Cooking without fire

[SageMother]

There was a show called "Living with Ed" on HGTV where Ed Begley talked about green and offgrid living. Ed Begly has one of those solar ovens.

I think a few Urban Homesteaders use them as well, along with blender bikes.

 

[heretoday]

I've heard of those solar ovens, and the car ovens as well. I don't know if I'd want to eat anything that got that close to an engine!
My parents used to have a "camp toaster" years ago. It was made of polished aluminum, and you placed the bread on it and put it directly in the sun. It didn't quite toast, but it kind of crisped-up the bread.

 

[SageMother]

We will probably see more of these little gizmos showing up as people start finding ways to cut their expenses.

 

[Kitten]

Yeah, Kitten; when you talk about chocolate, there's always a way! One thing I forgot to mention, if you do freeze up an extra pie, always take it out of the freezer an hour before you intend to slice it. It freezes up about as hard as a rock!

Definitely...always a way!

And as for car ovens, I remember seeing a while back, a unit that you plugged into your car lighter outlet and you could cook in it.

 

[katharina]

I've had another interesting salad that started with romaine lettuce. You added mayo or coleslaw dressing, mandarin orange segments and roasted pine nuts.

I'm not much of a salad person at all. I guess if I suddenly wouldn't have the "fire" via stove or microwave, I may have to get used to eating them more often though, huh?

 

[Twiceshy]

Since solar ovens work fairly well, wouldn't it also be fairly easy to just wrap some vegetables in aluminum foil, dull side out, and place the package in the sun?

I bet squash would be edible after a few hours.