Be cautious of the wood stove.
I remember that as a teen, my family butchered a steer in very cold weather. To keep it from freezing solid while hanging, they started the wood stove in the old milk house.
That damn steer was some of the toughest beef I've ever had, and it absorbed a wood/coal smell. Every piece of meat tasted like smoke (not the good smoke flavor).
I'm not sure the stove was vented properly, or if it was allowed to go nearly out.
I was sure glad to see the last of that steer.
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