Bower I love your place and sometimes I wish I could live up there.
Another thing I do is to cook with cast iron most of the time.
My largest Dutch Oven has spent many a time on a charcoal fire frying fish and chicken.
Once it was heated up a few sticks every now and then was all it took to keep up frying temperatures.
This reduces energy use not only outside but inside on a stove.
Unlike thin aluminum and steel kettles that dissipate heat as fast as you can pour it on.
We did this when we didn't have air conditioning in the main house just the bedroom.
I also kept the neighborhood in hot peppers with no till.
About 100 pepper plants all together.
Left clippers on the porch so they could cut the peppers off and not tear up the plants.
Transplanted Cajuns do love their Tabasco peppers.
