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#solarCooking

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I put out the Global Sun Oven to pre-heat. It's still cool and it only stopped being mostly cloudy an hour ago. The space on my trailer table wasn't sunny enough yet, so I moved it out into the common space area.

The oven reached 250 F/121 C in the time I did that.

I put out TJs frozen choc croissants to rise last night and popped them in there just now. #SolarCooking #Food

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@toddmedema Cooking _during_ meetings ;-) At least, if those are simple status updates.

Within the topic of (communal) gardening (cc @Miri123 @robconnolly) or cooking, what techniques would you consider most _drastically modern_ while not veering into harmful like #industrialAg or #fastfood?

#Hydroponics, maybe? Solar pumping (lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/?q=si), #SolarCooking also fits the bill for me, because our ancestors didn't have glass, mirrors & electronics.

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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!

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

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!

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