Food & Shelter 2
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| The Solar Oven |
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| Meet Big Maggie. |
| She may not be much to look at but Big Maggie is a wonder. |
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| Running on solar power alone Big Maggie will cook stews, potatoes, rice, scones or whatever else you normally use precious fossil fuel to cook in your conventional oven. |
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| Maggie is from a humble background. Cardboard from the street. Tinfoil. Paste. Wool from Alanna’s llamas. A discarded window. A few scraps of wood. |
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| Maggie’s is made up of two cardboard boxes, one inside the other, with a layer of llama wool separating them. |
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| The recycled window sits on top of the boxes. |
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| To use – heat up the food on the regular stove then place it in the oven at mid-morning. |
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| The addition of a reflector will speed up the cooking. |
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| Results? By evening, delicious solar cooked food. |
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| Solar ovens are one way that you can connect into the vital world of Food & Shelter. |
| Food & Shelter, along with water, are the pillars of the human survival mechanism. |
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| If we can provide ourselves with these essentials without compromising our commitment to sustainable principles we can begin to decouple from The Market which can only provide these at incredible cost in monetary, psychological and environmental terms. |
| Warning: Don’t be fooled by expensive imitations! |
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| More to follow … |
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Good on ya Charlie!
I always fancy cooking with solar oven or similar. And this model is so simple. May be i should have a go.
Ok will do it in next week.
Charlie