How many different ways of cooking have you tried? I have cooked on electric
By writersedge
@writersedge (22563)
United States
May 15, 2009 1:57am CST
stoves, gas stoves, electric ovens, gas ovens, grills, and camp fires. I was researching different ways of cooking and came upon my old friend, revisited, solar cooking. There are some terrific solar cooker, solar cooking, and solar oven sites on the internet. During hot days, a solar cooker wouldn't heat up your house and would save money. In this day and age, saving $ would be wonderful. Not adding to a gas or electric bill or having to use fire wood or even coals on a hot day sounds interesting to me. Using cardboard or scrap wood, alluminum foil and black paint (with non-toxic fumes when heated) or old tire tubes and two panes of glass or plexiglass sounds pretty affordable. Even in my area (where we have snow for months of the year) we could use on sunny days for 6 or 7 months according to one estimate by one source ( http://solarcookers.org)So what types of cooking have you tried? What ones have you not tried, but sound interesting to you?
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@GardenGerty (169591)
• United States
15 May 09
I have tried a lot of those. I like my George Foreman Grill as well. Of course Microwaves and toaster ovens too. I have not tried solar cooking, but it would surely work in my neck of the woods. Got to try it, I think. Thanks for the heads up.
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
15 May 09
My husband wants to have a G. F. Grill, too. I keep forgetting about my microwave and toaster oven. I guess because I don't cook so much as heat up or toast stuff in them. But a person can cook in all of those and I do on occasion.
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@rebelann (117281)
• El Paso, Texas
31 Mar 21
I need to try that, around here we get more sunny hot days than cool ones.
@ajithlal (14716)
• India
17 May 09
I have tried cooking in kerosene stoves, ordinary stoves with wood, gas stoves. I would like to cook on the solar cooking. I have been trying to find a solar cooker. Solar cooking is one of the cheapest cooking one can have. I think solar cooking helps to increase the energy resources of our earth. I hope one day I can find a solar cooker and I will definitely cook in them.
@peavey (16936)
• United States
16 May 09
I have a solar cooker and I love it. It's great for summer time, especially, but I've used it in the winter just because I could. It saves on electricity for me. I've also cooked on a wood stove - that's what I learned to cook on, and then I had one for awhile. I much prefer that to electric or gas. I've never owned a gas stove, but have used them. I've used a grill, firepit and camp fire to cook. One thing I want to try is haybox cooking. I'll get one put together one of these days. Oh, I also have cooked things by heating a thermos and then putting the food in it and wrapping it to keep it warm overnight.
@peavey (16936)
• United States
17 May 09
I've made cornbread, thawed frozen soup, heated water and so on, so far. I'm still not as comfortable with it as I want to be. I bought the "Sport" solar oven here: http://www.solarovens.org/
It's made of some kind of plastic material, lightweight and fairly good sized. I really like it.
Knowing how to make a candle stove really would be a good thing if you lose power often.
Thanks for "best response"!
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
16 May 09
Terrific! What do you cook on your solar cooker? Did you make it or did you buy it? What is it made out of? I kept stuff hot using stero before. Not sure if that counts for anything. A candle cooker could come in handy, thanks! We've come close to loosing power a couple times this week. 4 thousand were out of power in VT and same # in Clinton and Franklin County NY this week, so anything could be a big help. Esp. in emergencies. Never heard of a haybox cooker. I learn something new every day. Thanks for dropping by Peavey!
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@Canellita (12029)
• United States
18 May 09
How difficult is it to cook with solar? I mean does it take a while to regulate the heat to cook the food evenly? What kinds of meals have you prepared with this method of cooking? Does it have to be done completely outdoors?
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
20 May 09
Tempera paint (just don't leave out in the rain) and milk paint (used by people in olden times and revived recently, with internet recipes)shouldn't have fumes. Black paint is actually used on stoves and is not supposed to give off when heated. So black wood stove paint.
Yes, please do look into it. We're supposed to have an electricity shortage in a few years all over the country and there already is one during brown outs in some places already. Plus the cost could be saved and since the price of gas is going back up, etc.
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@Canellita (12029)
• United States
19 May 09
I don't think there is any paint that doesn't have fumes at all so I worry about paint and even plastics because there is always some level of chemical leaching or fumes, particularly when heated. I guess I will have to set aside some time to look into this to find out what all the options are and get the health and safety info.
