New member. So many questions. What stove??????

[Fishbum]

It's quite likely that the Ideal Steel would be too large. A BK Chinook would be a better choice.

Does it get hot enough to cook on top

 

[stoveliker]

No. Yes, hotter than 212 F, but I don't think hot enough to make it a cooking surface.

Also the paint will scratch if you move any pan or pot.

 

[BKVP]

An interesting point of discussion. Maybe a survey is in order about how many folks actually use their stoves to cook on? When we first started is the NZ market, we were told without a water tank that hangs on the back of the stove, they would not sell. "Every stove has to have the tank". Well, I can confirm that is not true.

But the idea of being able to cook on the surface of the stove is a great talking point. Just in emergencies?

There are many new wood cook stoves (including Kuma) if cooking is a truly viable need and the units are not required to go through emissions testing. Some of units from Europe are very nice looking as well.

BKVP

 

[jjam]

Does anyone have any thoughts on the supreme Novo 24

So random question but can fire bricks out of a stove be replaced by soapstone bricks?

Or is this a big mistake

I was just curious

you can not alter a tested appliance/