Why renovate your kitchen every 10 years to keep up with the latest kitchen styles? With a period kitchen style you can avoid being out-of-date by being intentionally out-of-date. The cooking fuels generally evolved in this order: wood, coal, gas, and lastly electric stoves. Wood-burning stoves were conveniently used in rural areas, where storing wood was not a problem. Coal stoves were often used in cities, or where storage was at a premium. Gas stoves ran cleaner in the home than coal, and electric stoves, the visibly cleanest (there is talk now of ‘dirty’ electric energy fields–who knows?)
We gathered a list of antique stove companies–many still around:
- Antique Appliance Co.
- Antique Gas Stoves
- Antique Stove Heaven
- Antique Stove Hospital
- Antique Stoves
- Antique Vintage Appliances
- Barnstable Stove Shop
- Reliance Antiques
- Bryant Stove & Music, Inc
- Buckeye Appliance
- Canadian Antique Stoves
- Classical Gas Antique Stoves
- Dreamstoves
- Erickson’s Antique Stoves
- Good Time Stove
- Homestead Vintage Stove Co.
- Love Barn, Orland, Maine
- Jowels Antique Appliances, Clayton, Georgia
- Mill Creek Antiques — we just visited Steve in Kansas!
- Evansville Antique Stove Company
- Savon Appliances
- Tysons, Inc.
- Weiss Antique Stoves
