The fan above the stove pushes the heat around and it’s surprisingly comfortable in here! We’ll do soup on top and a frozen pizza in the oven tonight. I cut and split my own wood (we had tons after the last ice storm), so no worries there.
I was reading about the stove,and it says it even heats water in a special built-in tank for you,if needed !
Excellent design.
Amazing stove, I restored it about twenty five years ago, using parts from two others. Replated all the shiny bits, polished nickel. The fire box is the left section. Oven is the centre portion, and the water tank is the box, hanging off the right side. There is a tap off the back to draw water to a bucket, or the top flips open to ladle it out. There are a series of dampers that control the air flow through each section. On the “flat top” there are six individual spaces for cooking that are slightly thinner cast iron discs. The two over the fire box are “very hot”, middle two are “medium”, right side is “low”. The flat over the water tank is “warm”. They are all removable for loading the fire box and cleaning the ash from the hot air channels. The little plated rectangle bottom centre, lifts off and there is a long handle rake to pull ash from the bottom Absolutely a brilliant design.
With all the fresh air dampers closed, it takes about an hour to burn down a few good sized bits of wood. I cut them under 18” long and try and split to less than 8” cross section. The bottom door under the fire box hides a removable ash box that gets emptied once a day, when in use. Last night I opened up the air channels around the oven and it easily cooked our pizza at +400F!
Note the temp. gauge in the centre of the oven door. It’s a narrow piece of copper flat bar, wound into a spiral. As it heats up a painted portion rises in the slot to show the oven temp. Still works perfectly. Of course the entire thing is held together with “stove bolts” and square nuts!
