What can you do with a gas log fireplace other than get warm?

I tried S’mores once and they didn’t taste good. They tasted fuel-y. Maybe you could cook something in a pan, that didn’t come into direct contact with the flames and it would taste better.

Stare at the beautiful-ness that is fire?

I am going to say popping corn! Then the food will be contained in a metal pot so there shouldn’t be as much of a gassy taste. And it’s a social event where the group can sit around the fire telling stories and popping popcorn ^.^

^^^^^^^^ You mean the kind in the pan thing you put on a stove burner? That might work. sorta worried about the “as much of ” a gassy taste.

Not too much (as spoken by a current wood stove owner and lover).

I would love to have a free-standing wood stove. Soapstone or cast iron. I had one years ago. It was not pretty and it was dusty but boy, did it heat a house. maybe someday They sell soapstone ones in blue; they’re so beautiful.