What did you do to prep today?

[maddymae]

Boston butt on sale .98# twin pack Limit 2 - took a while to finally get as they were selling fast as Rouse's put them out. One pack is ready to can this afternoon. The other is heading for the freezer. Will use rainchecks later in the week for more canning and sausage.

[MichiganPatriot]

Boston butt on sale .98# twin pack Limit 2 - took a while to finally get as they were selling fast as Rouse's put them out. One pack is ready to can this afternoon. The other is heading for the freezer. Will use rainchecks later in the week for more canning and sausage.

Have you ever made sausage and then canned that??? I wonder if you can do that. Anyone know?

[prudentwatcher]

Stopped by Walgreens to get some sale items and found some bonuses: cranberry sauce for 25 cents a can (got 2) and apple pie filling for 50 cents a can (got all 5 they had). At Publix I got two bags of cinnamon chips and 2 boxes of candy canes.

[liteluvr]

Have you ever made sausage and then canned that??? I wonder if you can do that. Anyone know?

MP, absolutely...
http://creativecanning.blogspot.com/...e-patties.html

[Oscar Wilde]

Made a small wood gas burning stove like this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZitu...eature=related it works as advertised.

O.W.

[BrudderT]

I began construction on a Top Bar Beehive. about 75% completed in one evening. See post in Barn & Stable if interested.

BrudderT

[GermanAxeman]

Made a small wood gas burning stove like this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZitu...eature=related it works as advertised.

O.W.

Great Link. thanks for the tip

[ChristieAcres]

Made a small wood gas burning stove like this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZitu...eature=related it works as advertised.

O.W.

I rec'd that link via email today, what a coincidence, and I watched it shortly afterward (then sent it to my DB). What application would you use it for? I could see using it outside, while camping.

Here is the wood stove my DH built:



Our wood stove heats all of our hot water (if we needed to ever unhook the water, it would take DH only a few minutes), with two heat exchanges inside the firebox, also has a heatilator, and there is a drying rack offset to the right, attached to the ceiling (seen in next pic).



Usually, we hang clothes from it, but put ornaments on for Christmas (had family over for dinner). You can hang (10) hangers, obviously, but by putting clothespins on either side of the center of each section, you can fit (20) more hangers on. We don't have to rotate or move any of the clothes, except for heavy coats. I just hang the lightest clothing further away.

The next pic is our BBQ Smoker (I think DH modified it after this pic):



DH built the entire BBQ/Smoker with steel he already had (cut a tank in half, hinged it with hinges he built, too...). It has a rotisserie, too, and fits two turkeys. This is prep related due to all the meat we will be smoking with it!

My prepping today included cleaning out my drying room, packaging up thousands of seeds (Dill, Mammoth Sunflowers & Lemon Sunflowers), took all my dried herbs down, and filtered my last 1.5 gallons of Comfrey Oil. After checking out how little room we had left for preps, I was really wishing I had my cellar! We went to Costco yesterday and were pleasantly surprised to see higher quality bulk prep items. I'll be back next week to stock up on a few of them.

[T-Man]

That little stove is pretty slick. Looks like they used galvanized poultry mesh for the "pot holder". That could be pretty toxic once it heats up, and starts to burn off. Galv. and fire or welding dont go well together. It can kill ya.

[don]

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I rec'd that link via email today, what a coincidence, and I watched it shortly afterward (then sent it to my DB). What application would you use it for? I could see using it outside, while camping.

Here is the wood stove my DH built:



Our wood stove heats all of our hot water (if we needed to ever unhook the water, it would take DH only a few minutes), with two heat exchanges inside the firebox, also has a heatilator, and there is a drying rack offset to the right, attached to the ceiling (seen in next pic).

I must say,
That is the coolest woodstove I've ever seen.
There was another pic you posted a while back of it from a diff. angle which really showed the excellent detailing
TWO heat exchangers !
TWO glass windows !
And an OCTAGON, Up on a decent pillar to save your back when tending it !
It looks like something from The Nautilus Submarine in 20,000 Leagues under the Sea.

Is there any way you could let us know what kind of pipe/tubing is used at the fire/water heat exchange point? Or is it a constructed, built in steel/iron "box" that's part of the firebox walls?

Anyone that would be able to build a stove like that, HAS to have come up with a VERY good, durable, heat exchanger concept.
We burn lots of wood here but unfortunately, still are using LP for water heating.