Ganymede
Veteran
- Location
- Rural Kent
I think a woodstove is better than an open fire - more efficient so you use less wood, creates less smoke and mess, you can keep it in overnight even without coal if you're clever/lucky/have the right weather, you can keep a kettle hot on top so there is always water for tea/pasta/soup/cooking the veg, you can simmer a pan on it, you can warm your plates on it, it looks beautiful with a glass front (which you can always open, though we've found we never feel the need), you can have that magic fan thing on it as shown upthread.... oh I love them. Go @Cuchilo!
I have this one in the kitchen, a Clearview Pioneer Oven Stove:
which has a small firebox but because the stove is large it acts like a big radiator. The sides even have a convection arrangement. Alas no back-boiler! The "oven" bit has no door (I bet that would take it into some category of kitchen appliance which would mean loads of regulations) but if you put a pieced of stout tin-foil over the gap you can get the oven temperature up to 200 + degrees C and bake things. The oven isn't huge, it's a bit of a "feature", but v. useful, esp with added metal trivets which people buy you for Christmas.
NB!!! You won't get one in time for Christmas now! But there will be discounts in the Spring!
I have this one in the kitchen, a Clearview Pioneer Oven Stove:
which has a small firebox but because the stove is large it acts like a big radiator. The sides even have a convection arrangement. Alas no back-boiler! The "oven" bit has no door (I bet that would take it into some category of kitchen appliance which would mean loads of regulations) but if you put a pieced of stout tin-foil over the gap you can get the oven temperature up to 200 + degrees C and bake things. The oven isn't huge, it's a bit of a "feature", but v. useful, esp with added metal trivets which people buy you for Christmas.
NB!!! You won't get one in time for Christmas now! But there will be discounts in the Spring!