Showing the Next Generation That Clean Cooking Fits Ugandan Food

A common worry is that clean cooking means giving up familiar food. For the younger generation, the best answer is to show them otherwise. At the Toto Clean Cooking Champions Campaign, the champions cooked chicken, beans, Irish potatoes, beef, rice, cow trotters, matooke, cassava and chapatis. These are everyday Ugandan meals, prepared with clean technology.

Tradition on new technology

• Matooke: peeled, wrapped and steamed on an electric pressure cooker.

• Cassava: a home favourite, also on an electric pressure cooker.

• Chapatis: kneaded and rolled by hand, then cooked on an electric pressure cooker.

• Cow trotters: a dish that normally takes hours, cooked on an electric pressure cooker.

• Beans: cooked side by side on gas and on a charcoal pressure cooker.

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Options, not replacements

The campaign didn't ask anyone to change what they eat. It showed the same food cooked with different clean options. Families may choose electric, gas, or charcoal on improved biomass stoves, as DETRA Energy's Managing Director, David Ucha, demonstrated.

Why this matters for the next generation

Children who cook their own family favourites on clean technology learn that clean cooking belongs in their kitchens. At the end of the day, the meals were served to guests, teachers and fellow learners. [Add one observation about the meal.] Good food that comes from clean technology makes the strongest case for it.