Wood burning stoves have become increasingly popular as a source of heat but they involve a lot of work chopping wood raking and clearing ashes and cleaning the glass window but optiflame electric fire technology creates a truly realistic flame effect from the centre of the fuel bed and looks for all intents and purposes like a traditional cast wood burnertwo heat settings of 1kw and 2kwpanoramic flame window and rotisserie flame effectneeds no fireplace or chimney fluesafety cut out fun