A century ago, home life in Vermont revolved around the wood burning cook stove. Meals were prepared, bread baked and hands warmed from the heat it produced. Stoves with names like Gold Coin, ...

The Bushwhacked economy has at least one upside: It has put crazy things that once seemed sane farther out of reach. Once upon a time, like a year ago, many cooks would not even blink at spending ...

Wood-burning stoves like the ones early Americans cozied up to for warmth are hot again. Fireplaces that folks have enjoyed in their homes for years are being retrofitted with "inserts" that shoot ...

THORNDIKE – Trimmed in shiny nickel for looks, faced with clear mica windows for viewing the fire, the Riverside coal stove is a beauty. It’s relatively efficient, too, with a “base burner” design ...

Business is heating up for Jack Santoro, owner of a company specializing in antique stoves. With the economy teetering toward a recovery, many consumers are more likely to salvage their old stoves and ...

During the last hike in heating costs in the late 1970s, interest in heating with wood surged, particularly in regions where oil or electricity were primary heat sources. Ten years later, as clouds of ...

When our Coleman stove died an untimely death last summer, and a neighbor offered us his Coleman camp stove as a replacement, we jumped at the freebie. But when he brought down the stove, we wondered ...

Tonight, more than a century ago all the cooking was done on a wood stove, not an air fryer, or a microwave, but on beautiful pieces made of iron. It's rare to find one these days, and as Karen Meyers ...

Things often have unexpected consequences. Who would have thought that the English invention about 1750 of a process for rolling iron into sheets thin enough and large enough to produce stove pipe ...

When we were having the shell of our present home built the builder called us and said it was hard to work because of the cold weather. He told us he had an air tight wood stove he would install for a ...