We ran out of LPG last week and I didn’t bother to call for delivery for we have a charcoal stove already. It’s the improvised stove with blower which makes cooking easy and quick as that with cooking using a gas stove. We bought it from my cousin’s husband last January. Since then, I seldom use it except for stewing beef and pork bones. My youngest sister was assigned to cook for dinner that day and I told her to use the charcoal stove. After putting enough amount of charcoal, she plugged in the blower. After almost 10 minutes, she kept on telling me still there’s no fire and the charcoal isn’t burned yet and insisted that I’d check it. I suppose she knows what she’s doing and so I left it to her telling her to check the blower if it is working. She said yes and so, I was confident she did the right thing. After a couple of minutes, she came back telling me that the charcoal isn’t burning yet. What? She’s supposed to be cooking this time. Curious enough, I checked on the stove….yes, the blower is working, there’s enough charcoal….BUT she didn’t lit it ( she didn’t made fire) to let the charcoal burn easily with the help of the blower.

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