cook stoves

[jac]

Any thoughts on wood fired cook stoves. I found the “Elmira” and thought it was a good looking stove but a bit pricey.. any other makes folks can recomend….
John

[Livewater Farm]

Jac I have owned both an Elmira and a Stanley which I believe is made in you country both are good stoves Stanley is a no frill stove very functional and a good heater as well warming boxes on the Elmira are nice mine had stainless water coil and side water tank a nice looking stove with a big fire box and oven I like the grates in the stanley otherwise a toss up Stanley a little cheaper to buy the bell dampers on both models good once you learn how to use them
Bill

[Matthew]

I use to sell a lot of fire wood, and took a order for four or five cords of wood for use in a cook stove. The old guy wanted 12 inch wood and for someone tring to make a buck selling wood it is hard to do with 12 inch wood. Compared to something 24 inches you make twice the cuts split twice as mutch and pick up twice as mutch. I don’t use a cook stove but if I did I would make shure it wasn’t depended on greatly for heating the house or if it was it took decent size wood. Just my opinion.

[Livewater Farm]

the stanley waterford and the almira both take 18/20+ inch wood and as big around as will load thru door and both models have a griddle top that lifts to load also both also hold 20lbs plus wood with practice both airtight stoves will hold a fire all night smaller split wood is only needed for extended use of ovens to keep high temps
Bill

[Phil]

I have a Pioneer Maid and I love it. It is airtight and has a firebox as big as a regular wood stove. It is heating the house as I type.

[Donn Hewes]

Pioneer also makes a stove called the baker choice. Same design. Same use of stainless at the base of the pipe. No extra trim and much cheaper. I think we paid about 1,000$ new about four years ago. Do love the stove. I heat my home (small, passive solar, straw bale) and domestic hot water with about six face cord a year. No back up.

[Michel Boulay]

Hi Jac,
here is an other site with wood cook stoves, http://www.enterprise-fawcett.com,
made in Sackville New-Brunswick. I’ve googled all the others and I think from what I found there all made in Canada except for the Waterford Stanley which is in Ireland.
But depending on what your looking for with all the bells and whistles you find on these stoves there somewhat expensive. The $1000 stove Don got is a good price, but you still have to ship it, how much does that cost???

mike

[jac]

Wow this is a great site guys !!! thanks for all the imput.. the stanley are along the same price as the aga and rayburn stoves… mega dear. Shipping mite not be a big issue as I know a guy that brings in antique tractors and will ship it for me.. cost me $800 to ship over our new plow so this may be an option. All the stoves other than the ones above that we get over here are made in China and to be honest are rubbish…
John

[Jay]

We have both the Pioneer Maid and the Baker’s Choice, Both are good- though I’d take the Pioneer Maid 1st any day – it’s air tight – the B C isn’t. Get the hot water coil with it. It will heat a barrel of water fast and the house as well. Holds a fire well… Can’t say enough good about it. We’ve had ours 10 years. We also have a Stanley Waterford with a water coil (U shaped tube) in it in another house which works well and is a little easier to bake with says the cook, though it doesn’t put out quite as much heat. Good stove though. Both a joy to use. Jay

[Donn Hewes]

Hi Jay, I would say my baker’s choice was air tight? I think it was sold that way. Since my water loop heats our floor when we don’t need hot water, and our house is so warm, we almost never have a fire that last more than a few hours and never try to shut the stove down tight. Finally got my baler out of the shop so I could put a mower in!

[Ed Thayer]

We have a Glenwood Model “G” that has been in our farmhouse for over 60 years . It has a water tank and medium sized oven.

It was never designed as a chunk stove and we do not expect to heat the house with it. My wife cooks on it regularly and it does provide some nice heat when really cold out.

We used to have a 6 foot external water tank plumbed into the fire box but removed it for the insurance company.

Glenwoods are still available as refurbished units and you can even find them used in preety good condition.

[Nat(wasIxy)]

Ours is a ‘louis ranger’ from the ‘windy smithy’ – works really well, there’s space for 3 large pans on the top and a wee oven, I say ‘wee’ because it really is, it’s a struggle to find roasting tins and baking trays small enough and you can’t do big batches of stuff, but it serves the two of us fine and for the money (£450? incl. delivery) I think you’d struggle to do better!

[mitchmaine]

hi john, the portland foundary made a line of cast iron wood cookstoves called atlantic. they had a queen, princess, duchess, etc. alot like eds glenwood. we hace a queen atlantic and its the heartbeat of our house with a fire in it from october til april. we heat and eat off it, and when the liners crack, i gob it up with more refactory cement to keep it alive. sure do love that stove. an aside, mother nature threw us a slider here the other day. 38 degrees, fifty mph wind and 3-4 inches of rain, and it was colder at disneyland in orlando than it was up here in caribou, maine. go figure. keep warm, and happy christmas. mitch and penny

[Jim Garvin]

Mitch;

We, too, have a Queen Atlantic that we use all winter to cook on and supplement our central heating system. It was one my wife’s uncle gave us when we first built our house back in 1980. When we got it, it needed a new firebox lining and grates. I was provided with a contact to buy those items by a friend of mine, who said “call Bea Bryant at Bryant Stove Works, in Thorndike, Maine”. I called her and she told me that she had purchased all the casting molds from the Portland stove manufacturing facility, and would ship the items right out to me. She was a pleasure to deal with (don’t suspect she’s still alive), but I know they’ve branched out to include a website for their business. http://www.bryantstove.com

We love our stove and can not imagine our house without it!!

[Mac]

Ourn is a good-sized job. Its a Standard, and I forget the maker. It has six eyes, a big oven, and is all black save for the doors, reservoir, and warming ovens, which are white porcelain. It throws out a good heat. Its almost too much in the summer time. Its been in the old house since it was built as far as I can tell. We also have one of those nice little Isinglass parlor stoves. I ordered it from Sears several years ago. Those two and the little gas stove in the bedrooms are all the heat we really need.
Mac.

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