Our New Wood Oven

A key thing for me when building our new extension was to make sure we had a means of cooking and heating off grid should we need it. 

We already have a stove in the sitting room that we use all winter. There's not many nights between November and March where it's not lit and we have plenty of firewood to keep us going. 

And although we can put a pan on top of the stove it's not ideal to cook with. 

Love the look of our new stove! 

I was a little obsessed with finding the right stove for our house and spent many houses researching what we should have and what would fit. To start with I thought it would just be another log burner like we had in the sitting room, maybe with a small oven on top. Luckily once I'd worked out what size we'd have available and spoke to some experts it turned out we could have a full on range in there!



The size of the chimney space went up and suddenly what would have been a little fireplace has turned into the main focal point of the room.

This was a real game changer, now we could have a full sized oven! Looking through what was a available a few really stood out and were within our budget. In the showroom we'd taken a real shine to La Nordica Rosa L but when the fireplace was finally finished it turned out we could have the biggest size the XXL.

This bigger size just meant a far bigger oven, so all our normal trays and things could still be used, much better for day to day cooking. The rest of the stove was pretty much the same.

I did go for the optional extra of the plates on top as this makes the temperature much more controllable as you can open or shut them. With more heat being directed either up the chimney or into the room or oven.

The fire box is huge! Can fit double what's in our other stove.

We lit it for it's first test firing the other night and, although it took a while to heat up, it really chucked out some heat. The oven got up to temperature and the fire box was simply huge, it'll be great to load it up and leave it cooking away!

We haven't tried the oven part yet but I full intend to this week. It does feel that with both fires going we'll be able to heat the whole house off grid should we need to, and although the heat takes a while to get into the bedrooms it soon finds its way up there. the big solid chimney also acts as a great heat sink and makes the middle of the house feel warmer for ages.

What do you think? Do you like it?

What would be your dream off grid heating set up?