Have you used a wood burning stove?!

Grew up in a house where we used a wood burning stove to heat our house and a wood cook stove to cook on. The heat feels so good but it certainly isn't a even heat. Back rooms are cold.
Cooking on the wood cook stove was fine. Having the stove in the kitchen also helped heat that end of the house too.

cooked and baked on one for about 8 years.
My feeling about them?
Its a great way to burn bits of wood and paper and get something out of it; heat and cooked food.
With a good old fashioned wood and coal burning kitchen range, it takes very little to get it up and running.
My kids and I had an old 5 gallon bucket and we would go for a walk and take the bucket with us, picking up small sticks, bits of wood, paper garbage and around the barnyard(we lived on an old farm stead that was chock full of odds and ends of burning material)we would find corn cobs too.
All that would make a quick hot fire and we called it cookie wood because we would go back to the house and make a batch of cookies, burning our bucket of stuff to heat the oven.
I baked bread, cake, cookies, many Thanksgiving dinners, canned fruits and vegetables all on my wood stove.

Had one in my deer camp for years. I love the heat, they do well heating up smaller areas. they work better then anything when the electricity is out due to an ice storm or lines down for other reasons, and you can make great biscuits on them, heat up food, and cook your meals, at least if you are a good cook. I'm not! But I can make a good pan of biscuits, and fry up bacon and eggs, even toast my bread. on the stove.

Messy. Heat the house unevenly....super hot where the stove is....cold in the bedrooms. Only heated soup on it when power was out. Used for heat only but kept a kettle of water on it to make humidity. Scary when little ones were about.

Yes, I heated my house with one for years. Very nice penetrating heat, but a lot of work. I only re- heated soup and stew on it

I haven't.