 4m x 4m so 16m2.
MWCx

I was worried that your house was even more wee than mine muddy - pretty sure it's not poss. to have one smaller than mine Still amuses me that the first owners of this house in 18tumpty-summat had a piano stashed in here somewhere! :rotfl:

Greying X

Greying_Pilgrim

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

The yellow gin is Ungava. It's made with plants and berries of the Canadian tundra - wild rose hips, crowberry, labrador tea, cloudberry, arctic blend and nordic juniper. The rose hips give it the yellow colour.

Ooof, that sounds wonderful - such romantic ingredients thanks for explaining

Greying X