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An interpretive watercolor-pencil cutaway of a wooden haybox, showing a lidded cooking pot surrounded by insulating packing and a padded lid on warm ivory paper.
Equipment

Haybox (fireless cooker)

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.

Retained-heat cookers
France
Interpretive warm-ivory illustration of a modest raised reed-and-stick crib carrying small fish to dry, grounded in a Lake Victoria rack photograph; exact rack construction is not claimed.
Equipment

Raised fish-drying rack

A low-cost raised bed for sun-drying small fish, documented in Lake Victoria communities in Tanzania in wood-and-reed and improved mesh forms.

Baskets, trays and beds
Mwanza Region