The History of the First Corn Burner
A relatively recent invention, the corn stove offers a renewable heat source for both heating and cooking. Corn burners, also known as corn stoves, got their start at about the same time by two different inventors. Does this Spark an idea?
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Southern Stoves
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One type of corn stove got its start in the South in 1985. Inventor Carrol Buckner, who also developed the buckstove, a wood stove that made the pot-bellied stove obsolete, invented the stove. His first corn stove, nicknamed the Amazablaze, burned 100 percent shelled corn instead of a mix of corn and pellets or other burning material like other stoves did.
Midwestern Stove
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Another inventor, Jim Larkin, owner and founder of Agri-Fire of Illinois Inc., invented one of the first coal stove in 1985 after he did a test burning in his barn. Larkin tried burning just corn in his pellet stove, but the stove would burn only a mix of corn and pellets. He developed a better stove that would burn corn. Those improved stoves are now sold under the Nordic Elite brand.
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Specifications
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Corn stoves rely on shelled corn as their fuel source. The stoves can heat up to 2,000 square feet of space and require no chimney. Instead, they rely on a vent that takes the smoke directly outside of the house.
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