Using cookstove in summertime heat

[Flagwaver]

Still thinking about cookstoves. And canning with one in summer heat.

If you can't put it outdoors in an outbuilding (summer kitchen) and have to have it inside your main house, it will get unbearably hot in the house.

I've got a corner of my family room where I could hook a cookstove into my fireplace flue. There's a door to the outside nearby. I'm thinking of going out about 5 feet from the stove (on 2 sides) and putting in some kind of removable insulated walls with door. To block the heat from the rest of the room/house.

In summer I could keep the screen door open and maybe some heat would go out that way.

Maybe I could sit outside in the shade shelling beans listening for the canner to rattle.

Can anyone think of how to build movable insulated walls that could be erected for this purpose? Wish I could draw what I'm thinking of here to explain better. Hope it's clear.

I'm thinking of a summer kitchen inside the house with movable insulated walls. What type of material is lightweight and doesn't let heat penetrate?

 

[booger]

Good timing. I've been searching summer kitchens off and on for a couple of hours now. (DH and I want to build a combination summer kitchen/butcher room.) What I'm reading is that people just moved the stove twice a year. In the spring, it was moved out to the summer kitchen and, in the fall, it was moved back indoors.

I haven't seen anything about partitioning off the stove, though. If I come across anything like what you're talking about, I'll post it.