I will do a break-in fire tonight, my wife is not happy

[FireWalker]

Beast is the correct term. I just came from home and the house was a chilly kinda dank 61 deg.. I just couldn't help myself as I grabbed a few splits of old ratty ash I am using for this month. It took 30 minutes to make a fire I was comfortable to damper down and go back to work. When I get home at 6:00 it will no doubt be to warm but hey it's rainy and chilly today.

Before I started the fire I actually turned the furnace shut off switch to on and had my hand on the thermostat and said goodby to a perfectly good $4 gallon of oil.

 

[Rich L]

You know Heartstone use to make a Hearthstone I model if I rightly remember.That was a monstrousity.I was introduced to it at a ski lodge in Maine during a sub-zero week-end.It played a dirty trick on us and ran us out into the cold.We couldn't wait for that thing to burn out so we could get back to a more sane heat level.If the Equinox is anything like it's grandfather get out the towels you'll need em.I await more delicious chronicles.

 

[doug60]

Sounds like you got to what I call 'mode 1' of the secondary burn. The tubes do look like a gas grill - each one having an individual flame shooting out (actually smoke combusting around the oxygen being introduced). When you get to 'mode 2' the whole top of the firebox will be a shimmering / dancing ball of flames. This is the 'really high heat' output mode. My stovetop temps can easily hit 800-900F. Then you know you're burning every last speck of smoke!

All I can say is WOW. 800- 900
Isnt that about 200 degrees past reasonable?

 

[Girl]

My wife is still jabbing me, not wanting me to be too dissapointed when our new stove won’t keep up when it gets really cold. I wanted to really crank it up to show her but I just told her “I’m not worried at all”. I tried to explain to her that we were barely using the stoves potential but she wasn’t interested in watching the burn tubes or hearing about secondary burns

I cant believe she didnt want to hear about the secondary burn tubes. That is good stuff. My wife loves to hear me ramble on about that stuff. I thought all girls loved that topic. Maybe you should make some kind of agreement now about how she is going to cater to you after it is -20 degrees outside and the house feels like Miami beach. Maybe you should agree that when that happens she listens to 1 full hour each day of intense stove talk with a high degree of interest. Just an idea. Not neccisasarily a good one.

I love stove talk! Thats why I hang out here too much!
The BF gets a bit bored probably.
He checks in to see how my chimney cleanings/inspections goes and asks for details~ that's love, lol