[Stoves] Unidentified Cooking Device (UCD)

[Kevin Chisholm]

Dear Crispin

To categorize such a pit stove even further, when it was in firing mode....

If a small fire was started and more fuel was put on it,  would it be a 
BLTD ( Bottom Lit Top Draft), a BLDD (Bottom Lit Down Draft ) or a BLUD 
)Bottom Lit Up Draft? Perhaps a better way would be to designate it as a 
BLDDUE (Bottom Lit Down Draft Up Exhaust)?

If all the wood fuel was put in the hole, and the top of the wood was 
lit, would it be a TLTD (Top Lit Top Draft), a TLDD (Top Lit Down Draft) 
or a TLUD (Top Lit Up Draft)? Similarly, perhaps a better designation 
would be a TLDDUE (Top Lit Down Draft Up Exhaust)?

The Term "TLUD" seems rather imprecise, in that it does not distinguish 
between a a stove system that has combustion air flowing down to the 
reaction zone or up to the reaction zone. A more accurate descriptor 
would  be  a TLUDUE (Top Lit Up Draft Up Exhaust) stove.

The term gasifier is redundant in that all solid fuels employ a 
gasification process. All solid fuel stoves are gasifier stoves.

The 6 letter descriptor makes it possible to clearly distinguish between 
a pit fire and an "under fuel aired top lit up draft up exhaust" stove 
such as Tom Reed's "Wood Gas Stove".

BTW... I think you have a typo.... should be "AN-RHC"

Best Wishes,

Kevin


Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote:
> Dear Jeff
>
> It is the all-natural retained heat cooker (AN-RTC)!
>
> Now, if you were a good member of the Oneida First Nations you would never
> use the same rocks twice...
>
> Regards
> Crispin
>