Sometime back I was asking about new stoves and was mentioning how I thought all the new EPA stoves were very small to me. Then many of you chimed in how this and that stove were big enough to cremate a St Bernard and so on. Well I just measured the old Nashua (and by the way mine is a mid size model) and I come up with 5.4 cuft. and I rounded all measurements down. Thats over 1 cuft larger than the King. So my intuition was right. These new stoves are small and they look it. So even though they are real efficient and clean burning just how is a much smaller box going to radiate as much heat as a larger one assuming they burn at similar surface temps?I've got real doubts now that the Magnolia test stove at 150lbs less weight and much smaller fire box can possibly do what the old Nashua is doing. I will say though maybe part of my creosote problem is just the enormous amount of wood I'm burning in the old beast.