Equipment

626 sourced equipment pages: vessels, tools, appliances and built structures.

Everything

Illustration of an FTT fish-processing installation: a masonry oven, metal firebox, smoking racks and filter pipe under an open-sided shelter.
Built structures

FTT-Thiaroye smoking kiln

The FAO-Thiaroye Processing Technique separates fish cooking from smoke flavouring. A heat-retaining cooking unit, fat collector, filtered smoke generator and smoking chamber reduce direct smoke and fat contact; installations vary by place.

Masonry smoking ovens
Senegal
Illustration of the Chorkor smoker: a rectangular mud/clay oven base with two front openings and a tall stack of wooden-framed wire-mesh trays under a flat sheet-metal cover.
Built structures

Chorkor smoker

The Chorkor, also called the Kagan smoker in early FAO documentation, pairs a low rectangular mud/clay oven with stacked removable wooden-frame, wire-mesh trays. FAO records its use at Chorkor, Ghana, from 1971.

Masonry smoking ovens
Chorkor, Accra, Ghana
Editorial illustration of a Ghanaian Ahotor oven: a fixed cement masonry body with paired brick-lined fire openings and removable wooden smoking trays.
Built structures

Ahotor oven

The Ahotor is a modern fixed masonry fish-smoking oven developed in Ghana as an improved alternative to traditional smokers such as the Chorkor.

Masonry smoking ovens
Ghana
Illustration of a compact electric screw oil expeller, with a hopper, red metal support frame, horizontal press barrel and electric motor.
Equipment

Small oil expeller

Small oil expellers use a screw to compress prepared oilseeds and nuts, separating oil from press cake. Piteba documents manual and motorized small-scale examples; their settings and feed requirements do not define every press.

Presses and weights
Netherlands