Best wood stove

Did Jotul buy out Vermont Castings?

I used a small Jotul "schoolhouse heater" back many years, it was slick for quick heat. It was very well made if somewhat yuppie for the time.

Been heating with wood since 1971....have had lots of stoves. We are rather "off, off, off the grid"....so my choices will not fly for a coded area.

The best heating stove I have ever used is a Consolidated Dutchwest....the XL size. We are on our second in 30 years. They make code easily , BUT .... we parked it and are using a Pioneer Maid wood cookstove now to both cook and heat the house (2000 sq ft). I have never seen a stove use so little wood....put out so much heat....and perform so flawlessly.

We heat over 10,000 sq ft of shop, studio, greenhouse, barn and home ..... We use Fishers for the grunt work. We have 5 Fishers.....Grandmas, Grandpas, and, my favorite, the fireplace inserts modified to be freestanding stoves. Way too many nights spent reading Organic Gardening by the Alladin lamp with a Fisher heating the Cabin to ever give them up. They are indestructible. I also have several monster "Fisher" knockoffs in the barn to tinker with....the Elk Pine is a Hulk, with twin blowers, a double steel shell, and a brick cavern for a firebox. That will be converted to heat lots of water for the farm and shop. We never paid more than $300. for a perfect Fisher... They are everywhere in the USA.... many of the knockoffs ... Timberline and others, were Fisher dealers who broke ranks and modified their design a bit to skirt the patents.