CAMPUS CONNECT | LOCAL WOOD SAWDUST AND HOW IMPORTANT IT HAS BEEN FOR MY RESTAURANT IN COOKING|BY GIDSBROWN| 10% payout to the community account.

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Good day/night to everyone here at steemit campus connect, I @gidsbrown believe your day has been good or went well depending on what part of the world you are reading this article from. I am a student of Amadu Bello University in which we are presently on strike, due to the indefinite strike I had to go back home to assist my parents in our restaurant business and I wanna show you guys one of the effective stove we use in cooking at lesser cost.

I beg your indulgence to stay with me as I talk about this local but very effective and useful heat generator called sawdust stove.
It's not common in developed countries for obvious reasons, because they are developed and use better and easier modern technologies made available for generating heat either to keep the house warm from cold during winter season or for cooking of food which is most common in this part of my world in rural areas especially where such kinds of modern heat generating equipment aren't easily accessible or very expensive for the average man.
Alright let's dive straight into what and how it is made and made from.

WHAT IS WOOD SAWDUST?

Wood sawdust as the name implies are dust particles from cutting of timber at wood sawmills. It is supposed to be a waste but due to state of Nigeria economy it is used for the purpose of generating heat to cook our food and do other things that requires the usage of heat. There are other sawdust from different materials like grinded groundnut she'll but wood sawdust is most accessible and cheaper here, a bag cost as low as 0.1dollars which lasts 2days when cooking food for our restaurant business.

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HOW TO MAKE IT

The iron container for moulding the dust has two openings which is for both putting the firewood and fire.
i. First of all you stable a the bottle shaped container at the middle of the container to create the path for fire and use another bottled shaped container to form a path for where the fire wood is going to enter.

ii. Pour the sawdust into the container and march it till it's well moulded.

III. Gradually pull out the bottles

iv. Take it to the local kitchen to a well balanced position, insert your firewood and put little kerosene and light it up
v. Your can cook or boil whatever you want.

In conclusion this sawdust stove have really been of great help to my family and our restaurant business in cutting and reducing cost in buying gas and has also helped the locals of Sabon Gari Zaria by serving as a cheaper and affordable alternative to gas cylinders and electric burners which are very expensive, because of the economic recession in Nigeria and power instability.

Thank you all for your indulgence, I hope you've all learnt a thing or two from this locally made sawdust stove, I won't end this post without thanking @whitestallion for creating the community to aid students communicate,teach and learn from one another, thank you Sir. Thank you to all steemit @campusconnecting community.

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Note: All unsourced images were taken by me using my Infinix hot 10T, thank you all.