[Stoves] Unidentified Cooking Device (UCD)

[Boll, Martin Dr.]

Dear Kevin, Crispin, Jeff, 
and "terminology-freaks" (and "terminology-weaks" :-) ) 
The discussion about the abbreviation-derived names makes me remark as a
simple _not_ native English-speaker:
In combination with stove-name expressions and especially with descriptions
of functions of stoves I got disturbed by the word: "down". In my head
appeared a direction from top to bottom, not the _position_ "bottom". 
Therefore I had to realize that the direction was not intended "down-ward"
but from bottom to top.
I wonder, if the simple "bottom to top" = BT (or =BoTo for no confusion with
Boiling Time) or for the inverse direction "Top to Bottom" = TB (or = ToBo)
was a help for avoiding confusion? 
Especially when one wants to express an inverse draft, it needs a lot
"thinking round corners"; The proposed expressions do not. 
I don't intend to change existing expressions for stoves, but for describing
a stove-working I think it could be helpful for international _not
confusable_ understanding. 

Have a smile

Martin

> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 07:40:51 -0400
> From: Kevin Chisholm <kchisholm at ca.inter.net>
> Subject: Re: [Stoves] Unidentified Cooking Device (UCD)
> To: crispin at newdawn.sz,	Discussion of biomass cooking stoves
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> 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
> >