http://mainewoodheat.com Masonry Heaters, Wood-fired Ovens, Le Panyol, Cast Iron Hardware, Albie Barden Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:04:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sampsa Kiuru decided to install a Finnish masonry heater in his national eco design award winning home in New Zealand. Four features set Sampsa's heater apart from other heaters that we commonly build, although all of our masonry heaters by Maine Wood Heat tend to be special and custom made. First, ... http://mainewoodheat.com/2010/03/new-zealand-masonry-heater-workshop-panorama-door/ The following post is from one of our Le Panyol wood-fired oven dealers and partners, Larry Beaumont of Beaumont Stoneworks, in Duluth, Minnesota. We’d like to welcome Beaumont Stoneworks as a trained dealer and contractor for installing Le Panyol wood-fired ovens for residential and commercial projects in Minnesota and Northern Wisconsin... Dear ... http://mainewoodheat.com/2010/02/guest-blogger-le-panyol-dealer-larry-beaumont/ Maine Wood Heat and Albie Barden are building another soapstone veneered masonry heater for our long time friend Marty Cain in a hands-on workshop in Black Mountain, North Carolina from April 13th – 15th 2010. This masonry heater, like an earlier heater we did with Marty years ago in New ... http://mainewoodheat.com/2010/02/hands-on-masonry-heater-workshop-announced/ Every indigenous culture has its origin and fire legends. At the Auckland, N.Z. museum, I caught a glimpse of the Maori fire legends in a tape loop being shown there. A native speaker explains that in Maori legend fire is a gift of the sun. The sun sent a fiery comet ... http://mainewoodheat.com/2010/02/maui-and-the-goddess-of-fire/ I met up with some acquaintances at the grocery store last night, and we immediately started talking about the weather – it’s been cold lately, a storm is on its way, or so the local weathermen say (followed immediately by a skeptical raising of eyebrows and unanimous chuckle). Then the ... http://mainewoodheat.com/2010/02/masonry-heaters-something-to-talk-about/ Top 5 Considerations When Choosing a Wood Fired Oven... If you’re considering building a wood fired oven for your home or business, there are a few things you probably already know – the way the sight, sound, gentle warmth and vitality of fire ignites your spirits, how the wood fired aroma awakens ... http://mainewoodheat.com/2010/02/finding-the-perfect-match/ Too many cooks in your kitchen? Or maybe not enough? Learn to bake with the best with our friends at the Stone Turtle Baking and Cooking School. Check out their newly released January – June 2010 class schedule, which you can download here. Michael and Sandy Jubinksy, Founders of Stone ... http://mainewoodheat.com/2010/01/new-wood-fired-baking-cooking-classes-announced/ Albie is completing a brick cookstove and see-through masonry heater on North Haven Island, twelve miles off of Rockland, Maine, just before he leaves for New Zealand to build a heater there. The job site is on the Turner Farm which overlooks the "thoroughfare" between North Haven and Vinalhaven Islands. The ... http://mainewoodheat.com/2010/01/rich-history-and-heaters-of-north-haven-island/ Light up a Le Panyol... And bring out the best in wood fired baking. Whether you're cooking homemade breads, pies, cakes, steaks, fish, chops, pizza on the hearth, our indoor and outdoor wood fired brick ovens bring friends and family together year round. Each of our Le Panyol residential and commercial brick ... http://mainewoodheat.com/2010/01/wood-fired-brick-ovens/ We’re in the business of designing and building the social centers of a home, places for gathering, visiting, relaxing, inexhaustible eating and enjoying the company of family and friends. The vibrancy, mystique, and warm embrace of a fire from our masonry heaters or wood fired ovens, ignite the energy of ... http://mainewoodheat.com/2010/01/gather-around-the-fire-with-us/