[Stoves] Revisitng the pine needle issue

[Phil Hughes]

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:02 AM, <ajheggie at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 11:14:51 -0600, Phil Hughes wrote:
>
> >The one concern I have is burn time. Rice cook time is short but beans are
> >the other staple. If we can't get the needed simmer time for beans, it is
> >not going to fly.
>
> What would be the outcome of raising to the boil and simmering the pre
> soaked beans and then using a haybox , with perhaps then a final
> reheating and simmering with another batch of fuel?
>

That is another cultural question. (Being here and seeing how people do
things makes it a lot harder than seeing what looks good "on paper".

As amazing as it may seem, few people soak the beans first. My wife now
does and maybe her mother does. From what I see on the ground, acceptance
will happen first with kids who, sometimes, will educate their parents.

As an example, when I was first in Nicaragua I was renting a small house in
a poor neighborhood. How poor? On my block, there were five houses sharing
an outhouse. Because I had an "interesting" dog, neighborhood kids were the
first to visit. I set up a Linux-based computer in my livingroom just to
see what would happen.

One of the kids quickly became "the teacher" even though she had never
touched a computer before. The photos at
http://www.nicaliving.com/image/tid/25 are samples of what happened. While
the parents knew this was happening and knew they were welcome as well,
none of them ever touched the computer.

So, to answer your question, I think it will be years and maybe generations
before you will be able to make significant change. I have, for example, a
solar oven. I have cooked rice, veggies, lentils and other things in it.
But, there isn't anyone around ready to give a solar oven a try.

>
> AJH
>
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Phil Hughes
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