When I see a wood burning stove in a store or in a magazine it brings back some nice memories. I truly loved the odor and the nice heat my family's old wood burning stove was giving us in the kitchen on cold winter days.



It may seem strange in today's high tech, but wood burning stoves are getting more popular than they have been in almost a century. A lot of people would suppose that a wood burning oven was about the least convenient article that you would put in your home. After all, there are so many disadvantage to a wood burning stove. First of all, there isn't the same kind of fine temperature control as with a gas heater. Woodburningstoves, essentially, are either on or off. When they are on, you constantly have to stock them with wood. When they are off, they take hours to heat up again.

Even so, the wood burning stove has a lot of advantage too. First of all, wood burning ovens are versatile. Not only can you use them to heat a room, they can also be used to dry clothes, and warm cold hands. You can even cook certain things on some wood burning stoves! There is also the matter of the cost of heating. Wood burning stoves used to be thought of as not practical because of the amount of work that goes into running them. Today, though, they make a lot of sense. They burn wood very slowly, and in many regions fire wood is accessible for free. Having a wood burning stove can save you hundreds and hundreds of dollars every winter. For many families, that is no laughing matter.

But there are dangers associated to wood burning stoves. Even though they are not difficult to maintain, they have hazards that normal gas heating systems do not have. Woodburningstoves required in the center of your common space. That signifies that if you have young kids, they are at risk. If the children run into the wood burning stoves, they can get burned! Also, a lot of persons believe that wood burning stoves have much greater emissions than other kind of heat. Even oil burning furnaces - notorious for the air pollution they generate - are supposed to be healthier for you than wood stoves. If your wood burning stove is not adequately insulated from the residence, it can liberate dangerous indoor pollution and be toxic for you and your family.

Nonetheless, even with all of these disadvantage, wood burning stoves make sense. They enjoy a renaissance among environmentally aware people. They are more efficient now and they also allow you to survive with less outside dependence on our shrinking natural gas supply.

So next time you see a wood burning stove, why not stop and have a closer look at it? onkeyup="cntWords(this,document.postform.c)">