Reply #12: Its a nice fantasy

[sweetheart]

If you have to hand-stoke your oven, the romance ends after a week of wiping down the
kitchen of fine ash from the stove fire... after a month, after a season, a year, a
decade, however long of daily wipings up, cutting fuel, bringing in new fuel, taking
out ash....

My dream kitchen has an always-on oven in it for pizzas and like, but oil fired or continuously
fired as simply there is no way i enjoy firing a stove unless its an 'option', and not a mandatory
thing to be up at the wee hours of the morning, shivering whilst lighting up the romantic kitchen
fire that will dazzle your family hours later when they finally awaken to a warm kitchen.

And no matter how fast you are, 20 minutes a day, minimum, of work to fire a stove....

I've fired entire winters with wood, coal and peat, and as much as i'm a lover of a toasty hot fire,
i romatically consider the lazy man's thermostat dial a much more convenient option, likely
you've got it better where you'z at. :-)