[Stoves] New You Tube video. Fuel efficient biomass stoves and retained heat cooking

[tmiles at trmiles.com]

Patricia, 

 

It’s great to hear from you. Many thanks for the video link and story. 

 

Kind regards, 

 

Tom

 

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Portland, OR 97225

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From: Stoves <mailman-bounces at bio.bioenergylists.org> On Behalf Of Patricia Mcardle
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2022 9:56 AM
To: stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org; stoves-owner at lists.bioenergylists.org
Subject: SPAM: ***SPAM*** New You Tube video. Fuel efficient biomass stoves and retained heat cooking

 

Dear Stovers:

 

You are invited to watch my latest You Tube video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHdO_HaSqtQ>  (10 minutes) which explains how to reduce cooking time and save significant amounts of fuel by using a home-made retained heat basket to finish cooking pots of food that have been brought to a rolling boil for twenty minutes over a fire.  

 

In this video, I've included a photo of the late, great Larry Winiarski teaching a group of Mexican women how to make retained heat baskets. I took that photo in 2008 when Larry and I were in Mexico together on a Rotary project.  During that trip, I filmed my very first and still most popular You Tube video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSMR2ANIZ7E> . It shows Larry teaching the women how to make a 16-brick rocket stove. The last time I checked 725,572 people had watched that video. 





I hope you’ll share both videos with your colleagues. 

 

Back in 2001, Dean Still inspired me with something he posted on the stovers’ list serve:  “In a perfect world, perhaps with a great, non-polluting wood stove, would come a retained heat cooker (Haybox), a solar oven for baking and a parabolic or conical reflector for boiling water...Whole package might cost $100 which is dinner and a movie for some folks.” 

 

A few years ago, a crusty old U.S. Marine friend of mine in California, made a similar point about "integrated cooking <https://www.appropedia.org/Integrated_cooking> " with a slightly different twist:  "If you give my neighbor a pile of wood and a fuel efficient biomass stove—and, you give me the same amount of wood and the same biomass stove, but I also have a solar cooker and a retained heat container, guess who'll run out of wood first?” 

 

An integrated cooking system is certainly more sustainable for the rural poor than the subsidized LPG that the late <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMJcx47hsPc>  Kirk Smith aggressively promoted with his mantra to “make the clean (LPG) available instead of "making the available (wood) clean”.  It’s disheartening to see the former GACC (now the CCA) aggressively promoting LPG <https://cleancooking.org/reports-and-tools/scaling-lpg-for-cooking-in-developing-markets/>  in the developing world, but I guess that’s where the money is.

 

I remember back in January 2011, at the DOE-sponsored Biomass Stoves Technical meeting many of us attended, when I was asked by Sam Baldwin to refrain from even mentioning the words "solar cooking" during the two-day meeting. 

 

I complied with his request, but when one of the speakers proposed adding a ’simmer’ function to the stoves, I raised my hand and suggested that it might be more cost effective to teach people how to make and use retained heat baskets rather than trying to engineer a ’simmer’ function that would eventually break.  My suggestion was also shot down.  

 

 

 <https://solarcooking.fandom.com/wiki/Patricia_McArdle> Patricia McArdle

Author, Farishta <https://www.npr.org/2011/06/04/136928898/farishta-afghan-fiction-from-the-foreign-service> , a novel about Afghanistan
Videographer <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_tLie5msnr6QwhEWPZIzIg/videos?view=0&sort=p>  renewable energy
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