The communities of cassava chips apply conventional cooking stoves, which are wasteful of fuel, high air pollution, unclean working environment, and cracks quickly. The technology of refractory brick stove with a modification of the combustion chamber is applied to this cooking stove. A new furnace was made using SK-34 refractory bricks. The stove construction requires little skill and is easy to implement. The results obtained from the stove are much more robust, fuel-efficient, and a clean, healthy and comfortable working environment. In addition, because it is easy to manufacture, people will easily understand and make their refractory brick stove and maintain it. Using a refractory brick stove to produce 40 kg of cassava chips requires a frying time of 2 hours 22 minutes and consumes 89.4 kg of firewood. Meanwhile, using a conventional stove takes a frying time of 3 hours 23 minutes and consumes 117.3 kg of firewood.
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