I Cooked Tiny Bacon & Eggs on a 100-Year-Old Mini Wood Stove | RC ADVENTURES

We Found a 100-Year-Old MINI Wood Stove (Salesman’s Sample)… and It Still Works! In our 100+ year old summer house in Neils Harbour, Cape Breton, Canada - we opened a door and found what looked like a toy… but it wasn’t a toy at all. It was a 100-year-old Crescent wood-burning stove, the kind that was likely used as a salesman’s sample back in the late 1800s to early 1900s. Back then (roughly the 1880s through the 1920s/30s), full-size cast iron stoves were heavy, expensive, and impossible to haul farm-to-farm. So travelling salesmen carried miniature working versions instead. These salesman’s sample stoves were built just like the real thing – doors, grates, stovetops – but small enough to tuck under an arm and demo in someone’s kitchen. As catalog sales, rail shipping, and gas/electric ranges took over, that whole door-to-door stove era faded away… which is why finding one of these still intact and functional is so rare today. Here’s where it gets wild – and this is my working theory on it 👇 Based on the size and how it lines up with my gear, this stove is effectively 1/10 scale: The height of the stove beside my 1/10 figure is almost exactly how a full-size wood stove would sit next to a real adult. The door, stovetop, and legs are proportioned like a real 3–4 ft tall stove shrunk down. Most salesman’s sample stoves from that era were around 10–14 inches tall, which scales almost perfectly to a 1/10 model of a 100–140 cm (3–4 ft) full-size stove. The accessories – frying pan, pot, spatula, ash pot, water bucket – all look dead-on 1/10 when my figure “uses” them. So my hypothesis is this: 👉 We’re looking at a genuine 100-year-old salesman’s sample that just happens to be almost perfect 1/10 RC scale in the modern world. A century ago, someone unknowingly built the ultimate scale stove for our RC cabins, hunter shacks, and tiny garages. In this video, we bring that tiny legend back to life. I load the firebox with birch and small sticks, build real coals, and let my 1/10 “younger me” run the kitchen. We cook 1" bacon and egg omelettes for my three dogs using goat tallow from our farm, rosemary, and spring onion – all on this miniature cast-iron beast. Then I even heat a pot of water on top to wash the dirty frying pan, just like you would in an old hunting cabin or trapper’s shack. It’s part RC scale movie, part antique cast-iron history lesson, and part cozy cabin vibes from the farm. If you love RC scale builds, cast iron, old farm gear, or just tiny working things with big history, this one’s for you. Let me know in the comments: What should we cook next on this 100-year-old 1/10 scale stove? What kind of RC cabin, hunter’s shack, or scale garage should it live in? Thanks for hanging out with me, my friends. ❤️ #RCSparks #MiniWoodStove #RCAdventures #CastIron #HomesteadLife #ScaleRC #AntiqueStove