The Kitchen Stove of Yesterday and Today: A comparison and Review

April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The heart of the home is the kitchen and the kitchen stove. The kitchen means fire and fire means the kitchen stove. Anything that gives out fire for cooking can be termed a kitchen stove. It may be a brick stove fed with dry leaves or wood, a mud kiln where coal is burnt or the latest multipurpose kitchen range.

The choice of the right kitchen stove for a new home depends on the geographical location, the availability of the most affordable fuel, the type of cooking, the number in the family and the coins in the purse. What is the perfect kitchen stove for one may not be so for another.

With the march of time wood, coal and oil are becoming more and more rare leading to the popularity and demand for natural gas stoves. The first gas stove made its debut in a London World Fair in 1851. In Read more