Solid Fuel Cookers

The rise in popularity of solid fuel cookers represents the popular trend amongst homeowners to go back to the cooking methods of their grandparents, or great-grandparents. The most famous solid fuel cookers were the Aga cooking range, which burnt wood.

These solid fuel cookers are still in use today. Solid fuel cookers such as the AGA can do a lot more than just provide a hot plate and an oven for cooking. Solid fuel cookers also provide heating for the kitchen and quite a bit of hot water too.

Solid Fuel Cookers

If you are looking for a new cooker, you could do a lot worse than get one of the modern solid fuel cookers. Modern solid fuel cookers are clean and efficient, but there are also gas and oil-burning cookers built in the old style that are even cleaner and easier to use.

These old style range cookers are similar to the ones your great-grandparents would have used everyday of their lives, but the technology has improved so that they are much more efficient and a lot cleaner. However, there are not only solid fuel cookers, there are also oil and gas burning ranges, which are the cleanest and easiest to use of the range of cookers on the market.

There are quite a few manufacturers of solid fuel cookers and you should find several on this web page. The most famous names in one country may be practically unheard of in others, but some of the more internationally well-known solid fuel cookers are: Aga, Rayburn, Stanley, Wamsler and Yeoman.

So, if you get one of these solid fuel cookers, which is the best type of solid fuel for you to use?. If you want to burn wood, then you will need legal access to a lot of it. You will practically have to own your own wood and you will need lots of time to cut the logs, transport them to your home, stack them and store them until they are dry enough to burn.

It is not so bad once you have a stock pile dry enough to burn, but it is something to bear in mind if you want to start using your wood-burning solid fuel cooker the day after it has been installed.

A coal burning cooker is far easier to run for most people because the coal is delivered to your bunker and is easily stored. Solid fuel cookers are the cheapest way of providing cooking and heating services and of the two coal is the easier more most people.

As for maintenance costs. Well, solid fuel cookers need servicing (or cleaning) every month, but the good news is that you can do it yourself. However, once a year you will need the services of a professional chimney sweep.

Running costs obviously depend on the cost of the fuel you choose, but coal-burning solid fuel cookers will need about two scuttles of coal a day, whereas wood-burning solid fuel cookers will need to be topped up every few hours, depending on the quality of the wood.

The only downside of these types of solid fuel cookers is dust and time in the form of labour.