User Preferences
The figure below is the result of compilation of the open-ended response to the question: What do you like most about the GCS Stove?
What Users Liked About GCS
There were 211 responses to the question, which were further categorized into twelve groups of responses (from most to least frequent):
Faster Cooking: Food is cooked faster, saves time, multi-tasking while cooking is possible
Uses Less Firewood: Less firewood needed, saves firewood, less firewood consumed, reduced use of firewood, small amount of firewood is sufficient, more economical to use
Fewer Emissions: Reduced emission, no smoke, clean burning, less smoky, leaves cooking utensils clean, clean flame, good fire, clean fire, saved from smoke
Portability: Can be taken anywhere, food can be cooked anywhere, easy to transport, can cook at desired places, can be moved from one place to another, easy to store
Clean Kitchen: Looks clean, looks good, kitchen remains clean, easy to clean, house clean
Safe to Use: Safe, does not burn clothes or hands
Easy Operation: Easy to cook, easy to use
Space Heating: Useful for body warming, heating air
Tastier Food: Food tastes good, good for drying fish, good for boiling milk, delicious food
Like Everything: Good for everything
No Wind Impact: Fire not impacted by wind, fly ash not seen
Good Design: Like the design of the stove
Faster cooking, reduced firewood consumption, lower emissions, portability and cleanliness were the top five stove features liked by users.
In addition, several attributes were important to users, but not included on the survey form. Specifically, users identified portability as an important feature. Likewise, tastiness of the food cooked on a stove, and the design of the stove itself were also identified as important attributes.