Clean and Refreshing Rosemary Citrus Simmer Pot After A Wood Burner Incident

Yikes my house smells like charred wood! Yes that’s right I had a malfunction with the pellet stove and I woke up at 3 AM smelling charred wood, something familiar to setting around a campfire that’s been put out.

I really didn’t want to crawl out of bed but I knew I had to make sure the cabin wasnt burning down, so I crawled out from underneath my nice warm quilt and headed down to the basement to see what was going on.

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I first turned the lights on and took a good look around for smoke. I didn’t see any hanging in the air and the smoke detecters never went off so I figured I’d caught whatever the problem was pretty quickly.

Luckily the pellet burner had just went out do to a factory installed door seal put in incorrectly, but that was after 2 hours of research that I figured that out, any who I resolved that issue but still had a stinky house.

I decided to clean the air with whatever I had laying around and make myself a simmer pot. I had 4 lemons that looked pretty rough, one grapefruit and a bunch of rosemary sprigs. I sliced them all up and let them simmer on the stove until the smell had vanished.  

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I’ve since removed the door from the pellet burner, removed the glass, fixed the seal and I’m back in business and the cabin smells fresh and clean again.