冬の寒さが厳しい北海道や東北地方ではストーブも利用され、その燃料は薪や石炭であった。
東日本ではもっぱら囲炉裏が、西日本では囲炉裏と竃の両方が使われていた。戦前におけるガスや石油などの非固体燃料の使用、よってコンロの広範な利用は、大都市を中心とした極めて限定された範囲に留まった。農家では効率の悪い旧来の竃が使われており、１９１０年代末頃から農村台所改良運動が始まったが、竃の本格的な改善は１９５０年代の生活改善普及事業を待つこととなった。もっとも東京では西洋竃も使われていた。
They used the stoves, too, in Hokkaido and North-east district where the cold winter is so severe, and firewood and coal were used for the fuel.
Mostly the hearths in the East Japan and both the herths and the ovens were employed in the West. The wide usage of non-solid fuel such as gas or oil, or of the cooking stoves, remained within quite limited areas of the big cities. and around They used the inefficient traditioanal ovens in the farming households, and a kitchen improvement campaign of farm villages began from toward the end of 1910s, which, however, had to await the better living movement in 1950s when the full-scale improvement of the ovens were realized. Nonetheless the Western ovens were also used in fact in Tokyo.
