Cameroon: ‘Pot in a bag’ cooking technology attracts world’s attention
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‘Pot in a bag’ cooking method attracts world’s attention
Some Cameroonian housewives have caught the attention of the world for their adoption of a new cooking technology that conserves the environment.
The new technology uses fireless cookers that are wrapped in colorful traditional bags and are made of local fabric. The cooker looks like a bag and comes in colorful traditional prints and works on a simple principle.
The ‘pot in a bag’ cooker is sold between 10,000 CFA francs (US$17) to 22,000 CFA francs
The ‘pot in a bag’ cooker is sold between 10,000 CFA francs (US$17) to 22,000 CFA francs and is part of an effort to make cooking safer and environmentally cleaner in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Catherine Leugue, who is the head of the non-governmental organization Association of Widows that oversees the sale of these fireless cookers explains that the cooking process is the same as any traditional means of cooking, only that the pot has to remain closed until the entire meal is ready to be served.
