"Estufa de Varañitas"

Question

I am looking for a translation of the term: Estufa de Varañitas It is a highly efficient "cookstove" made of three metal cylinders - one insde the other. The innermost is the cooking pot. A fire is made between the middle and outer cylinder, using twigs, leaves, and small branches or even dung as fuel rather than logs. Hence the term varañitas might mean something like prunning trimmings, or twigs, or wood byproduct or small branches. Thanks for the help

Answer 1

Este modelo de estufa, en principio no funciona con leños, sino con pequeños trozos de ramitas, varitas, hojas secas, estiércol de vaca (rajas). Esta estufa consta de dos cilindros de lámina metálica, normalmente hierro galvanizado, uno dentro del otro, con una separación entre ellos de un centímetro, con la misma separación entre la olla y el cilindro interno. El propósito de los cilindros que envuelven la olla es, por parte del primero, concentrar el fuego y los gases calientes alrededor de la olla, y del segundo, recuperar calor del cilindro interno para calentar el aire que oxigenará las varañitas en combustión.

From this context, I assume that varañitas is the fuel which in this case is *** ramitas, varitas y hojas secas o excremento de los animales ***** In other words little branches, twigs, leaves, or dung. I draw the conclusion that "TWIG STOVE" might be a close translation.

Busqué 'twig stove' en google y hay una variedad de estufas - margaretbl, Aug 16, 2010

Answer 2

Hi go, is it the 'Portable Wood Burning Campstove' pictured here.... link text

Answer 3

Apparently, varañitas is a plural word meaning firewood: link

Answer 4

The closest thing I can find is a paragraph that says that varañitas means sticks for firewood. It's not in the DRAE, so it's not a "real" Spanish word.

Los chiquillos tiran las basuras, acarrean “varañitas” (leña) para el fogón, o agua para las plantas.

Answer 5

Are you looking for the name such a thing would have in English? If so, this may help, although I don't have a direct answer.

When I was a kid we had a setup similar to what you are describing in a camp in the Alagash. There were two metal rings - similar to what are now called 'fire rings' - the inner one about 18" diameter, thi outer maybe 36" diameter. We would build a fire between the two rings and bake on top of an old grill in the middle. We had a top lowered from a tripod that you could use to help control the heat. This sounds more elaborate that what you describe, and not so portable, but the same idea.

THe only relevant phrase I can conjure is 'fire rings'.

Best,

J