Neil Manders can cook a pizza in it in five minutes. Patty, his wife, calls it ”better than a microwave.” The four Manders children use it to dry fruit, and it also helps heat their 3,000-square-foot ...

In the past two weeks I’ve written about wood stoves and pellet heating. This week I’ll focus on another way to burn wood cleanly and efficiently: using a masonry heater. A masonry heater, also called ...

This unit combines the firebox of a traditional stove with the internal stack of a rocket heater. Wood feeds through a horizontal tube into a primary combustion chamber. Hot, turbulent gasses enter a ...