The Cobb story

In December 2001, Time Magazine featured the Cobb as one of the best inventions of that year. This was a major turning point for what had started out as an obvious idea to an environmentalist in Africa several years earlier. Ken Hall’s idea was to encourage native Africans to use corncobs as fuel for cooking, rather than wood or coal. He devised a simple clay pot stove with a steel mesh grill that Africans could easily make and fuel with their abundant supply of corncobs.

The idea took hold and Ken and his brother Michel went on to develop the Ecocob, an inexpensive, all metal stove that could be distributed in aid programmes in third world countries globally.

An oven, smoker, BBQ and stove

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Further development of the Ecocob resulted in the Cobb – a safe, lightweight, portable, environmentally friendly cooker that does almost everything in the line of cooking and runs on a handful of BBQ beads.

The Cobb (from corncob, not the coach company) delivers higher levels of safety, portability, fuel economy and versatility than any recreational cooking appliance ever produced. In one unit, it’s an oven, a barbeque, a smoker, a stove and can be used anywhere at home or in the great outdoors.