Chilli Penguin Popty Stout Ecodesign Wood Burning Stove

The Popty Stout is stout and proud, hardworking and grounded. This is a penguin to rely on.  It has the Stock Cube firebox, a top oven box and side convector panels making it wider than the Popty Cube (Ciwb).

In with that robust nature there is room for joy, it has all the friday night-waiting for you to come home -flavour of its dark and frothy namesake.

Chilli Penguin had to have a Popty series, welsh for oven. Who wouldn’t want to pop something in a popty? It is an old word possibly originating from the old shared bakehouses. “Pobi”, bake and “Ty”, house. We love the association with shared baking and perhaps stretching a hand back through the history to other generations who also cooked on solid fuel.

Logs sit directly on the vermiculite bricks on the base of the stove, there is no need for a grate. It has a generous fire box, sized for logs 300mm long and an even more generous piece of glass, offering you a wonderful clear view of the roaring fire.

It is beautifully simple to control, there is one air control knob. This is both the air boost, when fully extended and finer control when eased inwards. Wood burns better on a bed of ash, but when you do want to empty it, you just scoop it out from the base of the firebox. 

The efficiency is 82.4%. It is an Eco design stove, suitable for use in smoke control zones.

As hot air created by heat from the stove's bodywork expands, it becomes lighter than the air outside the stove and rises up inside the convector panels, exiting from the top of the panels. This is replaced by cooler heavier air drawn in at the bottom of the panels, which is in turn heated. The warmer, lighter air will fill the room while the colder, heavier air being drawn in at the bottom of the stove will create a continuous heat cycle, which gently moves air around the room.

There is a non-convector option available for this stove, called the Popty Cube (Ciwb) and a model with both convector panels and an integral plinth, called the Popty Lofty.

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