Abstract
The development of stove performance evaluation
standards and protocols has received significant attention in the
past decade. This was given the impetus by the advent of the
Global Alliance for Clean Cookstove (GACC). Currently, there is a
huge drive to developing an international stove-testing standard
that addresses real-world uses of fuel/stove combinations. The
study was conducted to evaluate the performance of a biomass
pellet cookstove using uncontrolled cooking test (UCT) with
cooking sequences derived from food dishes prepared in the lowincome
stratum of Johannesburg. Results show that cooking
sequences, when incorporated in standardised stove testing
protocols, offer the potential to correlate better the laboratory and
field performances of fuel/stove combinations. This is because
cookstoves are operated, during technical test experiments, the way
they would in real world-uses by mimicking the preparation of
specific food dishes. Results from this study have implications for
the development of future stove testing protocols.