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but,I do have my chicken house ways. I just finished cooking breakfast on our Pioneer Maid wood cookstove.I have cookies coming out in a few minutes for our grand children.We have used it two winters now and it heats the whole house. With the gas prices so high last year we saved about half the cost of the stove. Any one needing a good wood cookstove. I highly recommend this one. Jim
-- Jim Raymond (jimr@terraworld.net), December 08, 2001
Whats the cost of one? Does it have anyway to regulate the heat in the oven? I am seriously thinking about one for our house up north,but have to admit that wood cookstoves are not my specialty.
-- TomK(mich) (tjk@cac.net), December 08, 2001.
Tom I checked out many wood cookstoves and we chose the Pioneer Maid. It is built by the Amish in Canada And it cost with shipping $1800.00 We called and ordered ours from www.orc.ca/~gerry/pioneer.html Gerry was great to work with. He had it delivered to our house in South East Kansas. Give him a call, his number is on web page.
-- Jim Raymond (jimr@terraworld.net), December 08, 2001.
Jim, If I buy one will it make my husband want to cook breakfast or bake cookies?? :~) If so I'll order one today! Hope you enjoy it!
-- Debbie T in NC (rdtyner@mindspring.com), December 08, 2001.
Good one Debbie, have a great day. jim
-- Jim Raymond (jimr@terraworld.net), December 08, 2001.
We have a Pioneer Maid woodstove! My parents said I could inherit it whenever I need it!:) We used it for almost 6 years as our sole source of heat and a lot of our cooking in winter. It's the best for baking and roasts because the oven is air tight. The only thing my dad didn't like about it was cleaning it. We had to pull it out from the wall and scrape stuff out of the back. But it had a big firebox and could hold a fire for about 6 hours. It also had a resovior and we used it to heat our water in winter(we didn't get hot water in summer). It's a great stove.:)
-- Rebekah in Canada (rebekah_swinden@hotmail.com), December 08, 2001.
An old man was laying on his death bed. He had only hours to live when he suddenly smelled chocolate chip cookies. He loved chocolate chip cookies more than anything else in the world. With his last bit of energy, he pulled himself out of bed, across the floor, and to the stairs. Then down the stairs and into the kitchen. There his wife was baking chocolate chip cookies. As he reached for one, he got SMACKED across the back of his hand by the wooden spoon his wife was holding. "Leave them alone!" she said, "They're for the funeral!
-- Clod Hopper (brushfarmer@hotmail.com), December 08, 2001.
Could we use a cookstove in our future addition, which will be a big family room, instead of a regular woodstove? Seems to me it would just be a nice bonus to be able to bake in it as well as get heat from it. Or is it less efficient when used primarily for heating?
-- Debbie in Mo (risingwind@socket.net), December 08, 2001.
Wow! This is great! I have been struggling with the decision of which stove to buy when the time comes, now I know! Thanks for the post Jim, and save some of those cookies for Grandpa!
-- Sandie in Maine (peqbear@maine.rr.com), December 08, 2001.
I'm getting into this thread kinda late but I recall seeing a wood cookstove that was designed with an airtight firebox. I think its sold by Lehmans. It would hold a fire, I was told, for 8-10hrs. Something I really liked about it was the domestic hot water pre- heater built into the stove.
-- john (natlivent@pcpros.net), December 09, 2001.
John, I believe Lehman's sells the Pioneer Maid, so that may be what you were thinking of! I've wanted one of them for years, but we have an old (1930's) wood cook stove that my husband got at an auction, so it's hard to justify spending money on a new one when this one is still perfectly good, and probably will be for another generation or two. And it only cost $200.
-- Kathleen Sanderson (stonycft@worldpath.net), December 10, 2001.