SC - Viking (brand) stoves

[Stefan li Rous]

I was going through some back digests and saw this comment:
> I can sympathize, my niece just went to the one in Toronto on a senior class
> trip and I had to bite my tongue really hard.  After she came back we talked
> about it and tho I said I had heard that the show was wonderful, what she ate
> really wasn't what it should have been for medieval food.  I think I have her
> hooked into attending an event.....do we get points towards a Viking stove for
> recruiting new SCA members?????

And I think someone in another message thought this was about period
Viking (Norse) stoves. This brand of stove is apparently one on many
cook's wish lists. However, I noticed a review of a Viking stove in
a recent Consumers Reports. While they had previously reviewed a
Viking Stove and called it "the best stove they had ever tested", the
lower cost Viking stove they were testing, got rather poor marks.
Note that "lower cost" is rather relative. The first stove cost over
$5000. The second one "only" cost a little over $3000. So I guess the
point is not all models from the same manufacturer are just as good.

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