Cook stoves

[zen1]

Hello i am looking for the best wood/coal cook stove, not so big, for my small kitchen..... I love the wood/coal option.
i was wondering anyone have the cook stove by "mora" (broken link removed)

what happened to that irish cook stove? can t remember name, maybe went out of business. stanford or something...

 

[wg_bent]

Look here:

http://www.woodstoves.net/cookstoves.htm

The Bakers Oven looks pretty nice.

Or perhaps the

Scan 4. In looking at the Scan (warmfurniture) web site I noticed the line they are showing as exported to US is significantly down in the stoves they show. Perhaps they're pulling out of the US? I know the local Scan dealer is also now replacing with Rais (SERIOUSLY expensive, but nice looking SMALL stoves)

 

[MountainStoveGuy]

SCAN got bought, Jotul purchased them. Thats a seriously small cookstove, i was going to say check out heartlandapp.com but i think there all to big. Look at theJotul 602 or the Blackbear. They both have a place to cook, no oven and cant burn coal.

 

[KP Matt]

The Heartland Sweetheart (broken link removed to http://www.heartlandapp.com/Classic/Woodburning_Cookstoves/model_2603.html) is the smaller of their cookstoves I believe. Apparently it has a coal grate option. We had a Findlay Oval cookstove when I was a kid, beautiful stove - I think they were bought out by the Heartland people. There's also the Amish-made cookstoves (you'll have to do a search) that I see advertised in local ad rags around here. The Napoleon 1150 has a big cooking surface, but no oven and probably no coal option either.

A lot of these cookstoves are UL listed, but are any of them EPA? I guess they don't have to be - by definition they are exempt, but can they be if they are able?

 

[Geoff]

I like the one this guy made:
http://www.gulland.ca/homenergy/stove.htm

He also put in a DHW element (something I'd like to do sometime if I can be comfortable with a pump for it)

 

[Richard]

Just wondering how you got on with your search for a small cook stove? I noticed a bakers oven was mentioned and we happen to make them! Go to (broken link removed) and take a look.

We sell a few in the USA and are on the look out for a distributor over there, currently they are available in Canada, details on the web site.

 

[MountainStoveGuy]

I like it!
welcome to the forum. Will you be at HPBA this year?

 

[Richard]

Hi There MSG, thanks for the welcome. I could give you a history lesson about us in the USA!.........We have displayed the Bakers Oven at couple of HPBA shows a few years ago. At Annahein and Nashville. We got great reactions for the Bakers Oven but were not able to locate a distributor. We sell a few through a Canadian company who sell a few in the USA. If you know any agents or distributors looking for a unique product give me a yell!

My email is [email protected]

 

[elleninpa]

I wonder about a large stove to heat our house!

I live near Belleville Amish Country Pa. Took a tour of three of their suppliers. See that mostly they are burning wood. I am looking for a coal burning cookstove that also would give some BTUs out, up to heating and beyond 2400 SF.

I looked at the Heartland, but I don't think the BTUs would heat that much. But wow are they beautiful! Our local stove store Pennwoodcorp.com has some used cookstoves and I think one is a waterford? It is very pretty and like the heartland with a reduced price.

The cookstoves the Amish had were massive models (footprint like 3 x 5 feet) with 4 to 6 'burners' and an oven for baking and they put what they call a 'chunk' of wood in. Don't think it mattered too much what length logs they use, just as long as it burns.

We have a surdiac gravity fed hopper coal stove and it will only go about 8-10 hours of burn before having to poke down the ash buildup. But now sometimes I don't get home before 11 hours are up and you know, I am getting tired of having to clean out a dead fire, clunkers, unburnt coal, etc and restart that fire each evening.

If we could find a coal burning, cookstove, with some heavy duty BTUs to it, well, that just sounds like heaven to me.

WE don't have duct work in the house so it's gotta be radiant heat.

 

[swestall]

Perhaps you would like this.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Stunning-Enterp...ryZ20712QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[affenpinschermom]

We had a Stanley Waterford, made in Ireland, and we loved it. It was not ornamental, but a great source of heat and great to cook and can on. I could bake anything in there that I could bake in a conventional oven. Loved it! sorry I didn't move it when we sold.

 

[elleninpa]

We had an opportunity to get a Stanley cookstove free, it needed $400 in gaskets etc, but my dh didn't think it would heat enough. Our basement is 1800 SF and our upstairs is teh same for just under 3000 SF.

I wonder about that Mondarch Legacy from Enterprise Foundry in Maine. I can't seem to find any kind of 'btu' rating. And it is 'not air tight' does that mean running coal would produce an unneccesary risk in our home?

 

[eernest4]

I DON'T GET IT, I REALLY DON'T.

The function of a wood stove is primarly to heat.

Cooking is not even a close secondary
consideration when you figure in the difference in the cost of wood between a secondary burn epa rated stove & the old time cook stove .

The epa secondary burn stove will give you the same heat for 1/3 the wood.

If a cord of wood cost 225.oo ,cut,split & delevered, would you rather have the cord last you a month with an old fashoned cook top stove or last 3 months with a secondary burn stove.

If a 225 cord last a month with cook stove, it would cost $675 for wood to opperate the cook stove for 3 months ,while a secondary burn stove would opperate 3 months for the $225 worth of wood.

FOR THE SAVINGS OF 675 - 225 =$450.OO , over a 3 month opperating period, I would & did
buy the secondary burn stove & do your cooking on a propaine camp stove.
For $25.oo you can buy the converter to hook the propaine camp stove into the 20 lb grill tanks that you can get refilled for $14.oo & that last a couple of months per fill, depending on frequency & amount of usage.

 

[snowtime]

For those of us who are solely on wood heat a combination of wood cook stove and a wood heat stove makes a lot of sense. When you have both you can shut the wood heater down when its warm out, spring and fall and the cook stove will keep the house nice without overheating. You always have a cooking surface in winter. Also food tastes better from a wood stove. The one disadvantage is the cook stove will heat your house up in summer. Our answer was an outdoor kitchen with its own wood cook stove and a propane barbecue.

 

[elleninpa]

WEll, I guess I wanted a coal cook stove so I could have both. But I would settle for a coal heater and a small wood cookstove for the days when it gets below zero and windy and our 3000 SF front bedrooms just don't get warm at all so taking a shower is a breathy affair. But that's all right cause by now I am used to living below 60F in the winter and have taken advantage of all the winter sweater sales! We have a small coal stove and a large wood stove.

The reason we switched to coal was two or three of them: my dh's back wasn't holding up too well under splitting logs and it was the bending and lifting of the pieces so using a splitter wouldn't help cause you still have to pick them up and put them in the thing; the price of coal was less than the number of already split cords we'd need to heat the house; we needed a longer burn time than we could get; we like the steady heat of coal and we couldn't afford a soapstone back then; the coal burner was free off the neighbor's curb; coal's a lot easier to stock into the house and doesn't carry termites and carpenter ants and spiders with it either.

But I didn't realize cookstoves only produce a fraction of the heat that a heater will, or at least I think they do/don't. We are trying to figure out the btu's of our current coal stove so we know what to look for when this one gives out and we get older and want a little warmer house around us...