Stove World UK Customer Reviews and Wood Burning Stove Photos
We welcome your feedback and love to see your photos. We are grateful to every one of the customers below who have got in touch and shared their opinions and experiences to help others choose the best possible stove for their budget.
Submitted by: Tony Carnegie
- 20/07/2018
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Thank you so much. Great speedy delivery. Well packaged.... Just built a log store so oven nicely sits on top.... First use tonight and kids said best pizza they have ever tasted and I agree.... Thank you again. I have already recommended this oven to several friends. Now pictures on my Facebook page I think many more orders might come your way...
Mr Carnegie
Submitted by: Mark
- 18/07/2018
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Hi
In response to the below I am more than happy to provide feedback.
The ordering process was very simple and delivery was quick. Everything you would want. Assembling the stand could have been made easier with better instructions. I am adept at DIY and regularly complete all manner of jobs. However this did take some looking at in order to assemble and a few things had to be taken apart and redone as the ordering wasn’t quite apparent. That said it took about an hour instead of what could have been half an hour so not the end of the world.
Once assembled we have been really pleased with the result. The product is really well made and finished superbly. It feels really substantial. Heating up doesn’t take long at all with kiln dried hard wood and the pizzas were way beyond expectation. After two goes and really impressing some close friends I couldn’t be more impressed. Thank you.
Mark
Submitted by: Jeremy Coulling
- 16/07/2018
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Hi
Very Happy with my stove and the speed it got here and the way it was packed.
Its not getting installed untill the begining of August but will send photo when its done.
Many thanks jeremy
Submitted by: Chris R. Aberystwyth
- 15/06/2018
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Ordered the Pureview Curve 5kw after searching for a stove that would fit into our not very large fireplace but also had the look that we wanted. Our fitter suggested it as he had two. Reckoned if the fitter is impressed, it must be worth checking out! As soon as we saw it online, we loved its clean lines and large window, not to mention the price - less than half of the only other stove we liked. It is exactly the style we wanted and it looks and feels like a very good quality product.
Very happy with Stoveworld service. Ordered late Sat, together with a crate of logs, email received Mon to advise delivery Tues. Arrived mid-day with a very helpful driver who helped separate stove from logs and push it up our short but steep driveway and set the logs down in a convenient spot.
The stove has only just been fitted so we haven't had it lit yet apart from a short first burn so can't comment on performance.
Submitted by: Simon Richards
- 31/05/2018
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A friend at work bought a Pizza Oven from the Ideal Home Exhibition for a small fortune and I was instantly keen to join the club but didn't fancy a remortgage just to own one so the search began.
I found Stove World UK after a Google search and was amazed by the price but as usual in this world I expected the quality to be not that good but as it fitted my budget I thought I'd take a leap of faith on the reviews alone and how glad I am that I did.
I received my Green Machine Pizza Oven in just 2 days after ordering and it arrived beautifully packaged on a pallet. The assembly instructions were easy to follow and I soon had it set up. The oven is a work of art with all the fittings being stainless it will last for ever and as soon as it stops raining I will be cooking everything outside from this day forward.
Thank you Stove World for your excellent service and superb quality oven I couldn't be more pleased with it. Youtube review and pictures to follow.
Submitted by: Lucy Large
- 29/05/2018
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Absolutely brilliant. Here’s my review....
I can’t believe the price and how good it is. The quality
is clear when assembling it, it’s so solid and well made.
Been using it for a while now and it’s consistently brilliant
We have made pizza, Lamb Kleftico, Roast Chicken, Baked Salmon, flat breads, chilli, slow roasted tomatoes...the list goes on. Got a brilliant book called Wood Fired Oven cook book. By Holly and David Jones. It has lots of valuable information from starting the fire to cooking entire Menus for different occasions and how to utilise the oven at it hottest and slow cooking things over night when it’s cooling down. We bought the £15 pizza paddle which is very good quality and also the cover which is an absolute must in my opinion.
I have been raving about this oven all my friends. If fact one
is about to order one from you
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Submitted by: Mark B
- 21/05/2018
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I’ve had the oven for a year and am still glad we bought it. Fantastic quality and the price is a steal. It’s low as previous comments but that means it’s not to bulky when not in use. Fantastic pizzas and everyone enjoys making their own. It costs more in wood than the ingredients so all really cheap to make. Pizzas cook so quickly it takes a while to get the knack of not burning the crust. All part of the fun learning.
Submitted by: Simon
- 11/05/2018
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Great fire loads of heat only negative is because it’s slimline you have to put logs on very carefully so the don’t fall on to the door when the log underneath burns!
Submitted by: Byre Recording Studio
- 01/05/2018
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I tried writing the following review of the 'Victoria' but your review-box rejected it (too long!)
But here it is anyway -
We have had a Zona 'Victoria' oven for five years now, so I believe I am well qualified to give an opinion on its long-term usefulness and use. It is modelled on the European farm house stoves that used to be found in every household, known in Germany as an 'Oma-Ofen' (Granny's oven) and used to be the very heart of every rural household in the days before electric cooking stoves.
In Winter, the Oma-Ofen was the sole source of heat, hot water and cooking and the Zona 'Victoria' fulfils that role in our household admirably. Because it is so effective, when the weather is very cold, we use less heating oil and rely on this stove and one other small stove, also from Stove-World-UK, for most of our heat.
Using this, or any other similar cooking stove is an acquired skill and I have been using this type of stove for many years. Unfortunately, the antique ones you find here and there are nearly all broken and useless and are simply decoration and not viable stoves, so I was particularly happy to find that Zona still make them!
This stove is very, very efficient, so you have to make sure (as with ALL stoves!) that the wood you use is perfectly dry if there is not to be a build-up of tar in the stove and the flue-pipes. When damped down, the smoke is circulated around the oven, so a good draw from a tall chimney is required. This is a big stove and therefore requires a matching chimney.
The stove heats up very quickly. Within a few days of getting ours in December, five years ago, we had a four-day power cut over Christmas and I cooked Christmas dinner on this stove. It was far easier and more effective than I had expected and the temperature gauge on the oven meant that I could even bake bread in it.
There are things you must not do with this or any other Oma-Ofen cooking stove. Using wet or fresh wood is really number one. Also burning plastic or other rubbish is definitely not good. Doing either of these things will quickly bung up the insides of any stove with tar and can even lead to a chimney fire.
Cleaning requires the usual tools of a long-handled stove shovel and a poker. There is an inspection and cleaning plate below the oven and it is a good idea to replace the cross-head screws with something you can grab with a ratchet, in case you do get a build-up of tar. If any of the screws or handles do get blocked by wood tar, WD40 will loosen them fairly quickly (but only when the stove is not in use!!!)
Once a year in Summer, we clean all the stoves, chimneys and flue pipes in our house and use a variety of tools, including chimney-sweep brushes, flue brushes, pans, shovels and pokers and an industrial vacuum cleaner with a length of wide garden hose for getting ash out of the far reaches of chimneys and dust from behind things! A couple of hours and we are done.
The one and only criticism I have of the 'Victoria' is that it does not have a separate door for the fire and for the ash-pan, so you have to remember to pull the draft handle to open when opening the door, if you don't want a small amount of smoke coming into the kitchen. Considering the very low price, that is hardly a major issue.
I can warmly recommend the 'Victoria' to anyone who is prepared to learn the ins and outs of cooking on an old-fashioned wood-burning stove.
Andrew Graeme
Submitted by: Andy Birkinshaw
- 19/04/2018
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Treated myself for my birthday and I am not disappointed at all. It was delivered on time and well packaged. It was easy to put together in less than an hour. I have used it twice now and yes I am very impressed. It takes a while to bring it to temperature but that’s half the fun but when it’s ready you can knock pizzas out every couple of minutes or as fast as you can prepare them.
All in all a top purchase and I highly recommended this especially the price.