History

In late 1989, during a routine call on a key customer, Keith Carpenter learned that a customer was struggling to find a wood fired stone hearth or “brick oven” that could stand up to the rigors of the American commercial kitchen.

The idea of building a wood fired oven suited to the rigors of a modern American kitchen intrigued him and led him to contact Harry Hegarty. Harry had been building large scale, high temperature ceramic incinerators for the forest products industry for 17 years. This was to be an eventful meeting.

In April 1990 Keith and Harry founded Wood Stone and were soon revolutionizing stone hearth cooking.

In 1995 we introduced gas-fueled and gas-assist stone-hearth ovens, with many different configurations to meet different production requirements. Wood Stone gas-fired ovens are carefully designed to be responsive to the demanding needs of high production cook lines. Now customers know they can get "wood-fired flavor" from a gas-fired oven!

Wood Stone's product line has grown over the years and now in addition to several types of stone-hearth ovens also includes rotisseries, charbroilers and tandoor ovens in both solid fuel and gas fuel types. Visit the Product Catalog for information on specific product offerings.

With over 5,000 installations in 60+ countries, Wood Stone continues to be the industry standard for commercial stone-fired cooking equipment.