Cooking at home without electricity

But what could happen if the power supply was out for longer? Then you may want to attempt some real alternative cooking techniques.

You can cook things over a gas stove or charcoal for a while - plan to use both. There are many kinds of solar ovens. At one count, there are over 65 big drafts and hundreds of variations of these basic ones Drafts. All solar cookers share some basic principles: concentrate sunlight. A mirror or kind of reflective metal can be used to concentrate light and heat from the sun into a small cooking area, which makes the energy more concentrated so more potent. But if an emergency lasts for weeks, then this one Fuels may be scarce. now you may want to go solar. Conversion of light into heat. Any black on the inside of a solar cooker also as certain materials for pots will improve the usefulness of converting light into heat. A black pan absorbs nearly all sunlight and generally changes it to heat Improve the usefulness of the cooker. catching heat. Isolating the air inside the stove from the air outside the stove makes an important difference. Using a Transparent hard, like a plastic bag or a glass cover, lets light to penetrate. but, when the light is absorbed and transformed into heat, a Plastic bag or glass cover catch the heat inside. This lets alike temperatures to be reached on cold and windy days like on hot days. So you kept your food. Suppose there's an emergency and the power goes out. For a long time. How are you? Cook the food? you may be able to fill up MREs with a fitted heating system. Or discover the delight of alternative cooking. The 1st choice is to cook on your gas grill, charcoal grill or camping stove. you may be able to do it, Remember to use it in a well ventilated room Keep area and keep cooking gloves useful for handling pots over an open flame. But you may want to also get better fuel LPG or charcoal. You most likely need at least enough to get through a week and cook every meal. A month could be enough be better. you have most likely already seen a solar oven in action. Your car turns into a solar oven on hot days when the sun's rays enter the car. are transformed into heat and trapped inside. I have seen recipes on the internet for baking cookies on the dashboard of your car. Now you may be able to purchase a 1st class solar oven from SolarDirect. Com. but, the cost of a solar oven from this outfit is included Shipping, was about $ 275 as well as shipping when I checked. And when I saw that price, I coughed up about a lung: $ 275 for one Solar oven? That better be a damn good oven, because you may be able to do a pretty great job for beside nothing. On the web site, it's suggested to put a black pot in a clear plastic bag when using the stove as this will let for better heat development Retention. A simple wire frame can prevent the bag from touching and melting the pot. It also keeps the pot away from Soil, decreases heat losses through heat conduction. This solar design also as the others may also be used for cooking or disinfecting water for safety. The cooking time depends on how hot the solar oven may be and which foods like chickpeas and peas have to be split soaked. But you have the idea a solar oven takes time. Fast cooking times are a luxury of the modern age. Our The ancestors were used to meals that had lasted all day, and we may have to get used to that. Black paint on the inner box and silver foil on the outer box help to concentrate the heat while leaving a level of straw or newspaper between the two assures separation. In other words, it is a simple solar oven. you may be able to create them as indicated by the plans of Solar Cookers International. But Hell, if the man gets a price of $ 75,000, who am I supposed to argue about? And if you feel better, purchase a solar oven that wins Prices, let us go. Parabolic cooker. This is a variation of a solar oven. The parabolic form concentrates the sun's rays like a magnifying glass Glass. you may be able to go to the trouble of making a parabolic oven. Or you may be able to find an abandoned DishNetwork Parabolempfnger, After a big catastrophe, there may be some lying around. If you made or bought one, stick it out with aluminum coated tape and voila. It should be too hot enough in the focal point Light the paper in some minutes. You may have to jack up a platform or tripod to hang your cooking pot at the focal point Point. A fire pit. This still requires fuel, but your fuel can be waste wood or your neighbor's ugly woodcutting collection Dwarfs if you think about it, garden gnomes beg for a fiery end to their humiliating existence. make sure to decide a Place for your fireplace that isn't near trees, buildings, or another objects that could catch fire from sparks and there will be one Spark. Avoid of course underground wires, cables or pipes. The flatter the place, the better. Pick a point for the center of the pit. Draw a circle about three to four feet wide. Remove the soil, dirt and / or clay inside the circle and dig the hole to a depth of about one foot. A simple hay box is a simple device with a multi step procedure. 1st, heat the food, preferably with a cast iron pot or something other container storing heat. Then put the container in the hay box. This may be an lonely cooler, although you most likely want to use more insulation in there. This insulation uses the heat in the food and in the pot to cook the food more. Example: You bring a potato stew to a boil in a cast iron pot by the open fire. Cook for five minutes. Then put a cover on the Pot and put the whole thing in a hay box. Wait one to two hours and the potato stew cooks itself. you may be able to make a hay box from any material that doesn't melt when exposed to heat. Our ancestors used hay in a wood Frame, hence the name.

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