Cooking Bam i Rice with Whirly Pinay TLUD Stove, Eco Kalan Project, June 11, 2015

The cooking performance of the Whirly Pinay, a clay Top Lit Upward Draft (TLUD) stove, is tested in the cooking of BamI (6 kg) and Rice (3 kg rice + 5 kg water). The fuel is IpilIpil wood (Leucaena leucocephala) 2. 5 kg, costing Php13 pesos (US 0. 28). The cooked food to fuel ratio is 5. 6. The amount of cooked food provides a meal for 13 adults. A high moisture content in the firewood will cause the Whirly Pinay to smoke and form soot until the wood dries up. Such was the case in this experimen