Eli crawling on the kitchen floor in the barn
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Eli crawling on the floor in the barn, 1972.
It appears that I had not yet covered the floor with sheet tin, which I did at some point shortly after this photo was taken. The floor of the barn was composed of 2x4s stacked on edged, making the floor about 3 1/2 inches thick.
Those 2 punnets on the left end of that low shelf makes me believe perhaps we were about to go pick wild berries. YUM!
I believe the lid on the far side of the punnets is for a wok. We cooked on a wood-burning cook stove (possibly a Lang at this time) for many years. Turns out, wood-burning cook stoves are excellent for woks. You can remove a burner plate from any cook stove, insert the wok into the whole where the burner plate previously resided, and get the wok substantially hotter than even a high quality, modern consumer gas range. Woks, of course, were originally designed to sit in the fire of a wood burning stove, just not a Western stove. :) We currently have a Samsung commercial style home range with one double burner designed for wok use. That burner has a special ring for the wok to sit in. Its a nice stove and we like it a lot. We would gladly recommend one to a friend. Honestly, however, the double ring burner doesn\u2019t heat evenly. Perhaps if it had four or five rings. I loved cooking on wood cook stoves. I had several. The Lang was definitely the best of the lot.
The reason the Lang was so superior is the firebox. A typical wood burning cook stove\u2019s firebox has a grate at the bottom with an ash removal drawer below the grate. Lang\u2019s, on the other hand, have a solid bottom firebox lined with fire brick. The issue with grated fire boxes is that the coals fall through the grates, making them virtually ineffective for either continuing to heat the stove top or for lighting wood that will be added once there is a fire. Stated a different way, grated stoves require more wood to maintain the same level of heat. All that said, I can think of two upsides to grated cook stoves. First, it is far easier and more convenient to empty the ashes. They fall into a removable ash box, whereas a Lang requires shoveling out the ashes from the firebox itself. Second, using a Lang requires thinking ahead, something clearly challenging for some people. Practically speaking, you can\u2019t remove the ashes from a Lang while a fire is burning. If you are planning to cook (as opposed to simply using the stove for heat), you need to make sure there aren\u2019t too many ashes in the firebox before lighting the fire.
One more thing about Lang\u2019s as opposed to grated stoves. I believe, inch for inch, Lang\u2019s weigh more than other stoves, likely due to the firebrick as opposed to grates. Mind you, I base this opinion on my memories of moving lots of cook stoves rather than having weighed any of them.
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