walking stove

["A.D. Karve" <adkarve@pn2.vsnl.net.in>]

I had always wondered why the various models of metallic (portable) stoves
were not popular with village households in India.  The housewives always
prefer to have their cookstoves fixed on the ground and preferably forming
an integral part of the cooking platform.  A part of the stove is sometimes
even buried half underground. After reading about the walking stove, I
realised that stability of the cookstove and the pot on it are course very
important criteria of acceptance by the housewife.
A.D.Karve
-----Original Message-----
From: Crispin <crispin@newdawn.sz>
To: Stoves <stoves@crest.org>
Date: Saturday, September 21, 2002 12:30 AM
Subject: CO meters (more $ again)


>Dear Stovers
>
>I need a CO meter that will detect changes in a few seconds because the
>whole point it to try to see what happens when we turn the stove down from
a
>high heat.
>
>When the air supply is cut off, or mostly cut off, there is a long reaction
>time when the heat stored in the wood and stove drives off gas for which
>there is no available oxygen and I expect the CO level to rise
dramatically.
>After a time everything slows down and this burn very well again.  I am
>trying to document the CO conditions in the hot-turned-down-state and the
>starved-for-air state.
>
>On another note:
>
>I am happy to report that the can making company has pitched up with two
>daditional sizes for me: a 40 litre and a 50 litre can, both 358 in
diameter
>made from 0,6mm material which is 4 times as stiff as the present unit.
>
>One of Marlis' concerns (and ours) is that the 25 litre can stove didn't
>weigh enough to stay still while stirring maize meal porridge.  Apparently
>there is a stove in Kenya that picked up the nickname 'walking stoke'
>because it was so light it moved around a lot when the cook was stirring!
>
>Regards
>crispin
>
>
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