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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>You may want to buy/build a pot skirt (similar to a wok support - if you've seen those). That will help the heat transfer, I don't know about the carbon monoxide. This is a good, if slightly technical analysis of pot skirts:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><a href="http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/content/pot-skirt-investigat">http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/content/pot-skirt-investigat</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Very Important!!! PLEASE keep opening your windows/doors. With no stove pipe (no above the cooking zone ventilation to the outside), and a very tight house, those CO readings you are seeing are depressingly normal, even in the most efficient stoves, that's why venting is so important. Shoot, I can set off the CO alarm at my house on my electric range in my drafty kitchen. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>:-) Erin <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> greenbuilding-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org [mailto:greenbuilding-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>KTOT (g)<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, February 18, 2012 9:47 AM<br><b>To:</b> Green Building<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Greenbuilding] [BULK] Re: Question on tight house, carbon monoxide<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Yes, the canning and soup pots are larger than regular pots, significantly larger than the circumference of the flame. No soot, however.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:Home-NRG@dnaco.net" title="Home-NRG@dnaco.net">Bob klahn</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Sent:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Saturday, February 18, 2012 12:10 AM<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>To:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:greenbuilding@lists.bioenergylists.org" title="greenbuilding@lists.bioenergylists.org">greenbuilding@lists.bioenergylists.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Subject:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Re: [Greenbuilding] [BULK] Re: Question on tight house,carbon monoxide<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <br>One other thought though, on part of the original problem (based on an assumption - always risky, so I'll check).<br>If the canning pot is larger than your normal pots and pans (most seem to be), could the key to the high CO production be that the flame is impinging on ( flaring out across) the bottom of the pot? This will tend to reduce the combustion efficiency (in extremes even soot up the pot bottom,educe combustion efficiency and increase the CO production.<br><br>I'd expect the oven to be set to burn relatively efficiently, so we don't hear of cooks keeling over, and produce less CO even when on for longer times.<br><br>All speculation, but I bit my boot so deeply on the last one, I had <br>Bob Klahn<br><br></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I actually watch them quite closely to keep them from boiling over. The CO level goes way up before they do occasionally boil over, however, definitely. The CO level goes up when the flames are burning properly blue. <br><br>No way could I have the stove vented outside when the house was built without huge additional cost--I had an expert builder and confirmed this at the time. Thus the alternative, a vent with carbon filter. No, it is not against code, at least not here, definitely. <br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>