[Stoves] Final (?) report on stove camp

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Erin

 

Interesting. I asked my daughter-in-law Minaxshi who comes from Dar Es Salaam if she had ever heard of that. She said people eat charcoal but she have not seem them tasting it.

 

Char is pretty inert so one of the only things people could taste would be to detect the pH. Perhaps if it has a lot of volatiles that is possible (compared with inert carbon).

 

Regards

Crispin

 

Actually, when I wrote non-standard measurement,  I was thinking of grading charcoal.  I have heard multiple accounts of householders in Africa who quickly taste the charcoal that vendors are offering before they buy it.  These ladies in Africa have found that there's a distinctive taste to good quality biomass charcoal, and look for that as an indicator of quality when they are buying.  If I had a good way to measure that, then I think we'd have a pretty sophisticated measure of that char, and a better understanding of what that consumer is looking for in a good stove. 

 

Kind regards,

Erin Rasmussen

erin at trmiles.com <mailto:erin at trmiles.com>  

 

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