Wood stove La Nordica Rosetta Italy 2500€

Rosetta is a wood stove from Italy. A real beauty. The wood stove costs 2500€ but prepare to pay an additional 1000€ for the chimney. Installation of the chimney and Rosetta with a stone plate behind to protect my timber walls was 1500€. Rosetta weight 150 kg, so make sure your installer has enough muscles 🙂. Mine came alone, and "walked" her in. So it is possible.

Rosetta has a fireplace with a glass door - you can enjoy the flames while warming the house or cooking ❤. The burning platform can be lowered and rised with a winch. Air intake can be regulated by
- adjusting the burning platform
- adjusting air intakes
- adjusting the air exhaust
- opening the ash basket door

The inside of the fireplace has wavy inner walls, able to store maximal amount of heat. Rosetta is able to heat 200 square meters - I only have 20 so cannot comment on that. But when I arrive to a chilly house, it takes a quarter of an hour before I have to start undressing!

The door closes automatically for safety. There is a nice hook to help you keep the door open when loading firewood.

The oven is partially split so that gases burn better before escaping into the chimney. That gives Rosetta a full A for environment-friendliness.Rosetta burns perfectly - my chimney only has vibrating air coming from it.

The ash basket is really spacious and can be easily removed.

Rosetta has an oven with a glass door and inbuilt thermometer. The oven is a bit narrow, so not all usual stoneware fits in!

You can close the oven air inlet if you just want to heat the house. When you open the air inlet, the oven it warms really quickly, 10-15 minutes to baking temperature.. The heat is not uniform, so you have to turn your dishes unless you want half burnt half raw food 😄. That is the case with all wood or gas ovens, so not a minus really.

Rosetta has a locker for keeping dishes warm, and it really works! There is a spacious drawer for pots and pans in the bottom. That also functions as insulation, so you do not need a stone floor under your wood stove. Mine was safely mounted on a wooden floor, a great thing in a wooden house. Rosetta comes with a glass protector for the front - whatever your floor, it shows through.

The stovetop has old-fashioned rings. You can remove them one by one. I use my cast iron wok in Rosetta!! Just take a couple of rings away and you have a wok cradle.

Rosetta has a rod running around the stove. Since the side steel panels do not get hot, it is great for hanging spatulas, oven mitts and towels. They say you need to leave 50 centimeters behind the stove if there is a wood wall. If you install a stone plate, it can be narrowed to 10 cm.

It is impossible to get a carbon monoxide poisoning while using Rosetta - even when you close the pipe exhaust, there are holes in the plate  to let carbon monoxide through.

There is a sniffling / cleaning door on the top, so maintenance is easy.

I have yet to find fault in her. I am perfectly satisfied.

At the moment, La Nordica is struggling with production bottlenecks. As all European industries are. I would order mine now, as the production costs will just keep on rising.

Kaarina Kreus wrote: The burning platform can be lowered and rised with a winch.

I had to look that up to see what exactly it was. It sounds like a great feature. Was it optional? I assume it would be very useful in warmer months when you want to cook on the stovetop but not build a big fire. I couldn't find any clearer info on it.

Yes, it was an extra, cost only 40€ but was really worth it!

You can minimise the burn area to get super fast heat for coffee or tea without heating the house.

That's a very handy feature. I'm waiting for some genius to engineer a woodstove that converts from a big cold winter stove to a mild spring day stove. I've considered acquiring a tiny cast iron stove like they use on sailboats and just sitting it on top of our cookstove for the milder months. It could be hooked up to our existing chimney.

So, if you have the damper set to bypass the oven, and you have the grate winched up high, does the rest of the stove heat up much when you're just brewing coffee?

When i winch the platform high, there is not that much heat radiated. The flames just heat the plate above.
So you can cook or brew something quickly without getting heat.
And you get away with a couple of twigs really. No logs required.
Brilliant, really.

I use my Rosetta for cooking, baking, heat AND hot water.

I light my Rosetta up at least a couple of times a day, so I always have a 12 litre/3 gallon kettle full of water sitting on the stovetop. When the water starts to boil, I move it to the side and on a raiser to prevent too much steam escaping. (See pictures)

The water boils every time I use the stove, and keeps warm till I use it again. I have warm water all the time!