Today’s experiment in #SolarCooking: Linzer torte — actually, poundcake. Making it as a poundcake is about 90% of the flavor for 20% or less of the work, and I’m lazy Recipe is pretty much out of Joy of Cooking, with a couple of tweaks: I put in about 2/3 the sugar or less, and I add a bit of cayenne pepper.

Wet ingredients:
2.25 sticks of unsalted butter aka 9 oz
3 eggs
0.75 to 1.5 cups sugar, I use about 1
1 tsp vanilla
mix them all together thoroughly in a stand mixer

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Bread porn. Sorry. (Not really ) Just out of the sun oven after 2 hours of #SolarCooking. Needs to cool a bit, but the cheese bread recipe is looking pretty good.

Today was another sunny day, perfect for #cooking in the #solarOven. I didn't do anything spectacular, just cooked rice. But it worked perfectly again, at least as well as in the rice cooker. The photos are attached.

Dear #fediverse, if you have more experience with solar oven cooking, please share more recipes with me

Next experiment in #solarcooking is brownies. 2/3 scale recipe, because I wasn’t sure if it would all fit into the oven, and it baked for about 1.5 hours instead of 30 minutes; other than that, no changes to the recipe. They have to cool a bit, but they look and smell pretty good

My new #StarLink dish: Links heat from our star directly into my lunch. #SolarPunk #SolarBrother #SolarCooking #SunChef

Do you know #solarCooking ? Like with #gosun? It take sometimes an hour until the food is hot and cooked. I want it finished until I am back without waiting so I set it to sun where it would be shining 3..4 hours later. When I came back it was hot and finished like set with solar timer.

Enfin, aujourd'hui, test du couvercle avec enduit noir maison, pour première mini pizza avec pâton de 200g. 1h, un peu trop mais c'est bon ! #CuisineSolaire #SolarCooking #SUNplicity #Perpignan #FourSolaire

Today I used my solar oven(s) for the first time this year, beating my previous record by about 2 weeks! Air temp outside ranged from 25F to 42F (-3C-5C). Inside the oven the temp reached 180F (82C)
My box oven was joined by a folding panel cooker, design is called the Copenhagen Cooker, it's very effective and easy to make, but more vulnerable to wind. #Solar #SolarCooking #LowTech #SolarOven

Next #SolarCooking experiment: bread — small loaves or rolls, you pick what to call them. They came out soft, but I wouldn’t blink at getting something like this as an appetizer at a fancy restaurant. I do have to grease the pans though, and next time bake another 20-30 minutes; I ran out of sun today. Learning!

Second #SolarCooking experiment. Wow! Came out just about perfect — a little bit dry. Either add a tiny bit more water, or cook 5-10 minutes less; this was an hour.

First impression: Gosun Fusion solar cooker. It looks pretty solid. The tube is supposed to be double-walled, with vacuum: a thermos, basically. That should enable it to get pretty warm inside… we’ll see! Today was a very dark and rainy day, but tomorrow is supposed to be sunny. Hopefully I’ll be cookin’ without gas!
#solarcooking

‘[This] not only transforms daily life but also builds resilience’ https://www.diningandcooking.com/1855275/this-not-only-transforms-daily-life-but-also-builds-resilience/ #AirQuality #Cooking #CoventryUniversity #firewood #SolarCooking #SolarPowered

At the farm I visited the other day, I received a couple soft breadfruit (they had an abundance of breadfruit on their trees and had extra). I used one to make savory fritters, and yesterday I used another to make sunbread!

I mixed the soft breadfruit with a lot of flour, some salt, pepper, little bit of oil, little bit of nutritional yeast, and some oats (for texture and variety). After making a dough that was floury enough to not stick to my hands, I rolled the whole thing in oil and put it in the gosun sport solar cooker. There was no yeast, so it didn't rise, but it was still good.

I was very happy with the results! Dense, moist, and very tasty. It has a bit of the sweetness of the soft breadfruit. Will make again!

Empowering India’s Tribal Regions with Solar Cooking: A Sustainable Initiative https://www.diningandcooking.com/1711938/empowering-indias-tribal-regions-with-solar-cooking-a-sustainable-initiative/ #Bill&MelindaGatesFoundation #CarbonCredits #CleanEnergy #Cooking #EKIEnergyServices #HealthOutcomes #IndianOilCorporation #IndoorAirPollution #SolarCooking #SuryaNutan #sustainability

This past Saturday at an energy summit for the City of Kalamazoo, here in Michigan, experts on the cutting edge who travel the world to keep up with the latest tech were stunned to see a solar oven boiling water in our winter. I shared a video of cooking for the household in our climate years ago with my homemade cardboard, aluminum tape and glass. While it was an amazing group at the forefront of climate change
I'm hoping the clip will expand their idea of what is possible on a simpler level as well.
#solarcooking #renewableenergy #climatechange #gaia #solar

A Solar Oven Overview"
#solarCooking #cooking

Episode webpage: https://thegreatsimplification.libsyn.com/luther-krueger-goldilocks-tech-a-solar-oven-overview

Media file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thegreatsimplification/TGS119_LutherKrueger.mp3?dest-id=3235040

I sorta thought "no", but thought I'd check to see what temperature popcorn pops at to see if it's possible to make in the solar oven.

Enjoy this geeky conversation about what makes popcorn pop. https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/59648/how-hot-does-popcorn-need-to-be-before-it-pops #Food #Science #SolarCooking