Mealtime Stoves specializes in designing and manufacturing high-quality wood-burning cookstoves and heating stoves built for efficiency, durability, and everyday reliability. At Mealtime Stoves, our focus on simplified, affordable construction and airtight performance allows us to deliver dependable heating and cooking solutions trusted by customers across multiple continents.
Our mission is to design and build high-quality wood-burning cookstoves and heating systems that are reliable, efficient, and accessible. We focus on durable craftsmanship and practical design to deliver dependable performance for everyday living.
By combining simplified construction with modern efficiency standards, we aim to provide affordable, long-lasting solutions that support sustainable heating and cooking without compromising quality.
Our vision is to be a trusted global leader in alternative energy heating and cooking solutions. We strive to set the standard for airtight efficiency, performance, and value in wood-burning stove technology.
Looking ahead, we envision a future where efficient, responsibly designed stoves help households reduce energy dependence while enjoying reliable warmth and cooking power across diverse environments.
Over the years in history it was the practise of the Mennonite people to provide newly wed couples with a kitchen range, which in most cases was the center of the home. The stove was almost always given by the bride’s parents as a wedding gift. In the 1950’s and 60’s there was a stove build by Findlay Bros. in Carlton place, with their most popular unit in the plain community being the Findlay Oval.
It was a well built stove with a nice large firebox,large oven with an overall neat appearance When the use of oil became common with the automatic furnace the demand for a kitchen range with a large capacity was lost and a more modern style range with only half the capacity became the only option on the market. This newer stove did not fill the needs of the people that depended on the range as their central heat.
Margin Stoves was established because of this need. My oldest sister was planning on marriage and starting their own home. There simply was no cookstove on the market that Dad felt was suitable for her, so he said one morning, well since we can’t buy what we need,we’ll simply set up shop and build one. AND WE DID,IT WAS SOMEWHAT CRUDE,BUT IT ACTUALLY HEATED THEIR HOME FOR MANY YEARS.
These first stoves were largely a copy of the well liked findlay oval. The fire boxes were not sealed, with the modern air tight heating stove just becoming more common as the cost of oil and gas made the idea of heating with wood more attractive again. In the late 70’s we redesigned our stove adding bell drafts and gasket rope to the doors,greatly enhanced the performance of this stove,at this time this model became known as the GEM.
By the mid 80’s we got serious about designing our 2nd model and came out with the GEM-PAC. With this stove we introduced a new fire box design which has air jets that will help reburn the smoke, thus getting more heat out of your fuel and less pollution. This burn design is used in all of our models. Instead of building a stove that will tolerate creosote we chose to build our units as clean burners.
Over the years we have added the Flameview cookstove and the Flameview heater to our product line, with both stoves having very large fireboxes C/W glass door, cast grates and ash pans for easy ash removal. As with all active business the research and development needs to keep on. We are currently working on our next model which will sport some options that will be a first for cookstoves.
QUALITY IS OUR TRADEMARK. SATISFIED CUSTOMERS IS OUR MISSION.
Mark Stoll, an Amish inventor, was never satisfied with the performance of the old fashioned wood stoves that he grew up with. The fireboxes were small and far from airtight.
An old saying, “Grampa was kept busy bringing wood in through the front door while Gramma was kept busy hauling ashes out the back door”, was never more true.
Mark re-invented the wood cookstove, making the Pioneer Maid the first North American cookstove to take advantage of airtight technology for exceptional woodburning efficiency. Mark’s unconventional stoves have become an excellent investment.
The innovative airtight design enables precise control of firebox temperatures and extended 12-14 hour burns. Wooden control knobs stay cool to the touch. Ash clean out is required every four to six weeks.
The firebox, bake oven and chimney are surrounded by 304 stainless steel, guaranteed by a metallurgists never to rust or corrode. The firebox is the largest on the market. It easily contains irregularly shaped or unsplit wood and will heat an average size home.
The Pioneer Maid stove glistens with an exterior porcelain finish, highly polished top, stainless steel burn protection bars, brass hinges and wooden knobs.
The Economy Model Bakers Choice stove is coated with heat resistant paint. It also has a polished cooking service and some stainless steel interior.
Return to Product List because all stoves can be ordered with an 8 or 12 gallon water tank, warming closet or hot water coil.
Most cookstoves are made of sheet metal,
bolted together because they are too thin to weld.
Our stoves are steel plate, welded at seams. The one piece cooking surface has no seams or dirt collecting grooves and the firebox has fully replaceable firebrick.