THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With domestic gas prices set to soar and shortage of cooking fuel rampant in the city, innovative cooking techniques and mechanisms are indeed the need of the hour. Recognising the void of such out of the box technologies, J Johny, an engineer at KINFRA Park in Thiruvananthapuram, has designed a multi-functional LPG stove that saves fuel and promises increased efficiency. Ordinary LPG stoves that feature in the city’s kitchens today are capable of using only up to 60 per cent of the fuel that is burned. However, the newly-developed stove utilises up to 85 per cent of the lit fuel, providing efficiency and saving of fuel. The stove has three burners, which works with the fuel ordinary stoves use to operate one burner. The novel appliance sports ordinary burners, but recovers the wasted energy from one burner, uses it to boil water and uses the arising steam to power the second and third burners. Thus, three burners can be operated for the fuel of one burner in an usual stove. The designer claims his stove is safer and easier to use and comes with more safety precautions. It also helps to reduce the ambient heat in a kitchen as very little energy from the stove is wasted and let out. The novel cooking device comes in a unique style and promises to make cooking up to three times faster. The patent for the design is pending, but Johny hopes his novel invention will capture enough attention in the city.
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