You are such a blessing! I gotta try that. BTW, anybody ever make a rocket stove? I’ve been perseverating about one of those since cleaning up the dead wood around here.
Send a Freepmail to Kartographer who runs our prepper threads. He made a rocket stove and has pictures of it. I bought a rocket stove. If you have one, you will always have a working stove because it burns any biofuel and burns very hot. A few very small limbs, like twigs, will burn very hot and last a while. All that will be left is a bit of gray ash.
There are bushes everywhere in the townhome place where I live, so small limbs/twigs off those bushes would keep me in fuel forever. That is why I got the rocket stove - if everything else fails, that rocket stove will still work and fuel is everywhere.
I wrote an article about that and a lady who lives in a high rise, wrote me and said she was getting one because there were bushes and small trees around that condominium and that would be fuel to last her forever. She plans to put her rocket stove in her fireplace so I read about doing that and it is okay as long as the flu is open. There is very little smoke with the rocket stove.
Some have built a large rocket stove and put it next to the fireplace and ran a connection to go into the flu. They heat their whole room with this large rocket stove.