Let's See Cookstove Setups!

well, mine has been posted before, but here it is again


The flooring is luna beige marble (I really wanted a dark green, but this is what I wound up with, and hey, it's a good match for everything including any spilled ashes), though what can't be seen in this picture is the cut ends were used as a replacement baseboard behind that kind of make a foundation for the wall tiles to sit upon, which are glass tiles of brown, copper, smoke and clear. The walls in my place are built on the canadian envelope method, so there is an airspace between the vapour barrier/studs and the interior tongue and groove spruce, but that was modified behind the stove with a radiant class A blanket barrier (like what one would put on a garage door), copper bells for the airspace standoffs, and cement board behind the tile. Under the legs are foam/felt furniture moving pads (one of these days I'll jack up the stove and get them oriented nicely, unfortunately my requests to do so when the stove was brought in was met with deaf ears...), with those under there the stove can actually be moved by one or two people without struggle or any lifting, which will be nice when it comes time to inspect and clean out the horizontal pipe through the wall. You might also notice, this picture was just prior to getting the rutland 84 cleaner for the firebox window and decided it wasn't worth the effort to clean it without.

Have been kicking around the idea of having a warming closet or shelf fabricated for it, but I'm still undecided about that.

ok, this is probably gonna seem a little dumb but how does that work during the summer. I suppose you don't bake much. I remember my grandmother, in the Adirondack Mts cooking on one when I was a kid. we also drank from a dipper that was in a bucket......and of course the three holer out back. great looking stoves.

curdy said:

We still have an electric oven to fall back on and for warm month cooking. We also have an outdoor brick oven for baking.

Another option is that the cookstove does have a grate available to sit on top of the fire brick. This raises the fire up for use in warmer months. We don't plan to do this though.

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neat....love the idea of the outdoor oven.

curdy said:

Installed Christmas Eve. We love it!

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The colour of that stove sure goes well with the brick and wood flooring in your kitchen. When I was entertaining the idea of an oval or a sweetheart it would have been the dark green for me (I would have also gone for the dark green with brass on the Deva had Hearthstone allowed a choice of colours and options from the Deva line that the parent company offers)

Make sure you read Woody's post https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads...owners-those-considering.113731/#post-1607037 and get your photo submitted before the 1st.

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Yes. It's our fourth cookstove and will be our last, it is so nice. It is quite a bit easier to use and manage than any other cookstove I've used over the years.

I really like those cook stove set ups. Do they also serve a long burn / primary heat source If desired?

Warm_in_NH said:

I really like those cook stove set ups. Do they also serve a long burn / primary heat source If desired?

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Just like heating woodstoves, there are various sizes and capacities available, but the extra twist is whether a cookstove is geared primarily towards heating (the J.A. Roby Mystère is likely an example of a heating stove that just happens to be a cookstove), cooking (such as the simplest of camping or marine stoves), or as most try to do, somewhere in the middle. And just like heating stoves, the material it is constructed out of, or contains also means a lot for heating capabilities. If the stove is all steel, one would have to be very concerned over a firebox size to make sure it had adequate capacity to make it through the night in a heating situation as once the fire is out the stove cools down rapidly. On the other hand, firebox size would not be so vital if one had a stove with a lot of heat storing ability (construction or components of stone, masonry, cast iron, etc) that can allow the stove to give back heat and coast beyond an active fire (and a good trick too is to store any cast iron cookware in the oven when it's not in use where it will keep warm, dry, and be another storehouse for heat). You'd actually be surprised to find out how many people actually do use their cookstove for heating (and don't have the space or the extravagance to have a second stove for heating purposes). Best answer is when you come across a stove that appears to have the heating and cooking abilities you desire, do a search on the internet for blogs and discussions over the specific model and start up a conversation with someone that does have and uses the model to get a better idea of it's real life characteristics (as many heating stove owners and insert owners, can likely attest, facts and figures don't tell the whole story)

Great info to get going on, thanks. Future remodel on the fiancé s house is going to open the kitchen up to the den with the stove in it. I really like the looks of those stoves not to mention the functionality of them. And hey, if the Jotul is getting old and is going to be in the kitchen anyway....
It'll be a ways down the road, but we may start incorporating one into the big picture, it would only be about 800 square feet on the first floor with a relatively open concept, plenty of solar gain and we do all we can to keep the heat from going upstairs, as it gets plenty warm up there with what little heat sneaks up there.
Thanks for the pics and the info, very enlightening.

SteveKG said:

View attachment 122078 Yes. It's our fourth cookstove and will be our last, it is so nice. It is quite a bit easier to use and manage than any other cookstove I've used over the years.

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Hi Steve
Is that a Rayburn ?
My friend has one that looks identical, his is over 40 years old and still going strong.

1908 Amherst B , in excellent condition , not hooked up yet . This will be in the kitchen of my log home.