
Indirect solar collector and drying cupboard
A solar air collector that heats air separately, then passes it through a shaded tray cupboard and out of a chimney. The product never sits in direct sunlight.
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A solar air collector that heats air separately, then passes it through a shaded tray cupboard and out of a chimney. The product never sits in direct sunlight.

The Borana gorfa is a pear-shaped milk vessel used in southern Ethiopia to sour milk and churn it into butter. Sources document woven fiber and smoke treatment; one museum specimen also records gourd and cowrie-shell materials.

A haybox, also called a fireless or retained-heat cooker, is an insulated enclosure that lets a lidded pot finish cooking in heat already stored in the food after it leaves a stove. It generates no heat and is not a preservation method.

An indirect solar dryer heats air in a separate collector, then moves it through a covered food chamber. Designs vary in size, materials and airflow.

A dried gourd used in documented Kalenjin and Nandi practices to hold and serve mursik. Sources describe different ways to prepare its interior, so sotet is a family of locally shaped vessels rather than one standard design or treatment.