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Cooking with the sun...
I adore the idea of solar cookers -- sadly, the Bay Area doesn't always lend itself to effectively using solar cookers. You are better off going raw foodist most of the year given the amount of fog here. In my pregan days, I was on a camping trip where everyone brought a giant pile of eggs for their contribution to communal meals. So many eggs, in fact, that we had no place to keep them cool. This was no ordinary (private) camp ground -- they have a solar cooker on the premises. A friend and I conspired to make meringues with all the eggs -- we whipped eggs for an hour. We put several dozen gorgeous meringues on cookie sheets in the solar cooker and the results were incredible. The temperature was perfect and they came out better than in an oven -- they were crisp and dry, with chewy, caramelized bottoms. Needless to say, they went fast.
What I like best about this website is that it provides a lot of really great educational information about solar cookers -- the kind of solar cooker I used for the meringues was a box stove -- an insulated box with a glass top and an adjustable lid. There are also "concentrator" stoves which look like a parabolic dish and "collector" stoves which are more complicated and create a hot stove top surface for use.
This website is giving me inspiration to put together a backyard solar cooker -- I could use it on the weekends, if no other time -- and it would be great for baking bread in the summer!
Here are some links to plans and instructions for making your own solar cooker:
http://solarcooking.org/plans/
http://journeytoforever.org/sc.html
http://www.permapak.net/SolarBoxCooker.htm
Jenn's keywords: solar energy, solar cooker, camping, outdoor cooking
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Solar cooker saves families and environment
I've seen a solar cooker in action that saves families in Somalia $20 a month in cooking fuel costs and costs only $200 delivered. Plus families stop cutting down the few remaining trees in the country. The cutting of the trees is destroying the environment. The UN has distributed 950 of these cookers after the Tsunami and another 50 or so have been sold to people who have the money. The largest problem is that to pay $200 all at once is a large hardship on a Semolina family. How to help these people finance the buying of these cookers. Donations? Micro loans? ??? Whose got the ideas?
Tony's keywords: solar cookers, environment
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