He describes it as a multi function wood appliance that cooks and bakes while you heat your house and your hot water. One of our instructors has had one for over 5 years and still raves about it as the best wood stove he has ever owned. It certainly provides a lot of performance with a relatively small footprint and excelant controls on both the air flow to the firebox and the heat distribution to the cooktop and the oven. After using one for a week we also came to the conclusion that the award winning Esse Ironheart is perhaps the best all round wood fired cook stove on the market. There is also a good article in Sustainalbe Living Magazine that explores all its advantages of the Ironheart. We have tested over 20 cookstoves in our wood heat program at our Eco Education Centre and we highly recommend the Esse Ironheart. I don't spend over an hour a year doing it to my present cookstove. but these "modern" makes are designed to make that task simple and quick. Unlike a wood heat stove, these do need to be cleaned of ash and sometimes a bit of soot from around the various fireboxes and internal airways. Stoves such as these Esse and the Heartland are amazing appliances and become the center of the portion of the house in which they live. Nothing like it, though summertime temp's preclude using it except on cooler days when I arise early and get the bread done by late morning with the cottage doors wide open and the ceiling fans going. I have been baking on our current cookstove for 20 yr. The Esse website says it can be 4 months to wait for theirs, so our wait isn't any worse. We have been waiting for 8 wks, as they were out of stock and have to be shipped from England. We also recently ordered a new cookstove, a Heartland Artisan I saw mentioned here on the forum and which are on sale something like $1500 off. That is quite the beautiful stove and looks as if it will be a great baking oven/cooker. Or, at least I can awaken to some coals and a stove which is still at least warm and will then warm up faster once I rebuild the fire.Įither of the fireboxes you are considering would be fine. My newer stove will go all night if I close it down some. This is ok if you are there watching and managing it, but it is more effort and time and can be a pain. However, one is forever feeding the things and you cannot use larger wood. The stove was great for baking, no problem, and it put out enough heat otherwise. It was quite old, probably at least early 1900s, and many of those I see with small fire boxes. Previously, I used a couple of them in cabins, one for 11 years, that had very small fireboxes. I have a modern one now, and it has a large firebox. The one thing to note is that they have a lot of mass, wood cookstoves, and they stay warm a long time once they are completely heated up. We use one in our kitchen to both heat and bake, and while our house is about 1000 sq. I am getting ready to restore the stove after leaving it out on a porch all summer, that is the next part of the IronHeart series I'm working on.I don't feel either stove will be a problem over heating. I show you everything from how the stove works, how to change gaskets, adjust you hinges and latches, add a hot water boiler, or domestic hot water system and show you how the stove burn with the grates and with the extended wood box option. I was able to put together a series of You Tubes that deal with just about any issue you may have with your Esse Ironheart. Next is my experiences with an Ironheart that had been over fired and why that experience really sold me on this stove. The first one is on firewood and how to store it, age it, before you burn it, as well as some tricks to know if your wood is ready to burn. I have posted some info I hope will be helpful. We all start somewhere and there is a learning curve, if you need tech info on the stove, let me know and I am happy to provide it. You came to the right place for help, there are some folks here with Ironheart's and they know how well they work and how to help you, but your always welcome to call me and ask questions. 18 If your not happy with this stove and you bought it from me we need to talk, even if you didn't I'm still here to help you. This is Woody from Obadiah's Woodstove's, please call me as soon as is possible so I can help you.
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