Do not use this or any other wood or charcoal-burning chimney-less stove indoors or in an enclosed space.
There is no doubt that changing from traditional biomass fuel stoves to improved less polluting stoves is of main importance in reducing indoor air pollution associated symptoms.
Owning a less-polluting stove can raise a woman's prestige, both as a sign of wealth and, indirectly, through a soot-free kitchen environment.
He traded a fancy plancha that he had been awarded in a chefs' contest, but had never used, for two less-fancy stoves, to be installed in a kitchen of about 200 square feet.
A study in Peru found that using the new cookstoves significantly reduced sleep and respiratory symptoms in children 2 14 years of age, but only in households that used the less-polluting stoves exclusively and with adequate maintenance (Accinelli et al. 2014).
Although the improved stoves generally showed some improvement in efficiency for the low-power simmering phases, the stoves were less efficient than traditional stoves in high-power water-boiling phases.
For example, studies in Nepal (24) and India (25, 26) found that non-smoking women who cooked on biomass stoves had a higher prevalence of this condition than women who used biomass stoves less.
In March 2014 the hospital sent four volunteers, including three Batwa women, to Tanzania to learn how to make fuel-efficient cook stoves that produce less smoke.
Non-catalytic stoves are very common on the market and less expensive than catalytic stoves.
