Alternative sources of fuel for open fire, apart from wood

  

Date Posted: 3/15/2012 9:18:19 AM

Posted By: sashoo  Membership Level: Silver  Total Points: 382

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1. Dried maize cobs:
These work better in open fire cooking and can be a substitute for wood in case wood is not available. They can be found when maize has immediately been harvested and when all the grain has been removed.

2. Saw-dust:
This can be found from carpenter workshops and in saw mills. They can also substitute wood in open fire cooking.

3. Dried coffee husks:
Coffee husks can be found in areas that grow coffee like in Central province. They too, are a perfect substitute for wood.

4. Dried sugarcane peelings:
Sugar planting areas like Western province and Nyanza are a major source for this alternative fuel that can substitute wood in open fire cooking.

5. Roughcast:
Roughcast can be found in saw mills and in carpenter workshops. They are also perfect substitute for wood.

6. Dried maize sticks:
These can be found immediately maize is harvested, after which they are then dried and used for cooking.

7. Dried napier-grass sticks:
This case occurs where napier to be given to animals has over-dried to a point where it is no longer edible by animals. Here, it is usually dried and then used for open fire cooking.

8. Dried cassava sticks:
Whenever cassavas are harvested and the sticks are not to be replanted, they can be dried(the sticks) and used to cook in open fire.

9. Groundnut husks:
These are found when the nuts have been extracted from the husks. The husks are then dried and used as source of open fire fuel.

10. Wood wastes from carpenter workshops:
When you walk in various carpenter workshops, you will see lots of wood wastes that lie all over the floor. Wasted wood therefore, because it's no longer useful to the carpenter, is usually used in open fire cooking.

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