[Stoves] About LPG and India and biomass stoves

nari phaltan nariphaltan at gmail.com
Thu Oct 5 00:12:21 CDT 2017


Maybe time has come for Uber stoves!

Cheers.

Anil

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On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 7:15 AM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <
crispinpigott at outlook.com> wrote:

> Dear Ron
>
>
> *Does anyone know of any other stove type where cooking costs can be
> negative?*
>
> It is common practice in Java to make money while cooking, at least for
> some foods. Homesteads with sugar palm trees must spend either four or
> eight hours a day tending a fire to boil the sap. Either they do or they
> lose the product because it won't keep for 12 hours in the raw state.
>
> Thus while they are making money they use a stove that boils sap
> continuously. ‎Investigating how food was prepared we found that they used
> nearly no fuel at all because they cook certain foods on the exhaust from
> the palm sugar making. The traditional stove has two cooking stations, and
> the improved ones have three plus a chimney.
>
> The entire time they are cooking rice, simmering soup, heating water, they
> are making money. It would be more accurate of course to say that they are
> cooking food 'energy free' because if there is no food being prepared, the
> residual heat is wasted.
>
> Cooking in this case is an added efficiency and separating it from the
> 'commercial' use of energy is impractical. By far, the most fuel consumed
> in the home is for making money. Something like 85% of homes generate
> income with their stove. If this figure is in error someone can correct it.
> It is very high, is my point.
>
> In the Western world, very few homes are generating income with their
> domestic stoves. Elsewhere it is the norm. Cooking food is an ancillary
> task done free while the money is made.
>
> Deliberately making charcoal while cooking they would see in the same
> manner. Why waste the heat, right?
>
> Regards
> Crispin
>
>
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