When I recently drove to Gulu with Nelson I bought a new charcoal stove as our old one was a bit worn down. I bought a bigger one this time as it took too long to prepare meals or even boil water with the old stove.
It was already late when I came back with the oven and the next day I had to leave the farm early as I had to travel to Masindi for two days and therefore couldn’t even deflower the stove. I was a bit disappointed when I came back and saw that someone had already used it but what to do? At the first opportunity I tried to light it and realised that the old method would not work with this stove even though I had used paraffin. I had to try two or even three times until it really worked but at least it worked nicely afterwards.
As it is essential to light fire to boil water to make it drinkable and also to prepare food, I thought about a new best method to light this stove.
So I grabbed my big pocket knife and a piece of timber and cut it into small pieces. Then I experimented a bit and soon found a very efficient method using Paraffin, cardboard, ash, and of course charcoal.
Next morning I started mass production. So I got the machete and a hammer out of the shed and a few pieces of old timber that we had sawn off in our many fixing sessions at the farm and got going. A few hours later I was soaked and my back ached but I had filled a cardboard box with small pieces of wood. Lighting the charcoal stove shouldn’t be a problem for the time remaining on the Eco-farm.
the new charcoal stove in action
it took blood, sweat and tears to cut these pieces of wood out of the timber
here’s the ingredients for making perfect ember:
cardboard, ash, wood, charcoal, paraffin, a stove and matches
first pile ash on a piece of cardboard and put it in the stove
then stack a few pieces of wood on the ash
then add the charcoal and pour a few drops of paraffin over it
then lit it
and after 10 minutes only the stove is ready to be used – new record!
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