Cooking over the sun
(2021) In Diploma work IDEL01 20202Industrial Design
- Abstract
- The use of tools is closely connected to the development of the human species, in both cognitive abilities and physiology. Tilting the equation of energy and time favorably, by the use of tools, has shaped us to who we are.
Cooking and its benefits have created an edge for humans to develop and thrive but it also poses challenges. We have evolved alongside fire to a point where we depend on an external heat source. We need to heat ourselves, but most of all our food. The heat predigests the food for us, saving us work of rigorous chewing that we are no longer capable of. Our teeth, muscles and digestion system have evolved to outsource a part of the work to external heat. Cooking is in our DNA and we can no longer survive without it.
... (More) - The use of tools is closely connected to the development of the human species, in both cognitive abilities and physiology. Tilting the equation of energy and time favorably, by the use of tools, has shaped us to who we are.
Cooking and its benefits have created an edge for humans to develop and thrive but it also poses challenges. We have evolved alongside fire to a point where we depend on an external heat source. We need to heat ourselves, but most of all our food. The heat predigests the food for us, saving us work of rigorous chewing that we are no longer capable of. Our teeth, muscles and digestion system have evolved to outsource a part of the work to external heat. Cooking is in our DNA and we can no longer survive without it.
Today close to half of the world’s population lives without access to electricity and rely on firewood for cooking. Cooking over fire indoors releases harmful pollutants to the air, affecting mostly women and children, with severe health deficits, as they spend the most time around the stove.
A vast majority of the people that rely on firewood for daily cooking, lives within proximity to the equator, where the sun is strong but firewood sparse. To collect firewood in the strong sun is a heavy and time-consuming task and a major limitation for other activities, whether it be family, work or
education. The first consequences of climate change are already felt, in the tropic and sub tropic regions, with extreme and unpredictable weather. The sheer quantity of firewood used for cooking, with following green house gasses and deforestation, can be considered fuel on the fire.
This project is a continuation of the Design Methodology - Hand Tool Project; an exploration of tools and materials in history and present, to find a solar cooking solution that bridges innovation and tradition. A worthy complement to fire, perhaps even replacement at times. A possible catalyst for
energy relief by tilting the energy balance favourably from hinder to possibilities, while saving health and climate. (Less)
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- author
- Piyal, Viktor
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- IDEL01 20202
- year
- 2021
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- publication/series
- Diploma work
- report number
- ISRN: LUT-DVIDE/ EX--18/50402-SE
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- ISRN
- language
- English
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- 9069134
- date added to LUP
- 2021-12-15 15:06:38
- date last changed
- 2021-12-16 07:00:30
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abstract = {{The use of tools is closely connected to the development of the human species, in both cognitive abilities and physiology. Tilting the equation of energy and time favorably, by the use of tools, has shaped us to who we are.
Cooking and its benefits have created an edge for humans to develop and thrive but it also poses challenges. We have evolved alongside fire to a point where we depend on an external heat source. We need to heat ourselves, but most of all our food. The heat predigests the food for us, saving us work of rigorous chewing that we are no longer capable of. Our teeth, muscles and digestion system have evolved to outsource a part of the work to external heat. Cooking is in our DNA and we can no longer survive without it.
Today close to half of the world’s population lives without access to electricity and rely on firewood for cooking. Cooking over fire indoors releases harmful pollutants to the air, affecting mostly women and children, with severe health deficits, as they spend the most time around the stove.
A vast majority of the people that rely on firewood for daily cooking, lives within proximity to the equator, where the sun is strong but firewood sparse. To collect firewood in the strong sun is a heavy and time-consuming task and a major limitation for other activities, whether it be family, work or
education. The first consequences of climate change are already felt, in the tropic and sub tropic regions, with extreme and unpredictable weather. The sheer quantity of firewood used for cooking, with following green house gasses and deforestation, can be considered fuel on the fire.
This project is a continuation of the Design Methodology - Hand Tool Project; an exploration of tools and materials in history and present, to find a solar cooking solution that bridges innovation and tradition. A worthy complement to fire, perhaps even replacement at times. A possible catalyst for
energy relief by tilting the energy balance favourably from hinder to possibilities, while saving health and climate.}},
author = {{Piyal, Viktor}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
series = {{Diploma work}},
title = {{Cooking over the sun}},
year = {{2021}},
}