[Stoves] Cooking cassava?

[Dr. Dieter Seifert]

To avoid the tedious stirring, the porridge may only be stirred while it is
heated up (as long as it is easy to stir) and then cooked without stirring
using the fireless cooking method (with retained heat). This advice comes
from Dr. Maria Eder, who worked as a doctor in Bulawayo for 40 years and
founded there a workshop for parabolic solar cookers with EG-Solar.

Kind regards,
Dieter

Am Fr., 5. Aug. 2022 um 21:30 Uhr schrieb Nolbert Muhumuza <
muhumuza at gmail.com>:

> It is possible to cook (from my experience) maize bread/ posho without
> stirring vigorously.
> I start with cold water and add flour to make a semi-solid "mixture", then
> place it on slow heat. I stir sometimes to make sure it doesn't stick on
> the pan or burn - for about 20 minutes. I know the smell of ready posho
> from observing my mother - so i cant really describe it.
> But I guess its also possible with solar - since it's slow uniform heat
> and therefore with cassava and millet. Again, I don't have any experience
> with these latter.
>
> On Fri, 5 Aug 2022 at 19:07, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <
> crispinpigott at outlook.com> wrote:
>
>> If not stirred it will go lumpy. Similarly, maize porridge (mealie-meal,
>> posho, sadza) does the samein fact the water should be boiling vigorously
>> and the flour sprinkled in slowly to prevent clumping right from the start.
>>
>> The basic reason for the lumps is that at the end there is relatively
>> stiff porridge. Millet porridge is pretty much the same. Whenever the
>> product is going to be stiff, the early mixing is essential to get the
>> available moisture spread homogenously.
>>
>> Crispin
>>
>> *From:* paularveson at gmail.com
>> *Sent:* August 5, 2022 10:41 AM
>> *To:* stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org
>> *Reply to:* stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org
>> *Subject:* [Stoves] Cooking cassava?
>>
>> In the context of sub-Saharan Africa, I observed cooks constantly
>> stirring pots of shaved cassava to make fufu.  I would like to know how
>> much stirring is necessary.  Is it possible to cook cassava in a closed
>> pot under low heat without stirring?  (This is to consider the
>> feasibility of solar cooking.)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Paul Arveson
>> Solar Household Energy, Inc.
>>
>>
>>
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