In order to make cooking easier with an improved institutional cook stove for example for school and other institutions in Liberia, and also to reduce deforestation in the country; GIZ/EnDev has produced a prototype of an institutional rocket stove commonly called ‘’Kpoh stove" which means group stove.
GIZ/EnDev’s aim is to improved access to clean cooking technology for household and institutional cooking system. In order to accomplish this target, EnDev has trained up to thirty metal workers both male and female to produce household stoves commonly called the Red Fire Pot, this stove can be found in some market places in and around Monrovia (click here for further information).
The new prototype was developed by Daniel Y. Partee and built together with one of the trained stove producer called Mamadou Kamara. This new Kpoh stove is a clean burning and fuel-efficient cook stove which can use thin/smaller sticks as fuel and therefore needs less firewood which reduces long-term expenditure. The stove has an insulated combustion chamber which allows the stove to focus the heat where it is needed during the cooking process (i.e. into the cooking pot). Additionally the insulation makes it safer to touch during and after use.
The Rocket/Kpoh stove makes cooking with fire easier, safer and faster than with open fires. They are quicker to start, needs little tending, and can meet the specific needs of domestic and small/large scale commercial cooks. The kpoh stove is built to reduce the time taken to start a stove and the time to cook/boil food due their excellent fuel efficiency. The users do not have to blow air into the stove to fan the flame. Once lit, the stove fire will burn continuously unless one stops putting firewood into the stove.