What is a Multi Burner Stove?

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

They have a firebox into which the fuel is loaded and lit, a door to access it with a glass door and air vents that let you moderate the stove's air supply while limiting how fast the fire is burning.

Adjustable Flame

A lot of multi-fuel stoves come with an adjustable flame control. This is a great feature if you are cooking and heating with the same stove as it lets you adjust the temperature of your fire to match your requirements and cook/heat food more efficiently. Most multi fuel stoves also include an air vent at the rear of the stove which helps to keep your flame burning even after you've finished using the stove. It can also be used to expel any harmful fumes from the stove.

Multi-fuel stoves are a fantastic alternative to wood burning stoves, which only burn logs. They permit you to burn any solid fuel, such as coal, peat and so on. in addition to seasoned logs. Coal is slowly being discarded as it is not suitable for areas of smoke control and produces more toxic fumes than wood that has been seasoned.

To light a fire in a multi fuel stove, open the door and put some paper or fire lighters amid dry twigs and dry kindling on the grill. Then, light the paper or firelighters and wait for the kindling to light. When the kindling is alight you can then add the kiln dried logs to the top of the kindling, allowing you to build a bed which will allow your logs to burn more efficiently.

A high-quality Multi-fuel stove will come with an ash pan and grate carrier frame. the ash pan to remove the ash from your stove without opening the door. Some newer stoves come with a built in grate carrier that allows more air to flow through while the logs are burning.

If you plan to backpack or camp with your multi-burner stove, it is recommended to buy one with an advanced design for pot support, such as the MSR PocketRocket 2 and Jetboil MiniMo that are better able to stand up to windy conditions. Canister stoves that are not integrated tend to leave more of the flame exposed, whereas the MSR PocketRocket and the newer MSR WindMaster feature a unique clamp-on pot support that fits the side of the stove, helping to improve performance in gusty conditions.

Adjustable Airflow

Multi fuel stoves can regulate the flow of air to ensure that the fire burns at a high rate. This allows the stove to generate heat efficiently that avoids waste gases and smoke entering the room. It also permits the stove to work with various types of fuel, such as coal. This is crucial since some solid fuels cannot be used in smoke control areas and others are dirtier or more expensive than wood.

Contrary to wood burning stoves which are typically set up with a static grate or a riddling grate system, multi fuel stoves come with an integrated raised riddling grate which allows combustion air to flow underneath the fuel, and make it easy to remove the ash from the ash pan. Many of our multi fuel stoves also feature a variety of new technologies like Cleanburn and Airwash which help ensure that the stove is burning at the highest level for each type of fuel.

The primary and secondary air controls can be used to adjust the modern multi-fuel stoves. You can operate them manually or automatically. The variable airflow feature allows the user to regulate the amount of primary and secondary air is pumped into the stove in order to ensure that the fire is burning at its most efficient for each type of fuel.

To optimise the performance of your multi fuel stove, it's advisable to select kiln dried wood that have a low moisture content. It is also an ideal idea to add small amounts of wood to the flame, and ensure that the stove is well maintained. Close the air supply but not completely. This can create an air vortex that will draw any unburned volatiles into the fire. Try to keep the door of the stove slightly open, but not completely, so you can add wood only when it's visible through the glass. Place the log horizontally on top of the glowing embers in order that it does not contact the stove's sides or the bottom of the grates.

Adjustable Temperature

A multi-burner stove is the ideal option for those who want the flexibility of burning different fuels. A multifuel stove can be used for burning wood logs or turf briquettes, peat or turf along with anthracite and other fuels that are smokeless. This means that you can take advantage of an array of heating sources and cut down on the amount of time and money on transporting and buying various types of fuel.

Many wood-burning stoves have primary secondary, tertiary and even primary vents that aid in regulating the flame pattern. This increases efficiency. The use of these vents means that you can adjust the stove for a particular kind of fuel and get an optimal fire with high heat output. This is particularly beneficial because the prices of various fuels can be very different.

A multifuel stove could also be used to warm the domestic hot water system, which means you can use it to provide your home with hot water. Some models can even be used as a boiler to heat a tank of hot water for household use. You can heat your home without having to turn on the central heating system.

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

Multifuel stoves are equipped 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 due to the fact that coal is, for instance, requires a lot of combustion air to stay in flame. Multifuel stoves have riddlers that can be removed to empty the ash when the fire is still burning. This prevents the ash from blocking air flow.

Cleanburn

Multi-fuel stoves are great because they can burn wood, coal without smoke, and even minerals. It is important to select high-quality wood or wood pellets that have been properly seasoned and kiln dried to less than 20% moisture.

When wood is heated up in the oven, gases and particles that have built up in the wood over time are released. Older fireplaces and stoves release a large amount of these up the chimney together with the heat, which results in lower efficiency and poor air quality in indoor areas. New stoves with Cleanburn technology however efficiently burn these gases and particles. This lowers emissions and leads to an efficient combustion as well as significantly lower temperatures of flue gas.

At Jotul we have a high level of ambition for climate change that is the reason all of our wood burning stoves are constructed with cleanburn technology. We have also developed our own Cleanburn additive that makes your stove burn cleaner and reduces the amount of soot that builds up on the walls of your firebox and stove glass, especially when you use higher moisture content wood or other fuels with a lower moisture content such as softwood.

A stove that is equipped with cleanburn technology is essential for anyone who relies on wood as their primary source of heating. It is a great method to improve the air quality in your home. If you reside in an area that is designated as a smoke-free zone, switching to a cleaner burning stove can help you comply with the strict rules of this law and could make a big difference for people suffering from asthma and other respiratory problems.

Cleanburn stoves in our multi-fuel stoves feature secondary air and a preheated tertiary system and the stove's base made of plain steel or vermiculite for optimal combustion. The tertiary-air system that is pre-heated, which is normally found only on the top stoves, assists in preventing soot and ash sticking to the glass of the stove and allows more of the gasses produced during combustion to be burned.

The Cleanburn additive from Jotul can also be used in combination with the pre-heated tertiary air-system to boost your stove's combustion performance further and is a great way to achieve a cleaner, more efficient carbon neutral flame and reduce the amount of soot that accumulates on the inside of the firebox of your stove.