In the former countryside, wood stoves were particularly common, and every household would cook with them. However, in today's highly developed society, wood stoves have gradually faded out of people's lives, and wood stoves are rarely seen in some rural areas. City people don't know about it, and they don't know what's good about cooking with a wood stove. In fact, saving expenses and living costs is an important advantage of cooking with it.
In the past, when the economy was underdeveloped, rural areas were mostly poor places, and the per capita income was particularly low. If buying coal for cooking will increase the family's expenses, many people can't afford it, but cooking with firewood stoves doesn't cost money, especially in those places near the mountains, where some dead trees are cut down, some wild plants can be cooked at home, and the straws obtained from planting cotton and corn in backward rural areas can also be burned for cooking.
Reuse of resources is also an important benefit for people to cook with wood stoves, because people will burn a lot of firewood when cooking with wood stoves. These firewood include wild plants, branches, dead trees and straws of many plants, which are difficult to rot directly after collection. The ashes produced by burning and cooking them can be made into plant ash, which can be sprinkled on the ground for the second time, providing sufficient nutrition for the growth of plants, not wasting resources, but also improving fertility and increasing crop yield.
It is also an important welfare for people to cook with firewood stoves to make the dishes taste better and more fragrant. Everyone who grew up in the countryside knows that the food made with firewood stoves will have natural fireworks, and the smell of firewood will penetrate into the food, which makes people feel particularly good. Nowadays, the dishes cooked by electric cookers and pressure cookers will not have that taste, which is also an important reason why people still want to cook with firewood stoves until now. However, cooking with firewood stoves will also release some harmful gases, causing environmental pollution. Now, many areas have begun to ban the use of firewood stoves, which may disappear in the long river of history.