November 11, 2009 5:00 AM PST

Fireplace doubles as pizza oven

by Brian Krepshaw
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All-night delivery.

(Credit: Euroflues)

It doesn't get much more comfortable than sitting around a warm fire on a cool evening. However bad the elements are outside, the inside is heated with the warming glow emanating from the fireplace. Usually, the fireplace is in the living room, which makes sense; the living room is the central location of the house.

But there's another room that serves as a gathering spot, one that usually features a different type of heated comfort in the form of a stove. Make that stove a wood-burning stove and add a pizza oven in the mix, and suddenly the kitchen is the new living room.

While it's quite possible that pizza is the most comforting food on the planet, coupled with a wood burning stove the combination is pure comfort overload. The Huemfire Pallas Back achieves just that. In addition to the baking compartment, the top of the unit features three cooking plates, which could be used for other great comfort foods such as soup.

Combustion is controlled via an outside hookup, with air control being handled via a lever on the front. An optional built-in drawer on the bottom of the unit is designed for storing wood. The stove heats up to 1,625 square feet, and uses a patented heat retention system capable of storing heat for up to nine hours after the last fire has been lit. It doesn't get much more comfortable than that.

Brian Krepshaw is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET.
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by Remo_Williams November 11, 2009 6:43 AM PST
It has a drawer on the bottom for storing wood. Really. It's for wood. Are you sure? Are you sure it's a drawer -- the size of maybe a sheet of cupcakes -- designed to store wood?

The imagination of the author is almost toddleresque. It's a drawer for storing wood. Crazy.
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by cvaldes1831 November 11, 2009 7:28 AM PST
Sorry Remo. Much as many of the blog entries in the Appliances & Kitchen Gadgets blog are completely useless and often outright wrong, Brian is actually right in this case.

The drawer is in fact a wood/utility drawer. Go ahead and visit the manufacturer's site (linked in the article) and download the manual. It's difficult to see in the photo above, but the drawer extends to the floor (it rolls on little wheels).
by linda_euroflues November 11, 2009 12:33 PM PST
Hi Remo,

An image has been added to the Pallas Back's profile page that shows a unit with the optional wood and utility drawer installed.
http://www.euroflues.com/products/pallas-back (see thumbnail #6)

This drawer is really only meant to hold a couple burns worth of wood and kindling. It's not meant as a cache for a week's worth of fire. Many clients prefer to use it simply as a utility drawer, storing handling tools and whatnot.

Also just as an FYI, this unit is eligible for a Federal Tax Credit of $1,500.
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