[Stoves] Advances in cooking science and economics

[Anand Karve]

Dear Nikhil,
this refers to fans for ventilating the kitchen. Some years ago our
Institute conducted tests on air quality in rural kitchens in Maharashtra
state.  In one particular village, most of the houses had a 10 cm gap
between the roof and  the walls of the kitchen. In these kitchens, the air
pollution level was always very low.  This is actually a very simple
solution to air pollution as well as heat in the kitchen, but the donor
agency, for which this study was being done, did not accept it, because
this solution was equivalent to having a chimney, which transfers the
pollution from inside the kitchen to the outside environment. Ceiling fans
and wall mounted fans are generally shunned by the housewives because the
air currents created by a fan disturb the flames in the stove.
Yours
A.D.Karve

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Dr. A.D. Karve

Chairman, Samuchit Enviro Tech Pvt Ltd (www.samuchit.com)

Trustee & Founder President, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI)

On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Traveller <miata98 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Failed to post this earlier. I am soliciting opinion on the attached
> report; can provide additional tables later. he
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>
>> Nikhil Desai again.
>>
>> The Washington Post 16 August 2016 news item - By 2085, most cities
>> could be too hot for the Summer Olympics
>> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/08/16/by-2085-most-cities-could-be-too-hot-to-host-the-summer-olympics/?utm_term=.8cc19abaab69> got
>> me thinking of  heat in the kitchen.
>>
>> In many poor people's homes around the world, the kitchen can at times
>> get unbearably hot. I remember getting an electric fan placed in the
>> kitchen was one of the first luxuries at my home (getting a radio and then
>> a fan was the first; we already had electric light.)
>>
>> How likely is it that climate change, heat island effects, increasing
>> population and building density, and outdoor air pollution will tax the
>> health of the next two billion energy poor, over and above the supposed
>> PM2.5 "premature mortality"?
>>
>> Are there diseases that are particularly susceptible to heat? Conversely,
>> in linking air pollution to disease incidence, has the role of heat
>> exposures been overlooked?
>>
>> We go on messing with pretend metrics of average emission rates and cook
>> up exposures, disease, and death, for the sake of maintaining "consensus".
>>
>> Anil Rajvanshi had the brightest idea - rural restaurants and meal
>> coupons for the poor.  With air-conditioning, I will add, for some parts of
>> the world some times of the year.
>>
>> At least fans. I have seen such eateries grow throughout the world over
>> my too long a life.
>>
>> Those who still cook at home should have gas or electricity. Induction
>> stoves and kettles waste very little energy in heating the air. Commercial
>> cooking could use advanced biomass stoves - at a larger scale and higher
>> utilization rates - plus commercial wages, not domestic slavery - the real
>> market for biomass cooking is outside the home.
>>
>> If stove designers don't know how to think of cooks, dwellings, cuisines,
>> and instead mess around with fictional stove, cook, dwelling and air flow,
>> I think they should be kicked out of the kitchen.
>>
>> As in Harry Truman's dictum, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the
>> kitchen."
>>
>> Or as I would say, get our heads out of the fireboxes and stop smoking
>> our intellectual airs. Do the donors a favor - tell them we have fooled
>> them because they were ready to be fooled.
>>
>> Speaking of experiments with cooking and room temperature change, please
>> see the attached report. I think it is a considerable advancement on the
>> current state of stove testing.
>>
>> Make a guess about source and date.
>>
>>
>> Nikhil
>>
>>
>>
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