800-2,500 meals/day
Schools
Three meals a day for a boarding population, then exam-term surges. Firewood is often the second-largest line item after salaries.
Solutions
Clean energy, delivered end to end.
One agreement covers design, delivery, maintenance and monitoring. You pay a fixed fee from your existing fuel budget, with no upfront capital and ownership transferring at the end of term.
The system
No fire in the room where the food is cooked.
Combustion happens once, in a sealed boiler outside the kitchen. Steam does the cooking.
Fuel in
One controlled burn point, outside the kitchen, on a measured schedule.
Briquette / LPG
Boiler
Water becomes steam. The only combustion on site, in an enclosure.
~4 bar
Steam line
Insulated pipe carries heat to each station. No smoke travels with it.
120 kg/h
Jacketed pots
Steam heats the pot's jacket. Food never touches flame, nothing scorches.
300-1,000 L
Meals out
Same menus, faster. Cooks work in clean air instead of smoke.
Trained on handover
Who we serve
The biggest kitchens in the country.
Institutions are the largest single firewood consumers, and the least served by household clean-cooking products.
Round-the-clock service
Hospitals
Ward feeding never stops, and diet requirements vary by patient. Steam holds temperature between services without re-firing.
Security-controlled access
Correctional facilities
High volumes, fixed schedules, restricted delivery windows. Fewer fuel deliveries means fewer gate movements.
What we provide
Clean cooking methods, built for every kitchen.
From the family stove to the institutional kitchen, cleaner heat, lower fuel bills, no smoke in the room.
Household
Household EPC
The Electric Pressure Cooker brings fast, clean electric cooking to homes, cutting fuel costs, indoor smoke, and cooking time for everyday family meals.
Institutional
Institutional Steam Generator
A sealed boiler sited outside the kitchen delivers steam to jacketed vessels, cooking 800-2,500+ meals a day with no fire in the room and a fraction of the firewood.
3D design
See how we design an institutional kitchen.
Interested? Explore a real IGNIS central-kitchen layout in interactive 3D.
The model
We don't sell a stove. We run the kitchen's energy.
01
Design
We survey the kitchen, count real meal volumes across a term, and size the system to the peak, not the average.
14-day survey02
Finance
Blended senior debt plus concessional capital. The institution pays out of fuel savings, not its capital budget.
0 upfront capex03
Deploy
Fabrication, install, cook training and commissioning, scheduled inside a school holiday or ward rotation.
6-10 weeks04
Operate
Servicing, fuel supply, monitored uptime. If the kitchen goes down, that is our problem to fix.
Monthly serviceWe don't sell you a stove and leave. We own the outcome.
Firewood vs steam
What changes the day the boiler comes on.
Three-stone / firewoodIgnis steam
Fuel costRising with scarcityUp to 60% lower
Kitchen airSmoke, at eye level, all dayNo combustion in the space
Cook time, 100 kg maizeFrom commissioning dataFrom commissioning data
Staff burns & injuriesOpen flame, open potsSealed vessels, no flame contact
MaintenanceAd hoc, unbudgetedIgnis-operated, monitored
For institutions
You already have the budget. It's going up in smoke.
Every institution on firewood already spends on fuel every month. That existing line item is what pays for the steam kitchen, no capital request, no equipment tender, no donor.
We install, you cook, and the monthly cost sits below what firewood was costing you. Servicing and fuel supply are inside that figure.
Get in touchFor financiers & partners
Defined demand, proven hardware, contracted revenue.
Kenyan schools alone burn ~1M tonnes of firewood a year, about KES 6B, and the National School Meals Programme is expanding. The demand is a recurring bill that already exists.
Blended senior debt plus concessional capital; carbon revenue bridges the affordability gap. Pipeline target: 400 institutions by 2027.
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