A very handy room in deed, Kathie :)

Thank you for sharing this... as I had never heard of this before... nice to see
my seemingly random brain farts have been tried and are true with years of
backing :)

Now I just need to build one of my own...

Timothy...



> --- On Tue, 7/7/09, kathie boelkes <kathielee02@...>
> wrote:
>
> The Amish have summer kitchens with 2 burner kerosene
> cooktops.  They usually have 3 sets of those.  They also
> build an "oven" with a thermostat which can be purchased
> from an Amish for about $100 and they last forever.  There
> are racks on the inside.  They bake in them all summer out
> there.  They just set them on the kerosene cook tops. Their
> summer kitchens have cement floors with a drain for washing
> the floor.  But it's large enough to be a mud room, so to
> speak, too.  If I can downsize, I am definitely having a
> summer kitchen like that.  Oh, the door to the basement is
> there, too. 
>
> One thing they do out there in the winter....they use
> fiberglass tubs to bathe in.  They hang them on the wall in
> the summer kitchen in the winter time.  Then, they take
> their baths in there.  If it's really cold, they use a
> kerosene heater to warm the area for their baths.  They can
> drain the tub right there because of the floor drain.
>
> A very handy room!
>
> Kathie