Cooking With a Reproduction Cookstove
April 3, 2010 | In: General
Usually a consumer is shopping for a cookstove that works and vaguely goes with the existing kitchen. Now and again, some customers want a stove that sets a stage. Every so often, though, a cook needs a cookstove that converts their kitchen into the actual heart of the home. Although they are a bit pricey, reproduction cookstoves have the appearance of the cookstove your mother or grandmother would have made meals with all those decades ago. What follows are reviews of three exemplary appliances that recreate three long-gone eras of home cooking. A nice comparable model to check out is the Zojirushi BB-HAC10 Breadmaker.
The Heartland Company manufactures a few very picturesque but particularly sturdy Victorian-looking wood burning cookstoves. This manufacturer replicates the Oval Woodstoves which have been heating homes and helping to prepare suppers for more than one hundred years. The distinction with Heartland Oval Woodstoves, fortunately, is that they incorporate some handy 21st century features. Another must see is the Zojirushi BB-CEC20 Breadmaker.
These are still woodstoves and can still effectively heat your living space – up to 1800 square feet – and with Heartland’s fresh air kit, water jacket and heat shield, this product will be better suited to today’s home. If you’d rather rely on coal for your cooking fuel, a coal grate option is available. This appliance has an enameled coating available in five colors complemented by a nickel trim, and may be special ordered for approximately $5000.
If you would rather be working with electric or gas cookstoves and would like to move a step or two nearer in time, Aga produces European-designed stoves which replicate 1930s and 40s fashions. These big, beefy appliances are as substantial as Grandma’s apple cobbler, but Grandma didn’t use an appliance as simple to work with as this new Aga. Aga’s Legacy 44” cookstoves come with either solid or cathedral-window doors, and they may be ordered as electric or dual fuel appliances. The dual-fuel cookstove enables you to employ natural or LP gas. This appliance is able to preheat in under 5 minutes and offers seven programmable settings like defrost and convection bake. Any Aga Legacy is a lot of cookstove with a lot of style, which about explains the $7300 price tag.
If your preferred timeframe for reproduction appliances is complimented with poodle skirts and Elvis Presley, then you ought to check out the cookstoves from the Northstar Line from Elmira Stove Works. Those stoves offer retro 50s styling with electric heating elements, warming drawer and an LED display clock. For approximately $4000, you are able to own one of these nifty cookstoves in either of nine colors and your choice of quietly tasteful or gratuitous chrome accents.
Usually a cookstove is just an appliance. Now and again, a cookstove is a home décor element. In some rare situations, however, cookstoves might evoke a time of nuclear families, stovetop percolators and a lifestyle that involved less stress. If you need a reproduction cookstove, then odds are that one of the aforementioned manufacturers can help you to furnish your reproduction kitchen.
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