Jotul F 100, Jotul F3CB or Hearthstone Craftsbury or other for my 560 sq ft kitchen in a 1500 sq ft

We have a rowhouse/ brownstone that has three storys, each about 500 sq ft. connected by stairs. The house is attached to the neighbors houses on either side. It's in NYC. The kitchen where the stove will be located is on the lowest floor which has an open floor plan.
I'm looking at the Jotul F100, F3CB and the Craftsbury wood stoves as possible choices. I would like to heat the entire house, but do not know if this is possible with the way our house is built (on 3 levels) and whether trying to do so would then drive us out of the kitchen due to the extreme heat or whether we would have to underfire it all the time, which I understand is not ideal. If not, then I would be happy trying to heat just the kitchen floor and maybe a bit of the next floor. I also would like to cook stews/ soups on the stove.
My question is mainly about sizing. Should I rely on the BTU values given by the manufacturers or are those often overstated?
Does anyone have a preference among the above stoves? Which size stove would be ideal?
A heat-loss calcualtion I did when the boiler was installed showed that the lowest floor requires about 10,000 BTU/hour when it is 20 degrees outside (it does not get much colder here) and the entire house needs about 35,000 BTU/hour.
Thanks!!

Yes, that was my concern. If I decide to heat only the kitchen floor where the stove will be, what stove might be ideal?
Incidentally, I plan to use soapstone tile to cover the entire wall behind the stove about 30 sq ft. The idea is for it to serve as a heat retaining wall, that will buffer the heat from the stove. I also plan to use a piece of the soapstone slab that we are using for our countertop to place on the stove for the same reason. I did want to cook on the stove, so I decided against the soapstone stoves with permanently installed soapstone panels/ tile.
The Hearthstone Tribute (whihc would be right size for me) did not appeal to me aesthetically either.

The first floor is open, the other floors have two rooms (front and back). The stairway is narrow connecting the first floor (where the stove will be) and the second floor. My primary concern is not getting overheated on the first floor, making the stove unusable. More than long burns, I am looking for efficiency. The stove will not be the primary heat source. Just on weekends. Woodstoves are OK in NYC if installed correctly. I want to avoid catalytic stoves. Having a nice fire to look at is important for us.

Todd, I knew my last post would come out sounding like that, but the last two sentences were not meant to have any connection to each other. I don't want a cat for the maintenance of the converter, the fact that we only plan to use the stove intermittently, etc. but I will look at them again. The flames issue was separate. I didn't want to start a cat/ non-cat war or sound snarky, especially since I've never even seen any wood stove in actual operation

Be Green, so do you think the Jotul F3CB would be too hot for us? I liked it because of the ash pan, 18" log size (F100 takes 16") and it looked nicer, however for some reasont he F100 looks like it has a bigger fireviewing area.
The EPA ratings for the F100 are 7,700 to 27,000 BTUH and for the F3CB are 11,500-43,500.

TreeCo said:

Row houses are to densely populated for wood heat applications.

Put your money into conservation measures instead and spare the neighbors having to breath smoke.

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as opposed to breathing oil fumes?

besides with an epa approved stove as a secondary and occasional source of heat, i suppose we should be ok. a number of houses on the block have fireplaces, and another house has an epa exept stove that he burns as a primary source of heat. and frankly, i've tried spending a cold snowy evening next to a bale of insulation and weatherstripping, and it's not quite as nice