[Stoves] Maendeleo/Upesi stove: dimensions?

[Cookswell Jikos]

Thank Ingalore and Crispin, thanks for sharing these.

I have seen both these documents in use by stove makers in Ghana and in
Tanzania, they seem to still be quite helpful for people starting out
making clay lined charcoal jikos. Based on both books we were recently
commissioned to make a short youtube video of How to Make a Kenya Ceramic
Jiko <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnM8jhMUvWo> (english version) for
existing stove manufacturers in Mogadishu due to security issues with on
site training.

>From the fuel supply side of it, I personally am now quite interested in
hopefully doing something similar for the improved charcoal making kilns we
are working on, we are unable to supply the full demand for them in Kenya
and we would be very happy to have more artisans replicating them. We so
far have only found two people who have copied and sell them since we
started marketing them 4 years ago..this is a bit slow for my liking, given
the context of my markets, I find that if a new design is not copied within
2 years I get quite worried about the validity of it :)  But all in all,
the idea of people who are able to, growing and making their own charcoal
at home has been progressing along very well so far, we are coming up to
selling our 1,000th kiln soon and from the feedback I have had, only about
10% of kiln owners still buy any charcoal at all and the rest have
completely stopped buying charcoal! (Mostly for home use BBQs, some for SME
bakeries)

We have recently been looking into recovering the smoky by-products of the
charcoal making process, there seems to be quite an unexplored demand for
wood vinegar from organic farmers and also liquid smoke from Chef's -
http://kenyacharcoal.blogspot.co.ke/2016/05/how-to-make-your-own-wood-vinegar-with.html
- by chance does anyone know of any other people doing this in East or
Southern Africa who we could compare notes with?

All the best,

Teddy



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On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Ingelore Kahrens <tutaonana at onlinehome.de>
wrote:

> Thanks Crispin. Hugh Allen´s book was actually what I had been trying to
> find, but failed. It is good to have many people who assist in a search.
>
> Ingelore
>
> Am 27.06.2016 um 06:58 schrieb Crispin Pemberton-Pigott:
>
> Dear Friends
>
>
>
> While Ingelore has circulated a document on the production of the Kenyan
> Jiko, I think you should also be aware that this model was replaced years
> later by the *Improved* Kenyan Jiko which is available in another USAID
> funded document (written for ATI) in 1991.
>
>
>
> Hugh's book is here
> <https://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Kenya_Ceramic_Jiko.html?id=WpZKAAAAYAAJ&redir_esc=y>
> .
>
>
>
> It is available for download from here
> <http://www.pssurvival.com/PS/Stoves/Cooking/Kenya_Ceramic_Jiko_A_Manual_For_Stovemakers_1991.pdf>.
> It is too large to attach.
>
>
>
> It includes drawings of all the equipment developed to make consistent
> products and to fire them properly. He said they got the loss on firing
> down to 3%.
>
>
>
> The main improvement made by Hugh was not the design, it was the
> production system and the method of getting a clay mix that would survive
> being heated and cooled many times.  It was this work which was used to
> inform the approach taken to the development of the Maputo Ceramic Stove.
> The MCS was able to eliminate the metal body which in some countries is a
> major problem to make either because of a lack of skill (Maputo) or lack of
> materials (Chad etc).
>
>
>
> Regards
> Crispin
>
>
>
>
>
>
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