Abidjan’s Treichville Market, Cote D’Ivoire 13 Oct 2015
Take a closer look at those LPG (cooking gas) cylinders stacked around the pole, displayed for sale. The small ones on top have a rough and ready metal fitting attached to them which converts them into stoves.
However, you’ll note in the delivery cart that these small cylinders are without the addition. This makes me wonder if its a value add by the shopkeeper?
It seems as though even this range of LPG table top stoves might be too expensive for some, or is it a solution meant for street vendors of food? The fact that these are being displayed on the smallest (and thus most affordable) size of cylinder is another hint that its an entry level solution.
A closer look implies that this might be a cookstove designed to fit on top of the cylinder and locally handmade by artisans rather than mass manufactured ranges shown above.
Either way, it caught my attention as I’d never seen this directly fitted approach to cooking with LPG before.