We have a newer stove that I easily heat the whole house with all winter long. It’s a nice step top stove that we can cook on, and have done a number of times. A cast iron Dutch oven makes a fine bean soup if it sits on a hot woodstove all day long. A cast iron skillet with a top on it bakes a fine pan of cornbread on top of the stove in about an hour too...
The woodstove gives us independence from the grid, but there is always someone out there trying to interfere with us no matter what the activity is, and no matter how hard we try to minimize the amount of energy we are hooked on.
I don’t think some of them would be happy if we lived in caves...
if only the tools could ‘un-discover’ fire...oh well, outlawing it is *almost* as good...