20 Best Wood For Burning In Wood Stove (2023 Updated)

Great place to buy cooking wood from. I use the white oak a lot for smoking, and also cherry. I may order some of the firewood just to try out vs what I can get locally. Yeah, seems expensive if you can’t find locally.

But if you can’t get most of these hardwoods locally, like myself, then it’s a great deal. Remember, you’re paying for shipping on these boxes so that’s why the price is what it is.

The wood burns very nicely and works great for my chiminea. I use it to start a strong fire and then add in some other varieties of wood for aroma. I think it is probably priced above what you can find in some other stores, but as of August 2020, it’s a great deal for online delivery.

If you are looking for convenience and quality, than the price is fair.

The wood is very symmetrical/uniform so it stacked well in the shipping container, and in the rack too. The wood is Kiln dried which makes a dry dense product. The energy that goes into drying the wood is why it costs a little more than most.

I think this will burn for hours in the fireplace as oak usually does.

With shipping, a good price, good quality dry firewood. convenient having it delivered and in an amount that is manageable, instead of a cord or more dumped on your driveway. a good Walmart buying experience!.

We had underestimated how much wood we would need for our ski place. In an attempt to shore up our supply, we bought several packs of the Green Mountain Firewood. We were so impressed with how easy it was to start, how much more heat it gave off than the kiln dried wood we had, and how neatly it burned.

We will definitely be stocking up on more.

So many 1 stars and 5 stars. How can that be? It’s the all or nothing aspect of starting and keeping a fire going. Some can do it, some can’t. Why? Because too many people don’t know how to burn Bio Blocks.

They are a heavy, dense wood product made of compressed saw dust and nothing more. As such they don’t have any sharp edges or air pocket like real firewood has. They are the equivalent of a carved piece of hard wood as opposed to a rough split log.

They look easy to light because they’re small, but it takes lots of sustained high temperature heat directly on the blocks to get them lighted. If you think some rolled up papers and a few sticks are going to do it you’ll be unsuccessful.

Wax starter blocks or fat wood and lots of kindling are item your going to have to use. Once you get the block burning, and I mean really burning, you’ll understand the 5 star reviews. They’re long burning, very hot, and put out very little smoke.

If your not getting those results, we’ll, your not doing it right. It’s operator error, not an inferior product. So take others comments on how to start the blocks on fire and do what they say. If you’re an impatient type that want a quick and easy wax log fire, please don’t buy Bio Blocks!.

This new product is very functional and easy to use; just bend the little boards and break them to suit the user. Only negative that I can think of is the tendency to splinter, somewhat, causing a minor splinter hazard.

As long as you are careful when you break them, they work just fine.

It is without question good fatwood. I have a Vermont Casting stove and it works wonderfully. However, I prefer fatwood sticks rather than these flat pieces which I need to split.

Stove works great (1800 model) and I have had and used many different stoves over the years. When buying a wood stove, make sure it has air control and damping control like this unitIf not, all your heat will go up the pipe and outside not in the room (very important) and will burn wood way too fast.

Very tempting to buy a big large older stove that someone has put a new coat of paint on only to find all your heat goes out the pipe. Just trying to help someone who may not be experienced with wood burners.

The 1800 model is a good medium size stove that works. If your area is larger than 1800sq ft, go bigger but get one with the air and draft control features. Now go have fun with your chainsaw!.

Positive: Long burn time (after fixing airflow – see Negative). Easy to start a fire Fuel efficient Attractive appearance Neutral: Ash removal is a little clunky using the removal brick to slide ashes into.

Negative: The secondary air flow is too large for good fire control in the middle of the US. The secondary air is so high that even when the primary air is closed completely, a good hardwood load on a cold night will “run away”, getting the stove too hot.

Another effect of this is that the wood is always burned up by morning, making for a cold house. Try searching for “Florida Bungalow Syndrome” for an article on why this happens. My fix was to use some steel wool in the secondary air flow flowpath, getting the stove to where it is still burning exhaust gas but not so much that the stove overheats.

The other common solution is to install a damper in the flue. The quality of the build is a little hit and miss. The primary damper was not fully tightened during stove assembly at the factory, resulting in essentially no control at all of the fire (that was a simple fix once the offending bolts were located).

The wood burning stove we received arrived fast and the cost was about what we wanted to spend hence the 3 stars. Several bricks from inside the stove arrived broken. Very surprised that they were just loosely placed in there and even more surprised the glass on the door survived as when we opened the door of the stove, the bricks were a jumbled broken mess.

the box it arrived in was beat up and barely on the stove. Several dents and scratches through out the stove. Too much of a hassle to send back so we’ll just have to make due. Will not buy from company again though.

sorry. haven’t installed yet so can’t comment on function.

Cost is double what it should be! Burns too fast! Not much oak in it. The birch and cherry are horrible for firewood. Stick with Beech – Oak – Hickory if you want maximum time burning. maximum heat and best flavor from foods.

I bought this fire wood at Walmart it’s very good burning wood for camp fires and using it in fire pits. The only problem is it burns really fast so it’s best to use this as a fire starter. Than put in regular wood to burn.

This wood also helps with keeping mosquitoes and nets away. It smokes a lot. You can also buy it on amazon.

Paid over $30 w/ship charges for a bundle of wood being sold at HEB for $7. I feel so stupid. The ship charge was hidden with all other items ship free.

love the smell of new mexico,it does keep the mosquitos at bay

We put one of these in back in November in a fireplace where the old stove rusted out. Summary review We love it. It has a small firebox, so you need to learn how to start it well, but the upside is that it burns very efficiently.

We generally don’t burn more than 8 16 inch logs a day. It also looks very nice in the fireplace. More details all designs involve tradeoffs. We had an exisiting 8 inch insulated stainless steel flu.

One contractor insisted on needing to take it out and replace it with a 6 inch flu. I have a background in engineering (though this is not my area of expertise) so I can appreciate the pluses and minuses.

The 8 inch flu has almost twice the cross sectional area, so the energy required to move the whole column of cold air up and keep it drafing is higher than it would be for a 6 inch flu, so you have potentially a drafting problem.

Our building code allows a reducing cone for 8 to 6 inches, and frankly it has not been an issue. (If you have a very tall chimney, though, you need the opinion of an expert – here the chimney sweep is probably more help than a salesman.

) We consulted the local codes via our chimney sweep and had him install it. It was less than a two hour job. Much more of an issue is the size of the firebox. To start a fire you just don’t have the room to put cardboard, kindling and large logs in all at the same time.

So you need to use either short logs (8 -10 inches) in a T-pee or you need at least three longer pieces that are more finely split, so 2 inches max approximately, and lay them with lots of air space.

Leaving the door cracked slightly to allow lots of draft helps keep the heat up in the lighting phase. Once you have a bed of coals, it will start anything, and once a log or two are burning, you can close down the damper and you get a good deal of heat even when you don’t see roaring flames.

We are tending after the start up to put one large log on the coals at a time, occasionally when it’s really cold, two. The blower runs max 25 watts, measured with a meter, which is maybe. 4 Kwh per day, or even at our.

20/Kwh cost, you’re talking less than $3 per month for the blower. So use it. The air washed window works pretty well. I do clean it off with water most days. Keeping the damper restricted reduces airflow and you do get some film, depending on what you’re burning sometimes more, If you stay ahead of it, you can keep the glass clean.

These EPA stoves are not your grandfather’s pot belly stove that suck volumes of air and swallow all the wood you can throw in. So expect a bit of a learning curve if you have used the fireplace as a fireplace or you’re used to the previous generation of wood stoves.

Because of the small firebox, it is easy for things to fall out, so be sure you have fireproof hearth to meet code in front. A word about delivery – big, heavy box on a pallet. We moved it from the drive to the door for the installers with the forks on our tractor because we could.

The chimney sweep and his partner were able to get it in the door through the mud room and into the fireplace, but they have a lot of experience with stoves. The freight company was able to get it off the truck, but they didn’t have the equipment to move the pallet once it was on the driveway.

So plan ahead. would have loved to put in a picture, but the upload isn’t working.

A less expensive fireplace insert, and for good reason. It is “so very EPA certified” and approved for California it’s actually difficult to get a fire established without leaving the door open a crack until the fire is burning well.

I’ve owned seven wood stoves of different brands over the last 50 years. Possibly I miss-read the advertising literature, but I thought it was supposed to have been manufactured in Canada. Is there a city in China named Canada? Sticker on the back says made in China.

The Californiakated air intake port is “cute,” about an inch in diameter for full burning mode. Pros: It heats my living room. Cons: see above comments. Keep shopping. Elsewhere.

I waited to review this until I had used it for a little while. We bought this to replace an old smoke dragon we had in our living room. I have been heating primarily with wood since I was a young man so this is not my first rodeo with installing a wood stove.

This is small, 4 pieces of wood small. Not a deal breaker if you are heating a small room. Upon delivery we noticed the handle was missing. Not a big deal I thought, signed for it and figured I would contact amazon later and they would send me a new handle.

To my surprise they could not sent me a handle and I had to return the entire stove. I thought this was silly as the handle is less than $20. Seeing the stove weighs almost 300lbs this was not a realistic solution.

They later agreed and gave me a refund on a small portion of the purchase price. I then ordered a handle from U. S. Stove. After getting the liner installed and everything hooked up we started using the stove.

First issue I had was if I ran the fan on high it would blow smoke into the room. Double checking I everything hooked up corrdctly I noticed the flange that goes into the firebox is not welded all the way around.

It goes through the area where the hot air blows out of and you can actually see where the smoke was leaking from. Probably a recall coming for that. I was able to repair it as I am a welder by trade.

Wasn’t happy but it was a lot of work getting to this point and I did not want to start over. Then about a week later my wife went to put a piece of wood in in the morning while I was still in bed and the door fell off.

Probably recall #2. Keep in mind the stove was going and the door was hot as hell. The hinge pins backed all the way out and off it came. Fortunately she wasn’t hurt but it damaged our hearth. Again I repaired this and am now wondering what kind of POS I have purchased.

As far as heat output it does a decent job for its size. You will not get more than 4 pieces of wood in it, but you shouldn’t need to. Once you get used to how to start the fires in an EPA stove that is not an issue and works well for a 1000 square feet or less it will not do the 1800 it claims.

No way too small. If it wasn’t for all the safety issues with it I would probably rate it 4 stars. However I recommend spending a little bit more and buying from a stove dealer learn form my mistakes.

I have included pics of the stove installed and as good of a pic of the smoke leak I could take. I have circled where the leak is from and where it is located. The brown spot was the leak. You’re probably going to have to see my Amazon review for pictures I don’t see where to upload here.

Kindling Wood Firestarter Sticks 300: $18. 75 at the time of review We’ve got an outdoor fire pit in our backyard and I’m always on the lookout for fire starting aids. It’s not that I can’t make a fire.

In fact, it’s fairly easy. But if I can skip out on chopping kindling, I usually will. Read on to find out why I like these kindling sticks, but probably won’t order them again at this price. The package for these fire starters is essentially just shrink wrapped plastic.

It’s just wood so it doesn’t need a lot of protection in transit. There is also a plastic fiber packaging band around the sticks, but you have to be careful when you open it and start pulling them out so as not to spill the sticks everywhere.

The kindling I received was bone dry. It lit up without any paper under it and I was able to get a fire going relatively quickly. That said, the sticks are fairly small, so unless you use paper or you have graduated sizes of wood pre-chopped and ready to burn, you might end up using more of these than you’d otherwise need to.

I found that about 7-10 sticks would like the fire in my fire pit if I used increasingly larger pieces of wood, which means that I still have to chop relatively kindling-sized sticks anyhow. Which brings me to my initial paragraph.

If I’m still having to chop smaller pieces of wood, these don’t really do me any favors. I’d just as soon save the $20 bucks and chop my own kindling. ———— *The Good*: Very dry & ignite easily.

Big bundle. *The Bad*: Pretty small so you might use a lot to get a fire going. *The Bottom Line:* These are a great firestarter for people who aren’t afraid to use a bunch of them. But ultimately, they aren’t for me.

I won’t hold that against them though. They’re good at what they say they are. Four stars out of five for a capable firestarter with that last star probably lost in the cost-per-fire calculation (about 50¢ w/ the 300-pack by my reckoning).

I won’t be ordering these again.

They don’t advertise it as fatwood, but it’s odd as kindling. What you get are pieces of regular dry wood sawn into small kindling size uniform pieces. I have found I need a lot compared to fatwood to get the fire started.

They did not mislead me, rather I didn’t read the kiln dried firewood as meaning it’s not fat wood since I had searched on kindling. So just a heads up if fatwood is what you want. I will use up but won’t order again as I prefer the fatwood.

I use these to get a fire going in my outdoor pizza oven. Honestly, I **** at getting a fire started but I am learning. Lucky for me, with some pieces of brown paper from my Amazon packages, and a few of these sticks, I am able to get a fire started pretty quickly.

I am not going to lie, sometimes, I have to start the fire more than once because it goes out. Not the fault of the sticks, it’s my fault because I really am bad at starting fires – maybe that is for the best:) No matter, once I get the sticks to light, they burn with no issues and 3 are enough to light the real wood for my fire.

This is a large pack of sticks, 300, and they are packaged in a way that they will stay bundled for a while and you can also store them in the box they arrived in to keep them neat and out of the way.

The duraflame fatwood logs are fantastic. You will only need one or two per fire. They are sometimes difficult to find in the winter so I buy them in the spring and store them in steel ammo boxes, also bought at Walmart, and store them in my shed.

My shed is rather humid but since the ammo boxes are sealed it hasn’t been an issue. Having these mean I don’t have to worry about gathering or keeping kindling.

We did a lot of research before purchasing our Drolet wood stove. We looked at all of the different types and styles and found that for the price, this was the best one. It’s not exactly like the European style we were originally looking for, but it’s close enough and much more affordable.

Plus, with this stove, we can see the fire burning which makes it so much more enjoyable. At approx. 850 sq. ft. and it’s all open with a loft, a wood stove is our most efficient way to heat our house during the winter months.

We bought a blower for circulating the heat better and it made a huge difference. Honestly, it’s still a really nice stove. We’ve been very happy with it so far.

I’m really happy with my Drolet Escape 1800 Wood stove. I’ve been using it all winter, and it’s been great. It was easy to set up, and the reviews on different websites were all very positive. It has been a great addition to my home, and it really helps to heat the living room up quickly.

The wood burns for 6-7 hours, so it’s perfect for those cold winter days. I also like that the fan circulates the air, which makes it much more comfortable to be in the room. This stove is definitely worth the investment.

I would definitely recommend this stove to anyone looking for a quality wood stove.

Well it will be a while until I employ it now, but from what I can see, I like it. I kind of wanted the other model with the more modern styling, but this encases a more classic look, and the base it stands on is much wider that the more modern one, and there is more airflow beneath it as well, so if I can surround it with classical ambience, it will have a real good aesthetic effect.

I hope it works good. I am sure it will. Now for the mechanical permit, and all the piping I need. It did arrive with a few rust spots on the top surface, but I am going to have to learn to fix those little things by and by anyway, so no big complaint with that.

This is more than adequate for my 870 sq ft house that I will block off to about 670 square feet. So I will just burn according to comfort. I have a concrete block brick chimney with a 6 inch square route inside, so the 6 inch pipe should go hand and hand with this.

I hope I did not buy too big of one, but people burn smaller all the time just the take the chill off in cool weather, and it can also reach about 12 degrees below here in Spokane WA, and I have seen it with a wind chill, so this stove will never be inadequate, and the smaller ones do not have a matching 6 inch outlet like this, so this will fit better, and this one was actually cheaper than the smaller ones, except for the real dinks.

Good price for a solidly built basic wood stove. Although compact in size, the stove generates plenty of heat using little firewood. I purchased the optional blower, and I would recommend others do so as well.

The blower is quiet yet fairly powerful. I would have given the stove Five Stars, except it arrived missing the damper rod leaving no way to regulate the burn. It was well within my expertise to fabricate a duplicate rather than fight for a replacement.

The stove arrived in otherwise perfect condition, but I have to say the shipping crate was questionable at best. Being cheaply constructed, it suffered considerable damage from factory to my location.

Delivery from Tractor Supply was fantastic with the trucking company providing literally minute by minute updates on the day of receipt. Overall, I’m very pleased with this purchase, and would certainly recommend this stove to others who are interested in a well functioning, efficient stove without all the decorative additions that result in a much higher price from competitors.

The good; It’s cheap. It is made of solid metal. It does get hot. The bad; It is poorly made. Given that the thing weighs 200 pounds and is stuck in my house now, I wish I’d bought a better one. The stove shipped with a broken door hinge and a stuck airflow control lever; these are fixable but customer service has been abysmal, I’ve been waiting on replacements for a month and have called and emailed must be 10 times now, promises to process replacements but with no actual shipping.

Possibly my broken air control, but it has nowhere near the burn times advertised. The seal isn’t great either, again, may be my broken door hinge. I’ve basically not been using it.

I have now used several bags of these and I’m really pleased that B+Q are stocking them. They’re a great idea/ eco-friendly (why not?) and actually MUCH better value than wood if you’re buying that in small bags – as I do because I don’t have the space to store a lot of wood.

I have used them in a wood-burning stove. I use some wood kindling and paper to get the fire going – probably a few more sticks of wood than I would with kiln-dried logs as the first one needs a bit of heat to get going.

They do flame when they catch light but then settle sooner than wood into a nice warm glow. They do burn pretty hot so I usually only add one at a time when the last one is about half-spent. In fact they’re so hot that if you leave it a bit long and the last one appears to be out you can throw in another and it will usually catch – with the same amount of wood that is less likely to happen.

You can also combine them some-and-some with logs for a bit more flame. I do that sometimes if I want to sit and watch the fire. Some other reviews have talked about smoking. I haven’t tried them in an outdoor pit but I’m guessing that they haven’t got up the initial heat needed to set fire to them properly.

Thoroughly recommended!.

I was hoping for a good smell of coffee when first opening a bag of these log, but sadly no whiff of coffee. But there was a noticeable increase in heat from my aga ludlow stove. I tossed in 4 logs onto an established fire.

Good heat for nearly 2 hours. Good value if you purchase 2 or more. Good heat from them. Quick delivery. The logs seem to be held together with with a wax of some kind. I would recommend.

Love these. We’ve used them in our small wood stove as a major source of home heating for the past two years and have found them easy to use, hot and reliable. Light them correctly on already burning kindling (which we do) or a more established fire and they burn easily and seem to produce no more smoke than wood products – ie little visible smoke, which all goes up the chimney.

So far (its August 2022) the price has changed little in the 18 months, unlike everything else!.

Good kindling. Not quite as good as it used to be. I opened an old box and you can see the difference.