like 1953 Youngstown kitchen which she still has with the old coil electric stove the whole bit but anyway um uh so I come from a family of soupShaman and then um when I was in kinary
And it started pretty small, out of his own home-- the gentleman who ran it-- and cooked pretty much like you saw in the Eswatini Kitchens-- a single, big burner stove with a big pot.And he was very successful in his area and was bottling yogurt drinks and selling them to the local markets.
And so for the last 2 and 1/2 years, BioLite has been participating in the world's largest randomized controlled trial of the health impact of this cook stove on young children.And it's a National Institute of Health funded study, administered by Columbia University's School of Public Health and the Ghanaian Ministry of Health.
This is a nonprofit research group that's been working for 30 years on the design and development of clean-biomass cook stoves , including the iconic rocket stove . And almost immediately at Aprovecho, I met Damon Ogle.Damon was a retired mechanical engineer who had spent many years with a successful independent business
at high power in different kinds of stoves , including charcoal stoves and pellet stoves , fan-driven stoves that require electricity, chimney stoves , and griddle stoves , and, finally, liquid or gas stoves .And our institutional rocket stove tests here.
exactly as you see in this picture, and as it's shown here. stoves for institutional situations.
When I first asked my father how to make tahdig, he was like, OK, tell me about your stove . Your stove . That's the right question. See, so no wonder.
But because of the high level of fuel use and the high level of resulting emissions, Damon saw that when you placed one improved institutional stove , the impact is an order of magnitude higher than placing a household stove . At Aprovecho, Damon learned about the ten rocket stove principles from their creator, and our friend, Doctor Larry Winiarski.
And distribute air flow around the fuel. The stove works best when the fuel added is separated by a shelf that allows this air flow. Number eight, use a grate under the stove , under the fuel, so that the air flows through the coals.
That means 85% of the heat energy never reaches the pot. Our stove , from the moment heat energy is generated, forces heated air to flow up through the stove , following a path that provides maximum opportunity for heat exchange with the cooking surfaces to the bottom of the pot, and then along its sides as well.
or anticipated. I do not think I will feel like being Kirsten Rolstrud. That is the name that is on the paper that I am putting into the firebox of the stove . When Mor comes through the door with a load of kindling that my sisters, Haldis and Gree and I are all the time to pick up in the trees by the river. Now why do I have such a piece of paper? Did I write it myself? Ja.
They also built this little thing called a Rocket Stove that lets them use the twigs that just fall around their yard to cook things. So, they'll cook breakfast using this little Rocket Stove . It's a cool thing because you don't have to harvest big pieces of wood to use it; you can just use twigs and it's very efficient and remarkably doesn't make much smoke or anything and it gets hot really fast.
I'm athletic. It's not-- so there's stigma, and my parents had to endure this. The stoves , the tents.
institutional rocket stoves in places like refugee camps, and schools, and hospitals, and rural clinics. Households stoves are simply not sufficient to meet the need. These are institutions where large quantities of food are prepared quickly.
Number eight, use a grate under the stove , under the fuel, so that the air flows through the coals. Traditional stoves -- open fires that have fuel resting on the ground-- experience difficulty achieving the correct mix of air and fuel. Number nine, insulate the heat-flow path to and around the cooking surfaces.
And I traveled there in 2010, and installed three stoves , which reduced the school's fuel costs by 75%. The stoves were so efficient that they paid for the installation in seven months. Four years later, these three stoves are still providing the food for the 1,600 students.
could cost 15% or 20% percent in efficiency. Our stoves require precision manufacturing. So we designed our system to force precision through the use of custom jigs and very exacting standards.
So we had to find-- the smallest stick we could find was this one you see jammed into the fuel slot. Our stoves run best on small amounts of small wood that can be sustainably harvested without destroying whole trees. But our stoves do more than cook.
But our stoves do more than cook. Institutional stoves produce much more firepower than other stoves . And this energy can be harnessed for additional applications.
As we grow, our priorities are to open strategic foreign production units to bring production in-country to the countries that need our stoves the most. To improve our value-chain management.
exactly as you see in this picture, and as it's shown here. Household stoves need to be designed for very low prices to accomplish a lot.
Well, chemically, sulfur powder is just rings of eight sulfur atoms. On the hot stove , the sulfur ring broke apart into smaller pieces. And now, those sulfur atoms or sulfur chains have free bonding sites so they look for places to attach.
But I wanted to go back to what you talk about earlier, your identity being both gay and Christian. Don't touch the stove .
Victory gardens, yes. Yeah. You have one stove , et cetera.
Imagine how the room looked with all that chopped wood in there. And there was a stove of course. So my father or my uncle would steal a piece of wood, bring it into the house.
There are recipes in my book that have chicken that's cooking, or things that take a longer time to cook for the protein, and I'll make that on the stove top, and then I'll bring it to the table. But a great part about hot pot is that it's communal, and you can do it at the table, you can make it all ahead
And it's this sriracha tofu. Using a new stove is always extra adventurous for me.
instant pot and it also is great in a slow cooker the thing about cooking it on the stove is that you get this just checking on this hang on see I'm becoming friends with this see we got it it's fine yeah so the
you so I'm going to get this going I'm so happy that I'm able to work this stove you have no idea it's really not an easy stove to work what you would think it would be yeah all right so we're going to get that nice and hot and while that's happening I'm going to go ahead and rub this pork tenderloin so you got to get your hands dirty here
And it gets even better. Since the stove reduces carbon emissions, we can take advantage of existing carbon credit offset programs to make this stove affordable to the poorest of the poor. You may wonder why I'm telling you all this.
So I tried to help the NGO that I was working with to distribute cook stoves to Mina and her neighbors. We marketed a stove by a large British oil company. But it had some problems.
They saw this fire in their kitchen as a domestic god, a deity, and the flame as a spiritual messenger between them and heaven. They prayed before the stove daily and created rangoli, artwork they drew around the stove with colorful chalk to consecrate it, to make it a sacred object. In much of the developing world, the wife is responsible for the cooking.
That 7% of their income just to charge their phone. But since our stove generates more than enough electricity to charge their phone, men really like this stove . There are also some design considerations.
And so they need a really hot flame. So our stove needs to be customized to serve different cultures. So how do we get these stoves to people?
Our most successful sales agent in India is also a magician. When demonstrating the stove , Himanshu flicks a lit match from five feet away into the mouth of the stove . And it immediately lights the flame.
to the cooking surface rather than lost out to the ambient. So a rocket stove can improve the fuel efficiency. But the problem is, for each gram of fuel that you burn, you're still emitting all this smoke.
So we'd rather burn it to completion than just dump it outside. who's purchased the stove , first a couple weeks after the point of sale to make sure that they were properly trained when they were sold the product
So we'd rather burn it to completion than just dump it outside. like the stove , is it delivering on its feature set, would they recommend it to others, et cetera.
So we'd rather burn it to completion than just dump it outside. There's the metallic stove body that's the heat containing functional part, and then the power electronics in our power pack back here.
So we'd rather burn it to completion than just dump it outside. And so if the stove has been in use for many years, maybe there is some corrosion inside here and they need a new stove body.
So we'd rather burn it to completion than just dump it outside. You must be a stove user yourself because that's the number one feedback we get in the regions that we operate is like, we need a bigger fuel mouth.
So we'd rather burn it to completion than just dump it outside. The version of the stove that had charging, households were using it way more for cooking.
to fix your stove , your expedition's over, maybe your life.
On my home stove , I just turn it to low and leave it for 10 minutes.
Turning the stove on?
It was a '50s stove that I had taken out of a friend of mine's grandmother's apartment.
Why no wood stove in the cabin?
Why no wood stove in the 12 by 12?
This design creates an optimum draft, which pulls the heat at a constant velocity through the system. With this stove , we have reached 50% thermal efficiency. By way of contrast, the average internal combustion engine is about 20% percent efficient.
And the Prius we drove down here today is about 40% efficient. With this stove , we get more work out of wood than modern combustion engines get out of gasoline. In 2007, when Damon first began designing what he was calling a barrel stove , Dr. Winiarski, the father of rocket stoves ,