Choosing an ESSE


ESSEs are renowned for their cooking ability and they achieve outstanding results from their generously proportioned ovens and hotplate. To help you decide which fuel and model best suits your lifestyle and requirements, please read the following guide.

Oil Vaporising Models - Simple and ruggedly reliable, requiring no electricity to operate, they will continue to cook even in the event of a power cut. Their traditional vaporising ‘pot’ burner is ideally suited to continuous use, ensuring a warm and cosy kitchen in the cold winter months.

Oil Atomising (or ‘pressure jet’) Models - Offer outstanding levels of control. Heat up times from cold are spectacularly fast, so their thermostatically controlled ovens can be conveniently turned on and off as required.

Gas Models - Offer all the benefits of oil atomising cookers with the added convenience of natural gas (also available for LPG).

Electric Models - Provide the perfect blend of authentic range cooking and modern convenience. The ovens offer totally independent operation and the degree of temperature control you would expect from an ultra modern cooker. A powerful grill and stunning ceramic hob add an extra dimension to ESSE’s renowned cooking ability.


Oil Vaporising Models - Ideal for smaller central heating systems and for producing domestic hot water. And because they require no electricity they will continue to operate in the event of a power cut.

Oil Atomising Models - Available with a full range of electronic programming options and power outputs from 60,000 to 106,000 Btu/h, enough to handle even the most demanding heating systems.

Gas Models - Offer the ideal solution to providing additional domestic hot water and make an economical addition to larger conventional systems.

Wood burning Model - Offering similar performance for central heating and domestic hot water heating as our Oil Vapourising models, though the radiated heat from the appliance will be much greater, making it an ideal room heater.


Whether cooking for the family or heating your home, you are always in control with an ESSE.

If you have never cooked or heated your home with a range cooker you may be forgiven for thinking that you will have to learn a whole new way of living. But the truth is, you soon learn that it’s your ESSE that will easily adapt to your way of life.

It is all down to its supreme controllability. For example, the thermostatically controlled ovens heat up quickly when needed, giving you all the convenience of a modern cooker, whilst the incredible heat accumulation properties of its heavily insulated construction mean it can be left on permanently without running up big fuel bills.

If you wish, your ESSE can provide all your central heating and domestic hot water needs too, whether you live in a small cottage or a large family house.

In fact, unlike some other range cookers, many ESSE models take controllability to unprecedented levels with an integral programmer that puts you in complete control of the cooking, central heating and hot water functions.

Like most things with an ESSE, the choice is all yours.