[UCANSEE2]

There were no wood stoves in the stone age.

Well, I wouldn't burn anything in a wood stove anyway. It might catch on fire.

However, 'stone age' men burned their wood in or on something, and used it not only to cook, but to provide heat. I believe they made their stoves out of rocks, instead of iron, or brick, but they had stoves.

[Westbrook]

> Well, I wouldn’t burn anything in a wood stove anyway. It
> might catch on fire.

:)

> However, ‘stone age’ men burned their wood in or on
> something, and used it not only to cook, but to provide
> heat. I believe they made their stoves out of rocks,
> instead of iron, or brick, but they had stoves.

Yup. Stone, clay, and brick, but Ben Franklin’s steel fireplace was definitely a quantum leap in heating efficiency, though not designed for cooking.

We actually have a soapstone heating stove, as well as a cast iron one. Our water is heated in a steel stove, and our cookstove is Amish-built with steel.