Swedishchef said:Corriewf: my stove get to about 850 or so for 1 hr then goes down to 600 or so. It's only on initial fire up.
That is what I have been suspecting. All you are smelling is the hot metal smell of an over fired stove. I used to get that when I over fired my old stove and it was the smell that alerted me when I did it.
Start that stove up and don't let it get over six hundred and fifty degrees and see if you smell anything.