The little stove that started it all

The Ecocina cookstove was invented by StoveTeam’s founder Nancy Hughes along with a team of engineers and local women in El Salvador in 2007. This small but powerful stove uses a rocket elbow design inside the combustion chamber to produce a highly efficient flame, emitting about 14% as much smoke as an open fire while using half as much wood, and eliminating the danger of burns.

The Ecocina is:

• Built by local people in stove-building projects that serve their own regions, while creating jobs in areas of Latin America that need it most. 

• Built using locally sourced materials, stimulating local economies. 

• Perfect for cooking all of the traditional foods that people in Latin America rely on, while using a method that is close enough to their traditional open-fire methods that it is easily adopted, understood, and enjoyed by families.

• Portable enough to reach extremely remote and isolated regions.

• Currently being produced in El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua.

• Inexpensive enough to provide a solution for the most impoverished regions, at around $80 each.

A Different stove for every situation

StoveTeam’s primary role has always been to provide the support necessary to form new stove-building projects that serve their own regions. While we are currently focused on growing our Justa stove project in Guatemala, we are still proudly supporting our partner factories in El Salvador and Nicaragua to continue producing Ecocina cookstoves!

We are committed to offering a range of stove models for a wide variety of regions, economic conditions and geographic situations. We are proud that the Ecocina’s portability makes it a viable option for families who would otherwise have no access to safe cooking.