[Stoves] slices

[Boll, Martin Dr.]

Dear Crispin,

I fully agree with your proposal for the pressure cooking pot. 

We do that regularly at home.

 

Small practise-report: Some months ago I used an old cardigan to make a few
insolation on sides and top of our pressure-cooker (Valve protected against
not working by the cardigan). By the second run I burned a bit of the
cardigan on the foot of the pot near the electric-plate. After that I
stopped insolation, though I am thinking to use a more heat-resistant cloth
and retracting that by metal distance-ring from the plate.

 

I would like poor people having a pressure cooker. I saw an old type of this
on a website-photo from India. And I asked myself weather the pot had still
its original full function (and by this enery-saving), because I did not see
the pressure-weight.

Possibly Dr. Karve can tell us about spreading and common use of such
pressure cooker pots in India.

 

I fear, it will be cheaper for poor people to grind and keep their knives
sharp, and shorten cooking-procedure at least a little bit, than to buy a
pressure-cooker with better effect; though both would be whishable.

 

When I think of cutting food to small pieces, we must even think of changing
the cooking-procedure in direction of chineese wok-food, which needs big
heat, but short time to cook. A heat-calculation would be interesting in
that case.

Is very hot in short time less energy use than normal hot in normal time?
(3-5KW for 3minutes? Against 1KW for ? minutes?)

- Presumed the possible users like chineese food, are able to turn fire
immediately down (as possible by a roof-makers cardboard-burner) and they
have food, able to be cooked in that way. (I am sure millet gruel turns to
some coaly stuff by that! :-()- But on the other hand I like
low-temperature-cooking as well, which would be excellent for this. 

There is no (said in German:)"Eier legende Woll-Milch-Sau" (egg-producing
wool-milk-pig).

 

By the way; some time ago I asked you for information about possible
dimensions of clay-rings, made by the machine you described. Certainly the
mail did not reach you, by what ever?

 

Regards

Martin

 

 

 

>Message: 4

>Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 11:53:45 -0500

>From: "Crispin Pemberton-Pigott" <crispinpigott at gmail.com>

>Subject: Re: [Stoves] slices

>To: "Stoves" <stoves at listserv.repp.org>

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>Dear Martin

 

>The BEST energy reducer for cooking is an insulated (on top and sides) 

>pressure cooking pot!

 

>Regards

>Crispin