{"id":5238,"date":"2016-02-18T12:34:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T17:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=5238"},"modified":"2016-02-18T12:34:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T17:34:39","slug":"q-and-a-blower-for-wood-stove-and-old-honey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2016\/02\/18\/q-and-a-blower-for-wood-stove-and-old-honey\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: blower for wood stove and old honey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blower for wood stove<\/strong>
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\nI have a question about our woodburning stove. We have had it for three years now and it has a blower on it. Unfortunately the blower rarely turns on even though the fire is roaring. When it does click on, it doesn’t stay on for more than a few minutes.<\/p>\n

Is there a way to make the blower stay on continuously? Our cabin is not benefiting from the many logs we have burned as the heat does not radiate out to the rest of the house unless the blower is on. Does your woodburner heat your entire house?<\/p>\n

Deborah Motylinski
\nCadiz, Ohio<\/em><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the blowers they put on most wood stoves are inadequate. Ours quit after only a year’s worth of burning. (I think they manufacture them for folks who only use them occasionally.) We ended up just using a box fan on a bucket behind our stove and turning up the speed as needed, manually. You can either go our route or replace the fan. Another option that friends have is the no-electricity fan that sits on top of the wood stove, run by heat alone. They are a bit pricey, which is why we don’t have one yet, costing about $200. Yep, we heat the entire house with our stove. When it is really cold, we also fire up our woodburning kitchen range. The basement is unheated but does stay above freezing which is perfect for storing seeds and our pantry foods as well as bins of root crops, etc. — Jackie
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\nOld honey<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have stored one gallon jars of honey for 10+ years wrapped in brown paper grocery bags. I just took one out to use and I expected it to be crystallized. It was not! Instead it is black and runny almost like molasses. The smell is kinda pungent like molasses but it is honey. What would you think is its condition as far as using it to eat and cook with? <\/p>\n

Grey Linker<\/em><\/p>\n

Although honey can ferment, it usually won’t unless it is not in an airtight container and moisture gets in or the honey had a high moisture content to start with. Some honeys are naturally dark and get black after storage. These are often honeys from buckwheat, knotweed, and some wild trees\/flowers. I’d taste the honey and see just how strong it is and if it tastes fermented. Honey seldom “goes bad” and even if it is fermenting, you can still usually use it for cooking\/baking. I’ve got 15-year-old honey in quart jars that is crystallized but after warming it looks and tastes just fine. (It’s an experiment of ours!) — Jackie <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blower for wood stove I have a question about our woodburning stove. We have had it for three years now and it has a blower on it. Unfortunately the blower rarely turns on even though the fire is roaring. When it does click on, it doesn’t stay on for more than a few minutes. Is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}