biucci

The Biucci is our large institutional stove, and is currently being used in women’s shelters and schools in several countries in Africa. It has a large water reservoir and two cooking surfaces that act as high and low temperature burners.

It comes in two sizes, 60 liter and 85 liter. The 85 Liter reservoir is intended to provide large quantities of boiling water ; being too large to lift, comes with a faucet. The 60 Liter reservoir can also provide hot water, but does not come with a faucet because it is primarily intended to be used for cooking large quantities of corn meal, sorghum, millet, barley, beans and lentils all of which would plug the faucet.

Both sizes require assembly and minor clay or brickwork for installation. Check out our Pilot Program images to see the nice alcoves that have just been built for the Biucci stoves at a women’s shelter in Burkina Faso. The 65 liter unit boils 1l of water approximately in 5 minutes (depening on settng and fuel used). Like all our products the Biucci is designed to run on waste biomass (fuel too small to use in conventional stoves) and since the residual product is biochar, the entire process is carbon negative. Given that these stoves were designed specifically for institutions, WorldStove pledges that any carbon credits earned from them are entirely the property of the institution into which they are placed.