What’s this interesting material coming out of my stove?

[Muddy42]

On 08/02/2026 at 12:52, Mr. Ed said:

No it’s really light weight material - like a brittle ceramic. The stove is a recent install of an older machine so no asbestos and there’s no firebricks in it - just heavy cast iron. I’ll see if I can match up the curve to the stove to see if it’s some sort of deposit that’s fallen off. 

 

When you say recent install, was a new full steel liner used? If so this becomes a fully sealed steel unit where its impossible for foreign objects to get in. A DIY-er or cowboy might snag or break the liner, but that's pretty unlikely.

 

Tell your wife to stop burning chickens!  The moisture and fat will cool the flames and produce a horrendous creosote which will damage or shorten the life of your stove.  Also the smell outside must be horrendous!

 

   

[Steven P]

That piece looks like a fairly consistent curve to it, if the chimney has been lined recently too large to be a typical 6" liner. I am assuming you have a baffle plate in the stove so unless you found it above the plate, it is not a chimney part.

 

Never seen chicken bones do that... I guess the rest of your fuels are regular things, nothing like plastics or whatever.

 

Yes let us know what you see when you look inside, a curious one. 

[Tree monkey 1682]

17 hours ago, AHPP said:

My tort lecturer was an ambulance chasing toerag before going into teaching. He ran the scan vans that toured post industrial areas, told people they were afflicted and going to die in miserable pain, and then sued their previous employers (or anyone standing still enough for long enough) for the psychological damage his scans had caused. One of the appeals was one of the last cases heard by the house of lords before the supreme court took over. It’s funny now and he can enjoy his contribution to legal history but it was seriously scummy stuff. 

Unfortunately he is right, it is a slow painful death,  I do remember  going to a local hospital with a regular cough for a chest x-ray and the people to the left and right of me were late thirties to early 50s. I was only 19 at the time , but does make you think .

And regarding suicide ive a dim view on it mainly due to my history and also the people left behind like children.

The only good thing about the big C is you have time to say good bye.

That said I had a freind who found a cancenogenic lump  on his chest ,I did the usual shit of reassurance that things would be fine .... next day he died of a massive seizure.

No one knows of whats around the corner.

[Stubby]

52 minutes ago, Tree monkey 1682 said:

 

No one knows of whats around the corner.

Spring Aparently . 

[Oldfeller]

23 minutes ago, Stubby said:

Spring Aparently . 

aye Stubby, 70odd years of waking up in the morning,, and not regretted a single feckin' one of 'em. 

[Tree monkey 1682]

32 minutes ago, Stubby said:

Spring Aparently . 

Well each morning recently its rain, didnt think we'd have a pandemic but it happend .

[Mr. Ed]

2 hours ago, Steven P said:

That piece looks like a fairly consistent curve to it, if the chimney has been lined recently too large to be a typical 6" liner. I am assuming you have a baffle plate in the stove so unless you found it above the plate, it is not a chimney part.

 

Never seen chicken bones do that... I guess the rest of your fuels are regular things, nothing like plastics or whatever.

 

Yes let us know what you see when you look inside, a curious one. 

Thanks Steven

it happens that the chicken burner got up first this morning and relit the stove so I didn’t get the chance to poke about. I realise now that I’ve put a few cheese wrapping papers in - they’re apparently laminated plastic and paper so you’re supposed to rip them apart. But surely they’d all burn up rather than solidify and become heat resistant? 
Apart from that nothing weird goes in. 
I’ll send it to forensics …

Edited 17 hours ago by Mr. Ed

[Stubby]

1 hour ago, Oldfeller said:

aye Stubby, 70odd years of waking up in the morning,, and not regretted a single feckin' one of 'em. 

Nothing like being happy in your life . 🙂