Small Cookstove recommendations

[Dustin4185]

We are looking for a new stove for the big game check station at work. It is a little one room cabin about 16x24. We currently have an old insert that we built a stand for as a stove. It worked great for years, but the bottom has broken out and the damper is warped. If we replace it, it would be great to have a small cook stove like the Drolet Bistro or another brand cook stove. We spend ALL day in there during our hunts and being able to bake biscuits or put a pot of beans on would be great. Does anyone have any recommendations for a small cook stove?

 

[Sloughfoot]

Check out what Camp Chef has.
Nevermind. For some reason I read "camp stove".

 

[dangerousatom]

We ran one of these ( not exactly same ) in our house addition for like 20 years on mostly pallet scraps. It heats very well and is fairly small for a wood stove. It would cook that room even dampened down.

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If you need smaller than that look for a "guide stove" It the kind that goes inside a large 8-15 man tent. They are really small like the size of 2-3 boxes of boots. Here in PA there is a plethora of great used wood stoves on FB for under $400-500. That Drolet Bistro is pricey if thats what you really need. If your looking for a food warming box-stove scenario any large metal lid that will cover the ceramic plate and food without touching will work, even a big deep cast iron fry pan will do.
Otherwise IMO if you have a welder just take a day and make a lil one out of some random metal scraps and a +10" steel pipe or square tube for the body. Heck Ive seen guys weld up little bot-belly stoves out of two old truck brake drums and steel scraps. As long as its semi air tight to be able to control the draft and you can put fire in it, it will work...... a DIY stove falls to: how safe do you need it and how much do you need to place the blame on a manufacture.
More info maybe helpful interims of esthetics if your after the "look" of the Drolet Bistro

 

[Sloughfoot]

We are looking for a new stove for the big game check station at work. It is a little one room cabin about 16x24. We currently have an old insert that we built a stand for as a stove. It worked great for years, but the bottom has broken out and the damper is warped. If we replace it, it would be great to have a small cook stove like the Drolet Bistro or another brand cook stove. We spend ALL day in there during our hunts and being able to bake biscuits or put a pot of beans on would be great. Does anyone have any recommendations for a small cook stove?

This Drolet Bistro is pretty smart with the stainless oven and cook top. May have to sell accounting (better half) on one of these for our place.

 

[dangerousatom]

At $1000 less the price Maybe.....

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[Dustin4185]

This Drolet Bistro is pretty smart with the stainless oven and cook top. May have to sell accounting (better half) on one of these for our place.

They have some other models that would work great if we had more room. I hate to run us out of there trying to cook! We were trying to make coffee during the last deer hunt and filled our current stove up and opened her up. We had windows and doors open trying to get the place cooled back down. It was 20* outside then. This insert just doesn’t get that warm on top. We have been successful using a reflector oven for biscuits settingnit in front of the glass door. Like I mentioned though, it’s time for a new stove and we might as well get one with cooking capabilities. When we built this new checkstation, I should have went another 6-8 feet each way, lol.

 

[dangerousatom]

I think you maybe looking for something that will not work for your particular needs and square footage.
I’ve cooked on a wood burning oven/4 burner stove and they are difficult to keep at an even temp. It’s either full throttle or almost too cold. You have to use small chunks of wood to keep things right. Witch is not efficient or good for heat especially when ur outside for a few hours. I still think a 1/2 steel plate like 24x24-30 on top of the first stove I showed would be great. Plenty of surface area for 2-3 pots n a big coffee pot……and it be cheap

 

[Sloughfoot]

They have some other models that would work great if we had more room. I hate to run us out of there trying to cook! We were trying to make coffee during the last deer hunt and filled our current stove up and opened her up. We had windows and doors open trying to get the place cooled back down. It was 20* outside then. This insert just doesn’t get that warm on top. We have been successful using a reflector oven for biscuits settingnit in front of the glass door. Like I mentioned though, it’s time for a new stove and we might as well get one with cooking capabilities. When we built this new checkstation, I should have went another 6-8 feet each way, lol.

Been looking for a woodstove to put in our kitchen/living. I hadn't thought about one we could cook with, too.

 

[Hoser]

I have a customer with a Drolet cookstove but it’s a larger model fire on the left side and an oven on the other. Every year he tells me how great it is.
Likely depends on how fancy of a meal you want to cook up?
My regency has cooked meals in power outages but they weren’t anything to be proud of, but it’s not a cookstove and I’m no chef.

 

[FergusonTO35]

We ran one of these ( not exactly same ) in our house addition for like 20 years on mostly pallet scraps. It heats very well and is fairly small for a wood stove. It would cook that room even dampened down.

US1261E 900 sq. ft. Cast Iron Log Wood Stove | US Stove Company

The US1261E Cast Iron Log Wood Stove by United States Stove Company is a durable heating solution, perfect for warming up to 900 sq. ft. of space in log cabins, large garages, or workshops.

www.usstove.com

If you need smaller than that look for a "guide stove" It the kind that goes inside a large 8-15 man tent. They are really small like the size of 2-3 boxes of boots. Here in PA there is a plethora of great used wood stoves on FB for under $400-500. That Drolet Bistro is pricey if thats what you really need. If your looking for a food warming box-stove scenario any large metal lid that will cover the ceramic plate and food without touching will work, even a big deep cast iron fry pan will do.
Otherwise IMO if you have a welder just take a day and make a lil one out of some random metal scraps and a +10" steel pipe or square tube for the body. Heck Ive seen guys weld up little bot-belly stoves out of two old truck brake drums and steel scraps. As long as its semi air tight to be able to control the draft and you can put fire in it, it will work...... a DIY stove falls to: how safe do you need it and how much do you need to place the blame on a manufacture.
More info maybe helpful interims of esthetics if your after the "look" of the Drolet Bistro

I have the same thing from the Vogelzang brand. It is a great little stove that can put out alot of heat once you discover how best to feed it. Biggest thing to remember is, the smaller the better. I cut my hardwood into chunks about 6x6 inches. Anything bigger and you're going to be waiting awhile for it to heat up. It isn't really that time consuming. Just cut your logs into 6" sections and give each a quick whack with a small splitting axe, I did a pallet full in about an hour last night. I have cooked on it before with good results.

 

[Dustin4185]

I have a customer with a Drolet cookstove but it’s a larger model fire on the left side and an oven on the other. Every year he tells me how great it is.
Likely depends on how fancy of a meal you want to cook up?
My regency has cooked meals in power outages but they weren’t anything to be proud of, but it’s not a cookstove and I’m no chef.

I found a dealer that has that model in stock and setup to demo. I don’t realize we had a hearth and patio store that did demos nearby. I plan on checking it out next week. He has one in his hunting cabin and said it works well for their needs in the winter for both cooking and heating.

 

[mainer_in_ak]

Get a small cylinder stove. They have a flat top Fer cooking, and can get ascessory hot water tank. They damp down nicely. Just get a temp gauge and keep er round 325 degrees fer cooking.

Size it according to the temps and size of the cabin:

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