<html><head></head><body lang="en-US" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Teddy I have some news coming shortly about the liquid smoke angle. Give me a few days to write it up. Some lab results are pending. </div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Thanks for bringing it up. Are you connected to Ghana at the moment?</div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Thanks</div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Crispin </div><br><div id="_originalContent" style=""><div dir="ltr">Thank Ingalore and Crispin, thanks for sharing these. <div><br></div><div>I have seen both these documents in use by stove makers in Ghana and in Tanzania, they seem to still be quite helpful for people starting out making clay lined charcoal jikos. Based on both books we were recently commissioned to make a short youtube video of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnM8jhMUvWo">How to Make a Kenya Ceramic Jiko </a> (english version) for existing stove manufacturers in Mogadishu due to security issues with on site training. </div><div><br></div><div>From the fuel supply side of it, I personally am now quite interested in hopefully doing something similar for the improved charcoal making kilns we are working on, we are unable to supply the full demand for them in Kenya and we would be very happy to have more artisans replicating them. We so far have only found two people who have copied and sell them since we started marketing them 4 years ago..this is a bit slow for my liking, given the context of my markets, I find that if a new design is not copied within 2 years I get quite worried about the validity of it :) But all in all, the idea of people who are able to, growing and making their own charcoal at home has been progressing along very well so far, we are coming up to selling our 1,000th kiln soon and from the feedback I have had, only about 10% of kiln owners still buy any charcoal at all and the rest have completely stopped buying charcoal! (Mostly for home use BBQs, some for SME bakeries)</div><div><br></div><div>We have recently been looking into recovering the smoky by-products of the charcoal making process, there seems to be quite an unexplored demand for wood vinegar from organic farmers and also liquid smoke from Chef's - <a href="http://kenyacharcoal.blogspot.co.ke/2016/05/how-to-make-your-own-wood-vinegar-with.html">http://kenyacharcoal.blogspot.co.ke/2016/05/how-to-make-your-own-wood-vinegar-with.html</a> - by chance does anyone know of any other people doing this in East or Southern Africa who we could compare notes with? </div><div><br></div><div>All the best, </div><div><br></div><div>Teddy </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Cookswell Jikos</b><br><a href="http://www.cookswell.co.ke" target="_blank">www.cookswell.co.ke</a></div><div><a href="http://www.facebook.com/CookswellJikos" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/CookswellJikos</a></div><div><a href="http://www.kenyacharcoal.blogspot.com" target="_blank">www.kenyacharcoal.blogspot.com</a></div><div>Mobile: +254 700 380 009 <br></div><div>Mobile: +254 700 905 913</div><div>P.O. Box 1433, Nairobi 00606, Kenya</div><div><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-mFnK50B4oS8/UUrgJle8z9I/AAAAAAAAB_o/OUjLd7wrKPg/s133/Cookswell+Logo.PNG" width="71" height="96"><br></div><div><font color="#008000" face="Tms Rmn">Save trees - think twice before printing</font><font size="1" color="#008000" face="Tms Rmn">.</font><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><br></div></div></div></div>
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