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Cooking
The soapstone top of your stove provides a good cooking surface for soups and stews or meals cooked in a Dutch
oven. The soapstone distributes heat evenly for long simmering, and the polished surface is a natural no-stick surface.
We do not recommend cooking directly on the stove top, as the surface will discolor. If the soapstone does discolor, it
can easily be restored by sanding lightly with 000 or 0000 steel wool. Soapstone griddles have been popular in New
England for years. They are available in a variety of shapes and sizes and can be purchased directly from Woodstock
Soapstone Company.
Firewood
Your Woodstock Soapstone Stove is designed to burn seasoned, natural cordwood only.
Higher efficiency and lower emissions generally result when burning air-dried hardwoods, as
compared to soft woods or green, freshly cut hardwoods.
The moisture content of some trees may range as high as 50% – i.e., there is as much
moisture in the tree as there is wood. After wood has been stored for a year, the moisture
content will usually range from 15-25%. Splitting wood before it is stored will reduce drying
time, result in more even burning, and lessen the danger of water vapor condensing in the
chimney, creosote formation, and damage to the catalyst. It is safer and more efficient to burn
dry or seasoned cordwood than green or wet wood that smolders.
The advantages of burning dry wood are many. Dry wood is lighter, easier to split and easier
to carry. It is easier to light, produces more heat and generates less smoke. If you burn wet
wood some of the energy generated by the fire is used to drive moisture out of the wood,
rather than producing heat for you. Dry wood will maintain the highest combustor
temperatures and burn the most efficiently. Creosote is much less likely to form if you burn
dry wood.
DO NOT BURN treated or painted wood, coal, garbage, cardboard, solvents, colored paper,
or trash in your Woodstock Soapstone Stove. Coal and artificial logs burn much hotter than
wood and could cause damage, through overheating, to the cast iron or the soapstone panels.
Burning treated wood, garbage, solvents, colored paper or trash may result in the release of toxic fumes and may poison
or otherwise render the catalytic combustor ineffective.
Burning cardboard, loose paper, and trash will add significantly to ash and soot build-up, and it will not produce much
heat. Fly ash from improper fuel can also coat or plug the combustor, causing smoke spillage into the room.
Under normal operating conditions, the Woodstock Soapstone Stove is designed to last for generations. It is not,
however, designed for continuous over-firing, or firing with coal, artificial logs or trash.
DO NOT BURN!
• UNSEASONED WOOD
• TREATED/PAINTED WOOD
• GARBAGE
• CARDBOARD
• SOLVENTS
• COLORED PAPER
• TRASH
• LAWN CLIPPING
• RUBBER PRODUCTS
• PLASTICS
• PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
• PAINT/PAINT THINNER
• MATERIALS CONTAINING ASBESTOS
• DRIFTWOOD
• ASPHALT PRODUCTS
• RAILROAD TIES
• MANURE/ANIMAL REMAINS
• PLYWOOD/PARTICLE BOARD
Wood can be stored and stacked
in a variety of structures both
simple and complex. The key to
success is to keep the wood dry,
exposed to as much sunlight as
possible, and to stack it in a way
which allows air to circulate
freely around it.
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