Wood burning range cookers look amazing, especially in traditional French kitchens and for many home cooks, a wood-fired oven is the ultimate culinary aspiration.

If your home has a large kitchen fireplace, a beautiful wood burning range cooker is the icing on the cake. These hugely versatile appliances can offer so much on a practical level – cooking, room heating, hot water and central heating all in one – as well as epitomising idyllic country living.

As with any type of stove, however, it’s important to get expert advice in order to ensure you choose the right solution for your needs. Many of the same considerations apply, such as understanding the stove’s heat output and what will be appropriate for the size of the room.

Don’t forget that wood burning range cookers produce heat all the time, so the temperature in a small kitchen could reach sizzling pretty quickly! For this reason, it’s a good idea to consider adding hob lids to your cooker, in order to retain heat while the stove is not in use for cooking.

This also means, of course, that your cooker shouldn’t be placed too close to combustible materials, such as wooden cupboards or plastic light switches.

Wood burning range cookers boast an army of loyal fans for very good reasons. But when designing your kitchen, it’s important to consider whether you might want to use alternative cooking methods at certain times. For example, it may not be cost-effective – or comfortable – to have the cooker running every day throughout the summer.

In that case, it could be useful to also add an electric cooker to your kitchen layout, or even learn to master the barbecue!

We believe that these stoves make brilliant additions to any kitchen, so let’s have a chat and see if we can get a wood burning range cooker onto your menu today.