Timothy Murphy wrote:

Most of the stores round here (Tuscany) sell 15kg bags of pellets
for around ¤6. (I may have that price wrong.)
The lady said that an average stove takes about 1kg/hour.

Hmm, I'm further south that you and that price sounds very high. They do
sell pallets of bags at our local Castorama and also at the local
farmers' merchants (known in the family as "Scattos" for reasons obvious
to anyone from Surrey/Hampshire) where there is always a wide range of
stoves and boilers on sale.

We have several log burners, some with back boilers, and we burn olive
wood prunings in them. This provides lots of heat. Some neighbours have
chipped wood boilers which have a huge store to one side for 500Kg of
wood chips.

I want to get an Stanley log burning cooker or one of the cheaper
Italian alternatives but I'm facing some resistance from the female side
of the family.