When all hell breaks loose, can I be the cook for you all and this be the main kitchen?

Question for anyone who can answer this:

Is it possible and if so how can we convert gas and electric stoves into wood burning stoves and ovens?

How can we also run spring fed water to sinks?

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  • About the Stoves:
    Probably not without using wood gas to fuel a generator.

    About the water:
    Use a windmill to pump water into elevated storage tanks and the height will allow you to use existing piping though at reduced pressure

  • See if you can find a very, very, old Boy Scout Manual from the early 1900's...at an old bookstore or at a library book sale.
    Or, even on Amazon.com...
    That old handbook has darn near everything you would want to know about survival in it, including how to make an outdoor stove and use wood...
    Also, Amazon did have copies of the old FoxFire series of survival books.
  • Absolutely!!!

    • If you are talking about burning wood in a gas or electric stove, I'm sure you know the metal is not thick enough

      • I have a wood burning Buck Stove Co. , We use it all winter long to help on the electric bill. Our last bad winter storm left us with out electric for 14 days. We cooked on it to. 

  • With regards to water you have to hire a Well digging company,they first determine you have water running close by then they dig till they reach the water and then it is pumped to the surface via 6in pipe.You can get those people that walk around with tree branches to help find water,i,m sorry but i can not remember what they are called.Good Luck!!

    • They are water witches or dowsers, although I don't know if the word 'witch' would be taken kindly? If no electricity is available for pumping the water, find a freeze-proof manual pump: https://www.lehmans.com/c-274-water-pumps.aspx

  • These are my first choice in wood burning stoves:

    http://www.elmirastoveworks.com/fireview.aspx (actually the one without the gas burners)

    http://www.esse.com/range-cookers/990/

    http://www.esse.com/range-cookers/wn-wd-w35/

    This is my second choice if I ended up with a small, snug home:

    http://www.esse.com/range-cookers/ironheart/

    I used to have a wood burning stove but the firebox failed and I couldn't find a replacement or somebody to repair it. I ended up giving it to one of my kids for a decorative item.

    Short story: When I had first bought a microwave oven (after much foot dragging), we had it broken in on Thanksgiving '84 by nuking the turkey in the microwave (just to see if it could handle that) and cooking everything else in and on the wood burning stove, pies and all !! That ol' cook stove was our sole source of heat during the winter, living in an old converted military cavalry storage building. :)

  • PVC!!!

    • Yeah, you would have to buy all the materials(Piping, Elbows and Glue) before the crash and put them somewhere where they don't get ripped off, but I would also buy a few small Solar pumps and a Storage Tank to put up by fast moving stream, preferably Clean water, Mount the solar pump, pull the water source into the tank, have a treating mechanism set up to treat the water (Chlorine bleach will do) or send directly to the house, it is not pretty, but it gets the job done.

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