One night at the local bar a guy cooked a steak in the wood stove. He seasoned it, moved the wood off to the side, blew the ash of the coals and trew the steak right on the coals. It actually turned out pretty good. I didn’t taste any ash on it but we had been there for awhile.
It is a lot of work but really gives a strong smokey taste.
***and threw the steak right on the coals.***
I used to do that when I had a fireplace. We also used to heat with an old RANGER wood stove. I build a grill of expanded metal and in winter I would stoke the fire HOT, remove the top and put the grill on it and....GRILL!