Yep them ol’ wood burning cook stoves were hot during the
summer. Cook the breakfast and noon meal during the early
morning time and have left overs cold for the evening meal.
During the hot days of summer she would let it burn out quickly and had a little propane gas grill she would use for supper and for dinner which was their lunch she had leftovers from breakfast or made sandwiches. She used that stove to heat one end of her house in the winter. I cut many a loads of kindling for that stove with my great grandfather and brothers. The safety nazi’s would crap themselves now days because we started chopping kindling around age 4-5 with gasp, an axe and hatchet!