What is a Multi Burner Stove?

A multi burner stove is designed to burn more than one type of fuel. They create a controlled space for various types of smokeless fuels or wood.

The stoves have an open firebox in which the fuel is put in and ignited. They also come with a door to access, a window and air vents to regulate the supply of air and the speed of the fire.

Adjustable Flame

Many multi fuel stoves feature an adjustable flame height control. This is great for heating and cooking on 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 come with a built in air vent on the rear of the stove, which will keep the fire burning even once you've stopped using the stove. It can also be used to eliminate any noxious fumes from the stove.

Contrary to Wood Burning Stoves that are only compatible with logs, Multi Fuel Stoves allow you to use any solid fuel that is combustible, such as peat, coal and so on in addition to wood logs that have been seasoned. Coal is gradually being discarded since it isn't suitable for areas with smoke control and may produce more toxic gases than wood that is seasoned.

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

A good quality Multi fuel stove will feature frames for the grate and an the ash pan, so you can remove the ash from your stove without opening the door. Certain newer stoves have an inbuilt grate carrier, which allows more air to flow through the grate when the logs are burning.

If you plan on backpacking or camping with your multi burner stove it is a good idea to buy one with an advanced pot support design such as the MSR PocketRocket 2 and Jetboil MiniMo which are able to better endure windy conditions. Non-integrated canisters leave more the fire unprotected. The MSR PocketRocket 2 and the newer MSR WindMaster have a unique pot support that is clamped to the stove's side to improve performance during stormy conditions.

Adjustable Airflow

A multi fuel stove is able to regulate airflow, allowing the fire to burn at its optimal rate. The stove produces heat efficiently, and the room is not suffocated with fumes or waste gases. It also permits the stove to be used with different types of fuel, such as coal. This is especially important as certain kinds of solid fuel aren't able to be used in smoke control areas, and others are dirtier and more expensive than wood.

Multi fuel stoves have a raised riddling grates that allows combustion air to flow under the fuel. This makes it easier to remove ash from the ashpan. A lot of our multi fuel stoves include a number of innovative technologies, including Cleanburn and Airwash which help ensure that the stove is operating at its optimum level for each type of fuel.

The primary and secondary air controls are used to adjust the modern multi-fuel stoves. You can operate them manually or automatically. The adjustable airflow feature enables the user to control the amount of primary and second air is delivered to the stove, so as to ensure that the fire is burning at its highest efficiency for each type of fuel.

It is best to select logs that have been dried in a kiln and are low in moisture. Keep the stove in good working order and add small amounts to the fire on a regular basis. Shut off the air supply, but not completely. This can cause a vortex, which will draw unburned volatiles back into the fire. Make sure 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, so that it doesn't touch the stove's side or the bottom of the grates.

Adjustable Temperature

A multi-burner stove is the ideal choice if you want the ability to burn a variety of fuels. A multifuel stove can be used for burning wood logs peat briquettes, turf briquettes and peat along with anthracite and other fuels that are smokeless. You can now choose from a wide range of heat sources, and save time and money by not having to purchase and transport various types of fuel.

Many wood-burning stoves come with primary, secondary and occasionally tertiary air vents to help regulate the flame pattern and improve efficiency. These air vents allow you to adjust the stove to a particular type of fuel and get the maximum heat output. This is especially beneficial since the cost of different fuels can differ greatly.

A multifuel stove can also be used to warm the domestic hot water system, so you can supply your home with hot water. Some models can be used as a boiler to heat a tank of hot water to be used by household. You can warm up your home without turning on the central heating system.

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

Multifuel stoves have a steel grate that is located at the bottom of the fire chamber that allows air to flow from below to keep the flame burning. This is necessary since coal, for instance requires lots of combustion air in order to stay alight. Multifuel stoves come with riddlers that can be removed to empty the ash while the fire is still burning. This stops ash from blocking the air flow.

Cleanburn

Multi-fuel stoves are excellent because they can burn wood, coal without smoke and even some minerals. However, it is important to use a high quality wood or wood pellet that is properly seasoned and dried to below 20% moisture content.

When wood is heated, gases and particles that have accumulated within the wood throughout its life are released. Older fireplaces and stoves release a large amount of these directly up the chimney, along with the heat, resulting in lower efficiency and poor air quality inside. New stoves equipped with Cleanburn technology however can effectively burn these gases and particles. This technology reduces emissions, improves combustion efficiency, and reduces temperatures of the flue gas.

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

Cleanburn wood burning stoves for sale stoves are a must-have for anyone who uses firewood as their primary source of heat. They can also be an excellent method to improve air quality in your home. If you reside in an area that is designated a smokeless zone then switching to a stove that is cleaner burning can help you comply with the strict guidelines of this regulation and can help those with asthma and other respiratory problems.

Cleanburn stoves in our multi-fuel stoves come with secondary air and a preheated tertiary system and an unadorned steel stove base or vermiculite for the best combustion. The tertiary air system that is pre-heated that is typically only found on the top stoves, helps prevent soot and ash sticking to the stove glass and permits more gasses produced during combustion to be burned.

The Cleanburn additive from Jotul can also be used with the pre-heated tertiary-air-system to boost your stove's combustion performance even further It is a fantastic method of achieving a cleaner, more efficient, carbon neutral flame and reduce soot deposits on the firebox's inner wall of your stove.