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Do Everything Woodburning Stove
If you've decided to let wood heat help you fight energy problems, there's a new-style wood stove you should know about. Instead of just providing heat for your house, the new "do everything" Kroupa wood-burning stove also features a cooktop, a see-through oven, an eye-pleasing windowed firebox and an optional water he
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Do Everything Woodburning Stove ENERGY Wood Burners (65) 6-2-31 If you've decided to let wood heat help you fight energy problems, there's a new-style wood stove you should know about. Instead of just providing heat for your house, the new "do everything" Kroupa wood-burning stove also features a cooktop, a see-through oven, an eye-pleasing windowed firebox and an optional water heater unit.
"For home heating, the Kroupa stove provides up to 600?F of radiant heat. Vycor glass in the main firebox door permits you to enjoy the sight of the fire and helps to radiate even more of the heat into the house," explains inventor Gene Kroupa.
Stainless steel cover fits over the glass at night for extra safety. Also, the reflective surface of the stainless steel plate reflects the heat of the fire back onto the Vycor glass which burns off accumulated creosote and soot so you never have to scrub the glass. (Kroupa doesn't recommend burning coal in his stoves.)
There's also a second, smaller firebox just below the cooktop surface. It's handy for summertime cooking when you don't want to heat up the entire house with the regular firebox. Heat from both fireboxes is channeled over and under a see-through oven compartment for even, complete baking. The oven is big enough to handle an 18-lb. turkey or six loaves of bread. "With glass on both sides of the oven, it's nearly impossible to forget you have something in the oven," notes Kroupa.
There's also an optional water heater element which inserts just below the cooktop. The heated water automatically flows to the top of the storage tank through thermosyphoning and permits the heavier, cool water to run through the heat coils. Kroupa estimates it takes about an hour for the stove to heat enough water for a bath during the summer. With constant winter operation, though, hot water should be ready on demand.
Cost for a Kroupa stove is $1,295, plus an $80 duty fee in the U.S. This duty fee may soon be omitted since Kroupa is lining up a U.S. manufacturer. He already manufactures the stoves in Nova Scotia and British Columbia in Canada. Shipping weight is about 640 lbs.
For more details, including a 4-color brochure, send $1 to: FARM SHOW Followup, Kroupa Stove, Grand Etang, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada BOE 1LO (ph 902 224-2849).
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