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Photograph of Solar-biomass hybrid cabinet dryer.
Equipment

Solar-biomass hybrid cabinet dryer

A cabinet dryer that takes its heat from a flat-plate solar collector by day and from a separate biomass stove when the sun is not enough, with the stove's flue kept apart from the drying air.

Drying kilns and dryers
Nepal
A woven bamboo Nanglo tray with a modest scatter of sliced mushrooms laid out on it, in watercolor-pencil illustration on warm ivory paper.
Equipment

Nanglo

A Nepali woven bamboo tray used for winnowing and drying foods. A Sagarmatha field report records mushrooms drying on nanglo above Namche; contemporary sources also document its ongoing manufacture and sale.

Baskets, trays and beds
Sagarmatha National Park and buffer zone
A historical illustration of an empty one-piece wooden theki, with a rounded body, narrowed neck and flared mouth.
Equipment

Theki

A carved, close-necked wooden vessel used for dahi in Nepal. Established thekis could be used without added starter; new vessels were conditioned.

Gourds, calabashes and carved bowls
Eastern Nepal
Editorial illustration of a tall open gundruk fermentation vessel with chopped leafy greens; the dhungro's material is not established by the source.
Equipment

Gundruk pot and dhungro

Gundruk pots and dhungro are fermentation containers documented in Nepal and one Darjeeling household. FAO describes earthenware; a 2024 figure identifies a bamboo-made airtight dhungro buried in a pit within a cow-dung heap.

Jars, pots and crocks
Nepal