Your kitchen, with the cook stove, the fireplace, and the potbelly is my idea of a perfect dream kitchen.

Sitting and looking at a fire with loved ones feels like the most ancient soul-bound human experience possible to me

My Mother always had her fireplace going, i asked her once why, as she lived in a modern home with central heating, She simply replied; “ a fire is company” She lived alone as i do now in my cottage in Northern Ontario, Canada and i now fully understand what she meant. Happy Holidays and i wish you and everyone the very best for 2024.

One winter here up in Northern Alberta, we had 10 days of -27C (-17F), we've had -48.2 (-55F) in this Province, our wood stove in the LR kept the entire home warm, and our furnace never kicked on, not even once. My husband had it on a slow burn 24/7, it kept us toasty warm and I was able to cook on the stovetop. Kept a cast iron kettle filled with water so that it put moisture back in the air. Love it.

When I was little my mom would take my sister and I to Bandon, OR to visit my great grandmother. It was a small house and it was bitterly cold especially in the mornings. The only heat she had in her house was her cast iron wood burning cook stove in her little kitchen. I have so many little kid wonderful memories helping her fetch wood and watch her cook us breakfast!

You are living in my version of Better Homes and Gardens! What an outstanding life you are living!!!

I have always thought you live like a king with your set up!!! I hope every dwelling in Heaven looks just like your cabin but with a little land to farm! I taught 1840 life skills for many years and loved every day no matter how hard I worked and how tired I got. I would still be doing it but "progress" came to the historic site I worked at🙄. Now I still live a life that others don't understand but I'm happy...older than dirt now but happy!😁

I completely understand. I had a fireplace and love watching the fire, but wanted more heat for all the effort I put forth cutting, splitting and stack firewood. I have an airtight stove now with a really nice window and it is the best of both worlds. Nothing I like better than starting the morning with a cup of coffee and watching the fire.

Just discovered your channel and Im very impressed by not only your craftmanship, but also how clear and precise you are with your words. The cabin is amazing and to me is an almost perfect balance between old and new. Too many times I see ppl preaching the gospel of off grid, solitary living and to me that is antithetical to being a human. We are meant to have community. I like how how u still have some modern stuff too like electricity. Not everything modern is a bad thing. Honestly just a very balanced and thought out way of living. Bravo Sir

The oven at my cabin in Norway has this newer technology where it doesn't even suck air from the room. It has it own pipe going under the floor to the outside, using the cold outside air for combustion. It is a sealed system so no smoke can get into the room either.

Makes a lot of sense. In summary... Pot-bellied stove: Super efficient heater Wood cookstove: Great at baking and cooking Fireplace: Was installed prior to the others being popularized. Good for cooking meat. Also best aesthetics.

There's a reason the phrase "home and hearth" is so comforting. So many family gatherings, daily chores, and relaxing moments were spent in front of the hearth. And what old country store would have been complete without the group of men playing checkers or visiting (gossiping) around the pot-bellied stove. 😊 I love your cabin design. My husband and myself are trying to figure out the logistics of putting a wood stove in our house. Oh, and I'm glad to see that Archie has a feline buddy!

Because I like it like that! I want it like that! God bless

Glad to see my dog is not the only one who is always in the way when I'm trying to go in and out the door.

It wasn’t a log cabin, but my grandmother’s kitchen in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿had a range with ovens either side of the fire, so we could toast bread and muffins in front of it on a big iron fork. My grandpa would sit next to it in a Windsor chair so the smoke from his cigarettes would go up the chimney. Nothing is as warm and welcoming as a proper hearth fire. Your house is lovely.

I love your house. I love the way you present it. And I love the fact that you use three sources of the heat. Just like my grandmother used to.

Great video. I grew up with wood heat.. very warm. My mom would keep a kettle of water on top to put moisture in the air. One of my sisters would bake bread and let it rise near the stove.

My grandparents lived in the Alps in northern Italy, their house was built in 1771 and was made of stone and mortar, the only heating in the house (and only heated rooms) was a cast iron cookstove in the kitchen, and a special masonry stove called "fornel" in the living room. The former was your typical wood cookstove with oven, the latter worked in a principle somewhat similar to a dampened rocket stove, with the smoke of the fire going through various channels and heating it up until you could barely touch it, and because of how it was built, very little wood could keep the entire living room warm and cozy all winter.

Sitting in front of a fire relaxes me like nothing else. Your fireplace is absolutely perfect, it's not too overdone, yet it's very beautiful. Great job on this!

I love iron cast stove. It’s my dream to own one. It’s a classic that is ageless. Looking at it as if time stood still.

It being your house “because i wanted too” should be all the explanation required, so thank you for going more in depth and passing on some valuable information. Warm greetings from the Netherlands🇳🇱.

Okay, I might be too old for you but that is my dream house and that is a dream kitchen, the cook stove and the real working cooking fireplace. I am in awe. That is fantastic brother.

Ich schaue mir dein Video zum ersten mal an. Ich dachte mir so ein gemütliches Sofa und ein Sessel wäre nicht schlecht. Und schau an, genau der Typ Sofa und Sessel die ich als besonders gemütlich empfinde stehen da. Genau an einem so schönen Kanonenofen den ich auch richtig klasse finde 😊. Es sollte möglich sein, das jeder der so wohnen möchte genau so leben kann. Bei solch einem Zuhause braucht es kein Fernsehen 😊

A fireplace creates such a nice warm ambiance.

I love your home. Beautiful. We heat our home with VC Defiant. Been a wonderful 30 year relationship with that appliance. I have burned wood for 43 years. Only air/air., best way to go. Our cabin has FP, woodstove AND vookstove (multi fuel Kalamazoo Pilgram) , my wife said WHY three wood burning items.? BECAUSE of all the reasons you listed. Again lovely home.

I learned how to cook on a slightly bigger cook stove than you have and I absolutely loved it. I also learned to cook in a fireplace. Enjoy using both! LOVE that cabin. Watching a wood fire is so mesmerizing

I don’t live in a cabin but I do have a wood cook stove right beside my fireplace also. I grew up in a home with no heat but wood set up like yours but with smaller potbellies in the bedrooms also. I never asked why so from listening to you I can only assume my parents knew what you know and I just copied what I grew up with. I really enjoyed learning this! My favorite is in front of any fire inside or out. Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Jerry!!

I like how you show different types of wood heaters.

I heat with wood myself in my house living in the Huron National Forest. Had a fireplace the first winter then upgraded to a fireplace insert for this winter. Super efficient and have used only 2 cords of wood so far this winter. Plus I put a pot of water for tea that stays on there all day. Amazing setup you have there and a great cabin

My uncle had a deer camp in Alpena, Mi with a beautiful pot belly stove. Lots of brass accents on it definitely a high end model yet still very old. Once that thing was heated up that main room was almost too hot to be in for me, but after sitting in the woods all day it was appreciated by all.

Thank you for shareing your beautiful Home with KZfaq :) the driffences between cook stove ,fireplace an potbelly stove is very interesting ✨👍 .

какой красивый дом,с ума сойти,великолепно! 💞

even though I am only 66 yrs old, I remember living in a house with Pot Belly stove and we lived in the city. One of my earliest memories is my dad and uncle melting lead to make fishing sinkers and using the pot belly to heat the metal. 1958 Evansville, IN

As God, our father puts it so beautifully in Exodus the Pillar of fire. As are light at night is our comforter. Also, warm us. It embraces us. It holds our soul. God bless you, Jerry, and thank you for loving Jesus Christ.

Love your place! I have a modern frame house, well insulated, on a crawl space foundation. To illustrate your point on drawing air for combustion, the air has to come from somewhere. That somewhere is ultimately from outside. I burn a Kuma secondary burn stove for heat. When I 11:56 first put it in it was vented into the crawl space for combustion air. During -20F weather this drew that outside air through the crawl space access door, chilling the crawl space and the floor in the entire house. The stove couldn't keep up. That summer I installed dryer vent hose from a vent on the access door to the makeup side of the stove. Makes a huge difference. House stays toasty and the stove doesn't have to work so hard.

Your Cabin was built in the same year that "Stille Nacht" was first performed in Austria how apt. for the time of year, The Song is Silent Night for those who do understand German.

i camp with my mates every winter and yes camp fire does warm the soul

I Absolutely love your home… that fire place is beautiful, the wood cook stove and the potbelly… basically all 3 would be a dream to have. Your whole place is a dream. Love it!

I only just started watching you and this image of your cabin at 0.46 reminds me so much of the Ingalls house on Little House on the Prairie except behind the fireplace was Ma and Pa Ingalls bedroom with the children in the loft above. I loved watching that programme in the 1980`s. I will need to go back to your oldest video now to watch in the correct order.

For the first time in my life, I understand why a fireplace doesn't heat a home. All I was told was, you lose too much air. I need to know why something happens or I'll ignore whatever you say!! You are a very good teacher.

I love your home and that cook fireplace is incredible!!!

What a dream.. wow. I cooked and heated our home for 15 years using a wood cookstove...

Ya thats the way a kitchen needs to be

I love your cabin. It looks perfectly livable and cozy, all anyone needs...

That is one cozy-looking home. I can vouch for a good pot-bellied stove being a champ in the heating department. A relatively small stove will keep a surprisingly large area toaster in cold weather. And I think they have a quaint charm all their own.

I love your home! It's super rustic cozy and I would totally live is a log cabin! It's beautiful 😍

Thanks for your videos. Relaxing and comforting. I completely understand the stoves and the fireplace. Just being able to look at an open fire like that is enough reason. You get to sit there and stare at that open fire with the flickering light bouncing off the stones with a big popping crack of the fire to make the moment even more interesting. That alone is worth the price of admission. You have an open fire pit in your kitchen. That's cool. Besides, it's not just a regular fireplace, it's one of those big open old school ones you can really sink your teeth into for heavy duty open fire cooking. I agree, coffee on an open fire...good luck beating that. I have an expensive french press. I heat the water on a portable induction cook-top. I'll bet your coffee is better than mine. You seem like a really good guy and your cabin is envied by many including myself. Hats off to you sir. Great achievement in building that and the lifestyle.

Such a beautiful cabin and interior setup! 🥰🥰🥰 If renovating or building new it would be smart to build radiators in the flue to circulate heat into pipes under the floors and to radiators in other rooms so the fireplace fire is taken maximum advantage of.

I love it. Your cabin is beautiful. ❤ We’ve got a kitchen queen 480. Can’t imagine life without it. It heats our whole house during the winter. Rated to 5000 sq ft. We only have 2000 sq ft, so it far exceeds our needs. 6 pieces of wood per day during cold days brings our house to 70 degrees. Really cold days we build a fire in the mornings and stoke it up again add one or two more logs to get us through the night. Uses convection to move air, a wonderful design. Built by the Amish out in Montana. What we’re missing is that beautiful fireplace, in the kitchen for cooking. That’s a dream. ❤

OMG! I wish I had the fireplace too! I look at your kitchen, and it’s like looking at my own. I see my dough bowl - serving as a camera tripod! The irony there is phenomenal! The waffle iron is the maker of the best waffles on earth. I see all of your cast iron kitchen accoutrements. Crocks for pickles and on and on…..congratulations on living the BEST life.

Love the content!! Merry Christmas.

The kitchen is the center of the home, always been that way! In a one room home in the fashion of a pioneer home, everything will happen in that room, cooking, sleeping, eating etc.. Stands to reason a fireplace would be there.

I love the presentation of this video. I love learning new things about stoves.

Your place is beautiful! My grandparents had a stone fireplace on one side of home and kitchen on other side and they used both in the evening. Sat around the livingroom fire place and listened to the radio.

I absolutely love your cabin.

I totally love you cabin. i would give up to have your setting. Cabin is beautiful.

3 diff ways to cook and or heat the cabin is smart. Backups to the backup. That's smart thinking. Would come in handy say for a big Thanksgiving family dinner or in an shtf scenario. Great ideas for viewers if they wanted to do a complete off grid build. 2 thumbs up!

I gotta say, this is just about the best thing ever. Love seeing how this potbelly stove works and thanks so much for sharing your home with us. Excellent explanation of how these things work. Lots of appreciation and kindness here, thanks man.

Fantastic place! Absolutely dreamy to me, I'm "city folk" from the 'burbs of Detroit but i will retire ti the country soon. Well i never dreamed of such a cabin but now i certainly will!

I think it’s great that so many people want to go back and live like my great grandparents did. The thing is , could we truly do the work involved to sustain ourselves? I mean, getting up and milking cows or goats. Killing a chicken for dinner? Keeping a garden… a smokehouse filled with beef and pork. I remember all they did was work while as a little girl I played outside in the corn shucks while granny ran the clothes through a wringer washer. Hard work and I just don’t think the generation now could do it.

If i were living off grid i would definitely have more than one source to heat and cook with in my home,it makes good sense to me❤

I love your cabin, my dream, I have an addiction to cooking with fire and heating with fire. My many stoves can vouch for it. I keep building spaces to give them purpose 😂. I absolutely love your home!! This is the first video of your's that I've seen and I am hooked.

Good to know! Beautiful Home, rustic, all anyone would ever need right there. Lovely. Merry Christmas

Both of these are wonderful. I absolutely love the fireplace

LOVE your cabin !!! 😊

Had a potbelly stove. Stoke it tight, close it off and it will keep your home warm all through the night and easily start back up in the morning

I totally love your setup. My fireplace was converted over for a deisel heating furnace. I'm hoping to bring it back into a fireplace again! For a potbelly of sorts. We used to have a mama bear stove. But we didn't use it that much. 😕 love your vision!!! Thanks for sharing 👍🏻

you have a dream life. imo just being able to live with a fireplace is a dream

That completely makes sense. I can see having all three if I owned a cabin. Great presentation! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Yeah its a awesome setup you need options for different seasons😊

This place looks like Plymouth Plantation. Beautiful❤

I have a potbelly stove that I heat with and a wood cook stove right next to it. I’d hate that imagine having to heat with a cook stove that would make for a restless night that’s for sure. I use the potbelly stove for cooking things that can be fried at an indiscriminate heat or for boiling pots of water or soup because in the winter there is always a fire going in it and I can’t be bothered to start one in the cook stove and wait for it to heat up (a long process) enough for it to be useful as an oven or for a vigorous heat for frying things. That being said your comment about it being the best for baking is certainly true and for cooking anything that requires a low steady heat (I make cheese so it’s very useful for heating the milk slowly without scorching it.

I think your home is lovely. And I get the fireplace, cookstove, heat stove! We are Northern Ontario raised. Well, hubby is. I learned. I'm an ex city girl. Hubby was raised on wood heat. I was raised withering and old octopus oil furnace. When we set up house, we didn't have a pot or a window so we went to wood heat. We had a big old pot belly that got us through until we got a second hand Woodchief airtight. MAN!THAT WAS THE CAT'S MEOW. It burned learned less than the pot belly, lit it in September, shut it down for pipe cleaning in January, ran it until late April/early May.. What people don't understand is that wood heat is radiant. With Natural Gas or Propane, even oil, surfaces in your house are cold. Floors, furniture, countertops. With wood heat, there not. It penetrates. It's more comforting. Now, a fireplace, in my opinion, is a soul feeder. An open fire feeds our basic instincts. It's mesmerizing to watch, it's comforting to smell, (anybody who doesn't like the smell of wood smoke is a sick puppy in my opinion . . . unless it's a forest fire) and give me a cast iron Dutch Oven and an open fire!? and I will be gone for days! Now that cookstove? Well, I acquired an Elmira Cookstove in the purchase of a house that is in PERFECT condition. That Darling is going into my Summer kitchen and I am going to bake bread, pies, roasts, Thanksgiving Turkey that will knock the socks off the family! There is NOTHING better than a wood fired cook stove! I'm 61, raised to love the old ways. I do me and people don't get it, it's usually proved to be that they've never experienced/appreciated it or they don't know what respect truly means. I agree and fully understand what you've done and why. You do you and be proud of what you do!

First house the hubby and I owned was heated with wood stoves. We upgraded to a Fisher Grandma Bear. Best heat in the winter ever. That type of heat does it thru and thru. Wish I had it today

Yes! I want a kitchen with a stove and a fireplace. My ideal kitchen 😀

Wow.. what a beautiful cabin!

Beautiful home! Thank you!

This cabin is sweet perfection.

Great video, I learned a lot!

Thats a beautiful place . Looks cozy .

Beautiful home!❤

I like everything what you make!

Thanks for posting and sharing.

Absolutely beautiful .

Awesome cabin Sir!

Very, very nice! It all makes sense to me! Blessings on your New Year!

It's just beautiful!

My aunt had both. Also, electric stove. We used the fireplace for heat to warm when we visited.

Thanks for the heating knowledge. Good to know so I can appropriately prioritize what to install.

Place looks wonderful!!

Such great explanations for something I didn't even know I was interested in, thank you KZfaq algorithm ❤

It would be nice if you had an "about" tab and used it to post basic info about the cabin. Dimensions, climate zone, etc. Thank you! Looks like a lovely space.

What an amazing home....congrats!

really cool!

Great setup. I am so envious!!😀👍👍

Your home is beautiful thank you for a great video ❤

Love your beautiful cabin 🥰😊

Great looking log home! I like your layout with the kitchen table and 3 heat/cooking sources.

Very good this thank you.

Sounds right to me... Beautiful...