Cast iron frying pans and dutch ovens work best for cooking on your wood stove. You’ll need a wood stove trivet to regulate the level of heat under a cooking pot and reduce the likelihood of a wood stove kettle or steamer boiling dry. That’s because the tips of legs might scratch the top of your wood stove.

Making an Oven for Baking on Top of the Wood Stove All you need is a trivet that will elevate the food (working like the rack in a conventional oven). The trivet will keep the food from coming into direct contact with the surface of the stove so that it doesn’t overheat or burn.

Trivets are ideal for stovetop cooking and for protecting furniture and floors from hot pans or damp planters. Elevate cookware from wood stove top to help prevent scorching the bottom of cookware.

Simply put, a trivet is a metal stand that stood in the fireplace or on the hearth, upon which a kettle or a pot was placed when it was not actually hanging over the fire. Widely used in the 17th century, trivets were needed in the home for multiple daily household tasks.

Now when you need a little assurance your food won’t stick and scorch, use the trivet by placing it on your stove element.

Obviously a wood fired oven where the pizza is flicked by the flames and wood smoke would be the ideal but the next best thing is a pizza made and baked using your tiny wood stove. Pizza dough is easy to make but is also conveniently available as a dry mix or ready to roll! First you will need to make some pizza dough.

Place the potato in the hot ashes. If you have fireplace tools, then scoop some of the ashes and small embers from the bottom of the stove and cover the potato. Leave the potato in the log burner for one hour. Check to see if the potato is cooked to your likeness, if not return and check every 10 minutes.

Essential Wood Burning Stove Accessories

• Stove Fans. Stove fans are a great additional for your wood burning stove.
• Fire Screens and Fire Guards. A fire guard is an essential purchase if you have pets or small children.
• Stove Gloves and Gauntlet Gloves.
• Companion Set.
• Digital Moisture Meter.
• Log Storage.

Rare and unusual trivets can be worth $300 to $500. Other old trivets are made from brass, an alloy of copper and zinc, and bronze, an alloy of copper and tin. Bronze trivets were made mostly from about 1850 to 1900. It is very doubtful any bronze trivets were cast in this century.