The wood stove in the corner of the 5th floor of Ms. Mai Vuong’s family. In the photo, Ms. Vuong’s mother is wrapping banh chung for Tet. At first, the idea of ​​building a wood stove on the 5th floor of Ms. Vuong was opposed by her husband for fear of fire and explosion, causing heat to pour downstairs … But after hearing her persuasion, Ms. Vuong’s husband – an architect, Find out reasonable solutions for the wood stove on the 5th floor of the house. The kitchen was built with refractory bricks by the family, built away from the wall, creating an open slot to reduce the heat of the oven. Kitchen smoke is led up to the roof through a chimney 1m away from the roof. The stove is in a fixed area, the firewood is kept in a separate area to avoid the ashes scattered on flammable items. At the same time, the whole house is equipped with a smoke alarm system, each floor is equipped with a fire extinguisher. The 5th floor area of ​​Ms. Vuong’s family is also a space with an open side, instead of being enclosed in 4 walls. Here, in addition to the wood stove, she also sets a dining table, grows flowers for family and friends to eat, drink tea, and chat with. On the Facebook group, the AHN account said: “My family is okay, but it’s too dangerous for the surrounding houses if anything happens. My house cooks from itself, the electric system switches itself off and cooks at night. After that, you have to unplug all the wires from the socket “. “The front of the house is empty space, there is no house behind the house with 5 floors”, Ms. Vuong explained before the ideas that the kitchen could endanger the surrounding community. The wood stove is located on the 5th floor with open space. After building a kitchen, she returned to her hometown to buy galangal, rice husks, peanut shells, and collect longan firewood from her garden for fuel. The old cast iron pots in the past were also “spared” to Hanoi to cook rice. “I really like the kitchen up here, so every time I have time I go to the 5th floor to cook for family and friends to come and play. I make all the dishes every day from the kitchen, from cooking rice to fish storage, boiling meat, baking dishes … There are rustic dishes that only wood cookers can do, also my friends come to play at home. For example, burnt rice from a cast iron pot, ”shared Ms. Vuong. Thanks to the wood stove, last Tet, her family was able to cook 4 pots of banh chung. From fried beef … … until fried beans are cooked on a wood stove. The kitchen is built of flame retardant material. The wood stove of Ms. Vuong after sharing on Facebook received many compliments and expressed her excitement. There are also many opinions that the wood stove only satisfies the taste of the country for a moment, but it entails many other inconveniences in cleaning the pots, smoke in the eyes, hot when cooking in the summer, especially. especially the risk of fire and explosion. However, for someone who likes country feeling like Vuong, those shortcomings can be completely overcome. “To me, cooking with wood stove is very relaxing and enjoyable” – Ms. Vuong said.

Ms. Mai Vuong said that at first, she only decided to build a stainless steel grill and then decided to build a wood stove. Talking with us, Ms. Mai Vuong (living in Hanoi) said that making firewood in the house is an idea derived from her hobby of baking and cooking dishes with home flavors. On the occasion of fixing the house, she and her husband decided to make the kitchen that they both cherished for a long time. “My childhood is associated with a simple wood stove. But I never thought of building a kitchen in the city like this”, Ms. Mai Vuong said. According to Ms. Mai Vuong, who was born in the countryside, the memories of dishes from the wood stove are always in mind … Wherever you go, you can remember the smell of kitchen smoke in your hands, hair, and food. how to eat so dear In Ms. Mai’s feeling, the food cooked with the wood stove is more delicious than the other kitchen. Building a wood stove in the middle of the city is not easy because the house area is not as large as in the countryside. Initially, Mai Vuong and her husband only intended to make stainless steel portable BBQ stoves. However, after the couple discussed, it was decided to build a stove to cook firewood. “The bricks that we use to build the kitchen are all refractory, the price is 70,000 VND / piece, the mortar is also refractory. The material that makes this stove is different from ordinary building materials” Ms. Mai Vuong expressed. The kitchen is placed at the corner of the wall, built about 3cm from the wall of the house, the oven has a brick outer shell, the inner layer in direct contact with cooking is used with fireproof bricks, above there is a chimney about 1m high with the roof . Before embarking on construction, Ms. Mai Vuong and her husband consulted many samples of fireplaces abroad. Fortunately, my husband is an architect, so it does not take too long to design. After building the kitchen, Ms. Mai Vuong bought galangal, rice husks, peanut shells and picked up firewood from the countryside garden and brought it up. She even brought a set of cast-iron and aluminum cookware from the countryside so that the kitchen in the middle of the street had a picture of the old wood stove. Since the kitchen, Ms. Mai Vuong often cooks dishes for both family and friends. Everyone who enjoys this dish cooked from the wood stove also compliments the delicious kumquat, especially the scorched rice dish cooked in a cast iron pot is loved by friends of Ms. Mai Vuong’s family. Although she has a new kitchen, Mai Vuong’s family still uses two parallel kitchens, the rooftop stove is used when practicing friends on weekends because it is suitable for baking dishes.

Ms. Vuong Mai shared on the culinary forum, the idea of ​​building a wood stove on the 5th floor of a house in the street was initially opposed by her husband due to fear of explosion, heat downstairs … but then she was convinced. husband.

And then, the wood kitchen right in the high-rise house of Hanoi was formed. The kitchen was built with refractory bricks by Mai and her husband, built away from the wall, creating openings to reduce the heat of the oven …

When the construction was completed, Mai returned to her hometown to buy galangal, pineapple, peanut shell and pick up longan firewood from her garden and find some cast-iron pots to cook rice as well.

Ms. Mai shared her idea of ​​the wood stove: “I am a rural girl, so memories of dishes from the wood stove. I miss very much … the smell of kitchen smoke enters her hands, in, hair, into food. The food is so dear, the food is also amazingly delicious. ”

“I do all the daily dishes of fish stock, cook rice with cast iron to burn, boil meat, grill fish, grill meat …”, Ms. Mai said. And now her kitchen is a place to regularly welcome friends and relatives to enjoy dishes cooked from firewood.

Mai’s words made the forum members extremely admired and touched.

“When I was a child, every time I went back to my hometown, the first thing I did was rush to the kitchen, to see if my grandmother was there, to sit with her by the aromatic fire, to enjoy the happy and simple moments of hometown … “, many people recalled their childhood through sharing of Ms. Mai.

The firewood kitchen was built by Ms. Mai’s house on the 5th floor of the house

Stir-fried beef with green onion is made on a wood stove

The old pots of parents in the countryside should be reused (in the countryside, nowadays, it is rare to cook firewood, let alone in the city)

Roasted peanuts

Fry the meat

Boiled rice cooked in a cast iron pot, which friends often order Ms. Mai

Cast iron pot to cook rice, fish grilled on wood stove

Braised fish with soil

Fried tofu

Boiled potatoes

Last Tet, Ms. Mai’s family boiled 4 pots of banh chung. Everything is carefully and meticulously made by her family and boiled by wood stove.

The lovely wood stove, making all the dishes of Ms. Mai’s house