Introducing the Popty Cube (Ciwb), one of our new series of wood fired cooker stoves based on the 5 kW Stock Cube firebox, with a top oven box. This is a gloriously chilled Penguin.
It is comfortable and at ease with itself sitting in the middle of our penguin family tree.  It sits between it’s more compact Hungry Penguin cousins and the bigger 78 members of the family. It will be cooking your wood fired melty pizzas, crusty bread, bakes and stews while warming your heart and your home. If you have never thought about wood fired cooking, consider that the stove’s on anyway and you’ve already paid for the fuel, so in a way….dinner’s for free.
We had to have a Popty series, welsh for oven and “ciwb” as it sounds-welsh for “cube”. So the Popty Ciwb or the Popty Cube. 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. We have a tool called a “sgŵp” (pronounced scoop), available in our online shop, designed specifically for stoves without grates, like the Popty series.
The efficiency is 82.4%. It is an Eco design stove, suitable for use in smoke control zones.
OPTIONS
There is a convection option available for this stove, called the Popty Stout and a model with both convector panels and and integral plinth, called the Popty Lofty.