CRYPTOFARM'S most precious tech // 9 reasons to use your great-grandma's woodburner
My great-grandma's woodburner is perhaps the most precious technology in our house. Especially in these days when Northern Italy is getting seriously cold. Here are 9 reasons why you should start to use it too.
To feel never alone
A woodburner is like a plant - you cannot forget it. Almost every 30 minutes you have to get up from your chair and check if it's ok - eventually add another piece of wood. The woodburner will return your care by providing your nights with one of the best soundtrack I can describe.
To have warm tea all day round
To keep warm
To bake apples
Behind the woodburner there is a little oven. Just put an apple the whole afternoon and you'll see how tasty it becomes.
To bake potatoes
Same as above - but don't forget salt and butter!
To keep a sleeping-brick
As my great-grandma used to do, keep a brick inside the oven during the whole afternoon. An hour before going to sleep, cover it with a towel and put it in your bed. You'll see how long it keeps warm!
To wash the dishes
No, it's not about burning the dishes. Behind the woodburners there is a water tank. It's too rusty to drink, but you can use it to wash the dishes.
To fertilize your garden
Ash is good for plants, but in a very limited quantity. My advice is to cover the field with a really thin cover of ash at the end of the season, before winter comes.
To add a special fragrance to your cryptofarm
I usually put some small cuts of Palo Santo and grain of incense on the woodburner to create a better fragrance in my house. Fruits's skins (oranges) are great too.
The gold old days were hard, ladies would have to place a solid metal brick on top of the stove. Using a special fork they would lever pick up the hot iron shaped metal wedge and slot it carefully into a surrounding metal frame with a wooden handle.
This would allow them to iron clothing for about ten minutes until they had to re-swap the cooled metal iron for another warm iron from the hot stove. This was how ironing was done in the olden days; today almost no one irons clothing, how society's standards have changed. Long live modern fabrics ! ! !
My own grandmother did all that. I would have worn wrinkled clothes -- just like I do today. Some modern standards are better, too, haha.
so true
Indeed: long live modern fabrics and society's casual-wear standards!