Can you use an oil lantern inside of a wood stove for all night heat?
Can you use an oil lantern inside of a wood stove for all night heat?
Can you place a lit kerosene lantern in a wood stove that has a chimney? In a relatively small room such as a truck camper, would you be exposed to carbon dioxide or would it go out the chimney as if burning wood?
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I wouldn't; the odds of it tipping or otherwise having issues while you're sleeping aren't high, but the risks they present are.
Dumb question here : if it's inside of a wood burning stove does it really matter?
In my wood stove, at least, it would drip though into the ash catch, which is a much thinner metal than the cast iron stove body and not really meant to have something actively burning in it. Kerosene also likely burns hotter than wood.
So you'd have a too hot fire burning in all the wrong places in the stove, it might be ok and it might burn a hole through something and start a fire.
“Yo mom yo shits on fire”.
Good point.
some wood stoves have gratings or vents that burning oil could get through. exceedingly unlikely for sure, but measure the irritation vs the benefit - a fucking oil candle isn't going to put off enough heat to heat up the damned wood stove, much less the room the wood stove is in.
the potential risk is low, and with burning oil, risk is high, but the benefits are terrible so it's just not worth it.