Comments on: Ben Franklin, the original open saucey badass http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/07/12/ben-franklin-the-original-open-saucey-badass/ This can all be made better. Ready? Begin. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:13:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jon Kilminster http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/07/12/ben-franklin-the-original-open-saucey-badass/comment-page-1/#comment-29822 Jon Kilminster Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:21:35 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/07/12/ben-franklin-the-original-open-saucey-badass/#comment-29822 First time I've come across this, and I'm going to have to find a use for it somehow in some promo literature. I have no idea if the design of this stove went on into mass production, though I'm sure some people would have been pleased if it had... At the time, before the manufacture of soapstone stoves, heating a room with a tin stove was a nightmare, as it radiated too much heat when close by but nothing when a few feet away. You had two choices, burned or freezing! I think it was Mark Twain who waxed lyrical about soapstone stoves, which he'd experienced in northern Germany. Could be wrong about that, but I'm sure he called the old metal stoves a "wood-eating monster" at some time. He certainly said: "Be always careful not to take too much from an experience. A cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will never again sit upon a hot stove lid. Nor upon a cold stove lid." Good stuff First time I’ve come across this, and I’m going to have to find a use for it somehow in some promo literature. I have no idea if the design of this stove went on into mass production, though I’m sure some people would have been pleased if it had… At the time, before the manufacture of soapstone stoves, heating a room with a tin stove was a nightmare, as it radiated too much heat when close by but nothing when a few feet away. You had two choices, burned or freezing!

I think it was Mark Twain who waxed lyrical about soapstone stoves, which he’d experienced in northern Germany. Could be wrong about that, but I’m sure he called the old metal stoves a “wood-eating monster” at some time. He certainly said: “Be always careful not to take too much from an experience. A cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will never again sit upon a hot stove lid. Nor upon a cold stove lid.”

Good stuff

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