Before Your First Fire: The 20-Minute Stove Check Almost Nobody Does

A 72-year-old Amish carpenter walks through the twenty-minute stove and flue check he runs on his own place every fall before the first fire — the cap, the firebox, the gasket, the creosote stages, the test fire, and the carbon monoxide alarm nobody tests. Practical, unhurried, off-grid heat wisdom for a cold season. I gathered these old ways into a small book you can keep in a kitchen drawer — it is over at amishlevi.com.