The phrase
"cooking fires" refers to fires that are specifically built or used for cooking food.
Full definition
Good for discussing sustainable resource use, fuel - wood crisis, energy and health - 2 million die prematurely every year from smoke
from cooking fires!
It arises from multiple sources, including fossil fuel use, particularly coal and transport, livestock, and includes
cooking fires in developing countries.
Sadly, more than 480 people are killed annually and many more suffer severe burn injuries in accidents caused
by cooking fires.
Many of the deaths were due to outdoor air pollution from coal fired power stations and many others were from
indoor cooking fires using coal.
In was only relatively recently (in the last few hundred thousand years) that your ancestors began
using cooking fires.
This appliance is also good at what it does, claiming to
cook fired foods 50 % more evenly than other brands.
One of various clean - burning stoves developed to reduce harmful pollution from hundreds of millions
of cooking fires in poor countries.
The damage may be accidental, such
as cooking fires or broken railings, or they may be malicious, such as those done by an angry tenant being evicted.
Anger radiates from the searing descriptions of a world brought down by selfishness and greed, where mindless brutality triumphs and priceless paintings are fuel
for cooking fires.
Apple Inc CEO Tim
Cook fired back at CVS and Rite Aid on Monday after the drugstore chains blocked the iPhone maker's mobile payments service, saying there were plenty of other retailers around the world to sign up.
Economic growth provides resources for solving problems — restoring organic carbon in agricultural soils, conserving and restoring ecosystems, better sanitation and safer water, better health and education, updating the diesel fleet and other productive assets, replacing
cooking fires with better ways of preparing food, etc..
LAGUNA BEACH Calif. (Reuters)- Apple Inc (AAPL.O) CEO
Tim Cook fired back at CVS (CVS.N) and Rite Aid (RAD.N) on Monday after the drugstore chains blocked the iPhone maker's mobile payments service, saying there were plenty of other retailers around the world to sign up.
What was actually said was: «The smoke is rising mainly from
cooking fires fueled with firewood or dried dung.»
At the stern are families
around cooking fires; among them wander polar explorers from the past, including Sir John Franklin and his crew, resplendent in their impractical uniforms.
One recent innovation is called the Stove Top Fire Stop — it hangs above your stove and snuffs out
cooking fires before they can become kitchen fires or home fires.
One
small cooking fire could cause significant property damage to the building, property damage to everyone else in the building from smoke and water, and often large medical expenses from things like smoke inhalation by your neighbors.
Economic growth provides resources for solving problems — conserving and restoring ecosystems, better sanitation and safer water, better health and education, updating the diesel fleet and other productive assets to emit less black carbon, developing better and cheaper ways of producing electricity,
replacing cooking fires with better ways of preparing food thus avoiding millions of deaths annually, etc..
Non-traditional risk factors such as the inhalation of
cooking fire smoke and chronic infection or inflammation might have been important factors contributing to atherosclerosis in ancient times.
But something has to give, according to nearly everyone immersed in the energy challenge facing a world heading toward 9 billion people — in which more than 2 billion people today still have no real energy options except guttering kerosene lamps and wood or
dung cooking fires.
Such a calculation, with a billion or
so cook fires every night, wildfires, deforestation fires and others in the mix, «would be devilishly complicated for a climate model,» Bowman recalled the thinking.
Palace largely limited Bournemouth to long - range efforts but the home side came agonisingly close to equalising when
Steve Cook fired a well hit shot narrowly wide of the post in the closing stages.
And in July and August, our
resident cook fires up our outdoor bar - b - que and prepares delicious grilled hot dogs and sausages.
A gas powered outdoor
cooker fires up in an instant and has precise temperature control to ensure thoroughly cooked, tasty and moist food.
Last Thanksgiving, about 1,450
reported cooking fires were responsible for some $ 21 million dollars of property damage.
The evolutionary biologist Richard Wrangham, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has argued that
cooking fires changed the course of human evolution.
Ger tents speckled the landscape as far as the eye could see, and around them thousands of
cooking fires lit the ground.
8:00 am — Explore the market of Chajul, undiscovered market with beautiful ancient traditions, very traditional and established in the heart of the town, while good stock of old adobe houses, wooden beams and red roofs blackened by the smock of
cooking fires makes this place a unique destination in Guatemala!
In The Halt, a group of soldiers rest around a tree, the smoke of
cooking fires colluding with the grey clouds overhead to shroud them in half - light.
Solar cookers not only reduce dependence on these fuels by about one - third, but also decrease health risks associated with
smoky cooking fires and lessen the risk of physical violence that women and children face while venturing outside the camp to gather firewood.
But it's also a moment to remember that millions of children and adults still die needlessly annually from exposure to mosquitoes, fetid water or palls of indoor air pollution from
smoldering cooking fires; some governments and companies still trample human rights and pristine ecosystems to extract timber and minerals in remote places, and some among us plot atrocities or torture and subjugate those who are different or, too often, simply female.
As we moved slowly through the mob, the dust, noise, heat and
cooking fires gave the scene a hellish aspect.
Although clothing ignited first in less than 1 % of cooking related fires, these cases accounted for 15 % of
cooking fire deaths, so cook in clothing without loose sleeves or swishy parts to stay safe.
Dry cooking fires happen when moisture evaporates from the pan, leaving the food inside burned.
The problems: 1) Indoor air pollution in the developing world caused
by cooking fires and sooty illumination results in an estimated 1.6 million deaths per year, 2) Deforestation resulting from over use of wood as an energy
A lot of greenhouse gases — and black carbon which is a particularly nasty health concern as well as a large climate forcing — come from destruction of forest and woodland
for cooking fires and to grow food.
Whether the fire is an
accidental cooking fire, or a result of external circumstances, fire is a covered peril on renters insurance in St. Louis.
The list is short: human - caused global warming, the loss of biodiversity and wilderness, and large human losses from avoidable causes (like predicted floods of sub-sea-level cities; like waterborne disease and the 1.6 million premature deaths occurring each year from mainly women and children inhaling choking plumes of smoke from unvented
indoor cooking fires).