Understanding Cooking Mindsets and Electric Pressure Cooker Usage in Nairobi
In 2024, CCA’s User Insights Lab (UIL) conducted 21 in-home ethnographic visits across Nairobi to understand how households cook and where Electric Pressure Cookers (EPCs) fit into their routines. The findings are published in a companion report, “Lifting the Lid on Household Cooking in Kenya,” (2024) and on the People Insights Portal. That study gave the “why” behind cooking behavior: the motivations, tensions, personas, and the role of the EPC in the cooking week.
This quantitative study, based on 303 in-person surveys, was designed to validate those findings at scale, quantify EPC usage frequency, and rank the barriers holding people back from using it more.
