Types of stove

• Air-tight stove
• Bamboo stove
  Bamboo stove
  The original bamboo stove was made in China in the late 14th century. A monk named Xing Hai in the Ting Song temple on Mount Hui in Wuxi asked a travelling bamboo artisan to make him a stove on which he could boil water for tea. Surprisingly, it included bamboo to form the frame of the stove. The...
  
  
• Beverage-can stove
  Beverage-can stove
  A beverage-can stove is a homemade, ultralight portable stove. The simple design is made entirely from aluminium cans and burns alcohol. Countless variations on the basic design exist....
  
  
• Biomass cook stove, a fuel efficient and environmentally aware cookstove
• Buddy Burner
  Buddy Burner
  A Buddy Burner is a simple stove made from a can and part of a corrugated paper box. It is usually fueled by paraffin wax but other fuels, such as boiled butter, animal fat or diesel fuel, can be used.It is usually used for cooking but can also provide heat....
  
  
• Electric stove
  Electric stove
  An electric stove converts electricity into heat to cook and bake.- History :On September 20, 1859, George B. Simpson was awarded US patent #25532 for an 'electro-heater' surface heated by an platinum-wire coil powered by batteries; in his words, useful to "warm rooms, boil water, cook...
  
  
• Franklin stove
  Franklin stove
  The Franklin stove is a metal-lined fireplace named after its inventor, Benjamin Franklin. It was invented in 1741.L.W. Labaree, W. Bell, W.B. Willcox, et al., eds., The Papers of Benjamin Franklin , vol. 2, page 419...
  
  
• Gas stove
  Gas stove
  In cooking, a gas stove is a cooker which uses natural gas, propane, butane, liquefied petroleum gas or other flammable gas as a fuel source.-History:...
  
  
• Hobo stove
  Hobo stove
  A hobo stove is a style of improvised heat-producing and cooking device used in survival situations, by backpackers, hobos, tramps and homeless people...
  
  
• Kang bed-stove
  Kang bed-stove
  The Kang is a traditional long sleeping platform made of bricks or other forms of fired clay and more recently of concrete in some locations. Its interior cavity, leading to a flue, channels the exhaust from a wood or coal stove...
  
  
• Kitchen stove
  Kitchen stove
  A kitchen stove, cooking stove, cookstove, or cooker is a kitchen appliance designed for the purpose of cooking food. Kitchen stoves rely on the application of direct heat for the cooking process and may also contain an oven, used for baking.In the industrialized world, as stoves replaced open...
  
  , (also known as cooker, cookstove or range) for food preparation
• Pellet stove
  Pellet stove
  A pellet stove is a stove that burns compressed wood or biomass pellets to create a source of heat for residential and sometimes industrial spaces...
  
  
• Portable stove
  Portable stove
  A portable stove is a cooking stove specially designed to be portable and lightweight, as for camping or picnicking, or for use in remote locations where an easily transportable means of cooking or heating is needed...
  
  
• Potbelly stove
  Potbelly stove
  A potbelly stove is a cast-iron wood-burning stove, round with a bulge in the middle. The name is derived from the resemblance of the stove to that of a fat man's pot belly. They were designed to heat large spaces and were often found in train stations or one-room schoolhouses...
  
  
• Reverse-process stove
  Reverse-process stove
  The reverse-process indoor wood burning stove is a non-catalytic airtight heater. Employing a unique reverse process whereby it not only draws exterior air in to the wood stove for combustion, thus eliminating interior drafts, it also releases fresh outside air into the room through a rear-mounted...
  
  
• Rocket stove
  Rocket stove
  A rocket stove is an innovative clean and efficient cooking stove using small diameter wood fuel which is burned in simple high-temperature combustion chamber containing an insulated vertical chimney which ensures complete combustion prior to the flames reaching the cooking surface. The principles...
  
  
• Sigri (stove)
  Sigri (stove)
  A Sigri is a stove used for cooking, especially in North India. The fuel used is usually coal, dried cow dung and wood, and is therefore useful for those who cannot afford liquefied petroleum gas stoves...
  
  
• Wood-burning stove
  Wood-burning stove
  For a list of stove types see Stove .A wood-burning stove is a heating appliance capable of burning wood fuel and wood-derived biomass fuel. Generally the appliance consists of a solid metal closed fire chamber, a grate and an adjustable air control...
  
  

Stove manufacturers

• AGA cooker
  AGA cooker
  The AGA cooker is a stored-heat stove and cooker invented in 1929 by the Nobel Prize-winning Swedish physicist Gustaf Dalén , who was employed first as the chief engineer of the Swedish AGA company...
  
  
• Country Kiln Stoves http://www.WoodburningStoveslimited.com
• Chambers stove
  Chambers stove
  The Chambers stove is a generic name for several different kitchen cooking appliances sold under the Chambers brand name from 1912 to approximately 1988...
  
  
• Favorite Stove
  Favorite Stove
  The Favorite Stove & Range Company was an American manufacturer from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries.In 1887 the Favorite Stove & Range Company moved to Piqua, Ohio from Cincinnati, Ohio. The firm became Piqua's largest manufacturer...
  
  
• Kalamazoo Stove Company
  Kalamazoo Stove Company
  The Kalamazoo Stove Company of Kalamazoo, Michigan operated with the slogan "A Kalamazoo ~ Direct to You." This was one of the first manufacturing plants to deal directly with the customer instead of employing the use of retail stores....
  
  
• Rayburn Range
  Rayburn Range
  The Rayburn is a type of stove similar in nature to the AGA and are manufactured in Telford at the same factory as the AGA.The Rayburn was launched in 1946 with two hotplates, and one or two ovens and the ability to heat water...
  
  

See also

• Guatemala Stove Project
  Guatemala Stove Project
  The Guatemala Stove Project , is a registered Canadian charity that raises funds and provides volunteers for the building of masonry cookstoves in Guatemala's Altiplano ....
  
  
• A stove may also be part of an open hearth furnace
  Open hearth furnace
  Open hearth furnaces are one of a number of kinds of furnace where excess carbon and other impurities are burnt out of the pig iron to produce steel. Since steel is difficult to manufacture due to its high melting point, normal fuels and furnaces were insufficient and the open hearth furnace was...
  
  or industrial furnace