[Stoves] Stove testing methods

[Boll, Martin Dr.]

Dear Christa,

I find your comment very useful. And I want to add two simple things
pointing in the same direction.

 

1.

If the stove constructors and the stove efficiency-testers would cut
themselves the fuel (Best even with simple tools) for their inventions and
tests instead of using e.g. prepared pellets, that would change new stove
design quickly by practical reasons.

Even by the same reason one would construct a saw-dust-stove, for not being
obliged to glue "dust to sticks".

The idea to construct a rocket-like-fuelled gasifying stove would be
stimulated, as I thought by cutting small wood-pieces.

 

- I like to think: Look first to the available unprepared fuel, than built a
stove which can burn it possibly unchanged.

 

2.

Let us divide the cooking-process into quickly heating up (in a
low-mass-stove) and a following slow-cooking-procedure 

-in another RHC (Retained Heat Cooker) with constantly very low energy
adding, (may be some tea-candle-like somewhat, or very a few burning-rest of
charcoal in a special small and isolated burning-chamber)-.

 And sum up the fuel-consumption of both processes, to compare this whole
procedure with other stoves/cooking-methods.

 

 But the low-temperature-cooking must include a greater ease of working
("forget the meal for several hours!") for being accepted.

-Naturally it depends as well on the dish. The proposed process would not
work for French fries or tortillas.

 

- Look secondly to the food being cooked, than built the stove to cook it
perfectly and with more ease and possibly with less fuel.

 

Regards from Germany

 

Martin