[Stoves] Cooking by conduction - plancha stoves

[Miranda, Rogerio]

Paul:  

 

To cook tortillas you need around 200 C to cook it well. To test a stove
to see if it is hot enough for tortillas, throw drops of water on it,
and the water should jump and evaporated immediately, that is when you
are about 200C.

 

As for real cooking the Ecostove reaches between 350 to 500 C on the
center, while goes down to 200 on the edges. If you have 400 C, you
should be Ok, 500C usually is overheating, which is not good for the
griddle in the long time.

 

The trick with the Ecostove is that you should have all your pots on top
of it, pre heating, while the main dish being cooked on the hottest
spot. Usually the Ecostove can deliver a meal of 3 to four dishes in
less than an hour with 2 kg or less of wood.

 

Rogerio

 

 

 

Message: 9

Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 01:51:16 -0500

From: "Paul S. Anderson" <psanders at ilstu.edu>

Subject: [Stoves] Cooking by conduction - plancha stoves

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Stovers,

 

What temperatures are attained on the surface of plancha-type
cookstoves?

 

I operated one today and thought that 300 deg C (about 550 F) was nice
and hot.

 

But when I put the same contact thermometer onto my wife's electric
stove, the

metal coil at "medium" was over 400 C and was not showing any red color.
At

the "high" setting glowing bright red, the poor thermometer would have

croaked!!

 

Tortilla cooking on a plancha is a main activity and probably does just
fine at

300 C, but put a pot of water to boil and the heat transfer is slow.
And to

have temperatures for deep frying, how can a plancha top deliver enough
heat.

 

Note that I am NOT referring to having a hole cut into the plancha top
so that

the flame can directly touch the bottom of the pot.

 

My plancha is 3/16th inch, I believe.  (about 3 mm).

 

What temperatures are considered to be "good" on plancha stoves?

 

Paul

 

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Rogerio Carneiro de Miranda

Clean Energy Group

Winrock International

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