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I like them. The extra 30 sec it takes to pull them out and hit them with the vacuum when I clean is worth it compared to looking at an empty burn box all week. I haven't previously heard anything about them causing the glass to get dirty. Some argue that they take up space for ash but I clean way before that would be an issue.
I used them in the summer. when the stove is off. lol in the winter, they just get in the way.
one of my logs actually broke in half a year ago, so i haven't used them since.
can't see it anyway once it's covered in ash a few days later. Just makes cleaning harder.
Well now, on the cool scale, they make the stove look like its a wood burning fire with the flames flickering and darting though the logs, but thats where it stops.
In practicality, they suck.
I tried them in my old earth stoves, then in the Quads and they were just a nuisance.
My Whits never had any, so no biggy anyway.
Some of the new stoves may have the ash and soot issues resolved.
They suck! I have two sets I'm ready to sell to a needy sucker...... uh, purchaser. To make it look nice in the summer, yes. When burning, it makes it twice as hard to clean, ash falls off of them when you take them out no matter how much you clean them first, they DO make my glass dirtier quicker. A waste of money.
Why fake logs? I just put in a couple of real birch logs in the summer then it looks like I'm ready to go when it gets cold. Disclaimer ; take real logs out of stove before lighting.
I like the look of the fire from the burn pot. It isn't a log fire, why would I want it to look like one? I did bite and bought the logs when I bought the stove, but soon took them out because they look fake and just got in the way when cleaning.
why would you want another surface in the stove that collects ash that you have to clean? it's a stove, i don't spend a lot of time looking at it in the summer or otherwise...