What are the advantages and disadvantages of traditional earthen stoves?

Farmers like to use earthen stoves for three main reasons. Living conditions and living environment, as well as cooking habits, make some farmers reluctant to use gas stoves. First, living conditions: there are traditional free fuel resources, saving living costs.

We farmers who have been engaged in labor production in rural areas all the year round have difficulty making money, which can be said to be the lowest income group. If the income groups in the city are allowed to consume gas and oil in the same way, everyone will feel the same way. Can we be willing to consume it? Adhere to the use of earthen stoves. We have a large number of crop straws, branches and shrubs. It can be said that there are plenty of crop straws for cooking by fire, which are all free and useless. Free fuel for cooking with a fire is very easy to use, and no one wants to spend more money on cooking.

Second, the living environment: gas and gas safety risks are high, and careless operation of left-behind elderly people and children will cause big problems.

Although my home has a natural gas pipeline, if we are not at home, my parents will definitely not use it. They didn't say they didn't want to use it, but they were afraid of accidents with this gas. Because there is an old man in our nearby village, after cooking, she said that the gas was turned off. I don't know why it leaked. Fortunately, the gas ran for more than an hour without deflagration. Maybe her little grandson turned on the gas valve. It's scary to think about it. The left-behind elderly sometimes have to take care of their children, and the elderly are easy to forget. If you don't trust to spend money, it is better to cook with fire, which is also a big reason. Suddenly let the old people burn gas, they are a little uneasy, so my parents seldom use gas.

Third, living habits: decades of living habits have suddenly changed, which is a bit unacceptable.

Now we can steam rice in a rice cooker and cook with a wood stove, and the effect is very good. Gas stoves are clean and pollution-free. To be honest, the dishes cooked by small fires are not as delicious as those cooked by earthen stoves. Go home and add water to the earthen stove. It will be all right soon. Cooking habits have suddenly changed over the years. Sometimes it is not delicious cooking, but the understanding and concept of cooking, which is difficult for older people to accept at the moment.

The rising cost of cooking, coupled with the different living environment and life concept from city people, are the main reasons why some farmers insist on using earthen stoves. But for young people, it is easy to make money, the concept of life changes rapidly, and it is more acceptable to use gas stoves.