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| Cooking can be one of the largest parts of energy consumption in a household. Three meals a day, for 30-60 minutes each is a lot of fuel or electricity! Fortunately, there are low-energy solutions to cooking. Solar Cooking Solar cookers are extremely environmentally friendly, as they produce Zero green-house emissions during operation, reduce deforestation and desertification, reduce your house cooling requirement, and are normally made from discarded materials. Their operation is simple: put the food in and forget about it. Most cookers can be made is a few hours and require very little maintenance. Solar cooker design range from one-box versions that cook a liter of food to complex systems that can cook for a village. Before building a complex version, start with a simple design that you can test out. Learn how to make a simple panel cooker cooker >> Adobe Ovens Adobe is a wonderful building material, because it acts as a heat storage device. It slowly releases this heat when the air temperature is lower than the adobe temperature. This makes it an excellent material for an oven. Once you get the oven heated up, the adobe will release the heat into the cooking chamber slowly and consistently. Learn how to make an adobe oven >> Disco A Disco is basically a metal disc with three legs. How do you cook with it? Very simple, make a fire under the disc, pour a puddle of cooking oil in the disc, and throw the food in the oil! The best way to do this is to let the oil heat up and then cook things separately. Cook a bunch of onions first, pull them out as they start to brown, then throw in some garlic. As the garlic cooks, eat the onions. When the garlic is ready, throw in some chickens wings and so on. This is a great way to cook for a lot of people because the food cooks fairly fast and it is natural buffet finger food. No need for plates. Good foods to cook are onions, garlic, potatoes, any meat, but chicken and pork are the best, and anything else you like fried. No need to batter anything, but it won't hurt either. Disco is easily done on the fly as a way to cook for unexpected guests or a shoot from the hip backyard party! |
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