The magic of a clean burning burning Batchbox stove

Humans have been fascinated with watching fire since the caveman days!
On the door of my Shorty Core, I have a large 7"x7" window.
As anyone with a glass portal to a wood-burning stove knows, most of the time the window is sooted black and hardly qualifies as a window.
Brisk scrubbing with newspaper and wood fly ash can make these windows crystal clear again, but sadly, they will soot right over in short order.
Leaving you with only a dark glimpse of the dancing flames.
Good news for fire watchers.
Your Peter Berg-designed Shorty Core (or first-gen batchbox) will clean its own window!   How cool is that!
This burning season, when I lit off a cold Shorty, she resisted waking up, yawning, and complaining that it could not possibly be burning season yet...
To show her displeasure, she sooted up over half of my window.
But as she realized it was indeed burning season, and she could now patrol the mountain valleys at first light, she started warming up.
With no help from me, each fire slowly cleaned off that sooty window, so that now it has only two lightly sooted spots left visible.
Within the next week or so, it will be completely clear and remain that way throughout the entire burning season!

Try that with your Box stove... And you will be looking through a sooted window all season long.

Hi Tom, I often wonder about what box stoves are available in the States?
Though out the UK, France and much of europe we have a huge choice of highly developed stoves, triple burn, pre heated secondary air, catalytic and non catalytic to name a few. Most have an insulated fire box and air wash viewing window, they are all low emission and mostly smokeless.
To be honest where I live most box stoves are used for visual appearance rather than heating, wood is an expensive fuel and all new homes would only need a few candles to heat a room due to the ridiculous amount of insulation and airtight rooms!
However box stoves remain very popular and we have a very good store displaying all the latest stoves.

Hi Fox,
You bring up a good point that I have no firsthand information on!
My experiences with door glass are on wood stoves that were all built in the 1960s -1970s.
Around here, there are plenty of those old box stoves still in use and for sale.
You can hardly see anything through the glass.

Having never wanted or needed one.
I only know about catalytic wood stoves from friends and neighbors who bought one, for thousands of dollars!
Sadly, many of them were not happy with their new stoves and reinstalled an old box stove to "supplement"/  replace the fancy one.

In most of Montana and Idaho, there are no restrictions on air quality.
I'm happy knowing that Peter went through extensive testing to create his stoves as clean-burning as possible.

Last year I helped a friend install a medium sized stove, found one by this company for 250 bucks.  It holds a 16 inch log, and had a returner using ceramic fiberboard.

I don't see it advertised on their webpage now, but the offer a smaller one rated to heat 750 sq ft, this has a self cleaning glass door. Just in case someone needs a stove quickly for less than a thousand.