Stoves
Multi-fuel or a wood burning stove?
Choosing a multi-fuel or a wood burning stove
Most multi-fuel stoves have been designed to burn wood as well as coal and other solid and mineral fuels. So should you be looking at multi-fuel stoves or just wood burning stoves?
Burning wood
It is recommended that you try to burn wood as much as possible since wood logs are carbon neutral and sustainable. They also work out much cheaper than the equivalent fuel load of coal, solid or mineral fuel.
Coal, solid and mineral fuels
It’s handy to have an alternative to wood when your logs run out or get wet and adding coal last thing at night to the glowing embers of a log fire helps the fire last longer.
Contemporary or convecting multi-fuel stoves are harder to find since a big majority of them burn only wood.
Traditional radiant stoves have a wider choice of multi-fuel stoves and wood burning alternatives.
I believe that most of housewives have felt confused about what should they buy, wood burning stoves or multi-fuel stoves. Because I am one of them, wood burning stoves mean more environmental and more healthy, while multi-fuel stoves mean more choice of fuel, stoves users can freely choose their fuel for their stoves.
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In all, thank you for sharing about wood burning stove and mulit-fuel stove.
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People need to be made more aware of smokeless fuels which obviously can be used in these multi-fuel stoves. They’re cost-effective and far more efficient than other fuels yet I rarely see them being sold! If you aren’t going to use these alternative methods of fuel then I would certainly opt for wood.