How Will We Keep WARM (in a Tent) This Winter? - ASK
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
- Our second winter in a tent is just around the corner. Our renovation project is moving along nicely but we're still not in a position to move into the house ahead of the cold weather - and that's kind of a good thing because the house has no heating, lights or electricity!
Join us for a quick Q&A and discover more ways than one that should keep us toasty warm this winter.
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To use the wood stove more efficiently build a concrete block wall in a semi circle behind the stove with solid blocks no mortor to prevent the heat radiating out through the tent. This then becomes a heat sink and gives of heat as the fire dies down like a storage heater. If it is built 1 meter high it should be sufficient and stable and will throw the heat into the living area.
Brilliant idea.
Totaly agree with you mate
That would work well.
Cowboy candy in the United States is usually made with Jalapenos and the sweet brine makes a great meat marinade. I like to strain out the peppers and mix them with cream cheese to make a spread to eat with crackers.
I say this without any presumption you will necessarily continue, as I know a bit about how much work it is to put out videos, but I just wanted to say that I'm really enjoying how often you're posting content - even these shorter videos are so nice! I am in a weird place in my life job hunting with a lot of time on my hands and quite a bit of angst cause of it, and knowing that I have more of your videos on the way soon is something I always look forward to. You two have become my favourite youtubers and I love seeing what you're up to. Also in your last video on chilis, I loved the technique you used to get the insides out of the pepper rings! I did pickled jalapenos yesterday and used that method and it's the best way I've found so far, so thanks!
Glad you are enjoying our (slightly crazy) adventure 😃
I had a large fireplace in my home for about 40 years. I was told never to use pine because the sap could coat the chimney, which in my case was red brick and with a two storey flue. So, I never used pine. Other youtubers in Portugal have also mentioned using pine and said they only used dry wood. Even if I only burned dry wood, I used oak, cherry and other hard woods but never pine and never had a problem in the flue clogging from sap. I did have to add a metal flue at one point as ice formed in the chimney and cracked it. I am impressed with you two in how hard you work and that do it right the first time. Best to you both, Jane, Philadelphia
Most of Europe and the UK burn dried pine because its plentiful and a reasonable price. Yes there is a danger of creosote in the flue but if you clean it regularly it isnt a problem.
Pine will produce creosote, but that short flue should be easy to clean out periodically. It's more of a problem in a house with a chimney flue. I know of someone whose method of dealing with creosote was once a week to run his stove really hot, which would create a small chimney fire that burned it out. Not a method I would recommend.
We just hose out the flue regularly, a very simple task given it comes apart so easily.
Pine is the most available firewood and it’s been very well seasoned so not really a problem
Mother in law owns several farms in Brittany. Her fields are separated by earth banks. On top of the earth banks grows trees. She employees a person to cut down the trees and produce firewood for her. She has three large outhouse each with a years cutting of wood. 1,2,3 years old which she use in age order for her heating.
Dried orange peel is a fantastically good fire starter, something you seem to have plenty available. My aged aunt always had peel drying on her hearth. You could probably assume lemon peel would be as good.
Adding an extra layer to your tent, particularly a synthetic one that keeps the canvas dry will increase warmth. Erect a fence (similar to a hedge) around the tent with your surplus wood to reduce the cooling effect of the wind; this will also reflect some heat back towards the tent. Your problem is that a large quantity of heat escapes through the chimney (possibly 50%); so, you need to keep more in the tent. Add fire bricks at the bottom and on theinsides of the stove. Place heat accumulation rings on the stove to radiate the heat; a simple and cheape alternative: a very very big pot of candle wax on the stove will absorb a lot of heat (watch out for skin burns). Coil a copper tube around the chimney (close to the stove) several times and feed its ends into an old central heating radiator, which you place somewhere in the tent to balance the heat from the stove; fill the system with water (don't forget to add some anti-freeze); no need for a pump because the hot water should circulate on its own; insulate the copper pipes to prevent burns.
Im 4 minutes into the video and already much of your experience is different to ours. We buy a mix of old seasoned Cork Oak and something else, I cannot remember what, for around 120/140 per tonne these days.
For 8 years we used to harvest some local dying pine and aged Acacia from a nearby copse but old age and possible long Covid symptoms prevents us transporting it the kilometre round trip by wheelbarrow these days.
Pine burns quickly and makes a lot of ash, eucalypt is common here and easy to split and is abundant burns fierce and hot.
Acacia is also great for smoking or grilling meat.
Different areas, different experiences I guess.
Anyway, back to the video.
I would suggest putting a panel of rigid insulation in your window frame of the room you sleep in and maybe even in the door frame during the night. You can just lift them out during the day. Will make a massive difference. Or perhaps some of the quilt-type insulation that's made up of layers.
I had a friend, gone now, who did a candied pepper meat relish. He would cook a London broil or top round medium rare. Slice it into long thin strips, across the grain. He would toast some sesame seed and fry a small amount of finely chopped onion. He then combined the sesame seeds, onion, meat and candied hot peppers into a container with just enough olive oil to cover the mixture. This all went into the fridge and was served cold with meals. Usually pasta, fried chicken and salad. He would always leave a small bowl of pasta naked so you could drizzle some of the oil, meat and pepper over it. Truly wonderful and soooo simple.
One of the videos I watched was of a couple who were renovating a 13th century chateau. They decided to rent the nice rooms and put themselves in the barn they had. They put a bunch of yoga mats on the floors, installed a huge tent, and even put their bed in it. I think they got a friend’s old RV to cook in. I thought it was pretty clever.
As someone that subjects himself to hot sauces on a daily basis... the white-ish membrane in the pepper that the seeds are attached to (and run down the interior of the pepper) is where most of the capsaicin (the heat chemical) lives. Seeds themselves have very little capsaicin. So if you're want less heat, but want to keep the flavour, remove the white membrane bits. Or, you can be insane like me and increase your tolerance over time 😄.
Woah, that's fascinating! I trust you, as a chilli wuss. Amazing. A gentle "hit" is good enough for me
Savoury condiment vs dessert topping - I think it depends on the spices used. I've made candied chilli as a fancy garnish for desserts - boil chopped chillies in sugar syrup with cinnamon stick and cardamom pods then remove from syrup and dehydrate (syrup makes lovely addition to cocktails or swirled over icecream). Once dehydrated you can treat them like lollies / grind up to make a wonderful sprinkle on chocolate truffles / leave in small pieces to go with a rich chocolate brownie and vanilla icecream.
I suggest you put some soft cheese on a cracker and top it with some cowboy candy. I used to make something similar with jalapeno peppers (including seeds) and over time it became less spicy--maybe yours will too.
I just love when you guys do a taste test of something you've made. Each of you has your own way of explaining how it is, lovely vlog guys!
*Keep warm over your upcoming winter months. In NZ we are in Spring heading towards Summer.*
cream cheese with Crackers or pita might also be nice for contrast with the peppers.
Instead of the electric blanket, try using a pure down quilt. The down will keep you amazingly warm and you don't have to worry if your solar panels are charged up!
Try a marine vertical wind turbines for ships..... its small, compact and should be easy to add to your system..... better still it usually is guaranteed that if its cloudy there is wind so its the best of both for off grid. The vertical helix turbines are best as they work from all directions
From everything I’m reading about the EU, keeping warm this winter is going to be quite the challenge. I’m glad you guys are set up!
Rack that wood! You guys crack me up!
Hugs from 🇨🇦
We make cowboy candy using jalapeno peppers and it is delicious over cream cheese served on a wheat thin cracker or ritz crackers. You can make chili pepper jelly or any kind of pepper to make a pepper jelly which is awesome poured over a block of cream cheese and served on wheat thins, ritz crackers or your favorite crackers.
Pine is ... well it burns hot and fast, but it leaves a ton of creosote, so you are going to have to be very diligent to keep the chimney clean or you could get a chimney fire.. Just a heads up..
Pine doesn't burn hot. It's a very low energy wood similar to spruce (the cheap firewood you get in Norway when they've sold out of birch).
@@-_James_- Just watch the creosote build up. I'd hate for you to have a fire. It's flippin cold here in the USA. We've had 3 below 0C nights already. I hate the cold!!
Hi ! What a wonderful useful way to use your cuttings as kindling. Nice load of pine as well!
I love Kylies sign off at the end!
I used to use oak firewood, I used the ashes in my garden. My plants and vegetables did fantastic. Now I have propane and no ashes, so no vegetables. I agree that pine is not good to burn. I think eucalyptus is probably bad too, very flammable.
Seasoned wood is the best.
I just wanna thank you for your videos they make me happy in my crazy brain
I am absolutely loving what you both are doing, with the garden, cooking and renovation. On my last visit to the Philippines, I visited Bohol
Thanks for the video - Love the tasting response noises.
A word of caution with the gas heater in the house. LPG type gases have a lot of moisture in them so are best avoided unless you can attach and external flue.
As wood heating is going to be a thing for you, if you haven't already, I suggest you purchase a petrol powered wood splitter. I'm not sure what sort of pine you are burning, but eucalypt wood will have a higher calorific value than pine and burns slower. i.e. more bang per buck so to speak, and less times getting out of your comfy chair to replenish the fire. 🙂
Rule of thumb for propane is 1:1 for water emitted per weight of gas.
Here in the US the basic BBQ bottle is known as a 20 pound cylinder (actually about 16 lbs or 168 cubic feet of gas)
Much easier in metric, because if you burn a kilo of gas you emit a litre of water.
We, here in Texas, used it with beans. It was really lovely. I can't tolerate it plain, but on beans, YUM!
Keep bricks on the wood stove, at bed time wrap them in cloth/towels and put them in your bed. I keep two in my oven right next to my pizza stone. They should stay warm most of the night. I’m to stubborn and poor to turn my heat on in October. Michigan, USA.
If you are still harvesting peppers, try making a batch of pepper jelly. It's quite tasty on toast or crackers and you can also use it as a marinade for beef. 🌶🌶
I like Guy’s idea of using the Cowboy Candy as an ice cream topping. There are Mexican candies sold here in Southern California and many have chiles in/or on them.
That pepper candy sounds nice. I absolutely love pepper jam with goat cheese and crackers.
A simple trick to clean the glass of the stove in the tent: Take a sheet of (toilet) paper and moisten it. Dab it in the ash and rub the tarnish on the glass with it. If all goes well, it will disappear like snow in the sun. Then, if necessary, rub with a clean damp cloth and finally with a dry cloth.
The glass should then be completely clean again. Simple, durable and cheap.
How will you keep warm this winter.......hhhmmmm.......all options you've presented to us are, at least "problem solving options" and costly as well, but I would say, the one, the most pleasant, as well as comfortable would be......give a hug to each other.......no expences and very much pleasurable. Tom Jones sung in one of his songs, long time ago, and said "The best things in life are free".......aren't they? Wising you warm, sunny and nice winter guys.
You could build a small brick wall to run the flute through that will support the flute, secure the tent and stop creatures coming in.
I was laughing with you Kiley when he said try it with ice cream!🤣🤣
Hi, Kylie and Guy. I’m glad the cowboy candy turned out… I’ll stick to chocolate sauce on my I’ve cream🙃
We have used a small kerosene stove. We put it in the basement and it heated the first floor as well. We did not have a problem with any fumes. We kept the wick clean. On the top we place a pan or teapot of water and the steam circulated the heat evenly. I don't know if kerosene is readily available in Portugal. I enjoy your videos. Thank you for sharing with us.
Here in the USA, we use Cowboy Candy for when you get colds and flu, stuffiness of the nose, etc during the winters. You can also use it on meats when cooking.
I made Cowboy candy for the first time this year with jalapenos. OOOOOO Hot Hot Hot! I left the seeds in. I think I will serve it with a cracker with cream cheese and the jalapeno on top as an appetizer.
love what you did with the tent ,very nice and cozy
Good video - shame you can't get a tent just a little bigger to help insulate the inner one or a geodesic dome that you use for something else afterwards....good video
Crackers with cream cheese and cowboy candy on top. YUM !!!
Yes! I would suggest - Haagen Daz! Best vanilla ice cream! 👍😉👍
Good on you for being yourselves and sharing your life with so many. Appreciate all that u share. Bless you Philippa Australia
You can use pine cones for firs starters
Cool. Mince/chop up the chili stuff to make it more like a relish. Maybe that’s what you meant. Just leaving Portugal, had a great visit. And beautiful weather. Toured the country form north to south, and still didn’t see so much of the country. This was a semi-touristy visit. Self guided tour, with no reservations expert the first few days on Lisbon. Worked out well.
Generally, the collective advice is not to use pine for woodburners because of the tar it deposits in the flue or chimney. Of course, you may have a different experience. Again, generally, it is preferable to use hardwoods such as oak, beech, hornbeam, chestnut or whatever is available in your neck of the woods. These woods burn hotter and longer so you will use fewer logs. Hope this helps.
Oh, by the way, at the start of your video you said about keeping warm this winter that there was quite a big clue behind you , pointing right at Kylie !! My advice is if you want her to carry on keeping you warm take more care in using words like 'big' when pointing in her direction !🙂
We just take apart and hose out the flue, one of the big advantages of a portable wood burner
Sorry I sent without finishing, it was Luzon Island in the Philippines where I had Chilli ice cream, there was 3 types, mild, moderate and hot. You will have to make some of this and try it, it is beautiful.
The candied chilis are good poured over cream cheese and eaten with corn chips or crackers.
I like your Philosophy Kylie! you are so practical and proficient!, and Guy is so good with the explanation of everything and cooking stuff! good on you both :)
I don't have one. But would really like one. A backboiler Stove connected to Double Radiators located in each bedroom living room and Kitchen/Diner .We have two stand alone wood burner's in winter the whole family seems to congregate in those rooms
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Such a nice stove! Thank you for sharing your experience and tips! 🥰👍
Cowboy candy is nice with cream cheese and crackers. When I make it I always make extra of the liquid and can that so I can use it as a marinade for chicken and pork.
You have incredibly interesting content and I can't wait to see the house done.
I follow a couple who's homesteading in Alaska that make lots of cowboy candy every year. They eat it on top op a lot of their food. They also keep the syrup and will put some in marinades a lot. Also add some syrup to their corn bread. They catch a lot of salmon every year and marinade some to smoke.
Absolutely brilliant with the chili pepers! Spicey foods are the one thing I miss the most from the US/Calfornia.
awesome on the wood burning stove. We have a furnace, but we use our wood fireplace as much as possible. Cowboy Candy! I make this all the time. Over cream cheese with crackers. Marinate steaks, as a hamburger topping, over a bowl of rice. Ice cream sounds awesome - I will have to try that one.
I must try this cowboy stuff, have loads of peppers that have not been used. They are normal bell peppers though but that is good for my tender, Swedish mouth :D
I think that you should try a propane gas catalytic heater. It's not expensive, should solve the heating problem and it's mobile.
Love this channel. 😍😍
Hello from Texas, just an FYI we eat the cowboy candy with cream cheese and Crackers it tastes good and it helps the heat.
sweet heat is really nice with cheese and crackers
I guess the cowboy candy would be nice with farmers bread and goat cheese and some tequila .
Yum! Cowboy Candy on hot dogs, fish tacos, burgers, Mac salad, pasta salad, Philly cheesesteaks, deviled eggs. I could go on and on. Enjoy!
Cowboy candy and cream cheese on a Ritz cracker. Yum!
My wife canned several jars of the cowboy candy. Gave some away as gifts however we retained some for our own consumption. I use them in home made supernachos or in chili. I cut the japalenos on a mandolin and did not remove the seeds.
What are supernachos … sounds great!!!
I'm happy to see my man Guy turning into a real portuguese, buying Springfield tees!
When in Rome......
@@jimurrata6785 Absolutely
Also I use a gas filled electric heater and a heating pad in a small bedroom in the winter. That would be very nice inside the house. Maybe you could just use it on the worst nights. Do you have a portable power bank? That could work. Very safe too!
Guy's face reacting to Kylie's face made me laugh out loud!
Wood stove and heating together we had one in Italy so the stove in the kitchen and the pipes when throw to all the rooms to the radiator
Chuckling here listening to Kylie in the background. Reminds me of the summer I picked the end of the veggies and accidently mixed some jalapeño peppers with my regular green peppers, then froze them. It's always a surprise when I cook with that batch and wondering what I'll get. Surprise, surprise!
Love your t- shirt.
In Texas we eat jalepeno pepper jelly on toast with cream cheese.
Have you considered in flooring heating? It's very efficient
Yup danish company, costs about 1000 euros for the model you got there, very nice little stove they have a few more models and flue kits and such.
I wouldn't raccomand a gas burner in the house, gas burners create a lot of umidity. I live in Tuscany, it's not freezing cold here, but quite umid. The best solution is always a wood burner.
Perhaps the cowboy chili would be very nice small amount diced up and in a salad. Sounds delicious and surprising.
Top a cracker with cream cheese and the Cowboy Candy. Yummy!
Just looking @ your lower rooms. Doing It Ourselves - Michael Petherick has a lovely wooden kitchen panel wall which would look fantastic @ your home. Just a thought .....
I do believe your cowboy candy begs to diced a bit smaller and folder into a cornbread mix 😋. How about as the sugar component in a chocolate cake? Def a condiment to add into and enhance a slow braised meat with gravy.
Try the chillies with a dark chocolate pudding? beat its awsome.
Always love your videos guys.
It’s a shame you can’t use that hot flue to heat your shower water 😉
I wonder if u can use the leftover chilli sugar syrup in a chocolate sauce or even to make chocolate bars somehow? Chilli chocolate is the best!
I think the cowboy peppers would be awesome on baked Brie. That would balance the spice.
Oh yes, that would be amazing!!
Bioethanol gel stove? Not a cheap fuel but fits with eco principles.
Fits with the drinking focus of the channel as well...
I have nothing to say really, but I appreciate your content, and wish to help with the yt-algorithms.
We always put cream cheese on a party cracker topped with cowboy candy.
Cowboy Candy is delicious over cream cheese spooned onto crackers. 🤤
My great aunt put freshly ground black pepper on her ice cream ... along with a "wee dram" of scotch whiskey.
Have you considered a cheap "Chinese" 5KW Diesel Heater for the house room(s) in use, just need to vent the exhaust out through a wall to atmoshere of course
How's the starlink going and where can I buy mine for what you said, many thanks Mark
Try cracker or bruschetta/goat cheese or cream cheese or ricotta/cowboy candy. Glass of vino & job done.
Most people put some cream cheese or goat cheese on a cracker or toasted piece of bread then put a slice of Cowboy Candy on that.
I'm in a similar situation to you guys. Off grid in Portugal, living in a tent and renovation and old Portuguese property. Where did you get your tent wood burner from? It's starting to get chilly and my wife is not a happy camper 😉
wow great price, i just paid £180 for 2 cubic meters in Hungary!
Puree it and add 2 soups.
Hi hope you two are ok I have just paid £135 for one cu/mt of wood so yours is a very good price keep them coming
Ouch!! Last year we paid €140 for a mix of pine/eucalyptus, all very locally sourced too