Fireplace with oven above it????

billooo2 · #1 07/21/13, 05:24 PM

I am planning to build a small cabin. I have been looking for ideas that I might want to utilize. I was watching a video on Top Documentary Films and I saw a fireplace with an oven above it. That one was in Spain. I have looked on the internet......and, so far, I have not been able to find anything like it.

Does anyone here know of anything like this????.......where I could buy one???

I will try to put a link in to the video ....if it would help. it is at about 55:02 into the video,

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/we-th...-house-people/

farmrbrown · #2 07/21/13, 05:29 PM

Here's a few.

http://www.rumford.com/oven/articleoven.html

billooo2 · #3 07/21/13, 05:38 PM

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Originally Posted by farmrbrown

Here's a few.

http://www.rumford.com/oven/articleoven.html

Thank you. Those are beautiful.

I am hoping to find something on a smaller scale.....I am planning on a VERY small cabin.

farmrbrown · #4 07/21/13, 06:02 PM

Oooops, I have the same problem in our place, everything has to be down sized.
Perhaps you can scale down the plans or have a local mason do it if you don't DIY.

In the old days, they just used a metal tripod or rack and a dutch oven.

tinknal · #5 07/21/13, 07:06 PM

I would build it to the side of the fire box with a space beneath it you can rake coals into. It would be much easier to control the heat that way.

billooo2 · #6 07/21/13, 08:25 PM

Perhaps a more accurate description of what I am looking for is a 'Franklin'-type of insert with an oven installed just above it. Both are made of metal.

freelove · #7 07/22/13, 07:45 AM

Well, not a Franklin type, but Tulikivi fireplaces have some models with ovens above. They come in many sizes.

I lived in a house that had a Tulikivi with an oven and it was fantastic. I used it all the time for heat and baking. The bread that I made was crusty and beautiful. The only advice I would give is have the back of the oven enclosed. The one I used was open to the flame and needed frequent cleaning. You had to be sure the fire was out before using the oven.

o&itw · #8 07/22/13, 10:11 AM

The Franklin type thing might work. With a regular fireplace the flue must dome to the front of the chimney to draw correctly. If the fireplace was free standing in the cabin, you could possibly put a oven above the fireplace on the back of the chimney.... still it wouldn't be practical. You are going to have to spend a few bucks to do whatever you do, so why not just buy a (wood) kitchen stove? It will heat a small cabin, have an oven that you can control the temperature, and usually will have a provision to heat water also. I would guess you could get one for less than you would spend on the combination of other things you would have to do. Old ones usually have the fireboxes burned out, and besides the prices are inflated by "antique" buyers. You can buy one of the newer steel "Amish" styles, and it should last for years.

rharper · #9 07/22/13, 10:14 AM

This sort of thing, maybe?

https://www.lehmans.com/p-4873-bakers-salute-oven.aspx

o&itw · #10 07/22/13, 10:39 AM

There are a number of them out there if you look. Here's one:

http://www.discountstoves.net/Baker-...kerschoice.htm

rharper · #11 07/22/13, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by o&itw

There are a number of them out there if you look. Here's one:

http://www.discountstoves.net/Baker-...kerschoice.htm

Great site!

I think this one could be spot on for a small cooking/baking setup:

http://www.discountstoves.net/Baker-s-Oven-p/vtbb.htm

It isn't cheap, but it looks like it'll do all it needs to with a tiny (comparatively) footprint.

||Downhome|| · #12 07/22/13, 12:57 PM

heres a option

http://www.cylinderstoves.com/chimney-oven-p-74.html

as far as temp control , different flues with dampers much like a traditional wood cook stove would work.

the stove on the link by o&itw , I seen on a website and they put a brickwall for thermal mass on the sides and behind. the flue fed into a y with a damper on the two exits. so when you lit the stove ,one damper sent the gas directly up the flue, and then you opened the other, close the first, once it was going sending it through another section of flue run top to bottom, all across the back wall connecting the the venting flue. that way the back wall worked like a Russian furnace.

CathyGo · #13 07/22/13, 01:27 PM

Here's another masonry stove option that's particularly DIY friendly.

http://masonryheater.com/cores

Several of their cores come with a stove option.

katy · #14 07/22/13, 02:19 PM

The only insert I had experience with was poor quality, not made for practical heating. The fireplace I currently have is great and I do cook a little in it (steak in a steel wire mesh basket), hot dogs or a pot of coffee. What would be very helpful would be two or three shelves built into the rear corners for smaller pots / bread pans, then a couple of swing-out hooks to hang dutch ovens from.
http://www.motherearthnews.com/real-...#axzz2ZnlJDX6Z

http://www.google.com/aclk?sa=l&ai=C...%253D974931920