Back to nature trend came from the outside to inside: kitchen wood stoves are back and they look better than ever.
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Milly by La Nordica, a stove with legs is stylish enough to find its place in any kitchen, not only rural ones. It has an optional warming oven, just like all older stoves used to have. This stove has an optional outside air intake, which is located at the rear bottom left. You don't have to use it unless you want to, if you choose not to use it, the stove will take air from the room, like most of other stoves. Its huge oven makes it possible to cook for all the family and its robust contruction will last for a very long time.
Lacunza is Spain's premier wood cook stove manufacturer and Clasica is their flagship model. Heavy cast iron doors, frames, and cook top, unbelievable enamel job, very convenient and solid door handles, and locking system, make it not only great-looking but also long-lasting. Enamelled baking oven makes it easy to clean, large and easy to grab chrome handles on both doors give it a beautiful old-fashioned look and when you touch it it's obvious that it's made at a state of the art facility.
Lincar is an Italian legend in the sector of wood stoves and they have decades of experience. Regina is made primarily of steel with the cook top being cast iron. It's a very solid piece of equipment. Both the firebox and the bake oven are large and both feature see-through glass doors: enjoy the views of the fire and of your food cooking. There is a storage area under the baking oven. The cook top is cast iron and is large, unobstructed by a chimney in the middle, and contains one large ringed burner for cooking directly over fire.
For a smaller kitchen the tiny range wood cook stove by Salamander Stoves of England is the right choice. The top is just one big stainless steel cooking hotplate. A stainless steel inset which can be easily removed and an enamelled black outer make it easy to clean. The wide range of cooking temperatures available across the surface of the hotplate makes it very versatile and allows a number of items to be cooked at varying speeds, all at the same time. The oven door has an inset oven thermometer with stainless steel trim to compliment the stainless steel fittings and rail option. ■
