The spaces between the burners is ample for comfortable placing of utensils. Watch this when purchasing a stove, for you can be very uncomfortable with a jammed surface. It is pretty much a matter of what you can get in the way of either of these two specific stoves. They are both so good. The wick type is convenient because the wick is sold all over the world. The wickless is convenient because it is easy to clean and is a bit more rapid in heating. The kindler is only 10 cents and can be had at all dealers and when you buy the stove you can get a supply. You must demand: No odor whatever Speedy cooking Steady flame Cleanliness and easy to clean Easily replaceable parts No smut and dirt Easy flame control Oil visible in reservoir Best materials on the market Perfect combustion, making for the minimum amount of residue carbon. With the oil range as well as with the gas, electric and coal range there can be bought water-heating boilers, ovens, etc.; and with one stove, special broilers and toasters. There are two very good ovens on the market to be used with these stoves and with other kinds as well, each one with its special selling points. Each is large enough in some size for a 12 pound turkey, each small enough for the smallest uses (sizes range from 21¹⁄₂″ × 18¹⁄₂″ × 13″ to 13″ × 18¹⁄₂″ × 13″). They weigh from about 12 to 18 pounds. You place the oven over the surface burner. One oven maker claims: Asbestos lining for insulation Shelves set for 5 different altitudes Curved top to oven like bakers’ oven to pass off gas and prevent air pockets Shelf support growing out of lining Strap hinges One motion to handle to open oven door Door closes only if it locks Special asbestos lining porcelain enameled heat spreader, triangular in shape, to deflect heat and prevent burning Another says of itself: Special heat resisting lining Mica windows below to watch flame Unbreakable glass and unstreamable Three point locking device on door All glass door. The oil range is not cheap. Yet it is a godsend at certain times. We are not advocating it for general use where pipes and wires and coal are at our convenient disposal, but we do recommend it forcibly and sincerely where you want a simple, efficient cooking medium beyond the reach of the popular sources of heat. Unless you buy the very best, not merely the best, oil cooker you will be saddened, and with the best you will sign yourself Pollyanna without reservations. Just about now, a new oil range is being advertised. It is a cross between the wick and the wickless, because it uses an asbestos and brass thread wick which is almost immortal, for it can be reversed when charred and when both sides are charred it is burnt off in the stove and ready to begin its double life again. Like the wickless stove the flame touches the vessel with the short drum construction, and like the wick it uses a wick even though quite different.