Anyone use a wood cookstove?

[Bobosocky]

Building a house next spring and planning to heat with this beauty (Kitchen Queen). Wood cookstoves are exempt from EPA standards so the code inspector is not supposed to require the EPA tag on 'em. The firebox on these is supposed to be air tight, and everything I've read about them has been positive.

I want mine to have a window on the firebox side.

What do you guys think?

 

[Erik B]

Aunt and Uncle of mine had a wood cook stove. I remember it taking small splits of wood. Are you going to use it just for heat or for cooking also? Could get warm in the house if doing any baking in the summer.

 

[sunfish]

We have a couple here, no fun in summer time, but great in winter.

 

[Bobosocky]

Aunt and Uncle of mine had a wood cook stove. I remember it taking small splits of wood. Are you going to use it just for heat or for cooking also? Could get warm in the house if doing any baking in the summer.

It won't be used in summer. Just October thru April. We'll have a regular cook stove as well.

 

[Jere39]

Chief cook (my Dad) in action, I'm the bottle washer. This old reliable cooks our meals, and keeps this end of the cabin warm after a fashion all winter long.



A couple co-owners have talked about selling it as an antique, and buying a more efficient (cook has the responsibility to keep it fed all night) maybe even air-tight, smaller foot print wood stove. Save time cutting and stacking firewood. But, truth be told, we sit around the cabin after we cut for a while and hydrate on fine Yuengling and tell stories about what great hunters we were 40 years ago. So, it will probably stay right here another 50 years.

 

[Bobosocky]

Chief cook (my Dad) in action, I'm the bottle washer. This old reliable cooks our meals, and keeps this end of the cabin warm after a fashion all winter long.

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A couple co-owners have talked about selling it as an antique, and buying a more efficient (cook has the responsibility to keep it fed all night) maybe even air-tight, smaller foot print wood stove. Save time cutting and stacking firewood. But, truth be told, we sit around the cabin after we cut for a while and hydrate on fine Yuengling and tell stories about what great hunters we were 40 years ago. So, it will probably stay right here another 50 years.

That's awesome man.

 

[pweber]

Check out Obadiah's Wood Stoves. They've got a nice selection to choose from. I'd love to get the Grand Wood Stove. It's only a two-burner but it has a nice big oven box. It appears to be a substantial heavy-weight for $2,5oo. We're thinking about remodeling our kitchen and are torn between a cook stove and a gas range. Decisions, Decisions!

 

[flotek]

Most of The Amish use those around here . They have it to make meals obviously but as a secondary heat source when it dips below teens . It's a neat idea and to have a dual purpose is handy ..but in my opinion for me I think the novelty would wear off and it would be a inconvienance in a practical sense

 

[Bobosocky]

Check out Obadiah's Wood Stoves. They've got a nice selection to choose from. I'd love to get the Grand Wood Stove. It's only a two-burner but it has a nice big oven box. It appears to be a substantial heavy-weight for $2,5oo. We're thinking about remodeling our kitchen and are torn between a cook stove and a gas range. Decisions, Decisions!

Nice looking stove, i like it.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I keep mine on casters in the garage and push it out side when I want to cook on it, it's a Findlay Condor,

I keep a box of scraps by it, from the sawmill,

And it doesn't take many of them to make a nice fire,

And it cooks some wonderful meals!

We love the darn thing!

SR

 

[Patrick62]

Yep. antique Quick meal stove in here. (no pics handy)
Ran outta propane last night. Lit fire to cook (er, cremate...) dinner.
Hot water jacket plumbed into water tank works good.

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

I brought a load of firewood last year to a guy with the same exact stove as in the first pic. He had just put it in the cabin and it was bought brand new, so I guess they are still being made?

It was pretty fancy, gloss black, glass in the doors and it had some sort of water heater built in too that went to the sink.

He had it setup in his house which is a log cabin that was maybe 20x30.

He had paid in the area of $5k for that cook stove. If it was me I'd buy a nice woodstove for $3k, but I have minimal use for a kitchen stove, much less a wood powered one.

 

[sb47]

You can cook on any stove with a flat top. It wont have an oven but it will still work for most cooking.
I love cooking on mine but it needs to be pretty cold or it will run you out of the house.
If they worn t so heavy and hard to move, I'd move it to the porch for warmer weather.

 

[Bobosocky]

I brought a load of firewood last year to a guy with the same exact stove as in the first pic. He had just put it in the cabin and it was bought brand new, so I guess they are still being made?

It was pretty fancy, gloss black, glass in the doors and it had some sort of water heater built in too that went to the sink.

He had it setup in his house which is a log cabin that was maybe 20x30.

He had paid in the area of $5k for that cook stove. If it was me I'd buy a nice woodstove for $3k, but I have minimal use for a kitchen stove, much less a wood powered one.

They are only 2400-2500 brand new here. +350$ shipping. Maybe the shipping to Alaska is what cost so much. The Amish still make wood cookstoves, and the new ones seem pretty cool to me.

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

They are only 2400-2500 brand new here. +350$ shipping. Maybe the shipping to Alaska is what cost so much. The Amish still make wood cookstoves, and the new ones seem pretty cool to me.

I was just going off what he said. That may have been the price installed, (chimney piping, tile on floor and walls, piping for the hot water, etc) I'm not sure.

Place was about 60 miles from the shop, gen set for power, had an outhouse, etc (yes, quite a few folks live like that out here)

Edit:
I just looked on prices online and it prices out at roughly $3500. Easily would have over $1500, if not double, in shipping and a chimney

 

[muddstopper]

I have lifted the top on one of these stoves and cooked when the power went out. http://www.efireplacestore.com/uss-...JDIlr3c_McCFdgOgQod5SYJGw&refnum=SEP-143-9373

 

[Oldman47]

I grew up around a wood cookstove that my grandmother used. It was much larger than the ones in these pictures with a cook top that was probably about 2 1/2 by 5 feet. I still remember the year she got an electric stove for her kitchen. She spent all summer trying to figure out how to cook on that thing and not burn the food. She sure was glad to see cool weather return and be able to use her familiar stove. In 3 of 4 seasons we all hung out in the kitchen to be near that stove even though they had a very nice flexible fuel central furnace that could burn coal, wood or heating oil. The furnace registers were in the floor and the one in the living room had the added feature of a combustion air damper control so nobody had to go into the basement to control the firing rate.

 

[Torch68]

Chief cook (my Dad) in action, I'm the bottle washer. This old reliable cooks our meals, and keeps this end of the cabin warm after a fashion all winter long.

View attachment 447516

A couple co-owners have talked about selling it as an antique, and buying a more efficient (cook has the responsibility to keep it fed all night) maybe even air-tight, smaller foot print wood stove. Save time cutting and stacking firewood. But, truth be told, we sit around the cabin after we cut for a while and hydrate on fine Yuengling and tell stories about what great hunters we were 40 years ago. So, it will probably stay right here another 50 years.

That is almost like the one my grandmother had in her home in coal country in PA, I thought the world of her and the Lithuanian she would try to teach me along with some old world cooking. The only thing I ever wanted was that stove on her passing as it had tons of memories. I was living out of town and they were in a hurry to clean out the house when sold so they took the old cast-iron stove apart with a sledge hammer as it was too heavy to cart out.

 

[olympyk_999]

i grew up with a Glenwood like this one

...burn it all winter to help the wood furnace keep the 300+ yr old house somewhat warm...the house has an outdoor boiler now which heats the house nicely now, but it still gets used quite often...its a good glove/boot dryer for the winter months.

 

[muddstopper]

I remember my grandparents cook stoves. I have always thought what a great way to cook and heat the house at the same time. Both grand paws also had the old tin can type stoves. Those stoves werent much more than barrel stove with cast legs and cast tops. They had to replace the tin around the sides every few years. They also doubled as cook stoves with three or four lift out eyes on the top. I havent seen one of those type stoves in years.I suspect most where discarded when they rusted out. This is the closest pic I could find that resembels one of those old tin type stoves, not the same but close.
http://www.instappraisal.com/appraisal/old-wood-stove
I have thought about finding a wood cook stove to place in the cabin we are planning to build for a retirement home, but my wife is against the ideal. Of course my ideal is to use it for dual purpose, heat the house and cook on it only when we need to.. M wife wants something like the soap stone heaters. Of course we already know who will win this argument. I still intend to look for a old cook stove to put in the canning shed off the side of the house, even tho i know the wife probably wont use it. I simply just want one