Often a homeowner is in the market for a cookstove that works and sort of matches the rest of the kitchen. In a few cases, some cooks look for a stove that adds drama. Occasionally, though, a consumer needs a cookstove that remakes a kitchen into the actual heart of the home. Although they are quite higher priced, reproduction cookstoves look like the cookstove your mother or grandmother might have fed the family with many decades ago. What follows are reviews of three different cookstoves which hearken back to three different eras of home cooking. Another good model is the Zojirushi BB-HAC10 Breadmaker.
The Heartland Company designs a few very quaint but particularly hefty Victorian-fashioned wood burning cookstoves. This company makes the Oval Woodstoves which have been heating teakettles and warming dinners for more than 100 years. The benefit with Heartland Oval Woodstoves, however, is that they include some handy 21st century options. Another must see is the Zojirushi BB-CEC20 Breadmaker.
These are actual woodstoves and could still efficiently heat a house – up to 1800 square feet – but once you include the fresh air kit, water jacket and heat shield, this model will be more suited to your modern home. If you would prefer to rely on coal for your cooking fuel, a coal grate package can be purchased. This cookstove has an enameled exterior for sale in five colors and a nickel trim, and can be special ordered for approximately $5000.
If you appreciate working with electric or gas cookstoves and want to jump a step or two ahead in time, Aga produces European-designed stoves that resemble 1930s and 40s models. These large, beefy appliances appear as substantial as Grandma’s apple cobbler, but Grandma didn’t use an oven and cooktop as easy to use as this one. Aga’s Legacy 44” cookstoves are available with either solid or cathedral-window doors, and they are available as electric as well as dual fuel cookstoves. The dual-fuel model allows you to cook with natural or LP gas. An Aga Legacy can preheat in about 5 minutes and comes with seven programmable tasks such as defrost and convection bake. The Aga Legacy is a lot of technology with a lot of style, which nearly rationalizes the $7300 investment.
If your ideal generation for cookstoves is complimented with poodle skirts and Marilyn Monroe, then you may want to consider the cookstoves in the Northstar Line from Elmira Stove Works. These products come with retro 50s styling with ceramic cooktops, self cleaning ovens and an LED display clock. For approximately $4000, you could cook with one of Northstar’s nifty cookstoves in either of nine colors and your selection of understated or nearly overwhelming chrome accents.
Normally a cookstove is only a tool. Sometimes, a cookstove can be a focal point. In a few cases, however, cookstoves can call back an era of Father Knows Best, stovetop percolators and a life that made sense. If you want a reproduction cookstove, then odds are that one of these brands would help you to equip your dream kitchen.
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