Title: Cooking sequences: The realistic utilization of fuel/stove combinations in standardised experiments
Abstract: The development of stove performance evaluation standards and protocols has received significant attention in the past decade. This was given the impetus by the advent of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstove (GACC). Currently, there is a huge drive to developing an international stove-testing standard that addresses real-world uses of fuel/stove combinations. The study was conducted to evaluate the performance of a biomass pellet cookstove using uncontrolled cooking test (UCT) with cooking sequences derived from food dishes prepared in the low-income stratum of Johannesburg. Results show that cooking sequences, when incorporated in standardised stove testing protocols, offer the potential to correlate better the laboratory and field performances of fuel/stove combinations. This is because cookstoves are operated, during technical test experiments, the way they would in real world-uses by mimicking the preparation of specific food dishes. Results from this study have implications for the development of future stove testing protocols.
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Date: 2018-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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