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tacpot12

Yes, please publish your findings. I'msure they will be of use to some.

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I think the diameter of the base makes a difference too, particularly if you're using it on a gas ring. And if your kettle has a thick base so you can use it on an induction hob, is it possible that it's because the base is flat rather than heavy that makes it quicker to boil on your wood stove - i.e. kettles suitable for induction hobs have flat thick bases to make them work properly? Be interested to hear how you get on with your testing. I use a stove top kettle all the time now in preference to my electric kettle.

dunstonh

We have a copper & brass kettle with a flat bottom designed for an AGA.   Boils very nicely on the AGA and I suspect that would work with the flat top of the burner.

Mstty

We have cooked jacket potatoes on the stove in our cast iron jacket potato cooker from Etsy that we bought on a whim...but it is great especially with a pot of beans on top as well although it does get a bit cramped.

You feel like you are getting free heated food but I suspect the physics say less heat in the room as it heated up the food. Bah humbug lol

Apodemus

The blue part of the flame on a gas cooker will be somewhere around 1600-1900C.  Frying temperature on my Rayburn (or woodburner) requires the top plate to be about 300C.  It follows that the best design of cookware for the two scenarios can be quite different, so best not to extrapolate from one to the other. 

Cookware designed to sit on the burner on a gas hob often has a raised lip or ridges, which helps to put it at the hottest point in the gas flame, whereas you want an absolutely flat base for using on a stove-top (be it woodburner or Aga/Rayburn).  So the optimum kettle for your gas hob is likely to be slow or useless on your woodstove and vice versa.

For a stove top, thickness of base makes a big difference, but so does the heat-transfer characteristics of the material that the cookware is made of.  There's a good reason why the old fashioned, heavy, cast frying pan was such an iconic feature of the home, along with the copper jelly pan.  

Mstty

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Couldn't agree more something about a real fire, more of the whole experience from lighting, to look to crackle and ambience. Ours is used to compliment our lower ASHP temperature flow curve we are running this year.

I expect we will spark it up more over the next few minus degree days.

More of an auxillary heater for the house with the ASHP running 24/7.

Plus the dog loves it

k_man

It is possible the enamel coffee pot has been designed/made specifically to not boil, and instead keep coffee at just under boiling temperature.

But as suggested, the takeaway from this is: things work best if they are the right thing for the job.

Sea_Shell

k_man said:

It is possible the enamel coffee pot has been designed/made specifically to not boil, and instead keep coffee at just under boiling temperature.

But as suggested, the takeaway from this is: things work best if they are the right thing for the job.

How?

If the heat is not thermostatically controlled and the input heat is over 100⁰, how can the "design" stop it getting too hot to boil??

My head can't work out the physics.

catclaires

I also couldn't agree more about loving the woodburner and the whole experience! This is our first year of having one (we moved house last year and got the burner installed in April), and we're both obsessed with it. I look forward to it every evening.

Funnily enough, I was just researching possible stove top kettles yesterday evening so would be very interested to know your findings!

dunstonh

Currently sitting in my home office with the wood burner on. No other heating on the house.   After lunch, we will fire up a second burner in the hallway which has a better airflow and heats rooms around the house.   The third burner wont be lit today as that is in the summer lounge which is gets mothballed for winter. Although on the odd day, it may get used and the burner will be used then.

The ambience of a wood burner makes you happy as well as warm.    We have big windows and when it rains you hear the rain on the windows.  The noise of the rain and the fire just make you feel good.

The only negative is that the room the fire is in will be very warm. Indeed, 22-24c.    So, when you move into a room that is not heated that may be 18c, it will feel cold.    18c itself is not cold.  it is the change in temperature that makes you feel cold.