The reason he calls this one a small russian oven is because he is comparing it to the earth. The earth is by far the most impressive piece of Russian engineering
Indeed. This is very interesting. If you live in a place with cold winters, staying warm is always interesting, or should be. Where I am right now, I have pushbutton heat. No problem. (Unless electricity or natural gas fails.) But I've also lived in an even colder climate (Montana) where I had to figure out how to stay warm. If you've ever done that, the topic of how to stay warm becomes something that's always interesting.
I grew up in Ukraine in the mountains and my grandma still sometimes uses this oven, because gas is expensive and during the holidays she has to bake so many different cakes and breads that a normal oven doesn't provide enough space, so she just goes back to this thing. The sound of the wood burning is so comforting, and you know, bread baked in this kind of oven is always so much tastier
If Ukraine during USSR then gas was never expensive, it was SUPER cheap, basically free like water and electricity. Traditional ovens were not replacement for natural gas, they were always a heart of any house
When you read old Russian literature there is always someone "sleeping on the oven". Which was weird before I actually learned what a Russian oven was. They had the right idea.
@Christopher Anderson im sorry what?! The number 33 has popped up alllllll the time pretty much daily throughout my life. How is that number related to ones religion?
@@awbrynes There's one, I think called "The Fool of The World", the third son, who gets all the left overs (brothers go off with fresh meats, he gets water and old bread,etc), but he ends up defeating all the challenges with help of people he meets, and ends up winning the girl. Anyway, seem to recall he slept on a bed like that. Check out the broom at 5:36
This was the video that introduced me to your channel. I’ve been subscribed for a few years now. I still come back to watch this video every now and then.
Keeping these "old ways" alive is important: I was born in 1974, and grew up in a rural area, in an old house heated with firewood, but only one room was heated, and the stove was kind of like this oven but made of cast iron (i think). one half was a fire box, and the other half had propane burners. there was no oven... my step-father who was born in 1911 had a little portable oven that you put on top of the rings (like this man showed here) on top of the firebox, or over a burner. most of the people that lived around me had modernize houses by the 80s with showers and furnaces, and so I'm one of the few people in my age group that actually knows how this type of house is supposed to work. The important part here is that the house is also designed around using this oven. if the oven was not placed WHERE it is inside the house, it would not heat as efficiently. if the house is insulated too tightly then the airflow would be insufficient to burn wood in the oven. modern houses tend to be insulated very well and people updating old houses tend to think that they need to super insulate them. truth is it has to have a certain amount of airflow, and super insulated houses have to be designed with mechanical air flow built-in to prevent people from suffocating. Here he was talking about starting up the air column in the chimney but if the house was super insulated and without mechanical airflow, even the trick of lighting the small fire in the chimney would not be enough to get the fire going, the whole house would smoke out, and people inside could suffocate from carbon dioxide poisoning. The opposite is true as well. With too much airflow, the oven would go through wood like crazy, and the air rushing in would actually turn the house into a freezer instead of heating it.
It is not only "fun"... you will see: our today "cosy-cosy" living will break down. (I really experienced -30C - in switzerland.) And then you have to think about how to survive.
You can find them here in finland to in really old houses. People are stupid not to build them anymore. I can heat my house,cook and get water without any electric power if something happends. And you can't have to much firewood. Yes you can have all the modern stuff to but keep the old stuff just in case. That way you always have a plan b that works.
We have these in Estonia as well, there are at least two in my family's house. I love the fact we have them! And I also think people are stupid not to have them.
Understanding how they're built is the thing. We don't have long winters with extreme cold. This type of heating system would still save tremendous amounts of money. Electricity is expensive in the states. I like to save money!
I am planning on building one here in the USA for my tiny house but instead of firewood using propane grill nozzles. We don't have many trees where I am and the idea of not getting creosote buildup sounds amazing.
Creosote is less of an issue with these stoves because of their design: you burn a hot, fast fire, which makes much less creosote because most is burned up. It’s suffocating your fire and burning wet wood (like almost everyone in the U.S. does) that makes lots of creosote.
it's 5am here why is this here. *learns about proper updraft to prevent smoking the house up and wasting heat*. o_o fluent and good editing for time spent watching a video. this russian place is reminding me I haven't had vodka in 5+ years...
@@jcottrill1691 When you're going to sleep the fire is already done for some time, so the bricks and the plate are ~80-90C. So, wool socks made by your babushka will protect your feet nicely (:
@@student8136 It doesn't need to be even that hot, if the house is warmed properly, all that mass of the tiles or bricks, however you want to call them, will have heat energy reserved in them. So basically you wake up, and start burning your oven, let it reserve in the mass of the oven and when you're going to sleep it will heat up the house even if the surface temp is only 50-70C.
I was reading a story set in medieval Rus and it kept mentioning sleeping above the oven and i absolutely could not picture it, so thanks for the video!
@@basenwagen many Russian fairy tales, folklore and historic tales all feature descriptions of such ovens. Every house was built like this. So cozy. My favorite mention of it is from fairy tales, with "Ivanushka Durachok" - "Ivan the fool" and he's always lazy and sleeps on the oven all day long until the oven becomes sentient and starts going around getting him into all kinds of adventures... Russian fairy tales trippy af.
@@savannanicoll1507 Yep, I read that triology (great story) and had to look up Russian ovens on RUclips and general internet. I am familiar with rocket mass heaters and Kachelofens so I had an idea, but I still had to see how a whole family sleeps on top of the oven.
I read this entire trilogy during the Pandemic. This definitely does help picture the descriptions about the warmth and coziness of the cottage ovens. Good point, and good taste!
My jaw dropped when you opened that hatch to burn tinder in the chimney. I've been looking at mass heaters for years, but I always figured I'd have to install an electric fan to first get the draft going in the right direction.
We are currently having our short rains and it's still 25 celcius. I've never even seen snow. If it dips to below 20c we start freezing. - 40 degrees, I'd legit just rather die 😭
This is the video that got me into survival Russia. Who knew getting stoned and watching random recommended videos would lead to years of entertainment
I remember having a book of Russian fairy tales when growing up, and in one of the stories, the book described the main character sleeping on top of an oven. At the time, I chocked it up to fairy tale weirdness, but I guess that wasn't such a strange thing...
@Dale Galiniak that common for fairy tales. It's kind of warm there (quess why) so often ill people would lie there. In one well-known fairy tale protagonist rides an oven)
@@grungytinman614 did the dogs call him "boy on the stove" and one of the dogs would eat a brick if it was buttered? I cannot remember the name of this story ----- had to be 30 years ago. I couldn't visualize the oven in my head; now it makes sense.
What a GREAT VIDEO! Thank you!!! I need to do more research on this type of Russian Ovens and house plans - love the entire concept of how to be self-sufficient that you share!
It really is an awesome little house. Imagine sleeping on the bed above the Russian oven during a coooold night, and the heat rising up towards you. I think the coldest I've experienced is around -30 C, in Colorado.
My partner was Russian. We went to her ancestral village many times when I went to Russia. This is still very much a way of life in rural areas.This video has brought back many happy memories. Thank you
I spent my first winter off grid last year. I can attest to that. You never get cold chopping wood. The colder it gets, the harder you chop. And logs split best when they are frozen solid anyways.
Five times! 1) taking it down anď bringing it home. 2) cutting then chopping it up 3) stacking it. 4) carrying it inside (when it's super cold I don't want to go out to refill too often so I always carry as much as I can carry plus some more). 5) When you finally brun it.
AH man this brings memories from when i was a little boy at my grandmas house she had this type of oven, and i remember it was so nice and warm to sleep on the bed on top in the cold winters, really miss you grandma, rip.
These Russian stoves are way way more efficient than what most of the world uses. Ruskies are very smart and hard-working. I know as I met a lot of them that migrated here in the early 90s. Thank you for sharing this older but more effective wood burning stove. I learned about how efficient these rigs are in 2002. Wanted to build one but Local codes made me use some crap that would burn way too much wood and would barely heat a f__king doll playhouse. Thank you big guy for a detailed explanation of why the second starter fire is needed on these designs. As you said the cold air acts like a lid. We call it an inversion layer. OK cool video big guy.
ah man, I remember visiting my uncle in eastern Poland in the early 80s and they still were using an oven like this. sleeping on the oven was THE BEST.
a russian shipmate of mine told me how they keep warm in winter. step 1: buy walk in freezer step 2: have it installed step 3: when winter comes move bedding there. you now have a toasty -1c° bedroom instead of -40c°!
@@sbe0001 its a surplus store,gulag r' us cccp supplies.They sell pretty good stuff if a bit old and sometimes you find body parts inside their products.
These types of things are extremely interesting to us in America. I love seeing the inside of Russian homes and to actually have someone explaining it is a bonus. Thanks and God bless
Thanks for showing the Russia oven my grandma talked about when I was growing up. She said that the kids slept on top of the oven and as soon as I saw your video I finally understood what she meant all those years ago. Thanks again
In Ukraine, my grandma's oven take a place of a half of a kitchen and a little bit of another room. It's bigger for about in 4 times than the oven in this video. So yes, it's small
When I first traveled to Eastern Europe, the thing I found most fascinating was the ovens. I'm from Canada, and while America has kinda cool cast iron ovens, they are nothing compared to the beasts they have out East. Especially when they are decorated with colorful tiles, or shaped in very satisfying ways..... I remember seeing some that had beds basically on top of them to absorb the heat. So cool.
The loss of energy is everywhere the same. To know better we need to know How the house was build. Tight roof maybe with insulation? Has it an air tide layer? Brick wall, one or two layered? Which brick. Has it a basement? Is there a door between basement and the other floors. What type of windows, how are they installed. Which direction is the building and so on. Would be nice to check it out in person.
@@sn31t33 Not the same. First of all, it depends on the material from which the house is built. A classic Russian house is cut from solid logs. Logs choose a part for a snug fit to each other. Warming is done by sphagnum moss - a very good insulator plus an antiseptic. The tree is very energy efficient. A stone house takes part of the heat while it is heating. A wooden house heats up immediately. Also, the tree absorbs excess moisture or gives away when dry. The windows always consist of two chambers, that is, 3 glasses, between them there are two air layers. The attic is always cold, but a layer of 30-35 cm of clay, clay with sawdust, clay with pine needles is poured on it on the ceiling. Or just dry rammed earth. High foundation, waterproofing is necessarily made between the foundation and the walls so that excess moisture does not penetrate. The foundation from the street is insulated. Inside there is a space under the house - an air gap, vegetables, fruits, and preservation are stored there. Plus, it is an air gap to the floor from the ground to maintain heat. There is always ventilation in the house from dampness and that there is no fungus and mold. In case of very severe frosts over -40, the windows on the side of the street have blind shutters. A cold vestibule is always made. Immediately from the street there is no entrance to the house. First you go to the cold closed part, and only then the second door is already in the house. And a lot of all sorts of small tricky things :) The average temperature in any house in Russia in the winter is +24 C.
@@vinnievalentine421 In Russia, we have the right to take the fallen forest for free. And in general, the people we wanted to spit on cannibalistic laws, so most often he prepares firewood for himself, not only from fallen trees :))) It is a lot of it. If someone has no time or is too lazy to harvest firewood themselves, then they buy it. I buy - for a year 200 dollars 10 m3.
@@Wrtvrxgvcf55 because half of the young kids I work with speak in a slang that doesn't make sense. And grammatically, he speaks better than some of the adults I work with, as well.
@@icanttiemyshoe9005 Precisely! Most kids nowadays are talking like... you know.. like this and it is totally, like, annoying and stuff, you know? Like there is no other word they can think of to you know... like say what they have in their mind or something like that. ^ This is how young kids speak nowadays and it is bloody annoying.
Maybe I just see the world a little differently, but I swear Whites, Inuits, Northern Native Americans, and the Japanese all evolved to neither be bothered by the cold or actually enjoy living in it!
You know that thing about starting a draft or... it's legit. I had to flee my new home in Ukraine after starting a fire without starting a draft. The only video that helped me understand my oven was fine and I'm just an idiot for not creating a draft is you, sir. Thank you! Next time I'll burn a piece of paper and check for a draft and then build from there.
You only need to create a draft if the oven is completely cold. It's also a good idea if the outside temperature is warmer or the same as the inside temperature.
I can picture myself retiring to a little house like that, spending my days chopping wood, reading books, and occasionally checking the stew on the cooktop.
@@iveros8481 Why would you say such a rude thing? There's nothing wrong with being 'poor' but I don't see that here either. I would love such a beautiful home, and even with a guest house.
@@omgfinally4340 We have hot summers in Siberia, often up to 40 heat. Russia is different - there is where it is hot, there is where it is cold, there are mountains, deserts, forests, seas, oceans. There is a choice :)))
It's funny, here in Montana we use mostly pine so when you were loading the wood in the stove I smelled pine even tho I knew it was birch. Stay warm my friend!
@researchfiend Sorry but, the Jetstream moved south early and it looks like the pattern will hold until Jan at least. Winter of '72 was long and cold like this.
Pine and spruce wood is not recommended for these kinds of ovens as both provide high amounts of soot. And since these ovens have a complex internal structure - cleaning them is pretty complicated. Birch, oak, or any other hard wood is ideal.
Back in the day there was no electricity, specially in most remote of locations, so everything from heating, cooking, baking, to creating hot water for cleaning was made using these ovens. Its yes thermal mass heater that only requires yearly cleaning, firewood and some knowledge how to operate one (one of the dangers being out of hand fire, like resin heavy spruce log popping/exploding and trowing hot cinder? that lights things up and carbon monoxide poisoning if you fuck up and house is too insulated) Even now such system is valuable, as continues power can be questionable due outages of storm damage. Most houses have water systems, so its important to least keep house over 0 degrees, so pipes wont freeze and start leaking, while also it can be life line when there is no natural gas available again due shortages. This is why most people with any brain go with electric or similar heating as primary or support system on day the day, have wood burning stove that can be used to support/drop electric bill and in emergency heat and cook for weeks after natural gas bottles are dry as many do have grills and bottle for that. I lived in city in apartment building and while shortages are rare in city its still possible, i felt so vulnerable with out wood oven and couple of times wish i had one. First there was several hour long outage due storm damage and second time there was problem in my heater, in really cold winter weekend. After freezing my butt off even with PC pushing heat and having to stay in outside clothing, wrap in blankets i decided that least one backup system was required and if all possible second one. Still trying to find such backup systems for phone, as cell towers go dark after few hours of shortage and with elderly around phoning ambulance needs to be solved for these cases. Maybe i can find cheap satellite phone, or even go far as have police and military communication equipment on hand to rise help if in desperate need.
Thermal mass is the quality of a substance, to be able to store heat, according to wiki. Concrete, brick, and stone hold heat, but the idea that it is the mass which is preserving the heat is somewhat misguided, it is usually air that is trapped in pockets, that is the insulator. The weight of the substance is not the key factor. Obviously this has a lot of mass and it stays warm for a long time, and once it is warm it takes less wood to keep it going. But the bricks and stuff cannot produce heat, they just radiate it very slowly, and therefore you can use a little wood and it will keep the heat radiating at that slow rate, at high temperature. Most of the heat goes out the chimney. To use it more efficiently you have to pass it over more surface area. This is a good idea, the way he lights it in two places to get it going. For more heat you could make the chimney go back and forth before it goes out, or there are designs that pass the hot air through a box that has horizontal pipes in it. As the smoke goes through the box, it heats the pipes, which are open on the ends, so air from the room goes through them, and all the smoke still goes out the top.
While most commenters are being light-hearted comedians or talking about the stove/heater, I have another take on the video. The tour, you sound disinterested probably because you see it all the time, but I feel that the decor you chose is very interesting. When you make a separate building for your guests, it isn't easy to make them still feel like they are staying in a part of your home. Your decoration conveys a cozy, lived in space instead of a sterile building that is only ever used for guests. It shows that who you let stay in it, their comfort and feeling of being welcomed is very important to you.
You know a good story when you watch for the second time a few years latter and enjoy it just as much...Maybe more I knew more this time. Bring on the next ice age I will survive.
In Romania we have the same called "Soba" ; my granddad has one and when it was winter at -25 -30C we used to sleep near to it and it was soo warm and nice.
These are quite common in old Finnish houses, too. A huge brick / stone oven that is basically in the center of the house, the rooms are built around it in a way that every room has either one brick wall or at least a short segment of bricks on one of the walls. The beast is fired up from the kitchen's side, you can use it as an oven and / or heat up the whole house while you are at it. The "draft hatch" principle is the same, and it's one of the first useful skills I remember learning as a small kid, haha. Some ovens also have deep fireplaces, so you can feed it with one meter long logs - a batch of those bad boys will make the whole house toasty in no time.
ruclips.net/video/fwCz8Ris79g/видео.html gives starting point for community developing these type of heaters particularly for DIY. resources for learning ins and outs.
@@maureenstevens6824 yea. I have to have it translated every time. This is where the metric system should prevail though. However it's a slippery slope since everything is related to everything else but I can't give up the 12 inch foot and the 3 foot yard, they're better suited for creating while the metric system is good for duplicating what's been created... Sorry. I didn't mean to turn this into one of "those" comments.. ...I know, ...too late. Lol
Honestly the difference between C and F is pretty much personal preference as both measurements of temperature are not base zero. If someone wanted to make an argument for a better temperature system, a system with no negative temperatures like kelvin vs rankine with their only differences being that kelvin uses C degrees whereas rankie uses F degrees.
@@helioscomis3732 but a system with no negative temps would start at absolute zero which is way below our window of operation. When it's based on the three states of matter of a substance that we all use and need and under the amount of pressure we all live under (generally speaking, since atmospheric pressure has its variances based upon sea level or above), it keeps its scale in a window we can all understand and appreciate. Both °C and °F are more satisfying since we can experience the range around zero. To use °Kelvin would be like having hundreds of annoying notifications on your phone that you will NEVER be able to clear. In theory, I wonder how cold it would have to be to get the kelvin scale to cross the Celsius scale?
I'll say i agree with what you're saying, but that i interpret it as an argument FOR Fahrenheit as its a more /accurate/ measure of air temp / ambient temp then Celsius whereas Celsius is a much better water temp gauge. Kelvin and C use the same degrees, they're roughly never match up. (to convert kelvin to Celsius just subract 273.15 from Kelvin.)
I love this fellow, his uploads, his philosophy, his techniques, short-cuts, alternative techniques, mechanical stuff, wild missions and sound advice for if you'll ever be in a cold environs like that. There are just so many reasons why I look forward to your uploads. a Brilliant channel !!
"never rots"? it definitely does rot. at least here in America, they are some of the shortest-lived trees around. in fact it's very rare to see a large Birch.
@@better.better Birch wood rots quickly not only in America :))) But the birch bark - does not decay for a very long time. In the old days and now sometimes in Russia we use it as a material for waterproofing between the foundation and the walls of the house or on the roof. Serves up to 150 years. It must be specially prepared. First, cut off the plates, peel the outer white layer and the inner one, which is like a powder. Then cook 3-5 hours in water. Then put under the press and dry. And then do all sorts of useful things :) In a container for storage from the birch bark insects do not start, bread and flour do not disappear for a long time, honey can be stored for several decades. Shoe insoles from birch bark remove odor and sweating feet. You can even boil water in it :))) And if you cook the birch bark in oil or even better in fish or animal fat - you can make boats out of it and use it as skin. Product Example www.google.ru/search?newwindow=1&biw=1366&bih=625&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=mA2_XZe6J_CPmwXmsqHYDg&q=%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%8F+%D0%B8%D0%B7+%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8B&oq=%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%8F+%D0%B8%D0%B7+%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8B&gs_l=img.3..0l3j0i5i30l3j0i24l4.270546.275164..276297...0.0..0.165.2478.0j18......0....1..gws-wiz-img.......0i3._ZnJu7xLOSo&ved=0ahUKEwiX5tnpx87lAhXwx6YKHWZZCOsQ4dUDCAc&uact=5
@@iMadrid11 bears can awake from slumber early or dint sleep at all, this is the scariest and deadliest type of bears. in russian they are caller медведь-шатун wich can be translated as wandering bear. @Sven Lancaster why didnt you recognised. WINTER FINALY CAME!
I like Russian survival videos, much respect for Russian people on the subject. Here in the USA, even the poor have electricity in most cases. Survivalist here in the USA to a degree, have many modern conveniences and would not do well without them. I am over 60 years of age and remember a time before we had TV or phone, my father even had to hunt or food at times. I remember about 30 years back, only having a wood stove for heat for a year or 2. Burned a lot of birch when the oak run out because it was easier to split when frozen solid. I love to hear the birch wood pop when burning, brings back good memories. ;)
I lived on the American embassy in the early 90s. It had it's own generator. Power used to go out in the city all the time randomly. Certainly tougher there than here in the U.S.
those who don't have access to central electricity networks simply have generators at home. And yes they even power their TVs with it :) In fact russians do "enjoy "civilization"" even far far away from everyone. The stoves shown in the video are even used in areas of "civilization" since it's economical and practical. Such stoves for example can keep your food warm so when you're back home from work you don't need to warm it up again! And of course many many more useful things you can do with it...
A house might have electricity and an oven at the same time. It's just way too expensive to warm a house with electricity. But most modern houses use natural gas heaters, I believe.
@@cccpredarmy Yes, I think Russia has a solid civilization also, well better than third world countries and to a degree, one that rivals ours here in the USA. My point was that Russian people tend to spend more energy on practical things and not on so much nonsensical crap the typical American does. This is why I have such respect for the Russian people. Percentage of Americans thinking and acting practical is low compared to what I see in Russian culture. I will say this, the only source I use to gain this notion is via internet media, never been to Russia. I see many similarities in country side such as plant life and or wildlife and expect if I suddenly found myself in a Russian wilderness, it's not likely I would be able to notice it were not north America. I think Americans in general, just have to many distractions maybe. ;)
@@VadimKudim I absolutely agree with you on that. I mostly use electric heat, don't need to heat the part of house with wood burning stove in it. These old bones don't agree with me trying to keep getting firewood either. ;)
I was like "Wait.. A russian guy who sounds like Danish, that's odd.." and I had to check out description :D I knew you were a Danish guy! Cool video, greetings from Finland.
Suomessahan on ihan samanlainen talonrakennusperinne, eli talo rakennetaan takan ympärillä joka toimii samalla uunina tai hellana. Nykyään näitä näkee varsinkin vielä vanhoissa rintamamiestaloissa
MrZarewna lol I was like, this Russian fella learned English watching Kindergarten Cop and the Terminator. Then I saw your comment and read the description too. Cool video, Lars. I went to Russia in 1992 as an exchange student in Moscow. Would love to go back.
Fairly tired after a 12 hr shift at work, wee hours of the morning here. Me: "I'll throw on some relaxing music on RUclips and fall asleep." RUclips Recommendations: Want to watch funky Russian video? Me: "Eh...of course?" Haha Very entertaining. Friendly and just good vibes from this. Made my day! Cheers to you mate from small-town America. :)
Lars, this is the first of your videos that I have seen, very nicely done. I am familiar with stoves of this type and I know how efficient they are. Some that I have seen are beautiful works of art. Your command of English is superb. Stay warm.
I wish America was like this... God. Family. The old ways... Everything now is fast, fake and evil. All based on money and greed. Every American needs to learn this stuff... Pretty soon your lives will depend on it... Sending love to you and your family Lars... from America. God bless Russia and America... in JESUS precious name...
"You can carry wood in a funky way".. LOL I did not know you had to create a draft when you fire up the chimney.. now i wont sufficate myself ... thanks
In a fireplace like is used in USA you wouldn't need to do all that. But because of these multi chambered mass oven it needs a little help getting it to draft. These Russian stoves are far superior to anything Ive ever seen in the US.
Creating the draft is not because of the mass of the oven or number of ovens. ..he just explained it. ..the air in the chimney is so cold that it acts as a lid on a container(there's not enough heat in the smoke), that's why only when the fire is at temperature ,the smoke will go up...hence the draft method, where he heats the air in the chimney creating a draft...🙈
@@hulksmash8942 Ya I heard him. But It is also because of the multiple chambers. If it was a straight chimney like the ones we use... the smoke goes up does it not? There plenty of places where it gets cold in the USA and the cold air in the chimney does not stop the heat from rising, because its a straight chimney. Mass stoves are an elaborate network of passages. They are designed this way intentionally so that as much mass as possible comes in to contact with the exhaust heat which warms all this brick, and then the brick (mass emits heat in multiple different areas) and eventually the exhaust (smoke) makes its way out. With this elaborate network of chimney there is much more pockets and channels for this cold air to be trapped (where it acts as a lid) . In some of these ovens the exhaust even travels horizontally at times, as if through a maze...heating all this mass. So it you go up top and start a fire closer to the outlet it will go up easier hence creating a suction (drafting upward) pulling the smoke up from the bottom.
@@hulksmash8942 North Dakota, Minnesota,But that's irrelevant. Everyone knows wood stoves with longer chimneys/exhaust can take time to get drafting. Combine this with a multi chambered stove that is designed to emit heat in several different areas and it makes it even worse. The exhaust on these stoves does not go straight up and straight out. In fact they purposely design them to do the exact opposite. They want the exhaust/heat to stay in the stove as long as possible before leaving the building.
I’ve had an interest in these ovens for so long. I would hear about them from my dad as he was Belorussian and came to Canada as a kid. He had fond stories of his mother cooking on that stove and the baking. You explained it to an extent that gives great understanding. I would love to have one of these here in my place in the Canadian bush land.
He sounds Austrian or German with his accent. Am I wrong? Certainly doesn't sound Russian to me but I have a lot less experience listening to Russians speaking English than German speakers.
@@hellalan Have one danish friend I speak to often from Copenhagen and that's a pretty unique dialect too. Maybe I need to watch more of his vids to see if I can catch it.
It’s like the house is designed around the chimney and oven, nothing is to far away from the heat source. Ok and then he says exactly what my comment was 1 min later haha
LOVE this. all of it, video, fire place, beds, books, funky stuff. Truly amazing. Ever since I read Anastasia, I've become a bit obsessed with your country, Russia Russia Russia!!!! LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!!!! Tons of love from Canada, xoxoxoxoxo
Lars.....THAT WAS GREAT! What a neat idea to have a bed over the stove/ oven! Thank you very much for showing us this! -40C is also -40F both are not very warm! BRRRrrrrrrr!!!!!!
Here in Czech rep. these kinds of ovens or chimneis are well known from all types of tales and songs. However it is not used anymore for a long time therefore it is very interesting to see this in real life. I can imagine it is very effective in cold winters.
My uncle actually built one like that 20 years ago (I am from SK) and as you say, it is SUPER effective. The only difference is that he also used terracotta tiles.
@@ronwest7930 Solid chammotte/grog bricks bound together by grog clay, covered with terracotta tiles. As with any tiles, the owner can be quite creative because the tiles can be of different sizes, surface patterns and ornaments and colours. When building an oven like that you create long almost horizontal passages of defined cross section area in the body of the oven for the smoke/burnt gazes to go through, before they get to a standard chimney. As you can guess the purpose is to utilize the heat of the hot gases (as the gases pass their temperature to the bricks when going through) and not just the heat of the flame and embers. Somewhere I read that with a standard oven the burnt gazes that leave chimney have temperature around 300 degrees C. With the "terracotta oven" the gazes that leave the chimney only have about 150 degrees. The difference is what makes the terracotta oven more efficient - more heat stays in the house. Another amazing feature is that you don't have to put the wood in that often comparing to a standard oven and that results in a fact that you can leave the oven unattended for relatively long time and (for example) when you come back home from work, you don't have to set the fire again (as you usually have to when you have a standard fireplace or a standard oven). Basically, you come from work and all you have to do is to put some wood in. The glowing embers which are still there will do the job. The same when you wake up in the morning, you just put some wood in. No need to start the fire again. I can compare because my dad has a proper fireplace while as I already mentioned, my uncle has a terracotta oven. In my future house I will go for the terracotta oven, that's for sure. With one difference: I will try to combine those two, the terracotta oven and the fireplace, so I can have both the flames visible through a sealed glass door as in closed combustion fireplace and the heat transfer efficiency as in the terracotta oven.
I love it... “I don’t know who will find this interesting but I have been asked”... 2 million views later lol I think a few people found it interesting
Thank you Lars for sharing your personal space with your followers. Do you remember mentioning that you may do some Mrs. Survival Russia cooking content ? This was a year or so ago and I am still looking forward to learning more about homestead cooking and food storage and seeing your still again. I wish you a speedy recovery with your knee.
I recall reading about the "Russian Oven" when I lived in Wisconsin, about 40 years ago, and it fascinated me. So yeah, this was a very interesting episode. That is a beautiful little guest house.
@@HenrikSnu I'm actually Danish on my mother side, her maiden name was Hanson. I'm French on my father side, but sadly, I don't speak either language. You could say I'm multilingual, I speak English, and American.😁🤪
Thanks for taking the time to explain the Russian ovens with more detail! I've recently watched several videos showing them being used with little description, so this is helpful. Keep up the great content, sir! Subscribed.
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What accent is yours? Not Russian. Almost sounds Dutch.
That's salt of the earth living. Do the same in the Midwest to save money and stay warm and it's fun
Nice video
Are you from Sweden? Your accent sounds like you are
This man is still liking comments a year later. Legend.
Of course :)
Cool
couldn't agree more buddy
@@mal2444 yhea i meam
Its a really cool video
the earth doesnt actually have a core, just russian ovens
The reason he calls this one a small russian oven is because he is comparing it to the earth. The earth is by far the most impressive piece of Russian engineering
Oblitorix It's Russian ovens all the way down...
JS 09 no it’s not
@@blakeengle4153 it's a joke, i'm not even finnish and i understood it was one lol
witchgroup you don’t know it’s a joke
“I don’t know how interesting this is”
Evidently pretty interesting
algorithm liked it.
Indeed. This is very interesting. If you live in a place with cold winters, staying warm is always interesting, or should be. Where I am right now, I have pushbutton heat. No problem. (Unless electricity or natural gas fails.) But I've also lived in an even colder climate (Montana) where I had to figure out how to stay warm. If you've ever done that, the topic of how to stay warm becomes something that's always interesting.
I'm watching it 😉 , only been 25 F. here in Oregon.
I'm very interested
Everyone should be interested. We may not always have these modern conveniences were so used to,
I grew up in Ukraine in the mountains and my grandma still sometimes uses this oven, because gas is expensive and during the holidays she has to bake so many different cakes and breads that a normal oven doesn't provide enough space, so she just goes back to this thing. The sound of the wood burning is so comforting, and you know, bread baked in this kind of oven is always so much tastier
Hi beautiful 😍
Agree with you, old ways of cooking deliver great taste
If Ukraine during USSR then gas was never expensive, it was SUPER cheap, basically free like water and electricity. Traditional ovens were not replacement for natural gas, they were always a heart of any house
When you read old Russian literature there is always someone "sleeping on the oven". Which was weird before I actually learned what a Russian oven was. They had the right idea.
Ilya Muromets sleeped 33 years on fireplace
@Christopher Anderson im sorry what?! The number 33 has popped up alllllll the time pretty much daily throughout my life. How is that number related to ones religion?
I took a Russian fairytale course once and had the exact same experience.
@@kachala He didn't sleep for 33 years, he was unable to walk.
@@awbrynes There's one, I think called "The Fool of The World", the third son, who gets all the left overs (brothers go off with fresh meats, he gets water and old bread,etc), but he ends up defeating all the challenges with help of people he meets, and ends up winning the girl. Anyway, seem to recall he slept on a bed like that. Check out the broom at 5:36
neat... the good thing about the internet: you can get a taste of life on the other side of the world
It is the best thing.
oldsteamguy without the biased media filtering it
Beautifully said
Agreed.
from my limited experience, Russia is wonderful. It is like the USA in the 1950's and 1960's before 1965 and the new world order.
The guy says he's not sure how interesting this will be makes me think he doesn't know the crap people watch on RUclips. This is actually good!
You sure right. I liked this video. It pop up in my feed and I clicked on it. Soon as I seen his stove I subscribed.
Good and funky
1.5 million views.
Full of awesomeness
Crap lol.it's called culture
This was the video that introduced me to your channel. I’ve been subscribed for a few years now. I still come back to watch this video every now and then.
Awesome. Happy Healthy 2024!!
"I don't know if this will be interesting"
*1.2 million views*
Everyone loves random fun facts.
1.5 million views and groving
Keeping these "old ways" alive is important: I was born in 1974, and grew up in a rural area, in an old house heated with firewood, but only one room was heated, and the stove was kind of like this oven but made of cast iron (i think). one half was a fire box, and the other half had propane burners. there was no oven... my step-father who was born in 1911 had a little portable oven that you put on top of the rings (like this man showed here) on top of the firebox, or over a burner. most of the people that lived around me had modernize houses by the 80s with showers and furnaces, and so I'm one of the few people in my age group that actually knows how this type of house is supposed to work.
The important part here is that the house is also designed around using this oven. if the oven was not placed WHERE it is inside the house, it would not heat as efficiently. if the house is insulated too tightly then the airflow would be insufficient to burn wood in the oven. modern houses tend to be insulated very well and people updating old houses tend to think that they need to super insulate them. truth is it has to have a certain amount of airflow, and super insulated houses have to be designed with mechanical air flow built-in to prevent people from suffocating. Here he was talking about starting up the air column in the chimney but if the house was super insulated and without mechanical airflow, even the trick of lighting the small fire in the chimney would not be enough to get the fire going, the whole house would smoke out, and people inside could suffocate from carbon dioxide poisoning. The opposite is true as well. With too much airflow, the oven would go through wood like crazy, and the air rushing in would actually turn the house into a freezer instead of heating it.
That’s why bill wurtz is popular
It is not only "fun"... you will see: our today "cosy-cosy" living will break down. (I really experienced -30C - in switzerland.) And then you have to think about how to survive.
@Killary Witch be blessed, I love Russia and my real, great hope ist, to work together with respect.
"Nice house."
"No, you mean nice oven. We don't have an oven in the house. We have a house around the oven."
The whole world was built around this oven!
@@ShoutsWillEcho1 Lol 🤣❤️🇺🇸
Bit of a silly unnecessary comment.
Hes actually german
Really shitty joke.
reminds me of babushka's house
Love you Boris!
Life of Boris haha love you man
gotta keep vadim from eating all the charcoals.
But what about babuskad buttebrod?
👀👀didnt expect to see you here
You can find them here in finland to in really old houses. People are stupid not to build them anymore. I can heat my house,cook and get water without any electric power if something happends. And you can't have to much firewood. Yes you can have all the modern stuff to but keep the old stuff just in case. That way you always have a plan b that works.
We have these in Estonia as well, there are at least two in my family's house. I love the fact we have them! And I also think people are stupid not to have them.
Understanding how they're built is the thing. We don't have long winters with extreme cold. This type of heating system would still save tremendous amounts of money. Electricity is expensive in the states. I like to save money!
Just live simply wood stove only leave the electric behind
I am planning on building one here in the USA for my tiny house but instead of firewood using propane grill nozzles. We don't have many trees where I am and the idea of not getting creosote buildup sounds amazing.
Creosote is less of an issue with these stoves because of their design: you burn a hot, fast fire, which makes much less creosote because most is burned up. It’s suffocating your fire and burning wet wood (like almost everyone in the U.S. does) that makes lots of creosote.
No idea why YT recommended this but I really found this interesting. Thanks!
I was thinking the exact same thing. This was actually really interesting.
Because extreme cold is coming and possible no power either
Because it knows its interesting
it's 5am here why is this here. *learns about proper updraft to prevent smoking the house up and wasting heat*. o_o fluent and good editing for time spent watching a video. this russian place is reminding me I haven't had vodka in 5+ years...
Me too
that bed above the fireplace looks like the most comfortable place to sleep on earth
ya but how do you get down without burning your feat
@@andrewk.277 get that wrong first thing in the morning ganna hurt
What if your 6’6”
@@jcottrill1691 When you're going to sleep the fire is already done for some time, so the bricks and the plate are ~80-90C. So, wool socks made by your babushka will protect your feet nicely (:
@@student8136 It doesn't need to be even that hot, if the house is warmed properly, all that mass of the tiles or bricks, however you want to call them, will have heat energy reserved in them. So basically you wake up, and start burning your oven, let it reserve in the mass of the oven and when you're going to sleep it will heat up the house even if the surface temp is only 50-70C.
I was reading a story set in medieval Rus and it kept mentioning sleeping above the oven and i absolutely could not picture it, so thanks for the video!
Can you tell me the name of the story?
@@basenwagen many Russian fairy tales, folklore and historic tales all feature descriptions of such ovens. Every house was built like this. So cozy.
My favorite mention of it is from fairy tales, with "Ivanushka Durachok" - "Ivan the fool" and he's always lazy and sleeps on the oven all day long until the oven becomes sentient and starts going around getting him into all kinds of adventures... Russian fairy tales trippy af.
@@basenwagen yes it’s the bear and the nightingale
@@savannanicoll1507 Yep, I read that triology (great story) and had to look up Russian ovens on RUclips and general internet. I am familiar with rocket mass heaters and Kachelofens so I had an idea, but I still had to see how a whole family sleeps on top of the oven.
I read this entire trilogy during the Pandemic. This definitely does help picture the descriptions about the warmth and coziness of the cottage ovens. Good point, and good taste!
My jaw dropped when you opened that hatch to burn tinder in the chimney. I've been looking at mass heaters for years, but I always figured I'd have to install an electric fan to first get the draft going in the right direction.
Welcome to another edition of "Why the heck is this in my recommended videos?"
Same.
I was wondering too? but I actually enjoyed this ty youtube
Original comment right there
😂👍
Henrik Høyrup nice, an original comment!
I live in tropical Africa. This is sooo wild to me.
@@weeddagr8988 Yo what is your problem
aw awdasd hes a troll. those 5 upvotes are just his alternate accounts just ignore it
We are currently having our short rains and it's still 25 celcius. I've never even seen snow. If it dips to below 20c we start freezing. - 40 degrees, I'd legit just rather die 😭
aw awdasd the funniest thing is that he assumes the poster is black just because they live in africa when other people live in africa too
@@weeddagr8988 report you
I'm just really impressed by the fact that there's a bed literally on top of the oven.
For the old ones and little ones I think..
@@susanthrapp6154 If I lived there, my cats would claim it.
😍😍😍
@@cajunsurvivor You just lost the bet.
Cats in your home lol. You put a box with kitty litter or wood shavings even and they use that, they are the easiest animals to house train.
This is the video that got me into survival Russia. Who knew getting stoned and watching random recommended videos would lead to years of entertainment
I remember having a book of Russian fairy tales when growing up, and in one of the stories, the book described the main character sleeping on top of an oven. At the time, I chocked it up to fairy tale weirdness, but I guess that wasn't such a strange thing...
A huge part of (cold) rural part of China has their ovens built to circulate hot air under the bedroom floor or the "tiled bed" that is built in it.
@@grungytinman614 Lots of Russian fairy tales describe people sleeping on top of ovens...
@Dale Galiniak that common for fairy tales. It's kind of warm there (quess why) so often ill people would lie there. In one well-known fairy tale protagonist rides an oven)
@@grungytinman614 did the dogs call him "boy on the stove" and one of the dogs would eat a brick if it was buttered? I cannot remember the name of this story ----- had to be 30 years ago. I couldn't visualize the oven in my head; now it makes sense.
Vania the strong, and the witch Baba Yaga
I swear, in every cities around the world, there are 1 or 2 Danish living in a funky way.
this - you could become a full time youtuber just documenting those visits
and apparently all of them continually saying "funky" xp
Add to that a few of us living in a decidedly unfunky way!
Actually quite nice to see the old Russian house. Quite beautiful. Thankyou Lars.
Sandy
Hello Sandy, I didn't see the jacklore jet!
This episode was filmed in Hollywood studios . Dont be such a fool
@@John-ps2jo if it was fimed in hollywood they guy would have earings,tatoos,and pink fingernails. dont be such a fool lolk
What a GREAT VIDEO! Thank you!!! I need to do more research on this type of Russian Ovens and house plans - love the entire concept of how to be self-sufficient that you share!
It really is an awesome little house. Imagine sleeping on the bed above the Russian oven during a coooold night, and the heat rising up towards you.
I think the coldest I've experienced is around -30 C, in Colorado.
Everywhere else: "The house has an oven"
Russia: "The oven has a house"
@Tuberculosis Dan thanks, don't forget to thumbs up
@Tuberculosis Dan stfu
@@mhdfrb9971 GFY
My partner was Russian. We went to her ancestral village many times when I went to Russia. This is still very much a way of life in rural areas.This video has brought back many happy memories. Thank you
I hope it stays that way for the next 100 years. I hate what changes the bankers are making to America.
Veru rustic! They say firewood warms you up twice, once while cutting it and twice while burning it
Very clever and right u are.
I spent my first winter off grid last year. I can attest to that. You never get cold chopping wood.
The colder it gets, the harder you chop. And logs split best when they are frozen solid anyways.
Good point
Five times! 1) taking it down anď bringing it home. 2) cutting then chopping it up 3) stacking it. 4) carrying it inside (when it's super cold I don't want to go out to refill too often so I always carry as much as I can carry plus some more). 5) When you finally brun it.
AH man this brings memories from when i was a little boy at my grandmas house she had this type of oven, and i remember it was so nice and warm to sleep on the bed on top in the cold winters, really miss you grandma, rip.
I feel you buddy, only that my grandpa died instead. RIP.
Big F my man
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These Russian stoves are way way more efficient than what most of the world uses. Ruskies are very smart and hard-working. I know as I met a lot of them that migrated here in the early 90s. Thank you for sharing this older but more effective wood burning stove. I learned about how efficient these rigs are in 2002. Wanted to build one but Local codes made me use some crap that would burn way too much wood and would barely heat a f__king doll playhouse. Thank you big guy for a detailed explanation of why the second starter fire is needed on these designs. As you said the cold air acts like a lid. We call it an inversion layer. OK cool video big guy.
fyi this is not sth unqieu to russians. just became famous with russians but such large masonry heaters are used it cold regions worldwide.
quite a lovely cottage actually. reminiscent of days when the heat source had to be the central focus of the home.
He playing Frostpunk for real
Yup, hearth and home.
ah man, I remember visiting my uncle in eastern Poland in the early 80s and they still were using an oven like this. sleeping on the oven was THE BEST.
a russian shipmate of mine told me how they keep warm in winter.
step 1: buy walk in freezer
step 2: have it installed
step 3: when winter comes move bedding there.
you now have a toasty -1c° bedroom instead of -40c°!
Reu Furaque funny but where do I buy a walk in freezer?
Ha-Ha, old Russian anecdote.
Damn
@@sbe0001 the same place you buy walk in microwaves: at the walk in appliance store
@@sbe0001 its a surplus store,gulag r' us cccp supplies.They sell pretty good stuff if a bit old and sometimes you find body parts inside their products.
These types of things are extremely interesting to us in America. I love seeing the inside of Russian homes and to actually have someone explaining it is a bonus. Thanks and God bless
Thanks for showing the Russia oven my grandma talked about when I was growing up. She said that the kids slept on top of the oven and as soon as I saw your video I finally understood what she meant all those years ago. Thanks again
1:08 "The Russian oven is also small" -> points to the massive wood slaughterer 3000
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Best comment ever
Our owen is probably twice the size. Takes entire day to warm up the house.
You have clearly never been to South Africa
In Ukraine, my grandma's oven take a place of a half of a kitchen and a little bit of another room. It's bigger for about in 4 times than the oven in this video. So yes, it's small
So RUclips recommended this video to me, a completely random, out of the blue recommendation.
i am glad.
@researchfiend and it's beautiful
When I first traveled to Eastern Europe, the thing I found most fascinating was the ovens. I'm from Canada, and while America has kinda cool cast iron ovens, they are nothing compared to the beasts they have out East. Especially when they are decorated with colorful tiles, or shaped in very satisfying ways..... I remember seeing some that had beds basically on top of them to absorb the heat. So cool.
Check out videos on "rocket mass heaters". The warm bed, you described, is their byproduct. A lot of times decorated with tiles too.
Yeah! Only a Canadian can understand the need for these mass heaters!
I guess that’s cool … as long as the bed 🛏️ doesn’t get too hot and catch fire 🔥
@@enlightenedchild8373 Oh they've had those style for many decades. I'm sure mooost of them know what they're doing.
He sounds like a german with a finnish accent who lives in Russia...
danish is the accent your looking for, hehe, he really sounds danish actually
after further investigation i found out he actually comes from denmark, it says in his biography on his youtube channel for anyone interested :)
Actually he sounds more like he is from the Czech republic (Arnold Schwarzenegger accent) mixed with russian.
Wow i need to listening more accent because to me sounds like irish 😂😂
nickeh- I was wondering this same thing...
Someone send this man a thermal camera; I'd like to see the heat move through the house over time.
Slick, funky video. Thanks.
I could borrow him one, if he can send it back.
Would be kind of interesting where heat losses are in -40 C weather.
The loss of energy is everywhere the same. To know better we need to know How the house was build. Tight roof maybe with insulation? Has it an air tide layer? Brick wall, one or two layered? Which brick. Has it a basement? Is there a door between basement and the other floors. What type of windows, how are they installed. Which direction is the building and so on. Would be nice to check it out in person.
@@sn31t33 Not the same. First of all, it depends on the material from which the house is built. A classic Russian house is cut from solid logs. Logs choose a part for a snug fit to each other. Warming is done by sphagnum moss - a very good insulator plus an antiseptic. The tree is very energy efficient. A stone house takes part of the heat while it is heating. A wooden house heats up immediately. Also, the tree absorbs excess moisture or gives away when dry. The windows always consist of two chambers, that is, 3 glasses, between them there are two air layers. The attic is always cold, but a layer of 30-35 cm of clay, clay with sawdust, clay with pine needles is poured on it on the ceiling. Or just dry rammed earth. High foundation, waterproofing is necessarily made between the foundation and the walls so that excess moisture does not penetrate. The foundation from the street is insulated. Inside there is a space under the house - an air gap, vegetables, fruits, and preservation are stored there. Plus, it is an air gap to the floor from the ground to maintain heat. There is always ventilation in the house from dampness and that there is no fungus and mold. In case of very severe frosts over -40, the windows on the side of the street have blind shutters. A cold vestibule is always made. Immediately from the street there is no entrance to the house. First you go to the cold closed part, and only then the second door is already in the house. And a lot of all sorts of small tricky things :) The average temperature in any house in Russia in the winter is +24 C.
It really heats the house well, it's very efficient and cheap. But these days you have to pay for the wood.
@@vinnievalentine421 In Russia, we have the right to take the fallen forest for free. And in general, the people we wanted to spit on cannibalistic laws, so most often he prepares firewood for himself, not only from fallen trees :))) It is a lot of it. If someone has no time or is too lazy to harvest firewood themselves, then they buy it. I buy - for a year 200 dollars 10 m3.
I wish some of the Americans I work with spoke English as well as this guy does.
what are you on about? why would this guy's english be any better than the avg. american's english?
@@Wrtvrxgvcf55 because half of the young kids I work with speak in a slang that doesn't make sense. And grammatically, he speaks better than some of the adults I work with, as well.
@@mattduke6490 That and every other word is either like or totally
He sounds like a german speaking english
@@icanttiemyshoe9005 Precisely! Most kids nowadays are talking like... you know.. like this and it is totally, like, annoying and stuff, you know? Like there is no other word they can think of to you know... like say what they have in their mind or something like that.
^ This is how young kids speak nowadays and it is bloody annoying.
Old Survival Russia vids are comfy AF ❤
This man is very pumped for living in such a cold and solitary place.
Makes ya strong!
Prolly had some vodka. You sure as hell need it if you clear snow all day in minus temperatures
his warm personality stops him from freezing
@@777Jamez777 All the vodka in the world is not enough, if you count how much we clean snow in Russia in winter :)))
Maybe I just see the world a little differently, but I swear Whites, Inuits, Northern Native Americans, and the Japanese all evolved to neither be bothered by the cold or actually enjoy living in it!
Him - "The light here may be funky here.."
Shows a whole chandelier 🙌🙌 what a lad
You know that thing about starting a draft or... it's legit. I had to flee my new home in Ukraine after starting a fire without starting a draft. The only video that helped me understand my oven was fine and I'm just an idiot for not creating a draft is you, sir. Thank you! Next time I'll burn a piece of paper and check for a draft and then build from there.
You only need to create a draft if the oven is completely cold. It's also a good idea if the outside temperature is warmer or the same as the inside temperature.
I use a blow dryer to create a draft.
I just came across this video now in Dec 2024 and it's still interesting.
I can picture myself retiring to a little house like that, spending my days chopping wood, reading books, and occasionally checking the stew on the cooktop.
With a nice Starlink connection to post RUclips videos of cooking stew.
And the vodka on the table!
u can check the stew from your bed!
@@hannesdejager3723 Samogon
bro. i legit want to move to russia just to have a little cottage like that. it looks like something out of a fantasy story inside.
everything is awesome and funky in Russia. He only has about 10 shirts on.
Haha dying of cold and poorness is awesome and funky!
@@iveros8481 Why would you say such a rude thing? There's nothing wrong with being 'poor' but I don't see that here either. I would love such a beautiful home, and even with a guest house.
@@dreamingrightnow1174 i was being ironic, you halfwit.
If you ever go to Russia, you will wear everything you own. All at once.
@@omgfinally4340 We have hot summers in Siberia, often up to 40 heat. Russia is different - there is where it is hot, there is where it is cold, there are mountains, deserts, forests, seas, oceans. There is a choice :)))
Me: I'm going to bed now
RUclips: But wait, I haven't shown you a russian oven yet!
I like the man, but if you stop the video at 1.42 I think it looks more like a crematorium
DJ Soul lmao
😂😂😂
RUclips makes a compelling argument
Dutch oven when you go to bed.
I had a masonry stove built 30 years ago this winter still amazed with it 👍
It's funny, here in Montana we use mostly pine so when you were loading the wood in the stove I smelled pine even tho I knew it was birch.
Stay warm my friend!
I'm in Oregon and we use pine, as well. I smelled pine, too!
@researchfiend Sorry but, the Jetstream moved south early and it looks like the pattern will hold until Jan at least. Winter of '72 was long and cold like this.
Isn’t it strange that we’re a country of immigrants but this is nowhere to be found here. I saw the same thing when I was in Germany.
Pine and spruce wood is not recommended for these kinds of ovens as both provide high amounts of soot.
And since these ovens have a complex internal structure - cleaning them is pretty complicated.
Birch, oak, or any other hard wood is ideal.
I lived in Montana for a few years up in Ronan, near flathead lake. I miss having a fire with pine burning away.
So it's basically a thermal mass heater as well as a oven and stove
You can put it like that yes :)
Back in the day there was no electricity, specially in most remote of locations, so everything from heating, cooking, baking, to creating hot water for cleaning was made using these ovens. Its yes thermal mass heater that only requires yearly cleaning, firewood and some knowledge how to operate one (one of the dangers being out of hand fire, like resin heavy spruce log popping/exploding and trowing hot cinder? that lights things up
and carbon monoxide poisoning if you fuck up and house is too insulated)
Even now such system is valuable, as continues power can be questionable due outages of storm damage. Most houses have water systems, so its important to least keep house over 0 degrees, so pipes wont freeze and start leaking, while also it can be life line when there is no natural gas available again due shortages. This is why most people with any brain go with electric or similar heating as primary or support system on day the day, have wood burning stove that can be used to support/drop electric bill and in emergency heat and cook for weeks after natural gas bottles are dry as many do have grills and bottle for that.
I lived in city in apartment building and while shortages are rare in city its still possible, i felt so vulnerable with out wood oven and couple of times wish i had one. First there was several hour long outage due storm damage and second time there was problem in my heater, in really cold winter weekend.
After freezing my butt off even with PC pushing heat and having to stay in outside clothing, wrap in blankets i decided that least one backup system was required and if all possible second one.
Still trying to find such backup systems for phone, as cell towers go dark after few hours of shortage and with elderly around phoning ambulance needs to be solved for these cases. Maybe i can find cheap satellite phone, or even go far as have police and military communication equipment on hand to rise help if in desperate need.
And bed warmer
Thermal mass is the quality of a substance, to be able to store heat, according to wiki. Concrete, brick, and stone hold heat, but the idea that it is the mass which is preserving the heat is somewhat misguided, it is usually air that is trapped in pockets, that is the insulator. The weight of the substance is not the key factor.
Obviously this has a lot of mass and it stays warm for a long time, and once it is warm it takes less wood to keep it going. But the bricks and stuff cannot produce heat, they just radiate it very slowly, and therefore you can use a little wood and it will keep the heat radiating at that slow rate, at high temperature. Most of the heat goes out the chimney. To use it more efficiently you have to pass it over more surface area. This is a good idea, the way he lights it in two places to get it going. For more heat you could make the chimney go back and forth before it goes out, or there are designs that pass the hot air through a box that has horizontal pipes in it. As the smoke goes through the box, it heats the pipes, which are open on the ends, so air from the room goes through them, and all the smoke still goes out the top.
While most commenters are being light-hearted comedians or talking about the stove/heater, I have another take on the video. The tour, you sound disinterested probably because you see it all the time, but I feel that the decor you chose is very interesting. When you make a separate building for your guests, it isn't easy to make them still feel like they are staying in a part of your home. Your decoration conveys a cozy, lived in space instead of a sterile building that is only ever used for guests. It shows that who you let stay in it, their comfort and feeling of being welcomed is very important to you.
You know a good story when you watch for the second time a few years latter and enjoy it just as much...Maybe more I knew more this time. Bring on the next ice age I will survive.
In Romania we have the same called "Soba" ; my granddad has one and when it was winter at -25 -30C we used to sleep near to it and it was soo warm and nice.
In BH/SRB/HR/MNE, "Soba" is a name for a room inside the house.
These are quite common in old Finnish houses, too. A huge brick / stone oven that is basically in the center of the house, the rooms are built around it in a way that every room has either one brick wall or at least a short segment of bricks on one of the walls. The beast is fired up from the kitchen's side, you can use it as an oven and / or heat up the whole house while you are at it. The "draft hatch" principle is the same, and it's one of the first useful skills I remember learning as a small kid, haha. Some ovens also have deep fireplaces, so you can feed it with one meter long logs - a batch of those bad boys will make the whole house toasty in no time.
In the video there are many hatch in the oven but lars only fired one. is there a particular reason to have different hatch ?
Search "masonry heater" or "rocket mass heater" (insulated burn chamber for even better efficiency) beware local building codes in your country.
ruclips.net/video/fwCz8Ris79g/видео.html gives starting point for community developing these type of heaters particularly for DIY. resources for learning ins and outs.
@TEXOCMOTP Ah, I wondered how that was done! I need one to keep my salt dry! Too much humidity!
1:44 "I actually do not know how interesting this is". Super interesting my dude!
Great video, thank you for sharing. Old School Heating.
Greetings from the interior forests of British Columbia, Canada. Thank you for showing us a Russian brick oven. A very sensible tradition.
Russian thought: It doesn't have to be beautiful, it needs to work!
Soviet thought: So you need a machine that warms your house? Here's a machine that warms your house and then burns your neighbors house down.
@@jmullentech Bad joke
To all those who only know the Fahrenheit scale of temperatures, -40°C is the same as -40°F. That's the point at which both scales cross paths
Thank you. I had wondered!?!
Never learned the celius equivalents.
@@maureenstevens6824 yea. I have to have it translated every time. This is where the metric system should prevail though. However it's a slippery slope since everything is related to everything else but I can't give up the 12 inch foot and the 3 foot yard, they're better suited for creating while the metric system is good for duplicating what's been created... Sorry. I didn't mean to turn this into one of "those" comments..
...I know, ...too late. Lol
Honestly the difference between C and F is pretty much personal preference as both measurements of temperature are not base zero. If someone wanted to make an argument for a better temperature system, a system with no negative temperatures like kelvin vs rankine with their only differences being that kelvin uses C degrees whereas rankie uses F degrees.
@@helioscomis3732 but a system with no negative temps would start at absolute zero which is way below our window of operation. When it's based on the three states of matter of a substance that we all use and need and under the amount of pressure we all live under (generally speaking, since atmospheric pressure has its variances based upon sea level or above), it keeps its scale in a window we can all understand and appreciate. Both °C and °F are more satisfying since we can experience the range around zero. To use °Kelvin would be like having hundreds of annoying notifications on your phone that you will NEVER be able to clear. In theory, I wonder how cold it would have to be to get the kelvin scale to cross the Celsius scale?
I'll say i agree with what you're saying, but that i interpret it as an argument FOR Fahrenheit as its a more /accurate/ measure of air temp / ambient temp then Celsius whereas Celsius is a much better water temp gauge. Kelvin and C use the same degrees, they're roughly never match up. (to convert kelvin to Celsius just subract 273.15 from Kelvin.)
I love this fellow, his uploads, his philosophy, his techniques, short-cuts, alternative techniques, mechanical stuff, wild missions and sound advice for if you'll ever be in a cold environs like that. There are just so many reasons why I look forward to your uploads. a Brilliant channel !!
The bed right above the oven looks comfy...
I'm going to start saying "funky" more.
Please include "groovy" every now and then too.
Can't be funky without a little groov
@@stroganoffbob7627 You know it!
@@DennisMoore664 heck yeah!
GaslitWorld f. Melissa B
Gross
The danish accent is strong in this one, I was thinking; "no way in hell this guy is from Russia" :D
No way :)
His accent reminds me of Arnold's accent
His native language is German.
Exactly!
Until I scrolled down, I was thinking he sounded like a German Beatle.
This is the best Russian oven video I've watched.
Birch bark has natural occuring kerosene in the bark and thats why it never rots and always catches fire even when wet
There´s an old saying in Denmark, "Birkebrænde brænder bedre." On english: "Birch bark burns better."
@@gryl.4030 æ
@@sp-nj9le Æ hva´??
"never rots"? it definitely does rot. at least here in America, they are some of the shortest-lived trees around. in fact it's very rare to see a large Birch.
@@better.better Birch wood rots quickly not only in America :))) But the birch bark - does not decay for a very long time. In the old days and now sometimes in Russia we use it as a material for waterproofing between the foundation and the walls of the house or on the roof. Serves up to 150 years. It must be specially prepared. First, cut off the plates, peel the outer white layer and the inner one, which is like a powder. Then cook 3-5 hours in water. Then put under the press and dry. And then do all sorts of useful things :) In a container for storage from the birch bark insects do not start, bread and flour do not disappear for a long time, honey can be stored for several decades. Shoe insoles from birch bark remove odor and sweating feet. You can even boil water in it :))) And if you cook the birch bark in oil or even better in fish or animal fat - you can make boats out of it and use it as skin. Product Example www.google.ru/search?newwindow=1&biw=1366&bih=625&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=mA2_XZe6J_CPmwXmsqHYDg&q=%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%8F+%D0%B8%D0%B7+%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8B&oq=%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%8F+%D0%B8%D0%B7+%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8B&gs_l=img.3..0l3j0i5i30l3j0i24l4.270546.275164..276297...0.0..0.165.2478.0j18......0....1..gws-wiz-img.......0i3._ZnJu7xLOSo&ved=0ahUKEwiX5tnpx87lAhXwx6YKHWZZCOsQ4dUDCAc&uact=5
Door cracks open:
“Is someone come? No...”
...hungry bear 🐻
Or Sasquatch..
🐻 are hibernating through winter. They wouldn’t awake from slumber to exit their lair until spring time.
@@iMadrid11 bears can awake from slumber early or dint sleep at all, this is the scariest and deadliest type of bears. in russian they are caller медведь-шатун wich can be translated as wandering bear.
@Sven Lancaster why didnt you recognised. WINTER FINALY CAME!
Evil spirits dont phase him lol. He just laughs
Russians are should use perkele
When he says "bla bla bla" it means sooo much more.
Dracula 😂😂
I felt that 😳😳
He learned English from Dave Rubin
Please don't listen to the news. I am American and I love you guys.
Everyone watching this from their recommended should subscribe! This channel changed my views on Russia dramatically. This is very wholesome living :)
When the Gulf Stream stops flowing and the UK is as cold as Moscow in winter we will need this man’s knowledge!
It does not help you because your houses suck. Sorry. No insulation , no triple windows.
May the gulf stream dissolve soon.
@@joopajoo4152 way to take this too seriously
@@TheDuke4100 Maybe.
@@TheDuke4100 well he's not wrong mate
I like Russian survival videos, much respect for Russian people on the subject. Here in the USA, even the poor have electricity in most cases. Survivalist here in the USA to a degree, have many modern conveniences and would not do well without them. I am over 60 years of age and remember a time before we had TV or phone, my father even had to hunt or food at times. I remember about 30 years back, only having a wood stove for heat for a year or 2. Burned a lot of birch when the oak run out because it was easier to split when frozen solid. I love to hear the birch wood pop when burning, brings back good memories. ;)
I lived on the American embassy in the early 90s. It had it's own generator. Power used to go out in the city all the time randomly. Certainly tougher there than here in the U.S.
those who don't have access to central electricity networks simply have generators at home. And yes they even power their TVs with it :)
In fact russians do "enjoy "civilization"" even far far away from everyone.
The stoves shown in the video are even used in areas of "civilization" since it's economical and practical. Such stoves for example can keep your food warm so when you're back home from work you don't need to warm it up again! And of course many many more useful things you can do with it...
A house might have electricity and an oven at the same time. It's just way too expensive to warm a house with electricity. But most modern houses use natural gas heaters, I believe.
@@cccpredarmy Yes, I think Russia has a solid civilization also, well better than third world countries and to a degree, one that rivals ours here in the USA. My point was that Russian people tend to spend more energy on practical things and not on so much nonsensical crap the typical American does. This is why I have such respect for the Russian people. Percentage of Americans thinking and acting practical is low compared to what I see in Russian culture. I will say this, the only source I use to gain this notion is via internet media, never been to Russia. I see many similarities in country side such as plant life and or wildlife and expect if I suddenly found myself in a Russian wilderness, it's not likely I would be able to notice it were not north America. I think Americans in general, just have to many distractions maybe. ;)
@@VadimKudim I absolutely agree with you on that. I mostly use electric heat, don't need to heat the part of house with wood burning stove in it. These old bones don't agree with me trying to keep getting firewood either. ;)
Now THIS is my idea of a tiny house with oodles of character!!
I was like "Wait.. A russian guy who sounds like Danish, that's odd.." and I had to check out description :D I knew you were a Danish guy! Cool video, greetings from Finland.
I was actually thinking the same, the accent doesn't sound russian at all and the English is way better then most Russian people.
Suomessahan on ihan samanlainen talonrakennusperinne, eli talo rakennetaan takan ympärillä joka toimii samalla uunina tai hellana. Nykyään näitä näkee varsinkin vielä vanhoissa rintamamiestaloissa
MrZarewna lol I was like, this Russian fella learned English watching Kindergarten Cop and the Terminator. Then I saw your comment and read the description too. Cool video, Lars. I went to Russia in 1992 as an exchange student in Moscow. Would love to go back.
i was thinking he sounds german.
Ahhhh....his name is Lars....
Fairly tired after a 12 hr shift at work, wee hours of the morning here.
Me: "I'll throw on some relaxing music on RUclips and fall asleep."
RUclips Recommendations: Want to watch funky Russian video?
Me: "Eh...of course?" Haha
Very entertaining. Friendly and just good vibes from this. Made my day! Cheers to you mate from small-town America. :)
Lars, this is the first of your videos that I have seen, very nicely done. I am familiar with stoves of this type and I know how efficient they are. Some that I have seen are beautiful works of art.
Your command of English is superb. Stay warm.
1:44
“I don’t really know how interesting this is”
2,5 million people: *shhh*
You seem like a really nice person. Thanks for showing your "heater" to us!
Oh - sweet memories! Sleeping, or just reading book on the oven in winter time is absolutely fantastic. Especially in old days when was no internet.
"All that funky stuff" lmao this guy is cool
Yeah this guy is really and laid back.
Some more stuff over there!
I wanna drink and talk about life in that house with this guy lol
I wish America was like this...
God. Family. The old ways...
Everything now is fast, fake and evil. All based on money and greed. Every American needs to learn this stuff...
Pretty soon your lives will depend on it...
Sending love to you and your family Lars... from America. God bless Russia and America... in JESUS precious name...
Utterly wonderful video. Just a perfect little glimpse into Russian guest house heating. Well done! And, hatchlet really should be a word!
I never expected to see a Minecraft RUclipsr in the comments of a video about a Russian rustic heating oven
Very cool I always wondered how do you guys stay warm and ice cold Russia
@@Timmysteve You don't know how many different kinds of people watch this. Me neither. lol
That honestly looks like a very comfy guest house.
Imagine rolling over in bed and falling onto a Russian oven
@@unqualified-km7hv I just laughed me tits off at that
It does, but I'd rather be there in July, lol.
"You can carry wood in a funky way".. LOL
I did not know you had to create a draft when you fire up the chimney.. now i wont sufficate myself ... thanks
In a fireplace like is used in USA you wouldn't need to do all that. But because of these multi chambered mass oven it needs a little help getting it to draft. These Russian stoves are far superior to anything Ive ever seen in the US.
Creating the draft is not because of the mass of the oven or number of ovens. ..he just explained it. ..the air in the chimney is so cold that it acts as a lid on a container(there's not enough heat in the smoke), that's why only when the fire is at temperature ,the smoke will go up...hence the draft method, where he heats the air in the chimney creating a draft...🙈
@@hulksmash8942 Ya I heard him. But It is also because of the multiple chambers. If it was a straight chimney like the ones we use... the smoke goes up does it not? There plenty of places where it gets cold in the USA and the cold air in the chimney does not stop the heat from rising, because its a straight chimney. Mass stoves are an elaborate network of passages. They are designed this way intentionally so that as much mass as possible comes in to contact with the exhaust heat which warms all this brick, and then the brick (mass emits heat in multiple different areas) and eventually the exhaust (smoke) makes its way out. With this elaborate network of chimney there is much more pockets and channels for this cold air to be trapped (where it acts as a lid) . In some of these ovens the exhaust even travels horizontally at times, as if through a maze...heating all this mass. So it you go up top and start a fire closer to the outlet it will go up easier hence creating a suction (drafting upward) pulling the smoke up from the bottom.
@@billwilliams9897 , his talking about -40 to -50°C cold air. ..where in the USA is it that cold?
@@hulksmash8942 North Dakota, Minnesota,But that's irrelevant. Everyone knows wood stoves with longer chimneys/exhaust can take time to get drafting. Combine this with a multi chambered stove that is designed to emit heat in several different areas and it makes it even worse. The exhaust on these stoves does not go straight up and straight out. In fact they purposely design them to do the exact opposite. They want the exhaust/heat to stay in the stove as long as possible before leaving the building.
I’ve had an interest in these ovens for so long. I would hear about them from my dad as he was Belorussian and came to Canada as a kid. He had fond stories of his mother cooking on that stove and the baking. You explained it to an extent that gives great understanding. I would love to have one of these here in my place in the Canadian bush land.
1min into this video i came to the conclusion to that This guy is awesome
Your english is excellent and this was a facinating episode.
Not exactly sure why im watching this..??? But its cool i guess!?
He sounds Austrian or German with his accent. Am I wrong? Certainly doesn't sound Russian to me but I have a lot less experience listening to Russians speaking English than German speakers.
@@Chaos8282 as a dane myself he sounds Danish to me ;)
@@Chaos8282 Def Danish
@@hellalan Have one danish friend I speak to often from Copenhagen and that's a pretty unique dialect too. Maybe I need to watch more of his vids to see if I can catch it.
It’s like the house is designed around the chimney and oven, nothing is to far away from the heat source.
Ok and then he says exactly what my comment was 1 min later haha
LOVE this. all of it, video, fire place, beds, books, funky stuff.
Truly amazing.
Ever since I read Anastasia, I've become a bit obsessed with your country, Russia Russia Russia!!!! LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!!!!
Tons of love from Canada, xoxoxoxoxo
Lars.....THAT WAS GREAT! What a neat idea to have a bed over the stove/ oven! Thank you very much for showing us this! -40C is also -40F both are not very warm! BRRRrrrrrrr!!!!!!
It can get warm up there :)
breakfast in bed anyone?
@@JohnDoe-ff2fc That might work!
@@SurvivalRussia I bet! Better than too cold though!
He also said-50C thats -58F. Jesus no thanks
Don't know why but this is the best video I've seen in a long time.
Thanks!
It was interesting
Here in Czech rep. these kinds of ovens or chimneis are well known from all types of tales and songs. However it is not used anymore for a long time therefore it is very interesting to see this in real life. I can imagine it is very effective in cold winters.
My uncle actually built one like that 20 years ago (I am from SK) and as you say, it is SUPER effective.
The only difference is that he also used terracotta tiles.
I am curious about how these are built. Solid brick?
@@ronwest7930
Solid chammotte/grog bricks bound together by grog clay, covered with terracotta tiles.
As with any tiles, the owner can be quite creative because the tiles can be of different sizes, surface patterns and ornaments and colours.
When building an oven like that you create long almost horizontal passages of defined cross section area in the body of the oven for the smoke/burnt gazes to go through, before they get to a standard chimney.
As you can guess the purpose is to utilize the heat of the hot gases (as the gases pass their temperature to the bricks when going through) and not just the heat of the flame and embers.
Somewhere I read that with a standard oven the burnt gazes that leave chimney have temperature around 300 degrees C.
With the "terracotta oven" the gazes that leave the chimney only have about 150 degrees.
The difference is what makes the terracotta oven more efficient - more heat stays in the house.
Another amazing feature is that you don't have to put the wood in that often comparing to a standard oven and that results in a fact that you can leave the oven unattended for relatively long time and (for example) when you come back home from work, you don't have to set the fire again (as you usually have to when you have a standard fireplace or a standard oven).
Basically, you come from work and all you have to do is to put some wood in. The glowing embers which are still there will do the job.
The same when you wake up in the morning, you just put some wood in. No need to start the fire again.
I can compare because my dad has a proper fireplace while as I already mentioned, my uncle has a terracotta oven.
In my future house I will go for the terracotta oven, that's for sure.
With one difference:
I will try to combine those two, the terracotta oven and the fireplace, so I can have both the flames visible through a sealed glass door as in closed combustion fireplace and the heat transfer efficiency as in the terracotta oven.
@@GordyjSlavjanin Thanks for the reply.
Thanks for sharing how you live in bitter cold. Warms my heart here in USA.
"Everything is awesome, the funky way!" This guy is AWESOME
I love it... “I don’t know who will find this interesting but I have been asked”... 2 million views later lol I think a few people found it interesting
Thank you Lars for sharing your personal space with your followers. Do you remember mentioning that you may do some Mrs. Survival Russia cooking content ? This was a year or so ago and I am still looking forward to learning more about homestead cooking and food storage and seeing your still again. I wish you a speedy recovery with your knee.
@pjd412 Oi! Don't insult our extremely varied Irish cuisine! We have roast potatoes, boiled potatoes, baked potatoes... and that's about it xD
Love this video,
Great Job from America 🇺🇲💪👍.
Thanks 👍
I remember having this as a child. It was so cozy, though hard, and it was mostly occupied by cats. By the way, your house is so beautiful.
I recall reading about the "Russian Oven" when I lived in Wisconsin, about 40 years ago, and it fascinated me. So yeah, this was a very interesting episode.
That is a beautiful little guest house.
This is a small version though :)
Du er helt sikkert dansk
@@HenrikSnu I'm actually Danish on my mother side, her maiden name was Hanson. I'm French on my father side, but sadly, I don't speak either language. You could say I'm multilingual, I speak English, and American.😁🤪
Thanks for taking the time to explain the Russian ovens with more detail! I've recently watched several videos showing them being used with little description, so this is helpful. Keep up the great content, sir! Subscribed.