What Is It That Makes Multi Burner Stove So Popular?

What is a Multi Burner Stove?

A multi burner stove is designed to burn more than one type of fuel. They create a controlled environment to allow different types of wood and smokeless fuels to burn to create heat.

The stoves have an enclosed firebox where the fuel is put in and ignited. They also have a door that allows access, a window, and air vents to control the air supply and the speed of the fire.

Adjustable Flame

Many multi-fuel stoves have an adjustable flame control. This is a great feature if you are heating and cooking on the same stove because it allows you to set the temperature of your fire to suit your requirements and cook/heat food more efficiently. The majority of multi-fuel stoves come with an air vent built into the back of the stove. This helps to keep the fire burning even after you've finished cooking. It can also be used to eliminate any harmful fumes.

Unlike Wood burning Stoves which can only be used with logs, Multi Fuel Stoves permit the use of any solid fuel that can be combustible like peat, coal, etc. in addition to well-seasoned wood logs. Coal is gradually being disregarded as it is not suitable for areas of smoke control and produces more toxic fumes than seasoned wood.

Open the door to the multi-fuel stove. Place some fire lighters or paper between the dry kindling on the grates. Then light the paper or firelighters and wait for the kindling to catch fire. When the kindling is lit, you can add your kiln-dried logs on the top to create a fire bed. This will assist your logs to burn more efficiently.

A multi-fuel stove of good quality will have an ash pan and grate carrier frame to allow you to remove the ash without opening the door. Certain newer stoves have an inbuilt grate carrier, which lets more air flow through when the logs are burning.

If you plan to backpack or camp with your multi-burner stove, it is recommended to purchase one that features an advanced design for pot support like the MSR PocketRocket 2 and Jetboil MiniMo which are able to better stand up to windy conditions. Non-integrated canisters leave more the fire exposed. The MSR PocketRocket 2 and the more recent MSR WindMaster have a unique pot support that clamps on to the side of the stove to increase performance in windy conditions.

Adjustable Airflow

Multi fuel stoves are able to regulate the airflow to ensure that the fire is burning at a high rate. This enables the stove to produce heat efficiently without releasing waste gases or smoke entering the room. The stove can also be used in conjunction with other fuels like coal. This is crucial since some solid fuels cannot be used in smoke control areas and other types of fuel are more dirty or expensive than wood.

Multi fuel stoves come with raised riddling grates that allows combustion air to flow underneath the fuel. This makes it easier to take ash from the ashpan. Many of our multi fuel stoves feature a variety of new technologies like Cleanburn and Airwash that help ensure that the stove is running at its optimum level for each type of fuel.

Modern multi fuel stoves can be adjusted using the secondary and primary air controls. You can operate them either manually or automatically. The adjustable airflow feature allows the user to regulate the amount of primary and secondary air is supplied to the stove, in order to ensure that the fire is burning at its highest efficiency for each type of fuel.

It is recommended to select logs that have been kiln-dried and are low in moisture. It is also recommended to regularly add small amounts of wood to the flame, and keep the stove well maintained. Shut off the air supply, but not completely. This can create a vortex, which will draw unburned volatiles back into the fire. Try to keep the door of the stove slightly open, but not completely, so you can add wood only when it is visible through the glass. Place the log horizontally on top of the glowing embers so that it does not get in the way of the stove's side or the bottom of the grates.

Adjustable Temperature

If you're looking to be able to choose between burning a variety fuels, then a multi-burner woodburning stove may be the right option for you. In addition to wood logs, multifuel stoves can also burn turf briquettes or peat, anthracite coal and various smokeless fuel types. This means that you can take advantage of a wider range of heating sources and cut down on the amount of time and money you spend on the purchase and transportation of different kinds of fuel.

Many wood-burning stoves have primary secondary, tertiary and even primary vents that aid in regulating the flame's pattern. This increases efficiency. These air vents allow you to set the stove to a specific type of fuel and achieve optimum heat output. This is particularly useful because the prices of different fuels can vary greatly.

You can also make use of a multifuel stove to heat water systems for domestic use. This will allow you to provide hot water to your home. Certain models can also be used as a boiler to heat the hot water tank to be used by household. This means you can keep your home warm and cozy without turning on your central heating system.

One of the major distinctions between a multi fuel stove and the traditional log burner is that the former can only be used to burn wood logs. If you use a wood burner to burn other kinds of solid fuel, then it's likely to require the addition of a special grate, and an ash pan because these types of fuel don't burn the same way as logs do.

Multifuel stoves come with a metal grates at the bottom of the fire chamber. This allows air to flow from below and help keep the flame burning. This is necessary because coal, for example requires a lot of combustion air in order to stay lit. Multifuel stoves are fitted with riddlers that can be removed to empty the ash when the fire is still burning. This keeps ash from blocking the air flow.

Cleanburn

The multi fuel stove is great because it can use smokeless coal, wood and even certain mineral fuels. It is crucial to use top-quality wood or wood pellets that have been properly seasoned and kiln-dried down to less than 20 percent moisture.

When wood is heated, particles and gases that have accumulated in the wood over time are released. Older wood stoves or fireplaces release a lot of these particles and gases directly up the chimney as a result of the heat. This leads to poor indoor air quality and low efficiency. New stoves that make use of Cleanburn technology efficiently use these particles and gases to burn. This lowers emissions and leads to more efficient combustion and significantly lower temperatures for flue gas.

At Jotul we have high-level climate goals and that's why all of our wood burning stoves are constructed with cleanburn technology. We also have developed our own Cleanburn additive that helps your stove burn more cleanly and reduces the amount of soot build-up on the walls of your fireplace and stove glass, especially when you are using a higher moisture content wood or softer fuels like softwood.

Cleanburn wood stoves are an essential item for anyone who uses firewood as their primary source of heat. They can also be an excellent method to improve the air quality of your home. If you reside in a city or town that is classified as a smoke-free zone switching to a stove that is cleaner burning will keep you within the strict limits of these regulations and can be a huge benefit for people suffering from asthma and other respiratory issues.

Cleanburn stoves in our multi-fuel stoves come with secondary air and a tertiary system that is preheated, as well as an unadorned steel stove base or vermiculite for the best combustion. The pre-heated tertiary-air system, which is normally found only on the highest end stoves, assists in preventing soot and ash sticking to the stove glass and allows more of the gasses produced during combustion to be burned.

Cleanburn from Jotul is also a great additive to use in combination with the preheated tertiary air system to improve the efficiency of combustion in your stove. It will produce more efficient and cleaner flame that is carbon-neutral, and will reduce the amount of soot that accumulate on the inner wall of the firebox.