Solar Cooking
The NYTimes ran a very interesting article about solar cooking - using the sun's rays as a fuel source to prepare slowly-simmered, ultra-flavorful dishes. A solar oven is a box with a bottom painted black to absorb heat, covered by a 45 degree angled reflector panel that moves the sun's rays into the box and converts them to heat. From the article:You can cook almost anything in these things -- breads and cakes, eggs, soup, souffles, fish, stews, almost every vegetable. I've never seen a simpler method of food prep. Not much clean-up either. And you'll infuriate Con Ed, which is always worth doing. There are so many uses for solar cooking -- at picnics or on a rooftop or, on a more profound level, in needy villages all over the world. Mary said, quoting Peter Matthiessen, ''Anyone who pushes a button to turn on the gas or turns a spigot for water doesn't know how most of the world lives.''
I'm very curious to try it out. be and i always talk about our solar-powered, off-the-grid home. But weather like the muggy gray New York days of late make it more feasible in the Southwest.
posted by beXn @ 3:25 PM
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