IGNISCook Smarter, Live Better.We don't just install equipment. We manage the transition.
For high-volume kitchens in schools, hospitals, correctional facilities and other institutions where steam generation is an appropriate transition pathway. We assess actual meal volumes and kitchen conditions, size the system, coordinate deployment and support ongoing performance.
Explore Institutional SteamEfficient electric cooking for applications where grid access, cooking demand and operating economics make it the right fit.
Explore Electric CookingFor counties, governments and development partners seeking coordinated transition across multiple institutions, from demand mapping and validation through financing, deployment and monitoring.
Explore Clean-Cooking ProgrammesAn open fire wastes most of its wood. In field tests, open fires delivered on average only about 11% of the wood's energy to the pot. Even a carefully tended fire reaches only 20 to 30%. The rest escapes as heat and smoke. An enclosed, insulated system puts far more of each kilogram to work.
Combustion happens in a closed firebox, so far less heat escapes than from an open fire.
A single generator replaces many open fires; there is no longer a separate fire idling under each pot.
Steam heats the pot walls evenly and hands over its heat as it condenses, so food cooks without scorching and heat goes into the food, not the room.
The generator can run on processed fuels such as briquettes or pellets, and the firing rate can be controlled to match meal times.
Metered, monitored systems (via CleanCookIQ) catch waste early, and cooks spend less time tending fires.
At 11% efficiency, a kitchen burns about nine times the wood its food actually needs; at 62%, about 1.6 times. The 62% is a manufacturer's claim for an improved institutional stove, included for comparison only.
Third-party figures, not Ignis measurements. Sources: Aprovecho Research Center (2026), citing Urban et al.: 11.3% average across 254 field tests of open fires in Malawi, Ghana and Kenya. · Low-Tech Magazine (2014): well-tended open fires reach 20–30%. · Shengzhou Stove Manufacturer (2026): 62% for an improved institutional stove. Vendor figure.
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