Mike and Rudy:

Sounds like so far, you two are the in-house experts on using cook stoves. If
possible, please contact [log in to unmask] directly.

Bryan
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> [log in to unmask] wrote:
> I want to restore  a cookstove that I have in my possession.  The Majestic Co
> does not have any info.  I would like to know how to use it to actually cook
> something.   I would prefer not to resort to trial and error if I don't have
> to.
>
> Thank you in advance for your assistance.
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Mike Devonshire wrote:

> Brian-
>
> I have not, but my great grandfather in Dayton did, and I visited him for
> short periods annually for several years, from age six until age twelve. He
> was up at five each morning and did the shake-down stoke-up in preparation
> for breakfast. I dumped the ashes. The thing pretty much carried on by itself
> and he tended to it irregularly. My most vivid memory is the Maxwell House
> coffee can filled to the brim with bacon and sausage grease which lived on
> top of the stove. In the morning the stuff was congealed, and by mid-day it
> was liquid. The supply was kept filled by the daily ration of fat from the
> above meats. He lived to be 110 years old. My great aunt now has the stove
> but does not use it.