Name that latch. Young people visiting this kitchen a while back began heating the puu/pliit (wood burning cooking stove) through the door on the left. They were mistaken, since that is the leiva/ahi (bread oven) in which you make a fire, rake the coals forward and then place the pätsid (loaves) within. However, in order to heat the pliidi/pealne (stovetop) and prae/ahi ("meat oven", broiler) – the latch on the right, you must light a fire through the latched opening (ahju/suu – "stove mouth") on the stove's right end, not visible here. Heating this kind of tile stove (potikividest ahi) simultaneously heats the soe/müür "warm masonry wall" behind the stove, as well as the adjacent room. Photos and text: Riina Kindlam
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The stove can also be in the corner of the kitchen. Warms 2 walls and 3 rooms at once.
Herbs (ürdid) drying on the bedroom side of the soemüür -- warm wall.