Let's Play Deductions!

[Surelock]

However, why would anyone expecting visitor to a shed?

You are right about this particular picture being some sort of shed in you definition; store and make things. But there is one missing purpose that actually the most important purpose.

Also, you are right that this is on larger property.

 

What I am looking for is basically what is still missing, what is this larger property and what is the missing purpose of this shed that has not been deduced yet.

 

There are many reasons to visit a shed as people can use it as a storage. For example, the shed in your picture has a lot of logs placed at the top. Obviously this lady would need someone to help bring them there.

 

So you won't accept 'shed' as the answer. I hope you're not just beating around the bush to make this more difficult.  <_<

 

 

 

Okay I'll make another deduction:

 

This place is a public BBQ/cooking hut located in a park.

 

We have these in the west as well. Places where families can go and cook their food in public parks. The larger property you're referring to is the public park. The lady is smiling because she's at a park with her family and/or friends and is roasting some yummy coffee beans for them. 

[Arcadia]

Welcome center?

[Van Buren Supernova]

Nope. I don't beat around the bush and I don't bluff.

I said it is true that this is some sort of shed for cooking and making things, but there is a missing purpose that we have to deduce. Think about it: if the answer is merely the shed like you said, I'd just tell you guys to describe what you see in the picture, nothing to deduce, it's basically just a caption. So it's not it.

 

The new deduction is colder.

 

Remember what we have so far:

this is a coffee plantation, the lady is roasting coffee. The place is commercial, and part of larger property. Smile and clean is to create good impression to the visitors, but we know this particular lady's role is not a hostess or offering sample to them. The concept of this place is not limited to something with coffee, or particular region, and applicable in the west as well.

 

At the very beginning, I said this is not a kitchen. The lady is cooking something. So, when and on what circumstances do we see someone cook not in a kitchen, and for what purpose?

Then, she is smiling, this is commercial. Does she smile because she is friendly, she is happy or she has to?

As you have found out, this picture is taken by a stranger. I leave the whatever that looks like watermark in the picture to give a hint to that and clue 'not a kitchen' suggests that this place is not private or restricted, accessible by stranger and they are welcomed because it's commercial.

Look around her. As Arcadia said, the place is kept clean, suspiciously clean, which is a good observation. (I don't know how she does that but she has a knack for those :p). How can we relate this to abovementioned to determine the function of this place and her? What else can we see from around her?

 

Welcome center of ...?

Techically, this shed not a welcome center, but visitors are welcomed here.

[Arcadia]

Pardon me while I think out loud....

 

The significance of cooking while not in a kitchen...

 

Homeless shelter comes to mind, but something tells me that's not what you're going for.

 

The level of cleanliness is driving me crazy. Someone's trying to make a good impression, but who? And why? Why would you care, on a dirt floor?

 

Is she there specifically to pose for visitors? But even if she is, what would that mean.....

 

If I went to an American tobacco plantation, would I find something like this there? Not unless they gave tours, I think. Is she a tour guide? But why the fireplace? It's not for warmth, methinks.

 

Clean and smiling .... gah ... sorry, kid, I got nuthin'. Obviously I've never been any place where clean and smiling go together. :p

[Surelock]

What about my earlier guess of it being a public BBQ/cooking hut located in a park?

 

Why did you say earlier that you weren't sure if it was private or commercial? Now you sound pretty certain it was commercial.

 

Anyway is this place usually clean in the west as well?

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Is it some sort of re-enactment place where she is an employee showing how life is there?

[Van Buren Supernova]

@Surelock, for your guess about BBQ and park, I said the deduction is colder, but I should have made it clearer.

 

Private or commercial, I did give it a thought, because most likely this place was started as smaller scale, private run and owned with original purpose of cultivating raw or fresh produce only, it is later opened to public as expansion of purpose for educational and additional revenues. So I decide it leans more to commercial and I stick to it.

 

Okay, I give it to Arcadia, you are right about posing and tour which is also quite in line with Camper's.

 

From the picture we see that things are arranged neatly and clean, the lady is smiling to the photographer, and in the outside, which no one mentioned, you can see nature with greenery. I was hoping this leads to deduction of plantation, farm or something similar.

 

The wood for the fireplace is placed on high shelf, which would be slightly difficult to access, although this could be stock/storage, it's probably better to have some also below for practical purpose but we don't see any around. So maybe this is more for display, or the lady doesn't really cook a lot or she is cooking not for the sake of the cooking.

When do we see cooking outside kitchen? Park, bbq is a sound deduction but it doesn't go with other clues. The more likely one is cooking for demonstration (normally used for selling cookwares or food products).

This lady is cooking here demonstrate how coffee and other products are processed. The shed is more like a display showcase of the products: process and result while it's being dried, cooked, etc. The products are taken from the plantations such as coffee, cocoa, ginger although it could also be everything else.

 

As deduced, it's not a private place and accessible for visitors, therefore the place is kept clean, presentable and she doesn't seem to mind that her picture is taken.

So visitors have access to the plantation, touring around to look at the preparation of the natural product, meet the farmers or processors, witness or hands-on experience of the process, or buying the products.

 

This, is agritourism, agriculturally based operation or activity that brings visitors to tour a farm or ranch. Sometimes it's also referred as farm stay or agritainment.

 

 

Well done, Arcadia. Your turn.

[Surelock]

 

This, is agritourism, agriculturally based operation or activity that brings visitors to tour a farm or ranch. Sometimes it's also referred as farm stay or agritainment.

 

 

Makes sense but I still don't know why you thought this was too easy. I never even heard of the word 'agritourism' before. Maybe it's because I just don't go out much.

[Arcadia]

Why is it every time I thought I had the wrong guess it turned out to be the right one? Just my natural genius, I guess. :P

 

Okay, let's see if I have anything left over.... there's this, but I'll bet one of you already knows what it is..........

 

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Looks like a croissant cut open.

[Surelock]

Looks like what I had for lunch today.

[Shadow Dweller]

Sea sponge?

[Arcadia]

Yep, it looks like all those things. But it isn't. I'll give you a hint ... it's not edible.

[Shadow Dweller]

Luffa acutangula?

[Arcadia]

Neither a luffa nor a sea sponge.

 

I'll give you another hint. It doesn't normally look like this. Something has happened to it ......

[SherlockedCAMPer]

I'm think foam stress ball.

[Arcadia]

Noop. Not any kind of foam. Nor sponge.

[Fantasy Lover]

Is it broken in two?

[Shadow Dweller]

Is it some sort of rubber?

[Arcadia]

Yes, it is broken in two, so you can see what it looks like inside. Not rubber.

[Shadow Dweller]

Is it organic-based?

[Van Buren Supernova]

Not edible.

 

It could be something functional, and probably comes out from some kind of canister, from the way it looks and the end of it.

 

Is it polyurethane, a material commonly used for sealing and/or insulation?

Could be a result of combination of isocyanate and polyol resin too. Sometimes it's called pu foam, but it's not exactly a foam. Original form is some sort of liquid, it would then expand multiple times into bulbous shape, then harden. If you cut it, it looks like that.

[Arcadia]

Organic? I would say no, or maybe only partially.

 

Functional? It was. I suppose it could still be used for the same function now, but I'm not sure. It did not come out of a canister.

 

Not any of those substances. Not originally a liquid. But those are the right kind of questions. ;)

[SherlockedCAMPer]

It reminds me of a beige version of the exterior of a paper wasp's nest with the potential of a semi crushed interior (have never seen the inside of one).

[Arcadia]

Nope, nothing like that.

 

Another hint: manmade.