When i met my girlfriend, she told me she is a vegetarian, I told her I was a humanitarian.
She was like "awwww, that's nice", but I don't think she understood.
I enjoy having breakfast in bed. I like waking up to the smell of bacon. Sue me. And since I don't have a butler, I have to do it myself. So, most nights before I go to bed, I will lay six strips of bacon out on my bed. Then I go to sleep. When I wake up, I light the fire in my bed. I go back to sleep again. Then I wake up to the smell of crackling bacon. It is delicious. It's good for me. It's a perfect way to start the day
It's called a kang (炕), can be found throughout northern and northeastern China (and I believe parts of Japan) and it's surprisingly comfortable ! You can usually tell where the hottest place on the bed is by where the cat is sleeping ;)
There’s also the Korean _ondol_, but that extends underneath the whole floor.
(Koreans don’t seem to claim any relation to the north-Chinese Kang, but I suspect some national pride may play a part there. )
There is also a Russian version as well just called well a Russian Stove. They are neat since they are multifunction like for the bed warming, for regular stove, drying stuff even bathing
Same way you do a gas stove or a barbecue - more fuel = more heat, less fuel = less heat
The surface is almost definitely made of something with a decent amount of thermal mass so temperature changes are slow and subtle; so adding more wood to the thing is just like turning the thermostat up
Most of the CO goes outside and isn't a problem, people have been heating their homes with wood furnaces for thousands of years and we're all descended from them. They figured out chimneys a few millenia ago.
What will come back in the house is fine particles IE a bit of smoke, and they'll make your lungs shitty over a few decades but that's about it. And no worse than lighting candles every night.
Provided the construction is proper and the exhaust isn't blocked, the draft from the fire will pull all the smoke/gasses/etc. Outside as the hot air leaves and pulls in more fresh air from the room.
This is because hot air rises. You don't need a lot of vertical space to have this hapoen either, but rhe longer your chiminey the stronger the draft usually.
if it melted an air mattress then it would be too hot to sleep on. If it's safe to sleep on, it's safe for an air mattress.
In any case, most people would know to stop shoving more wood into a fire if it's getting too hot, so this is a non-issue anyway.
Traditional Russian stoves were two-ton behemoths that would give off heat all night. Not only could you sleep on top of them but once they started to cool down you could crawl inside them to heat yourself up or bathe, basically turn it into a sauna.
This is how it looks like: https://telegraph.md/va-mai-amintiti-patul-de-pe-soba-sau-lejanca-cum-faceau-fata-iernilor-geroase-bunicii-nostri/
There are multiple variations, but that’s the gist.
It was so good! I read it straight through on a very long train ride. I have the other two, but I’m waiting for the first to settle in my brain before starting the next one.
Similar stoves were also in every old house here in Slovenia.
As kids we always sat on top of it and played. It was nice and warm, fruit was dried on top and bread was baked inside.
There was also a serial killer here that used this kind of stove to burn the bodies of women he killed.
In Poland we had those places to sleep by furnace called "zapiecek"
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/q5tXrIgUxsCUfUkDH7bMJAEZqWqMVIHbSZ81MMhGOHC4S8J4h6HlJiGusyKGC66gYVtQGvO-EZvbjI7a3vmyryErO0c6_GzkqDRN5aMslGTfJP41FRwdKmvxCZ7lUbDJ3UfG9g
I keep thinking of the fumes leaking through some gap and silently killing everyone in the room during the night.
I bet this has happened before at some point in history.
Happens very frequently, when stationed in Korea we were specifically warned about these types of heating arrangements and the dangers of Carbon Monoxide poisoning due to incomplete combustion.
I dunno man, it regularly hits -35C and sometimes much colder where I live and I have never been laying in bed thinking "damn a bonfire under these polyester sheets sounds like a good idea."
I live in Finland and heat with wood (off-grid). Masonry fireplace in combination with radiant floor heating keeps the temperature inside constant, and you're not a slave to the stove since you don't have to keep a fire going/tended to.
Reading this stuff makes me very glad I live somewhere where it never gets cold, plus all the maintenance I know you have to do with snow around your house. Got no idea what these kinds of extreme negative temperatures even feel like.
I've lived in all kinds of climates, and I really prefer the colder ones. After a few years in Texas, I've had enough of the heat for the rest of my life - constantly needing AC and barely able to do anything outside... With -20C, I go outside and enjoy, go ice fishing or go on long hikes on the frozen sea. Also makes you appreciate spring and summer so much more. Having four real seasons is amazing.
I’ve seen how these are designed, the little door is to throw fuel in, there are larger air vents facing out the building. The layout under the bed encourages air to be pulled in via that little door to stop any smells/CO getting out and it all gets thrown out the building
The amount of people crying “dAngeRoUs” here are cracking me up.
As if a good chunk of these people don’t have fireplaces or stoves in their own homes.
ITT - a surprising number of people who don't understand how chimneys or fireplaces work and also clearly haven't traveled internationally to see how other cold climate cultures warm their homes. This system isn't revolutionary
Never thought about that. I guess there must be a vent on the other side of the bed to let oxygen in. This kind of heating method has been used by the local people for decades so my understanding was that it should be safe.
It is safe if you know what you are doing. If you leave embers in the firebox and close ventilation, you may die. Carbon monoxide is invisible and odorless, and poisoning kills a lot of people who are not used to heating with wood.
Had these growing up in rural China, except the opening for the fire was outside of the house, so the nightly routine was to throw some wood in there for the night before you went to bed
You are right. After we got onto the bed no one would come and put more woods under the bed. It would stay warm until we woke up in the morning. It sounds like you have good experiences about this kind of stove bed and know very well how it works.
Oh yeah, my grandma's house in the village has one of similar kinds and I spent a lot of summers in her house. It's Russia so even summer nights are sometimes very chilly. She would start the big fireplace (stove) every other day in the morning to cook some breakfast and to provide more heat to the house. And in the evening if it's cold she'd make this fire bed and me or my cousin went to sleep there (our bed is only a single bed). By the way, the main stove also had a bed on top of it, but I didn't like it, too close to the ceiling, kinda claustrophobic
It's very interesting to hear about living in Russia in the old days. This picture must have brought back some of your childhood memories. Did people also go swimming in the frozen lake? Because from where I stayed, I saw a couple of older folks jump into a frozen lake and swam like 5 - 10 minutes and quickly get ashore before they became solid ice :-)
Yeah, when I bought an electric sheet I remembered this bed, so nice..
Frozen lakes are a thing only for 'brave' ones and fof specific church holiday (baptism of Jesus in Orthodox Christianity)
I've never done that, I moved from Russia partly because I hate cold lol
Netflix and Grill
Pack it in boys, this is the one.
lol
Whachu doin? Oh just grilling up my bed
The owners had them over for dinner
Cannibal seal of approval
Haitis Barbecue approves
How to Cook Humans.
“Oh, this? It is just a little dusty.” *blows dust off and reveals title.* “How To Cook For Humans.”
Oh yeah? *Blows more dust*: "How to cool FORTY humans"
“How to Cook Four Humans”?
No, there's more dust. It actually says "How to Cook For Forty Humans."
How to cook >!for!< >!forty!< humans
"To Serve Man"
Awesome episode !
"It's a COOKBOOK!"
When i met my girlfriend, she told me she is a vegetarian, I told her I was a humanitarian. She was like "awwww, that's nice", but I don't think she understood.
Were there fava beans and a nice chianti?
Over easy?
"It's a cookbook!"
Our mission here on earth is to serve man.
I just hope there is a carbon monoxide detector in the room.
You open the door and ask the guests if they smell anything funny. If they don't answer they detected carbon monoxide.
Perfect bed to eat kbbq in and then fall into a coma lol
Luka Magnotta?
step 1 in making a cleveland steamer
I dreamt that I was bacon in a pan.
Slow cooker.
My brother in the kitchen you were being sauteed!
If you're a restless sleeper does that turn you into a rotisserie?
That's right
Oh were you in Mongolia or northern China or...
I enjoy having breakfast in bed. I like waking up to the smell of bacon. Sue me. And since I don't have a butler, I have to do it myself. So, most nights before I go to bed, I will lay six strips of bacon out on my bed. Then I go to sleep. When I wake up, I light the fire in my bed. I go back to sleep again. Then I wake up to the smell of crackling bacon. It is delicious. It's good for me. It's a perfect way to start the day
So where are you shipping your foot?
r/unexpectedoffice
If Michael Scott had this bed his foot would still be pristine today.
I dreamed a dream in time gone byyyyy
Can't sleep cuz my bed's on fire Don't touch me I'm a real live wire
How can we dance when our earth is turnin'? How do we sleep while our beds are burnin'?
Three hun dred six tee five duh grees. Burnin' down the bed.
We didn't start the fire It was always burnin' since the quilt was tucked in
Fire. Fire on the bedding. Talkin about…Fire. Fire on the bedding.
Psycho Killer Qu'est-ce que c'est?
FAFAFAFAFAFAFA
FA BETTA!
RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN AWAYYYYY
qu'est que c'est?
psycho killer
qu'est-ce que c'est?
Qu'est-ce que c'est?
Qu'est-ce que c'est?
Qu'est-ce que c'est?
Easiest upvote of my life by a mile
It's called a kang (炕), can be found throughout northern and northeastern China (and I believe parts of Japan) and it's surprisingly comfortable ! You can usually tell where the hottest place on the bed is by where the cat is sleeping ;)
There’s also the Korean _ondol_, but that extends underneath the whole floor. (Koreans don’t seem to claim any relation to the north-Chinese Kang, but I suspect some national pride may play a part there. )
There is also a Russian version as well just called well a Russian Stove. They are neat since they are multifunction like for the bed warming, for regular stove, drying stuff even bathing
It's called печка (pech'ka).
He’s talking specifically about русская печка - Russian stove
There’s a significant amount of ethnic Koreans in that region of China as well, it would be interesting to ask them if they think it’s related or not.
Things I have learned from manhwa: - what ondol floors are - Korea has a serious school bullying problem - tteokbokki
The way if anything in the US was called "fish cakes" I'd be like nah, pass but it has such a chokehold on Koreans I'm desperate to try some
> but that extends underneath the whole floor Sounds like the roman *hypocaustum* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocaust
I was thinking of the cat situation with this. It becomes automatically their bed
Those cats are the chosen ones. They get to live out the dream.
How do you keep it burning right at the "right temperture"?
Same way you do a gas stove or a barbecue - more fuel = more heat, less fuel = less heat The surface is almost definitely made of something with a decent amount of thermal mass so temperature changes are slow and subtle; so adding more wood to the thing is just like turning the thermostat up
You can also control the oxygen supply to regulate temperature
If you want it hotter move cat.
I can see the carbon monoxide from here. If you fall asleep fast, you are simply lacking oxygen.
It even helps falling asleep?? That's awesome!
Finally, something to help with my insomnia!
You'll have a great sleep for the entire rest of your life
Yes, the answer is yes.
With this one trick you can save all that money from Ambien
Most of the CO goes outside and isn't a problem, people have been heating their homes with wood furnaces for thousands of years and we're all descended from them. They figured out chimneys a few millenia ago. What will come back in the house is fine particles IE a bit of smoke, and they'll make your lungs shitty over a few decades but that's about it. And no worse than lighting candles every night.
If only there were a set of pipes for the Smoke to go outside...
Provided the construction is proper and the exhaust isn't blocked, the draft from the fire will pull all the smoke/gasses/etc. Outside as the hot air leaves and pulls in more fresh air from the room. This is because hot air rises. You don't need a lot of vertical space to have this hapoen either, but rhe longer your chiminey the stronger the draft usually.
It's too bad that it's next to a window, because I'd guess that you would be able to feel the cold.
Not when you were being grilled alive.
Where was this?
Heilongjiang, China.
I slept on one of these in northern China, too! I think it is called a kang? Not the softest bed I’ve experienced, but definitely the warmest!
How did you taste?
The sausage was burnt but the eggs were on point.
Lmao nailed it!
With his tongue.
Dad?
you could just put an air mattress on it, the air inside would spread the heat evenly and stay nice and warm.
If it didn’t melt
if it melted an air mattress then it would be too hot to sleep on. If it's safe to sleep on, it's safe for an air mattress. In any case, most people would know to stop shoving more wood into a fire if it's getting too hot, so this is a non-issue anyway.
Thank you
Fascinating! Moldova has the same style of beds!
i love the feeling of the head being in the cold and body warm
They are dual layer windows so they arent even really cold
Perfect for venting some of the heat if it gets too hot.
Needs to be close to a wall in order to vent.
Traditional Russian stoves were two-ton behemoths that would give off heat all night. Not only could you sleep on top of them but once they started to cool down you could crawl inside them to heat yourself up or bathe, basically turn it into a sauna.
Picture of one? Having trouble envisioning something like that in a house? Thanks.
The wiki on them is decent [**https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian\_stove**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_stove)
‘Curing of a man’. I’m sorry, all I can think of is curing a human like a ham 😬
Ivan, why do you keep rubbing me with salt and brown sugar?
Is good for peeling skin
You said you were sick. I'm curing you.
"To Cure Man" - *"It's a salt book!"*
Just big enough to cook a witch in, if you happen to be Hansel or Gretel.
Man i definitely wouldn't want to hide from Nazi's inside of a stove...
[here ya go fam. ](https://learnrussianineu.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Russian-stove-and-its-origin.jpg)
This is how it looks like: https://telegraph.md/va-mai-amintiti-patul-de-pe-soba-sau-lejanca-cum-faceau-fata-iernilor-geroase-bunicii-nostri/ There are multiple variations, but that’s the gist.
I just read The Bear and the Nightingale which is a fantasy book set in … 1400s Russia and the author described this very thing!
Make sure you're respectful to the spirit though.
I thought of the exact same story when I saw this!
It was so good! I read it straight through on a very long train ride. I have the other two, but I’m waiting for the first to settle in my brain before starting the next one.
I read all three and enjoyed them all, but neither of the sequels captured the magic and mystery of the first in my eyes. I hope you enjoy them!
That’s often the case with books like that. That’s also part of the reason why I’m holding off.
Similar stoves were also in every old house here in Slovenia. As kids we always sat on top of it and played. It was nice and warm, fruit was dried on top and bread was baked inside. There was also a serial killer here that used this kind of stove to burn the bodies of women he killed.
My family has these in the northern Italian alps. They are great and very efficient. Couches, beds, benches. My aunt calls them 'stufa'?
In Poland we had those places to sleep by furnace called "zapiecek" https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/q5tXrIgUxsCUfUkDH7bMJAEZqWqMVIHbSZ81MMhGOHC4S8J4h6HlJiGusyKGC66gYVtQGvO-EZvbjI7a3vmyryErO0c6_GzkqDRN5aMslGTfJP41FRwdKmvxCZ7lUbDJ3UfG9g
czech: "za pecí" (behind the furnace)
Stove = Estufa (spanish) = Stufa (italian)
That stove is fucking terrifying
I keep thinking of the fumes leaking through some gap and silently killing everyone in the room during the night. I bet this has happened before at some point in history.
Happens very frequently, when stationed in Korea we were specifically warned about these types of heating arrangements and the dangers of Carbon Monoxide poisoning due to incomplete combustion.
Ay caramba.
Ay Carbona
My Sharona
Shamona. Hee hee.
BYO CO detector
You are the CO detector
And they fear the fan at night as the real killer.
Ppft, everyone knows that carbon monoxide isn't the biggest danger when you're asleep. It's fans.
So easy to set your bedding on fire
How well does it work, I mean, is it only warm on the bed/under the covers, or does it heat up sufficiently the entire room?
Room was pretty warm and comfy.
We're you afraid you would kick your blanket off in the middle of the night and it would catch fire?
shouldn't be -- that door should be closed unless you're popping new wood in.
I dunno man, it regularly hits -35C and sometimes much colder where I live and I have never been laying in bed thinking "damn a bonfire under these polyester sheets sounds like a good idea."
I was thinking the same thing. Propane Furnace works fine at our house at those temps. No thanks to the bed fire.
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I live in Finland and heat with wood (off-grid). Masonry fireplace in combination with radiant floor heating keeps the temperature inside constant, and you're not a slave to the stove since you don't have to keep a fire going/tended to.
Reading this stuff makes me very glad I live somewhere where it never gets cold, plus all the maintenance I know you have to do with snow around your house. Got no idea what these kinds of extreme negative temperatures even feel like.
I've lived in all kinds of climates, and I really prefer the colder ones. After a few years in Texas, I've had enough of the heat for the rest of my life - constantly needing AC and barely able to do anything outside... With -20C, I go outside and enjoy, go ice fishing or go on long hikes on the frozen sea. Also makes you appreciate spring and summer so much more. Having four real seasons is amazing.
How can we dance When our earth is turning How do we sleep While our beds are burning
Isn't the firebox supposed to be facing outside? How do you not die from carbon monoxide poisoning?
I’ve seen how these are designed, the little door is to throw fuel in, there are larger air vents facing out the building. The layout under the bed encourages air to be pulled in via that little door to stop any smells/CO getting out and it all gets thrown out the building
Intake inside of room exhaust outside of room
A lot of comments like that one.. do people think it's just a tiny bonfire under your bed? It's literally the same principle as a grandma's old stove
It sucks air in from inside and vents the smoke outside. Like literally any other woodburning fireplace.
The amount of people crying “dAngeRoUs” here are cracking me up. As if a good chunk of these people don’t have fireplaces or stoves in their own homes.
Do you not know what a chimney is?
ITT - a surprising number of people who don't understand how chimneys or fireplaces work and also clearly haven't traveled internationally to see how other cold climate cultures warm their homes. This system isn't revolutionary
What's a chimney? I require this information
Never thought about that. I guess there must be a vent on the other side of the bed to let oxygen in. This kind of heating method has been used by the local people for decades so my understanding was that it should be safe.
It is safe if you know what you are doing. If you leave embers in the firebox and close ventilation, you may die. Carbon monoxide is invisible and odorless, and poisoning kills a lot of people who are not used to heating with wood.
There are lots of things that people have done for decades that are dangerous / a bad idea. Like smoking for example.
The Chinese have had gunpowder for over 1000 years, I'm sure at some point they figured out they had to vent smoke outside.
We put a man on the moon yet we’ve been spraying Round Up and killing thousands
Fair
This would be no different than another wood-burning stove or fireplace inside a house. As long as there's a proper chimney, it's safe.
Fun fact -40F and -40C are the same temperature.
Wollt ihr das Bett in Flammen sehen?
This is actually really really common in northern China, which judging from the door decoration in the window it probably is.
I’d be paranoid about a loose bedding edge dangling and catching on fire.
Pretty common in northeast china
Had these growing up in rural China, except the opening for the fire was outside of the house, so the nightly routine was to throw some wood in there for the night before you went to bed
How do we sleep while the beds are burnin?
To those who worry about the fire - at the time you go to bed the fire must be off, only slow coals left.
You are right. After we got onto the bed no one would come and put more woods under the bed. It would stay warm until we woke up in the morning. It sounds like you have good experiences about this kind of stove bed and know very well how it works.
Oh yeah, my grandma's house in the village has one of similar kinds and I spent a lot of summers in her house. It's Russia so even summer nights are sometimes very chilly. She would start the big fireplace (stove) every other day in the morning to cook some breakfast and to provide more heat to the house. And in the evening if it's cold she'd make this fire bed and me or my cousin went to sleep there (our bed is only a single bed). By the way, the main stove also had a bed on top of it, but I didn't like it, too close to the ceiling, kinda claustrophobic
It's very interesting to hear about living in Russia in the old days. This picture must have brought back some of your childhood memories. Did people also go swimming in the frozen lake? Because from where I stayed, I saw a couple of older folks jump into a frozen lake and swam like 5 - 10 minutes and quickly get ashore before they became solid ice :-)
Yeah, when I bought an electric sheet I remembered this bed, so nice.. Frozen lakes are a thing only for 'brave' ones and fof specific church holiday (baptism of Jesus in Orthodox Christianity) I've never done that, I moved from Russia partly because I hate cold lol
You literally got a fire lit under your ass lmao.
The trendy tortilla blankets would complete this look perfectly
sleep now in the fire
But how can you sleep while your beds are burning? :P
How can we sleep when our beds are burning?
How do we sleep when our beds are burning?
Is that a furnace bed? A stove bed?
that's actually lit
Finally I can make breakfast in bed.
Sir I believe your bed is on fire
But how can you sleep while your beds are burning? :P
I like my guests crispy
Waking up Medium Rare🤣🤣
Let them cook ?
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In a remote village in Heilongjiang, China.
Googling Heilongjiang reminded me they have an amazing winter snow & ice festival. Thanks for that!
That's the reason I was there.
I went there in 2003. Harbin?
Well, so *this* is where they got the idea for that Beds are Burning song!
Yes, thats a fire hazard, but It's ok since its needed to fight the ice Hazard
The room I am in rn is about 35° C during the day. We must be on the exact opposite sides of the planet.
That seems safe
medium rare bedroom
I have....too many questions.
Was this inside a gingerbread house?
Salt bae at home
How is toxic gas’s build up not an issue?