We have been off grid since 2014 and cooking on wood stoves during the heating season since then. First with a small Jotul f602 in our tiny house then our current situation is on a 48” Kitchen Queen. It heats our water and bakes incredible bread. It works amazingly well but is a hungry monster. We go through at least 6 cords to cook and heat our 1200 square foot hall and parlor 2 story home. There’s usually a window open because it’s so hot while cooking. The indoor air quality is extremely dry and dusty despite having a large pot of boiling water on at all times. We are all fair skinned and have very itchy winters. It’s an incredible appliance and works extremely well, but at this point we would trade the cooktop for a masonry heater with an oven and our hot water element.
We purchased Matt Walker’s Continental plans and thought of positioning the water pipe at the exit of the burn chamber into the bell. We also considered making a steel oven box to fit in the bell.
Would it make sense to delete the cooktop and position the oven above it like you have here?
Then we could route the gasses through a mass to make a bench to sit on?
What are your recommendations?
