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Drying fire wood

While I’m still on the subject of drying things, let’s talk about cooking. In the Philippines, and especially in Samar, many people can not afford a nice kitchen. The lucky ones have an oven with stovetop using LPG, a mixture of propane and butane. Next level down doesn’t have an oven, just an LPG stovetop. [...]

Posted in National Highway, Poverty | Tagged charcoal, coconut, cooking, drying, fires, LPG, National Highway, philippines, Poverty, samar, wood

Drying Rice on Highway

Rice is an important agricultural product of Samar. It grows very well in this humid, tropical environment. But drying the rice is another story. Every year, too much rice is spoiled before it ever gets dry. Recently the Philippines government gave away many rice dryers to poverty stricken rice farmers, in an attempt to prevent [...]

Posted in Agriculture, National Highway, Poverty | Tagged Agriculture, drying, farmers, humid, National Highway, philippines, Poverty, product, rice, rice dryers, samar, tropical

Drying Clothes in Samar

Even in America, it is common to see people hanging their clothes out to dry…when the weather is nice. But when the weather is bad, most people have access to an electric/gas dryer. Either they own one, or there is a self searve laundry mat with one. In the Philippines, things are very different. I [...]

Posted in National Highway, Travel | Tagged clothes, drying, National Highway, philippines, samar

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