Hasta La Ideas

I’ve been dying to install a woodburning stove in my apartment, partly because it’s always freezing in here, and partly to capitalize on the free fuel that will be littered all over the sidewalks of Manhattan come December 26th. Every year after Christmas, the sidewalks are covered with discarded Christmas trees for about two weeks, and them’s good burnin’.

While you can find plenty of woodburning stoves to buy–even on Amazon–most of the good ones start at around $1,000, and the fancy-schmancy cooking variants that have ranges and ovens, like this one below, go for around $4,000:

What’s even more disheartening is that the insulated pipe you need to vent the stove is insanely expensive, and the length I’d need to put the stove in the center of the apartment would cost more than the stove itself. So much for affordable heat; looks like I’ll have to continue paying my gas bill.

(By the bye, for an interesting indoor fire concept, check out this chimney-less fire pit which is, alas, a thesis project and not an actual production model.)

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