Wow a cast iron stove, handling that with 10yo? Respect... I started cooking at around 12 yo I think. Baking only when I came here to Ecuador and there was no decent bread around :-D
I'm glad that you enjoyed the post! I put a lot of heart into it.
It was the only stove we had, and I didn't know I was being adventurous. It's the way my mother cooked. It's all I knew ;)
Okay, that's different then :D If you grow up with it, it's easier. It took me quite a while to figure out the gas stoves here, without a fan for even temperature and all that. When I finally bought my first real bread oven, the quality in my bread jumped immediately. That was cool.