okay folks I'm gonna light my lai skate princess here I've loaded it up with a nice load of wood and I'm using fat wood I forgot where I got it but this stuff works really great and a cedar kindling here and then I also bought so what I do differently is I turn down the air control down to the second to lowest spot so the idea here is to let it start up slowly instead of having the air control all the way off wide open which allows it to start a lot faster but you get a lot of smoke out the chimney doing it that way so what I found is having the air control on a low setting allows it to start up gradually minimizes the smoke going out the the chimney and you know it just takes a little longer to heat off but I think it's easier on my so I like you know I like to use the top-down method I think that is a little more creates a little less smoke again it takes a little bit longer to start up this way but I like I'd like to talk to him method instead of the traditional method of starting a fire but one thing I realized that blaze canes the temperature gauge make sure that's adjusted properly when I first got the stove the Installer didn't adjust the temperature gauge so I was you know not engaging the bypass or a long time but anyway this is a being recorded in 4k so hopefully it'll look nice clean anyway there we go so we'll let that let that go oh it's starting off really fast so there's the air control and it's it's getting to the point where I can engage the the bypass it's been running about five minutes now alright time to engage the bypass level actively force the smoke out the the catalyst so this particular load started up really fast usually it's a little bit slower than this but like I said with this method you get a little less smoke normally this thing smokes like a steam locomotive if you have it on wide open but starting it up this way I feel like and get a good good burn going without really causing too much smoke and annoying on my neighbors so it gets you there there's a little bit of smoke coming out but it's not coming out like a freight train sorry a steam train if you're wondering about the music it's music choice music's choice soundscape channel i like to listen to that in the morning i like to listen to that pretty much all day makes me feel like I'm somewhere in a fancy resort in the American Southwest so yeah that's a top-down method I'm not paying attention to the size of my splits I have some really big splits in there but I feel what the the fat would and not it's not just any fat wood it's a particular brand I think it's from plough and hearth I want to say I know the the cedar kindling is from wayfarer and that was the first year I had it it's been two years that I've had it the first year it just didn't burn very well so I made my own kindling but this year the season I've been using it and it's it's it's working fine but the real star here is the the fat wood so I really like using that alright let's take a look at the smoke coming out of the chimney and see what we're looking at so it starts some smoke but it's not coming out like a freight train a steam train keeps saying Freight and that'll clear up pretty quickly but normally you'd get thick white smoke which if you read the manual they say oh that's just water vapor but I know it annoys people to see that kind of thing coming out I try to minimize it so that's where the air control is you see the white line and it's kind of pointing down it's a five o'clock position normally blaze King would have fit at 12 o'clock and that would generate just a lot a lot of smoke out the chimney until the thing warms up so the thermometer shows I'm well in the active zone and that's only only been running for about fifteen minutes or so I'm starting to feel heat coming out of it so when I started it was 73 degrees now we've already gone up by a degree and when this thing is running probably you know after about 30 minutes 40 minutes this room will be close to 80 degrees if not higher sorry that was out of focus so we have a nice burn going there's not many folks that use this method and write about it but I find it too good compromise and the other thing that this is good for is reloading so in 8 hours when I'm ready to reload again I'll I'll make sure the air control is turned down in the 5 o'clock position and then I'll I'll reload and this way the reload ignites pretty quickly but again I'm not smoking up the neighborhood if I were to keep the air control on on the 12 o'clock position so this is the one thing I've learned what this stove is you know on start up and reload if you follow the instructions from blaze King you're you're gonna get a lot of smoke and to minimize that you know instead of starting wide open start it in the 5 o'clock position so this is the blaze king and princess would insert I know some of the other stoves from blaze King have the air control oriented slightly differently so the idea is the same you know instead of starting wide open start out pretty much on a low on a closed position you know just slightly open but as you can see yeah I mean it it really didn't impact the the fire from getting started and the idea here is that the air control will allow enough air to go in to allow combustion but at the same time it won't let it run away and you know when you you have a runaway sort of situation where you hear the stove huffing and puffing you know it's it's very noticeable if a lot of air is going in there we mute the audio so maybe you can hear what I'm talking about in terms of so there's not the sound of air rushing into the stove and if I had this on why dope and it would would sound like that so let's take a look at the smoke out of the chimney we'll be right back just looking pretty good you know I'm not seeing a lot of smoke and this would not bother any neighbor and that's what I want I don't want to be smoking up the neighborhood and that's what what essentially I was getting the evil eye from a lot of my neighbors and I think it was because they they saw me as polluting the air even though white smoke is really just water vapor but you know it's better to have no smoke so the air control is now around the to not the air control but the thermometers well in the active zone around 2:00 p.m. and it's gonna make its way up so that it's it's now you know very nice operating temperature and pretty much with this stove it operates at the four five o'clock position on this thermometer so we have a nice burn going starting to warm up here it's already now at 75 degrees and when the thermometer is outside of you know well above the active range what I do is I start opening up the air control a little bit you know turning it more on the open position and this way I get you know get the temperature really really nice and hot to burn off any creosote clean up the the front glass and and get a nice cozy temperature in the room but that is my method for operating this stove and I think if you haven't tried it try it because using the blase King method following the instructions it's just too much smoke I wish they would figure out a way to minimize that and I think this method up startup and reloading where you're starting off with the air control on a very closed position maybe maybe the the answer anyway guys thanks for watching I hope it looks great at 4k I shot this on the Panasonic gh4 in 4k with the Panasonic Lumix 12 to 35 version one lens skimmers a really nice camera anyway thanks