Hi all...
We're starting our second season of burning, and our first full burning year.
Since it hasn't been that cold here yet, we're trying to get a feel for how to burn efficiently during the shoulder season.
Today, I thought I'd try to burn as light as possible as to conserve wood, by trying to keep the fire mostly hot embers, rather than in full flames. The initial fire, as it died down a bit, had lots of really hot embers and was on the low/moderate side of heat. Does it make much sense to have a fire that isn't actually flaming, but is mostly hot embers?
How many of you let your embers go for a long time before reloading? Do you think it's hugely less efficient to let embers churn like that - or more so?
Flaming seems to mean we go through more wood, but more heat. Embers seem to mean lower heat, but longer burn. Also, only embers probably means more potential chimney bi products.
What do you guys do?
We're starting our second season of burning, and our first full burning year.
Since it hasn't been that cold here yet, we're trying to get a feel for how to burn efficiently during the shoulder season.
Today, I thought I'd try to burn as light as possible as to conserve wood, by trying to keep the fire mostly hot embers, rather than in full flames. The initial fire, as it died down a bit, had lots of really hot embers and was on the low/moderate side of heat. Does it make much sense to have a fire that isn't actually flaming, but is mostly hot embers?
How many of you let your embers go for a long time before reloading? Do you think it's hugely less efficient to let embers churn like that - or more so?
Flaming seems to mean we go through more wood, but more heat. Embers seem to mean lower heat, but longer burn. Also, only embers probably means more potential chimney bi products.
What do you guys do?