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How to Cook Without Electricity

posted February 27, 2009 - 10:08am
How to Cook Without Electricity

When the power goes out, it's good to know how to make dinner without electricity. It's even better to know how to make dinner without blowing up the home!

Kylene and Jon Jones are trying to teach people how to do that — using everything from an apple box to a solar sun box oven and fuels that can be used safely indoors as well as out. Lots of advice about the pros and cons of different fuels.

But perhaps the more amusing tip is the use of the lid of a box that apples are shipped in. Covered in silver foil it is inexpensive and portable. Notches should be cut in the bottom of the sides or put it on a rack to lift it from the ground. Use 10-14 coals to bake at 350 degrees for up to 45-55 minutes.

The Sun Oven is also great if you live in an area with strong uninterrupted sunshine... at least for a few months!

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That's an option but I pray

bothwell - Fri, 2009-19-6 10:03 am
That's an option but I pray to God for never having to use it, I just fine with my Kenmore parts and I plan to enjoy them as much as possible. Even in my wild wild trips I am "addicted" to electricity.

sun oven - bake for free

Rycharde Manne - Fri, 2009-27-2 12:13 pm
I'm going to look into the sun oven - perfect here in Thailand. It's just panes of anodized aluminium so can't be that difficult to knock up. My wife says she's seen them on Thai TV too. Could make bread! and pizza! OK, seems petty but the bread here sucks - it isn't part of their diet and the supermarkets have learnt to make soft soggy bread that is 90% air. Join Xomba Here

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I don't need electricity to cook

jdubhub - Fri, 2009-27-2 11:45 am
We live in a rural part of the county and have propane for our gas source. Even though the stove has electric ignition, we can use matches to start the flame in event of a power outage (and have). The one thing we have to consider is that the food in the refrigerator can spoil if the door is continuously opened and closed. Otherwise, we have manual can openers and other ways of getting food so we don't starve during routine power outages. It has gotten better since we moved out here when it was rare to have an entire month go by without at least a few hours with no electricity. Nowadays, power outages are the exception, but that doesn't stop us from being prepared to "rough it" for a few days if something happens. The irony for our situation is that we are within ten miles (as the crow flies) of a nuclear power plant (Diablo Canyon) and we had the risk of being in proximity without a dependable source of electricity. XOMBA VISITORS GET IN FREE--CLICK HERE

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