When you light-up the stove, leave the cooking damper
opened until the chimney’s temperature is hot enough to heat-
up the oven.
Example of procedure to use the oven:
1. set the stove air intake to maximum
2. Removes the ashes inside the stove.
3. Put about 0.4 lbs of crumple paper with kindlings on top in a T-
pee shape for a quicker start-up
4. Start the fire and keep the door partially opened for up to 15
minutes
5. add up some wood
6. keep the door partially opened for up to 5 minutes than let it
burn with the door closed for 10 minutes
7. add the main wood load
8. keep the door partially opened for up to 5 minutes
9. let the fire burn 10 minutes then close the cooking damper
10. wait until you’ve reach the desired temperature than adjust the
air intake or the cooking damper
A chimney that is to cold won’t generate enough draft which
might cause the oven to be less effective. It might also
increase the preheating duration period.
To help you gage the temperature of your chimney you can
install a chimney thermometer which can be found in any
hardware store. In time, you will get use to the stove behavior
and won’t require a thermometer. The minimal recommended
temperature in the chimney to engage the oven baffle would be
350°F (175°C)
Thermometer
Temperature showed on the stove thermometer are
approximative and can’t be used for accurate cooking
temperature readings. We recommend using a cooking
thermometer instead.
It is possible that the cooking time for a given recipe might take
more time for a similar cooking temperature comparatively.
These phenomena might be cause by the heat distribution in
the oven.
Cleaning of the creosote build-up
When you heat-up the oven with the damper engaged, the
smoke travels around the oven. Fly ashes and creosote might
form deposit on the stove’s walls along the smoke travel path.
This creosote/ ash mix behaves like an insulating layer and
might reduce the heat transfer in-between the smoke and the
oven. It is therefore necessary to clean-up that area once in a
while.
This stove is calibrated so that it will barely emit any particulate
emissions. If important creosote build-ups do appear however
it is possible that:
1. You burn fuel others then wood
2. You use wood that is too moist/too dry or frozen with a
humidity level above 20% or under 10%
3. You close the door completely too early or too late after the
ignition to maintain a clean combustion
4. You have a chimney draft issue (see chimney installation)
For the stove maintenance, there is 4 access points:
1. The 2 round lids above the oven which allow the cleaning of
the oven’s top
2. The little rectangular hatch located on the top right part of the
stove which allowed access to the right side of the oven.
3. A rectangular hatch is located directly on under the oven door
which allow access to the bottom part of the stove. This door is
also convenient to remove creosote deposits that might have
fallen while cleaning up
4. The chimney collar allowed to reach the back side of the oven
