Old Time Kitchens

[jim_slagle]

found this looking around on the net.

I was looking for barn info and found some great pics I posted on NTT (http://www.nettractortalk.com/forums/showthread.php?p=14101#post14101). Looked around some more and found Yesterdays Kitchens (http://www.thepastwhispers.com/Yesterdays_Kitchen.html) and The General Store (http://www.thepastwhispers.com/general_store.html) on the same site. Turn up the sound on The General Store.

[waybomb]

Went to Poland this past Christmas to visit where my wife came from. Her mom's house has central heating and cooking.

Smack dab in the middle of the house is a huge ceramic chimney. Horizontal to the chimney is the stove / oven. Below it is where the coal goes in. The ceramic chimney has ducts in it to other rooms, which also have that big ceramic chimney all the way up to the ceiling and out the roof. That's where the heat radiates from.

In the morning, my wife's ma got up, went out and got a bucket of coal, brought in, put a few pieces in the coal box, lit it up with paper trash from the day before, and then set all the grates and doors so it got the hottest. She nursed that bucket until we went to sleep at night. By then the house was about 80 degrees f. By morning, well, it f'n cold.

My wife cooked breakfast on the central furnace every morning while we were there. Orange eggs (not yellow like over here - and they taste better too), bacon, sausage, veil sausages, coffee, etc.

Her ma also had a natural gas stove that was a POS and never had it fixed. We bought her brand new one. It was little, maybe 24" wide, and cost about 800 USD. Appliances are not cheap over there. So now she doesnt have to fire up the coal furnace in the middle of the summer to have a warm meal.

Hopefully, we can convince her to let us install forced air gas heat and a/c. So far it is a no go.

[lifesaver91958]

very interesting websites