[Stoves] GARI FRYING STOVE

[ajheggie at gmail.com]

Please find below a message from Christa, it got trapped by the listbot as
there were too many recipients in addition to [Stoves] as there is a side
discussion going on.

It clarifies a couple of points, firstly that the preparation is a roasting
rather than frying which is a term reserved for cooking is shallow oil.

I have always been fascinated how people got around the problem of this
root food with its poison, the videos show the raw grated material being
fermented to get rid of the cyanide? poison. and then the further
poisonous? liquor being pressed out.

I never come across tapioca now but in the early 50s it did feature a lot
as a dessert and I suspect this was due to continuing food shortages in UK.

So what part of a palm does tapioca come from?

Andrew


"@Ron: a little clarification: Gari is roasted cassava also known as manioc
 that has been soaked and crushed before then being roasted in a large pan
into a dry flour-like product that can be stored.

The Tapioca I know comes from a palm tree.


On gari processing: a lot has been tried in Ghana and Nigeria already. Not
all successful. Especially the larger pans. We tried with a smaller pan and
a TLUD with a firechamber of about 18 cm diameter and that gave an
appropriate heat output for the most frequent gari roasting pan that is
often made from the lid of a 55 gallon drum. We used wood chips as fuel. I
can’t find the photos of that any longer.
I do have photos of the trials roasting gari with a JumboZama from Rocket
Works underneath.


@ Marc Stephan Nkouly: if you are looking for 'a SYSTEM to SMOKE FISH & PIG
MEAT as those are things am also planning to implement in the farm‘ I
recommend you look at that video Owen Mbilizi and Christa Roth: Progress on
Chitofu 3in1, climate friendly fish processing technology in Malawi:
https://youtu.be/QFXrvq9rXaI which shows a smoking cupboard on top a an
institutional stove.
A TLUD from a 55 cm diameter drum will give you too much heat output. You
would need a smaller TLUD: remember - diameter of the fire chamber means
firepower, height the duration of the burning process.
For more info consult
https://energypedia.info/wiki/File:Micro_Gasification_2.0_Cooking_with_gas_from_dry_biomass.pdf




Christa Roth
stoves at foodandfuel.info
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