[Stoves] Mongolian traditional clay stove

[Robert Taylor]

Doesn't all the heat used for cooking go into the living space anyway 
(aside from any that gets stored chemically by the cooking process)?

No doubt the difference is relevant for calculating the performance of 
individual parts of the system, but does it make any practical 
difference overall, if cooking is always done when there is also a need 
for space heating?

But if the stove is ever used for cooking when there is no need for 
space heating, wouldn't the inefficiency arising from that fact alone 
far outweigh the inefficiencies in the "cooking" part of the system?

Similar to what happens when you add a USB electric output to a cooking 
stove, if people then start running the stove purely to charge their 
devices.

Robert Taylor


On 27-May-20 3:30 AM, Ronal Larson wrote:
>>
>>     The result is a controllable flame, very much better combustion
>>     efficiency, higher temperatures and better CO combustion. The
>>     fuel saving is large - maybe 50%. The KG2.5 is about 88+90%
>>     efficient (LHV).
>>
>> *[RWL:  Great news.  What portions of that efficiency number for 
>> cooking and heating?*
>>
>> That is the heating efficiency.  Cooking comes before the heat 
>> exchanger so whatever the cooking efficiency is (depends on the power 
>> setting) that is subtracted from the space heating efficiency.
> *[RWL:  Surprising that no-one is measuring the cooking efficiency 
> number.*
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