Who Says Cat Stoves Do Not Offer A Fire Show?

begreen said:

As noted, secondary burning is a totally different technology. Let's stay on topic here. I think the BKK video illustrates Chris's point about a Blaze King being capable of providing a good light show with a medium burn.

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Agreed, medium burn in my Princess was a great looking fire and even kept the glass clean. Probably the equivilant of your T-6 on a lower rate 12 hour burn.

begreen said:

Nice clean glass and light show. Same for Todd's Keystone. Here's a BKK burning black cherry at a 2 setting.

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How far into the burn were you in that vid. I'm leaning towards a BK Chinook 30 but am concerned about the "fire show" I think if it comes down to it burn time will win over, but I really want the ability to crank it up and get a nice show for a couple hours while I relax in front of it. Rest of the time as long as it makes heat with minimal tending I'll be happy.

The woodstock stoves (progress hybrid) also interested me,but the number of people not being able to get long overnight burns out of them kind of turned me away. From what I have gathered they couldnt get the secondaries to go away and get it to just burn low and slow using the cat.

It is true that the hybrid technology has yet to achieve the best of both worlds.

I can get flames for an hour or two after reloading the bk but it's making lots of heat. That's fine if you need lots of heat.

Dustin92 said:

We have a cat stove, although I have run both types, I can say for sure that I prefer non cat. I have far less trouble getting a fire going, and I could stare at the fire for hours. Not so with a cat stove, It takes me forever to build a decent fire, and then after it's dialed in and cruising there is barely any flame, and the glass gets black. I do like being able to shut a cat stove down lower, ours can be shut down almost completely if necessary, and having a clean low burn for overnight.

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That's not the stove's fault.

I burn both. Both types of stoves keep the glass clean and put on a fire show. The cat fire show is different than the non-cat, but there is still something going on.