You Guys!
I have been cooking on a really wonderful stove this summer and I wanted to tell you about it because not only is it perfect for your summer camping, picnics, or small patio, but it also supports a cause that is near and dear to my heart.
Here is why:
Three billion people – half the world’s population – need a safer way to cook. This population is in less developed countries and relies on solid fuels of biomass and coal for their cooking needs (open fires or unimproved cookstoves), which isn’t good for them or the environment.
Enter: EcoZoom, which makes clean cookstoves accessible and affordable in developing countries. They especially empower women in the process.
It is a beautifully designed cooking stove that improves the health and environment of those cooking on rudimentary stoves. You can boil, fry, saute or grill on its top, and fuel it with wood and other natural substances.
Some things that I have cooked with it:
Deer Liver
Wood Fired Hog Loin
Cracklin Bread
They also have the Z+ Program, our “buy-one-invest-one” program, which means when you buy a stove from them they will zoom a stove to a project in a developing country so it can be used to create new markets for cookstoves OR they’ll use funds equivalent to the cost of a stove to help create a project with potential for growth.
For example, organizations that distribute or sell stoves can get Z+ stoves to try for free instead of looking for grant dollars or donations to do a pilot project. Once the stoves are tested with the local population, the benefits are seen and demand is created.
I’m really excited to share this stove with you. It is beautiful, highly functional, environmentally friendly, and best of all good karma.
7 Comments
Al Bradley
How are these environmentally friendly, they still are fueled by wood, which comes from trees, that would normally be soaking up carbon dioxide, instead of creating it. Plus, what is wrong with cooking over an open stove? We do not have to treat these people like savages because they do not cook over a Kitchen Aid like we do. I prefer cooking over an open fire myself, it takes a lot more skill to master the art, and is enjoyable. Actually, natural gas may be the most suitable form of fuel.
Christine
Whereas open fires consume a good deal of wood because oxygen is all around it, these stoves are incredible efficient and conserve fuel. And they’ll work with dried twigs, coal, or biomass. I’ve written to the company and learned that, yes, they’ll cook with dried dung. Even though I live in a house and don’t camp, I’ll be buying one of these so I can begin to prepare for a more off-grid life.
Check out the EcoZoom website; they’ve got a lot of information about how the stoves work, including one that works indoors (with a metal chimney).
wolfie
these rockets stoves are getting great reviews for efficiency and clean burning…
I’ve often thought how I might be able to do the kind of cooking I like to do over bio-mass fuels…didn’t think it was possible…until now.
I think I’m gonna order the Versa model…well-thought out design and reviews favorable as compared to other manufacturers…
thank you GP fer spreadin some awareness!
Georgia
My pleasure, I’m glad it is up your alley too!
Frank
Perfect for tailgating and when you need to bug out when the zombies take over. The whole paying it forward for the folks who really need something like this is the icing on the cake.
Well done.
Lionel Naidoo
Hello, I am very interested in these stoves, how can I get one to try
I am in Botswana, Africa?
Connie
Looks great, have you seen BioLite? the small, camping version, can also charge a cell phone. The larger version can produce additional power and is intended for 3rd world counties as well. Love the inventions!!